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3 February, 2010
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| | | Comcast – The applause not quite deafening as it tries to be a telco |
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| | | iPad we love you - Let us count the reasons why |
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| | | AT&T analysts focus on wireless, but U-Verse is results bedrock |
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| | | FLO TV shrinks in the US, but spends $ millions on Superbowl ads |
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| | | The chips are no longer down – SIA says Semiconductors rising |
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| | | Sony Ericsson and Motorola – stable, but still on life support |
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| | | ExoPC is first iPad-alike to launch, days after Apple |
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| | | Kindle readers take 6 Amazon books to every 10 physical books sold |
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| | | Underlying broadband price falls slowing says researcher |
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| | | Cisco weighs in on smart grid aspects of US broadband plan |
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| | | Clearwire gains market confidence, others eye multi-provider model |
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| | | Pay-TV declines at Time Warner, as broadband, voice look good |
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| | | New music file formats debut at MIDEM - MP3 is so last decade |
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| | | Deals, launches and products |
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27 January, 2010
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| | | iPad disappoints, then wildly celebrated, as “Raison d'être” sinks in |
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| | | Liberty dumps Japanese cable, stalks Europe with a fat wallet |
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| | | TiVo looks stronger against AT&T, Microsoft than counter suit |
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| | | Authorities try to give kiss of life to German and French DVB-H |
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| | | Mexican Cablecos call on watchdog to block Slim quad play plans |
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| | | Orange, China’s BesTV collaborate on three-screen convergence |
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| | | To infinity and beyond - BT gets fiber offering into UK homes |
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| | | Satellite sidelined in new round of US stimulus awards? |
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| | | Google taunts Apple as Voice appears as iPhone web app |
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| | | The death of PNDs - Nokia gives away $ billions in navigation aid |
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| | | Orange UK offers Blyk inspired advertising service |
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| | | Vodafone jumps to 450,000 subs, as it gets its music act together |
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| | | Live Nation Ticketmaster merger goes through with few concessions |
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| | | Samsung shoots for 3D TV and glasses leadership with first factory |
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| | | Apple knocks spots off its numbers |
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| | | Deals, launches and products |
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20 January, 2010
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| | | European TV database shows continued channel fragmentation |
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| | | Apple will not trip up on new iPhones, but must be wary of IP abuse |
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| | | Carphone update suggests Euro spending habits are back to normal |
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| | | 3D's cold shower – 3D Standards merely sub-standard |
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| | | Pace puts out BT Vision+ box – merges DVR with VoD service |
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| | | DECE selects Neustar to operate DRM rights database |
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| | | Netgem grows through 2009, then hurt by French consolidations |
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| | | US streamlines process for second round of stimulus funds |
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| | | French broadband plan gets first round of cash – way short of target |
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| | | China Unicom delays Android launches amid Google row |
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| | | Apple may deliver tablet, but expect one, maybe two, new services |
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| | | Deals, launches and products |
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13 January, 2010
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| | | Motorola buys DRM pioneer – but why exactly? |
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| | | Siano absorbs $24 million to keep up with China’s MoTV chip supply |
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| | | Microsoft integrates streaming with IPTV – shuts down an industry |
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| | | SiBeam signs Vizio, shows 2nd Gen WirelessHD chips, boosts funds |
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| | | Liberty Global rumors of German cable deals a bit premature |
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| | | Vizio adds ATSC M/H to its portable TVs in US |
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| | | Next generation iPhone could appear as early as April |
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| | | Whatever the Apple Tablet is, it apparently leaks like a sieve |
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| | | Mobinnova shows off Tegra Android powered Beam Smartbook |
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| | | FCC delays broadband plan amid cries for more and more spectrum |
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| | | The new living room default; Being internet connected |
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| | | US TV maker Vizio to come to market first with 3D LCD glasses |
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| | | Deals, launches and products |
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6 January, 2010
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| | | Nexus One may come to be seen as a decision which haunts Google |
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| | | CES gives a glimpse of the rising age of Smartbooks |
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| | | Apple clarifies the battle lines for future mobile advertising |
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| | | Tivit ready for Spring US launch for mobile TV on Wi-Fi |
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| | | US TV scrabbles to change priorities toward paid content |
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| | | LG readies US Mobile TV and compatible phone for CES |
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| | | FLO TV gets live sport, iPhone battery dongle in Christmas stocking |
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| | | Mirics takes broadcast TV on a PC, ships it to any portable device |
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| | | Bluetooth standard gains low energy mode |
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| | | European casual gaming group, to push games onto connected TVs |
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| | | Quantenna puts in its bid for the wireless home with reference design |
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| | | Deals, launches and products |
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16 December, 2009
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| | | TV Everywhere – Is this the death of the triple play? |
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| | | Life-shifting, Work-shifting, Shape-shifting and the boredom chasm |
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| | | Pass the parcel MGM-ogram back on the market |
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| | | France $50 billion spend, spend, spend policy could draw Euro ire |
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| | | Digital home connection standards all hit their stride at once |
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| | | Ofcom opens file on BtB system to spruce up unbundling |
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| | | Report shows broadband ‘second wave’ countries in rapid growth |
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| | | AT&T exec upbeat on U-Verse pay-TV & iPhone |
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| | | Widevine soaks up another $15 million – Chases TV Everywhere |
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| | | Apple countersues Nokia on 13 patent counts |
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| | | Technology group blows Fuse in handset of the near future |
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| | | US Consumers want Mobile TV - period |
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| | | Deals, launches and products |
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9 December, 2009
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| | | Chinese mobile TV going through the gears, but still not cruising |
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| | | Comcast NBCU deal looks like it will survive lengthy legal scrutiny |
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| | | MaxLinear unveils diversity chip for broadcast mobile TV |
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| | | Tiny Mirics dreams a dream of one software configured radio for TV |
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| | | Despite setbacks, WHDI still thinks it can outshine Wi-Fi video |
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| | | Sony counting on 3D for revival in TV sets |
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| | | Google looks to enrich mobile search in face of Bing |
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| | | FLO TV opens purse to drag in top Disney content |
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| | | Glide OS: don’t write it off in the move to the mobile cloud |
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| | | Android struggles in Europe, but HTC rises to challenge |
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| | | Orange has App Shop working in UK and France |
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| | | Google uses Goggles to Ogle the things around you |
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| | | Deals, launches and products |
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2 December, 2009
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| | | BMCO brings together DVB-H backers as handset buyers club |
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| | | Virgin win in UK court on Rovi patents, throws cloud over revenues |
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| | | Charter emerges from pre-pack bankruptcy ready to go cash positive |
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| | | France Telecom sets up strong Swisscom rival as it acquires Sunrise |
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| | | DS2 powers VideoLAN for spreading HDMI throughout home |
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| | | Cable to recover and take 39% of Western European pay TV |
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| | | Gaming survey shows online models on the rise |
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| | | There IS consumer pull for TV on portable devices says Mirics report |
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| | | Lenovo buys back its mobile arm for new cellphone assault |
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| | | Baidu to challenge Google with preloaded search engine |
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| | | Telstra's T-Box gets on-demand movies, local TV and web video |
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| | | SOS online entertainment service embedded in every Sony device |
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| | | Deals, launches and products |
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25 November, 2009
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| | | Telegent chases Max Linear into $250 million mobile TV IPO |
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| | | TiVo lands Virgin UK deal to push its service to 3 million homes |
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| | | TV Everywhere: Getting context behind the content |
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| | | 21st Century Network will create a new digital divide in the UK |
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| | | Open IPTV Forum gathers momentum, tests interoperability |
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| | | O3b Networks gets $75m from SES Global |
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| | | Global TV set sales turn the corner in shipments, but not revenues |
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| | | OnLive quietly readied its launch money, in time for Christmas |
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| | | Euro Teleco reform passes uneventfully, promises immense change |
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| | | European Union abandons antitrust probe into Qualcomm |
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| | | SFR goes live with Femtocells, rejects quad play |
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| | | iPhone spreads its wings but anger with App Store mounts |
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| | | Mobile broadband is rather narrow says Broadband Genie |
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| | | Sezmi's single play broadband/broadcast service threatens pay-TV |
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| | | Mobile screens point to 15% growth in devices, Nokia fall from grace |
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| | | Deals, launches and products |
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18 November, 2009
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| | | IPTV-er Bitband acquired by division of Motorola, itself on the block |
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| | | Liberty grabs Unity to break the 20 million customer barrier |
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| | | IP Wireless funding keeps alive the vision of unpaired TDD services |
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| | | Show points to parlous state of European broadcast Mobile TV |
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| | | Orange signs 324,000 in one year for Movie and TV series bouquet |
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| | | Kudelski strong-arms OpenTV shareholders into submission |
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| | | Carphone to offer IP Vision's do-it-all FetchTV SmartBox |
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| | | Skype founders settle with eBay over |
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| | | Ruckus offers end to end Wi-Fi broadband for unwired Telcos |
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| | | Amimon shifts focus to Wi-Fi as Sony drops it for WirelessHD |
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| | | Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 breaks box office records |
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| | | Massive and comScore creates activity measurement for in-game ads |
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| | | TVGuide.com adds online DVR alerts |
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| | | After 4 year wait, FLO TV can finally be bought in US shops |
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| | | Powering base stations with green energy becomes big business |
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| | | Finally a cheap DVB-H phone from Nokia – but maybe it’s too late |
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| | | Behold - T-Mobile adds its fourth Android – this one from Samsung |
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| | | Qualcomm to attack China now other cellular markets are sewn up |
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| | | Deals, launches and products |
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11 November, 2009
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| | | Apple building broadcaster interest in US TV armageddon |
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| | | Google feels the need to move hard and early into mobile ads |
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| | | Trial to deploy base stations via Weather balloon reaches fruition |
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| | | BI CodecSys gets a chance to strut its stuff at Mediaroom account |
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| | | Silicon Image – the brains behind the Wireless HD Interface |
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| | | Rogers seeks alternative to Tru2way |
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| | | French pay-TV service Canal+ launches internet connectable TV sets |
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| | | Nokia N900 Maemo phone back on pre-Christmas agenda |
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| | | Sky offers all live sport streamed on an iPhone |
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| | | Samsung Bada to push smartphone features to really cheap phones |
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| | | Could mobile satellite operators provide FCC with the spectrum it needs? |
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| | | Deals, launches and products |
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4 November, 2009
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| | | Telefonica closing in on Hansenet deal, sets new price for broadband |
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| | | Amino trips over disrupted customers and component shortages |
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| | | Kudelski hopes for OpenTV take crushing blow from upbeat results |
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| | | Motorola TV business appears to have lost market share in Q3 |
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| | | EU and US want more TV spectrum for wireless |
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| | | CableLabs set task of selecting standards for TV Everywhere |
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| | | Microsoft partners open up Mediaroom for smaller players |
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| | | Bluetooth SIG transfers affections from UWB to 60GHz |
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| | | Novatel warns on disappointing MiFi outlook |
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| | | Disney creates its own App King |
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| | | BT’s Ribbit creates an App Store for the network itself |
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| | | You don’t want a PC, you want a Cloud gateway device |
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| | | CBS jumps to fourth in US online ratings |
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| | | Netflix going global |
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| | | Sony finally partners Netflix movies to PS3 |
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| | | Deals, launches and products |
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28 October, 2009
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| | | Verizon slips behind AT&T pay TV install rate |
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| | | Disney to introduce Keychest, a working digital content ecosystem |
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| | | Pace HCS capable of spraying 9 TV channels around your home |
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| | | Nokia takes bite of Apple, may find it’s more than it can chew |
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| | | Motorola has 300 Mbps version of DOCSIS 3.0 |
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| | | HomePlug and MoCA's super alliance poses major threat to G.hn |
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| | | Netbook bundling could open the back door for US mobile TV |
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| | | Mobile 4.0 rises from the German ashes in the Netherlands |
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| | | Exclusivity will drive Mobile TV, just as it worked with the iPhone |
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| | | Europe doesn’t see broadcast getting any UHF dividend spectrum |
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| | | Marvell Armada and ARM’s Sparrow up the ante against Atom |
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| | | Samsung brings “Needle Slim” 40 inch LED TV to market |
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| | | US net neutrality plans faces opposition, but Europe avoids the issue |
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| | | Joltid suit over Skype could financially damage eBay |
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| | | Deals, launches and products |
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21 October, 2009
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| | | Verizon joins AT&T in pushing Quad play out to hurt cablecos |
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| | | Barnes & Noble shoots at Kindle, adds Wi-Fi, lending and browsing |
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| | | If the iPhone is the My Space of apps, Google will be the Facebook |
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| | | Should we measure audiences in mobile TV, or something more? |
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| | | Games rebound on back of cheap PS3s, as it storms America |
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| | | Bell Canada copies US cable’s TV Everwhere with US supplier |
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| | | Time Warner Cable readies Clearwire services in Charlotte |
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| | | EverZing indexes the audio in videos |
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| | | AP, News Corp ramp up Pay-to-Read efforts |
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| | | Bluetooth low energy to reach handsets in 2010 |
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| | | Silicon Image puts 18 MP cameras on handset near horizon |
|
| | | Vodafone and partners convince top handset makers to back JIL |
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| | | Deals, launches and products |
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14 October, 2009
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| | | Broadcom MoCA invasion triggers chase for key home technologies |
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| | | DVB-H interest grows post recession, as TDF pushes agenda |
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| | | Intel CE4100 variant embraces Flash and DiVX, Amino on board |
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| | | Innovative media measurement is really about interacting with ads |
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| | | Canvas a superset of HbbTV says BBC, but it’s not open says BSkyB |
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| | | G.hn standard done and dusted, now race is on for compliant devices |
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| | | Intel shows 3-tuner DVR with True2Way and MoCA |
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| | | Comcast-NBCU deal hits French snag |
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| | | SiBeam tries to stay ahead of the big guns in WirelessHD |
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| | | Some of Apple wipes off on Disney through its largest shareholder |
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| | | Hardcover book sales following music industry's downward path |
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| | | Vodafone and EMC offer PC backup, with wireless access |
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| | | Nokia ports key Symbian development tool to N900 |
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| | | Cisco buys Starent, boosting 4G strategy and outsmarting Juniper |
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| | | Deals, launches and products |
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7 October, 2009
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| | | MediaFLO has first handheld, way too expensive, but it’s a start |
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| | | Toshiba Cell RTegza 55X1 – a new way to think about TV |
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| | | Kudelski renews its interest in the rest of OpenTV |
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| | | New members join to support WiGig sci fi project |
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| | | More South American countries joined rush to ISDB-T and One Seg |
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| | | Adobe embraces HTTP streaming at last |
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| | | Vook adds videos to text in eBooks |
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| | | Joltid suit against eBay asks for $27.3m a year in damages |
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| | | Opera, Nokia and Korean quartet boost AT&T’s new web platform |
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| | | Forget the Sony PlayStation phone, it already exists |
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| | | Verizon gets together with Google for sideswipe at Apple - AT&T |
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| | | Microsoft uses CTIA as springboard for App Store and WinMo 6.5 |
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| | | JumperTel wants to take on Skype from scratch with VoIP service |
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| | | ARM ups the low power ante on Atom with GlobalFoundries deal |
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| | | Deals, launches and products |
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30 September, 2009
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| | | TV and phone makers decide on wired and powered connectivity |
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| | | Intel cuts deal to put Nagra decoder engine on its CE chip |
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| | | Mirics offers ubiquitous PC TV processing through Nvidia Cuda |
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| | | EchoStar bids for $1bn stimulus funds, takes $400mn in debt |
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| | | Broadcom’s latest ARM deal could signal move into netbooks |
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| | | Latest Apple iPad rumours cite two versions, one cellular |
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| | | Amazon to offer its own branded CE gear |
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| | | Vodafone says “me too” to carry iPhone, but not ‘til after Christmas |
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| | | AT&T and Terrestar show off dual-mode satphone |
|
| | | Palm future rests with Pre, and has already stacked the channel |
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| | | Epix MegaPlex to offer 3,000 shows online |
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| | | Netflix CEO: New console, mobile service in future |
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| | | Akamai launches HD steaming across the net - Again |
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| | | Deals, launches and products |
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23 September, 2009
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| | | T-Mobile kicks over burnt remains of DVB-H in Germany, sees life |
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| | | Chile follows Argentina and backs Japanese mobile TV standard |
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| | | Comcast turns investor attention to mobile cable |
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| | | Cable supplier Arris enters the world of IP and UIs with Digeo buy |
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| | | Turkish set top firm puts HD over Wi-Fi, adds Flash based DVR |
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| | | Nagra widgets to help Numericable switch to multicast cable |
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| | | A single chip with ALL HDTV formats on board |
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| | | Satellite industry in rude health as HDTV, internet access climbs |
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| | | Joltid sues eBay's Skype for $75m a day for Copyright Infringement |
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| | | Blockbuster buddies up to traditional MSO enemies |
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| | | Mobile Data revenues on the up and up, Verizon about to take lead |
|
| | | Wireless industry gears up to fight FCC’s net neutrality plans |
|
| | | Favorite rumors – Apple tablet, MS handset, now an MS tablet? |
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| | | Deals, launches and products |
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16 September, 2009
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| | | Argentina ISDB-T decision redraws TV and Mobile TV global map |
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| | | “MediaFLO to hit 10 million in just over a year” – but how exactly? |
|
| | | At IBC everyone is offering over the top video and hybrid TV |
|
| | | Atheros and IBM make new deals to support powerline |
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| | | U-Verse gets Mosiac interface 4 years on, plus media sharing |
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| | | Pace shows off finished DVB-T2 HD Freeview+ box |
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| | | Entropic, NXP unveil MoCA ready design for Networked DVRs |
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| | | Ruckus Wireless lands its largest US Telco |
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| | | Freesat momentum continues - jumps 50% since May |
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| | | Home Gateway initiative is coming soon |
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| | | Adobe picks “expensive” web analytics firm for next acquisition |
|
| | | Three or four networks per operator, in small cells: the face of 4G? |
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9 September, 2009
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| | | IMB gets GSMA backing for next push to cellular broadcasts |
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| | | Jobs delights the Apple faithful by an appearance at iPod event |
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| | | Near-global acceptance puts new momentum behind WirelessHD |
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| | | Vodafone to shutter German IPTV effort, and try again |
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| | | Espial picks up VoD contract for Swedish cable outfit |
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| | | Amino and beeTV echo trend of personalized TV channels |
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| | | Mediaroom adds up its numbers for IBC and finds 4 million |
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| | | OpenTV opens audience APIs, NDS drills down to individuals |
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| | | “Pay as you view” business models need new CA service says NDS |
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| | | TiVo gets next big pay day in court – Dish running out of options |
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| | | IBM patents social media remote |
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| | | For Apple, think “what’s next?” For Sony, think “embarrassment” |
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| | | ASUS to join eBook reader market with Netbook style device |
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| | | DoCoMo leads in plan to make IMS more relevant |
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| | | UK T-Mobile Orange merger could also break mobile TV deadlock |
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| | | YouTube eyes movie rentals |
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| | | Tesco, UK’s biggest grocer, initiates lame online movie service |
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| | | Deals, launches and products |
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2 September, 2009
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| | | Turning doubters to believers over TiVo’s significant IPR hoard |
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| | | HbbTV shows wide industry support – why not merge Canvas with it? |
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| | | Disney wades in with $4 billion for marvellous Marvel |
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| | | eBay sells out most of Skype despite Joltid legal snag |
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| | | Nokia launches what appears to be.. well.. er.. the Apple Tablet |
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| | | German broadband unbundling market still runs counter to Europe |
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| | | First round of broadband Stimulus funds 7 times oversubscribed |
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| | | Nagravision flips to a service model and climbs back into profit |
|
| | | US analyst tries to guess how Apple will invade the TV world |
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| | | News Corp touting Hulu-like venture for newspapers |
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| | | Apple finally nails China deal, as Ophone lurches into view |
|
| | | MediaFLO plans stand alone personal TV |
|
| | | CBS, Pepsi put a video ad in your magazine |
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| | | Deals, launches and products |
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26 August, 2009
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| | | How to turn a world leader into a fourth rate broadband economy |
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| | | Vodafone IPTV strategy leans towards Mediaroom in Europe |
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| | | AT&T ties U-Verse to Wireless and Broadband in special bundle |
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| | | Sony squares up to Kindle after a two year head start |
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| | | Set tops defy economic gravity, cable and IPTV dominate |
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| | | Optibase reveals its encoders were used in big Venezuelan IPTV deal |
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| | | Vodafone gets go ahead to take over BT Ireland’s access networks |
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| | | Arqiva closes Kangaroo acquisition, puts in new CEO, plans launch |
|
| | | TV shipments fall, LCD up, just holding its own in revenues |
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| | | US researcher produces OLED device roadmap |
|
| | | Microsoft recasts its mobile strategy from OS to Apps with OneApp |
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| | | UK piracy about turn stirs outrage, meets resistance |
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| | | Deals, launches and products |
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19 August, 2009
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| | | PlayStation 3 refresh fires opening salvo in console price war |
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| | | Top ten Euro incumbents point to glowing health of IPTV |
|
| | | How will we use devices when digital photos are everywhere |
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| | | Major US operators shake heads at stimulus finds, Leap leaps in |
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| | | BT late to deploy ADSL2+ in UK but at least offers it for free |
|
| | | Phoenix of Iridium gets FCC nod, on way to public quote |
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| | | Blockbuster to put movies on demand on Motorola phones |
|
| | | Analog Mobile TV will grow thru 2013, reach 300 million devices |
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| | | O2 can’t wait for DVB-H, embraces TV streaming, in Ireland first |
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| | | Sony battery design makes rechargeable batteries last 4X as long |
|
| | | Zune HD almost as critical to Nvidia as Microsoft |
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| | | $1 a night DVD kiosk firm starts legal war with Hollywood |
|
| | | Sony boosts ebook challenge to Amazon with open standards |
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| | | Deals, launches and products |
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12 August, 2009
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| | | This week’s headlines shows TV world on brink of change |
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| | | Motorola lands its first ever DVB-H deal – in Poland of all places |
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| | | Nokia and Microsoft alliance – the big guns shift Office to Symbian |
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| | | On2 Technologies is no fire sale as Google swoops to own a codec |
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| | | Deutsche Telekom surprisingly on track for 1 million IPTV homes |
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| | | Dish raises specter of TiVo reverse to hide bad and sad figures |
|
| | | Motorola's Home unit carries the ball |
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| | | MTNL seeks WiMAX partner in India |
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| | | Indonesia to finally get two mobile TV networks |
|
| | | Apple may develop digital payments platform |
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| | | Sony Ericsson introduces a “fashion” phone – strictly for the girls |
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| | | Alliance aims for compatibility among all CE devices |
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| | | Deals, launches and products |
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29 July, 2009
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| | | China Mobile uptake of CMMB almost killed Chinese Mobile TV |
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| | | Apple TV looking for redemption through play |
|
| | | Google seeks role in defining US national broadband policy |
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| | | Apple agrees prepay deal with Toshiba to secure Flash reserves |
|
| | | AT&T uses iPhone to blow the top off mobile broadband results |
|
| | | Cable in Europe grew by 5.4% in revenue, rapidly going digital |
|
| | | Pace keeps Pace with upgraded set top expectations |
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| | | Pioneer SureWest caves in and moves to Mediaroom for IPTV |
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| | | Thomson prime contractor on the Bouygues IPTV deal |
|
| | | Orange pushes free music for pay as you go phone owners in UK |
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| | | Qualcomm and Verizon add their weight to M2M mobile market |
|
| | | Blyk changes tack, drops UK MVNO, will court other operators |
|
| | | BBC stumbles into another legal row over partnering newspapers |
|
| | | Kazaa returns 100% legal with unlimited download deal |
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| | | Bluetooth finds new home in ‘Television 2.0’ |
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| | | Patent holder seeks US ban on devices with Samsung Nand flash |
|
| | | Deals, launches and products |
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22 July, 2009
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| | | Vodafone mimics German IPTV in Portugal, others must follow |
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| | | The entire broadband stimulus would still not ease Qwest’s IP quest |
|
| | | Verizon doublespeak exclusively points finger at AT&T exclusives |
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| | | CBS, Starz, 17 other pay channels join Comcast's TV Everywhere |
|
| | | Microsoft to beat Sony Ericsson to games phone with Xbox Mobile? |
|
| | | Civolution gets its hands on Thomson rival watermarking system |
|
| | | Satellite set tops doing okay but India is the key |
|
| | | Telco IPTV on the rise – 50% growth this year says Parks |
|
| | | Will all cellphones be banned in US cars soon? |
|
| | | How long can this winning steak at Apple continue? |
|
| | | LG sells $3.4 billion of flat TVs, chases Sony’s tail |
|
| | | Deals, launches and products |
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15 July, 2009
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| | | Are Telcos up a creek without a paddle on DSL installations? |
|
| | | Anti-trust bomb falls in LCD price fix scam – more could follow |
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| | | Carphone ponders a full Quad play as it closes Tiscali UK deal |
|
| | | India’s quarterly update shows a country in love with satellite TV |
|
| | | Google’s pincer movement is essential, but which way will Intel jump? |
|
| | | Intel’s bounceback helped by buoyant Atom |
|
| | | Nokia joins MTN and Multichoice in Free African mobile TV service |
|
| | | Envivio puts live US, European TV on the iPhone |
|
| | | Commissioner Reding lays down new gauntlet on digital dividend |
|
| | | Monopoly debate rages as ticket and promotional giants seek merger |
|
| | | TiVo, Best Buy partner up in symbiotic deal |
|
| | | Watermarking and a decent experience can save Video says report |
|
| | | Deals, launches and products |
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8 July, 2009
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| | | Day of the Google – Chrome OS to assassinate PCs, annex Netbooks |
|
| | | US can use “give me an iPhone” frenzy to reshape Telecoms sector |
|
| | | SoundExchange offers US webcasters new copyright deal |
|
| | | The future is Project Canvas says BBC, not traditional broadcast |
|
| | | Bertelsmann and KKR create joint venture music rights business |
|
| | | IPTV service discovery sneaks out to ripple of bemused applause |
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| | | Danish IPTV software house steals Smile away from Dreampark |
|
| | | Canada’s Bell Aliant copies Verizon, goes for fiber |
|
| | | Ofcom shows cellular 3G maps of the UK – more buildout required |
|
| | | Vendors rush to create customized App Stores for India |
|
| | | DoCoMo takes stake in PacketVideo, looking to LTE and Android |
|
| | | Vodafone rues Carphone falling out, makes nicey, nicey |
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| | | Deals, launches and products |
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1 July, 2009
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| | | US court ignores studios protests on nPVR, Pay TV to change path |
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| | | How credible are rumours of Nokia turning to Android in Netbooks? |
|
| | | ION broadcasting ATSC M/H in DC, LG delivers chip volumes |
|
| | | RIP - Joost accepts its failure - offers to white label video delivery |
|
| | | Intel and Apple increase stakes in Imagination |
|
| | | IPTV in Asia – painted like it was easy pickings – we’re not so sure |
|
| | | Alcatel pays for evidence that broadband is recession proof |
|
| | | Sony PlayStation - looking for something it’s lost – Its touch |
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| | | Nvidia set for its first tier one phone deal, Motorola in the frame |
|
| | | New Vizio HDTVs previews the future of TV |
|
| | | Studio CTOs: “DVDs; Blu-rays still producing lots of revenue” |
|
| | | Disney’s ESPN to build non-US sports assets starting with UK soccer |
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| | | Deals, launches and products |
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24 June, 2009
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| | | TiVo’s court win open doors, but Sling might open even more |
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| | | Nokia throws mobile technology lifeline to straggling Intel |
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| | | The jury is out on the man who cried “Jobs” |
|
| | | NSN bids for Nortel wireless units, taking CDMA as route to LTE |
|
| | | Canoe cancels version one of zoned ads, starts on 21st century version |
|
| | | Ovum details the fall and fall of voice revenues, as data rises |
|
| | | Qualcomm under new antitrust pressure, this time in Korea |
|
| | | Conceptronic does back to back deal through bankrupcy |
|
| | | Chips for TV crashed in Q1, but will be on track before 2010 |
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| | | Motorola Androids still not been shown, but have major US deals |
|
| | | Intel researchers chase wirelessly transmitted power |
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| | | Deals, launches and products |
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17 June, 2009
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| | | Opera Unite – build your own Facebook, photo gallery or YouTube |
|
| | | PwC warns of structural changes ahead, masked by the recession |
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| | | Digital Britain – not likely a template for a European policy |
|
| | | Recession has held back technology in most countries |
|
| | | Reasons why Dell will not buy Palm |
|
| | | DTV transition has hiccups echoing around the US |
|
| | | Major studios offer free HD movies on the web for Pay-TV subs |
|
| | | MySpace overtaken in US, cuts staffing, beds in for long recession |
|
| | | PCCW launches Eye 2, TV, camera, music player, video phone |
|
| | | US regulator called on to scrutinize cellular exclusives |
|
| | | Nokia beefs up music phone range to support Comes with Music |
|
| | | Data and prepaid services cushion effect of cellular downturn in Q1 |
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| | | Deals, launches and products |
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10 June, 2009
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| | | MedioFLO to go direct to consumers – but is married to Cellcos |
|
| | | The dark days of an interregnum are upon us – is history immutable? |
|
| | | Palm Pre arrives as handset industry crosses multiple tipping points |
|
| | | Not a marriage made in heaven – OpenTV and Kudelski |
|
| | | Apple mumbles and the entire US gets excited |
|
| | | Intel makes bold mobile and embedded purchase with Wind River |
|
| | | Video to take up 91% of global IP traffic by 2013 says router king |
|
| | | Aspera can transfer 1,000 movies in two hours |
|
| | | YouTube ups its TV ante to include Wii, PS3 |
|
| | | Broadband CPE just rises in 2008, cable falls, Huawei, 2Wire gain |
|
| | | IPTV to go through slowdown, then double Pay TV share by 2014 |
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| | | Deals, launches and products |
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3 June, 2009
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| | | Microsoft controller free paradigm is next major console war |
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| | | TiVo jumps 30% after Judge loses patience with Dish in patent case |
|
| | | PSPgo makes PlayStation neat, small slider – discards UMDs |
|
| | | Qualcomm turns its envious eyes on Broadcom’s Wi-Fi demesne |
|
| | | Sony turns PlayNow into App as well as content store |
|
| | | Internet videos streamed under broadcaster control direct to TV sets |
|
| | | Microsoft pushes toward HD streaming on the Xbox, shared movies |
|
| | | IPTV set top shipments to slow says In-Stat - We’re not so sure |
|
| | | Mexican cable major opts for fully IP network – through HFCnet |
|
| | | China gets the Magic 'OPhone' |
|
| | | Samsung chases Sony Ericsson into megapixel orbit |
|
| | | Cellular talking up the Smartbook over the Netbook at Computex |
|
| | | Google Wave and MS Bing to go mobile soon |
|
| | | Deals, launches and products |
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27 May, 2009
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| | | Next generation Zune, quality spec, with Xbox ties |
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| | | Kabel Deutschland opts for O2 MVNO – triggers Quad play war |
|
| | | All advertising markets need consolidation – Cinema included |
|
| | | Conceptronic reference framework for Intel 3100 internet TV chip |
|
| | | Sun to unveil Java App store, Apple app revenues “not meaningful” |
|
| | | PlayReady sneaks out while we weren’t looking – devices due Fall |
|
| | | Wal-Mart overhauling 3,500 electronics departments |
|
| | | Acer launches $399 home server - 1TB to 7TB of storage |
|
| | | Nokia Ovi Store launches on time – AT&T deal promised |
|
| | | Little significance of Norway’s stand on Mobile TV technology |
|
| | | HTC widens its Android lead with China Mobile deal |
|
| | | New iPhone will have 32 GB storage say German leaks |
|
| | | New Consortium aims to use mobile phones for good |
|
| | | Deals, launches and products |
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20 May, 2009
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| | | Europe steps nimbly over mobile radio and TV license hurdle |
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| | | India slows up its Mobile TV plans, looks for PPP deal |
|
| | | IPTV gathers pace, cable lifts ARPU, DTH marking time in Europe |
|
| | | RealNetworks says its license to CSS lets it copy DVDs – sues studios |
|
| | | Verizon sells off its rural areas to Frontier focuses on fiber |
|
| | | Telecoms Cooperative spends to put TVN and Avail together |
|
| | | Sony reports $1bn loss - outlook gloomy too |
|
| | | Real Netbooks on their way – as Intel tries to keep pace with Atom |
|
| | | Guess what? Japan and Korea have more mobile multimedia than us |
|
| | | India up, Turkey and Spain down: Vodafone’s mixed 2009 bag |
|
| | | Yahoo courts mobile disaster by killing new apps strategy |
|
| | | AT&T network full of smart phones and QWERTY phones |
|
| | | Deals, launches and products |
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13 May, 2009
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| | | Intel’s gut reaction to fight $1.45 billion EU fine is wrong |
|
| | | WiGig flaunts Wi-Fi roots to stake claim on super fast home nets |
|
| | | TV photorealism requires some freakishly fast home networks |
|
| | | Talk Talk to bring Quad play rival to UK market with Tiscali buy |
|
| | | Vodafone opens APIs in bid to create giant mobile software store |
|
| | | Microsoft ticks Russian box in its BRIC IPTV deals for Mediaroom |
|
| | | Virgin Media: Broadband, pay-TV up, declines in profits, revenue |
|
| | | Dish suffers as AT&T becomes less and less of its sales equation |
|
| | | blinkx set to benefit from opening doors between TV and the net |
|
| | | Murdoch: 'Current days of the Internet will soon be over' |
|
| | | Mobile advertising – doing better in the UK than anyone expected |
|
| | | Nokia puts its new NFC SIM based handset into contactless context |
|
| | | ZigBee Alliance embraces IP to strengthen its role in smart grids |
|
| | | Deals, launches and products |
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6 May, 2009
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| | | Kindle DX disappoints on price, leaves the door open for rivals |
|
| | | Euro Commissioners plan to revolutionize online transactions |
|
| | | Apple – casual games aficionado or future gaming megalith? |
|
| | | German shareholders call for T-Mobile UK sale |
|
| | | CE makers raise a ruckus over Project Canvas |
|
| | | Pay TV numbers up, revenues down says report |
|
| | | BT combines mobile and home broadband into one $24 package |
|
| | | UK fixed lines down, call volumes down, cellular ARPU down |
|
| | | Disney to buy 30% stake in Hulu |
|
| | | Apple builds on PA acquisition to create iPhone chip design team |
|
| | | Cellcos face huge dilemmas over LTE voice models |
|
| | | Clearwire and KT no longer lonely trailblazers for WiMAX mobile broadband |
|
| | | Deals, launches and products |
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29 April, 2009
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| | | FilmOn - UK German streaming player plans HD web TV splash |
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| | | Verizon Apple in the balance, but new Apple devices are coming |
|
| | | Joost on the bloc, Babelgum almost sure to follow |
|
| | | Sky introduces adverts you can “book” to watch later |
|
| | | Broadcom vs Qualcomm - The war is over - Now who shall we fight? |
|
| | | Nokia reduces N-Gage to Ovi only, opens doors to portal partners |
|
| | | Amazon’s Stanza buy could be first step to an open platform |
|
| | | Cellphones bolster Samsung’s quarter as it launches first Android |
|
| | | Nokia clarifies backing Mobile payments with classic NFC phone |
|
| | | End of “roaming rip off” says Euro minister |
|
| | | Analysts look for cracks in Apple results over seasonal workforce |
|
| | | Will Pirate Bay judge walk the plank? |
|
| | | Flat TVs still rising, make up virtually all European TV purchases |
|
| | | NEC and Renesas to merge into world’s third largest chip business |
|
| | | Samsung leads in OLED displays, as phones drive uptake |
|
| | | Deals, launches and products |
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22 April, 2009
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| | | MobiTV adds icing to make US Mobile TV irresistible to MNOs |
|
| | | Telefonica bids for German ISP from close partner Telecom Italia |
|
| | | Chinese firms behind new cabling initiative attract CE majors |
|
| | | Cisco drops pebble into IPTV market – still no rocks |
|
| | | Adobe talks many remaining chip makers into believing in FLV |
|
| | | LG says that ATSC M/H chips will go to volume in June |
|
| | | Thomson gets around to ATSC version of Mobile TV at last |
|
| | | Android makes slow market progress, but ambitions grow broader |
|
| | | Yahoo down 13%, keeps cash generation going, lays off staff |
|
| | | Inuk buy offers PC platform to make Move Networks look like TV |
|
| | | AT&T throws off recessionary forces, thanks U-Verse, iPhone |
|
| | | Télébec selects Vecima for Canadian wireless broadband deal |
|
| | | Qtrax launches free song downloads |
|
| | | Deals, launches and products |
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15 April, 2009
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| | | eBay shifts resolution of Skype ownership off into 2010 |
|
| | | TiVo numbers show what’s REALLY going on in DVR homes |
|
| | | TV overtaken by net in 2010, triggers ad transition - Microsoft |
|
| | | US cable in dog fight with broadcast over how to embrace internet |
|
| | | Public Service broadcast funding getting the once over in Europe |
|
| | | US report says all is well in Pay TV land, but we’re not so sure |
|
| | | UTStarcom owns Asian IPTV, Microsoft, Verimatrix score well |
|
| | | Ateme chases contribution video with first 10-bit H.264 encoder |
|
| | | Wireless broadband in the US slowed to a crawl in the fourth quarter |
|
| | | Barnes and Noble seeks cellcos for Kindle Challenge |
|
| | | ‘Nautilus’ shows Nokia getting serious about touchscreens |
|
| | | Narrowstep TV operations sidestep into KIT |
|
| | | Anonymity comes to browser, search history |
|
| | | France drops 'Three-Strikes' policy |
|
| | | Researcher says advertising recession will eat into online ads |
|
| | | Atom sales drop but Intel says PC market has bottomed out |
|
| | | Deals, launches and products |
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8 April, 2009
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| | | Murdoch points to Kindle approach for newspapers |
|
| | | Trademark registration has us all guessing over Sony Cloud services |
|
| | | Skype is just the banner under which a thousand IP services march |
|
| | | German regulator blocking creation of cable based rival to DT |
|
| | | DTH dominates UK TV, but Freeview and Freesat grows ominously |
|
| | | From the floor of the Cable Show 2009: Six things we learned |
|
| | | TVBlob: All-consuming set-top box |
|
| | | Apple pushes trigger on ALL iTunes going DRM free |
|
| | | Time for all publishers to desert the format they’ve loved for so long |
|
| | | Blockbuster has to complete debt refinancing deal to survive |
|
| | | Nokia tries to cement its future in India with third world Life Tools |
|
| | | One day all European cars will have cellular “crash” alert |
|
| | | Deals, launches and products |
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1 April, 2009
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| | | Nokia buttresses Ovi store content with Heroes creator |
|
| | | Ericsson sharpens pay TV plans – Timeshifting ads, CMS upgrade |
|
| | | Kids not consuming as much music says report – Are you sure? |
|
| | | Subsidized netbook model could sweep away 20 years of PC history |
|
| | | Complex real time TV encoder mix to slide in 2009, 2010 |
|
| | | US internet advertising still stealing ground from traditional markets |
|
| | | April Fool: Hands up all those who stuck their tongues out at their browser |
|
| | | Broadband continues to rise as IPTV rockets |
|
| | | TVs to come with Macrovision’s EPG for local TV stations |
|
| | | New Sony receiver has DLNA, SHOUTcast and Rhapsody |
|
| | | Samsung shows early Mondi device for Clear at CTIA |
|
| | | Skype and ALU respond to Google Voice |
|
| | | Deals, launches and products |
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25 March, 2009
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| | | New games paradigm based on streaming video changes all the rules |
|
| | | Beware of Mobile TV regulators with their firearms pointed down |
|
| | | US consumers happier, but not ready to spend on tech says survey |
|
| | | EchoStar targets Euro IPTV’s soft set top underbelly with Sling |
|
| | | If the UWB war is over – then nobody won |
|
| | | Sony confirms plans to join the Freesat eco-system |
|
| | | Vizimo – trying to apply logic to “what do you fancy watching?” |
|
| | | Alcatel rolls out Telefonica IPTV Ad system for Spanish trials |
|
| | | Edgeware rubs shoulders with Ericsson, lands funding |
|
| | | Amino has China at its feet with ZTE deal |
|
| | | Samsung finally opts into world of mobile services with movies |
|
| | | LG plans 50 Windows Mobile devices in three years |
|
| | | Nokia leaves N-Gage in the cold over processing power problems |
|
| | | Vodafone and Telefonica merge networks for huge efficiency gains |
|
| | | Deals, launches and products |
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18 March, 2009
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| | | IGA Worldwide up for sale as ad revenues plummet |
|
| | | Google not yet done tampering with the voice interface |
|
| | | To hell in a bucket and the six dimensions of success |
|
| | | UK advertising reflects US, last quarter fell off cliff, online healthy |
|
| | | WiMedia Alliance shuts down in another blow for UWB |
|
| | | Small earthquake in cellular IPR Court, no-one hurt |
|
| | | Hulu moves up to number 2, adds social features |
|
| | | IDC handset predictions: A collapsing fairytale of despair |
|
| | | Apple unveils touch software update – Listens hard to developers |
|
| | | Social networks are driving Americans to the mobile web |
|
| | | Motorola-tel or Nortorola – silly idea so let’s pick a silly name |
|
| | | Telefonica sneaks eagerly awaited Pre from under Vodafone’s nose |
|
| | | Sirius numbers add up, show why Liberty was happy to help |
|
| | | Five years ‘til DOCSIS 3.0 deployed, will chase Stimulus cash |
|
| | | Deals, launches and products |
|
|
11 March, 2009
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| | | European mobile data roaming capped as promised – law by July |
|
| | | Poland mobile TV snubs cellular operators with DVB-H award |
|
| | | UK TV viewing, ads to hit wall unless web based VoD brought to life |
|
| | | Tiscali waits too long for sale of the century ISP deal – all bets are off |
|
| | | Mobile TV alive and well and living in Japan, other parts of the world |
|
| | | “Small network in US gets access to some films at last” - Sony |
|
| | | Touch – the sixth sense after all |
|
| | | Has Samsung beaten Apple to a new-look ‘tablet-phone’ format? |
|
| | | Nokia refreshes music phones yet again, adds stores and free music |
|
| | | Palm and Microsoft on defensive against Apple, Google |
|
| | | Set-top boxes change allegiances, TV model |
|
| | | Intel's 4 new Atom chips not for PCs |
|
| | | Thomson write down is big, but business still seems viable, cuts planned |
|
| | | Deals, launches and products |
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4 March, 2009
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| | | DirecTV nods assent to “TV Everywhere” – but it’s oh so dangerous |
|
| | | Nagravision is ready with 4 million CMMB DRM chips for China |
|
| | | Digital Fountain IPR ends up at its natural home - Qualcomm |
|
| | | Blockbuster hangs on by its fingernails, asks lawyer to look at options |
|
| | | Dish subscriber losses mount, and there’s worse quarters to come |
|
| | | US consumers finally “get” internet video says survey |
|
| | | Sorry your credit rating isn’t good enough to see the Mercedes advert |
|
| | | Obama proposes new spectrum fees, FCC promises reform |
|
| | | 3 home network groups formally back HomeGrid's G.hn efforts |
|
| | | Telecom Italia gets Mediaset soccer to drive IPTV, Fastweb up |
|
| | | France Telecom hit by writedowns and iPhone loss, TV up 66% |
|
| | | Chumby the product becomes Chumby the CE platform |
|
| | | Amazon has free Kindle app for iPhone, extending its mobile model |
|
| | | Deals, launches and products |
|
|
25 February, 2009
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| | | US Cable and Content in talks to annex video on the web |
|
| | | DVB-H suffers another setback as South Africa puts Mobile TV on ice |
|
| | | The great American myth – we watch TV all day long |
|
| | | DSL shipments down for 2008, will recover then slide, post 2010 |
|
| | | Netflix: Streaming-only option by 2010 |
|
| | | Whoever replaces News Corp’s Chernin is bound to be a Murdoch |
|
| | | Comcast: What recession? |
|
| | | Panasonic signing European content for internet to TV content |
|
| | | Flat screens taking over TV, but demand is still falling |
|
| | | Siano now attacks the rest of MoTV from its secure Chinese base |
|
| | | Researcher says mobile broadband prices are unsustainable |
|
| | | Visto buys Good from Motorola to form anti-RIM alliance |
|
| | | Zeemote drives gaming eco-system for handsets |
|
| | | Deals, launches and products |
|
|
18 February, 2009
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| | | Dish hopes dashed as Liberty steps in to salvage Sirius |
|
| | | Nokia-Qualcomm accord signals race to LTE, with all that entails |
|
| | | Mobile TV inevitable, but not here yet at MWC Barcelona |
|
| | | MusicStation to move from phones to homes in the name of piracy |
|
| | | US digital switchover phase one goes off without a hitch |
|
| | | Nokia App Store to reach 300 million devices by 2012 |
|
| | | Free has the best rates for broadband price, customer satisfaction |
|
| | | Netflix numbers “alarmingly” up as US begins shift to online viewing |
|
| | | Apple television may speed move to internet-ready TV sets |
|
| | | Touch screen phones are mostly rubbish says survey |
|
| | | LG Arena is the first iPhone rival that discovers new ground |
|
| | | New HTC Android shows up wearing Vodafone colors |
|
| | | TI’s OMAP lines up against Qualcomm’s multimode and Gobi chips |
|
| | | Broadcom has reference platform to speed more Androids to market |
|
| | | Mobile World Congress and other stuff |
|
|
11 February, 2009
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| | | Apple cannot avoid being invited to everyone’s mobile TV party |
|
| | | Dish and Echostar stalk debt stake in Sirius - but for what exactly? |
|
| | | Siano trumps DiBcom move to multi-protocol with iPhone win in Japan |
|
| | | Amazon Kindle 2 – So many reasons for this to be a software platform |
|
| | | App store DRM cracked; No one really cares |
|
| | | French regulator shows telecomms in rude health, IPTV surging |
|
| | | Does Wi-Fi 802.11y threaten WiMAX? |
|
| | | White spaces supporters work on anti-interference database |
|
| | | As MWC looms, what will be the key trends in Barcelona? |
|
| | | Archos pushes Android into high definition video world |
|
| | | Sony Ericsson pushes Walkman, Cyber brands to cheaper phones |
|
| | | LG plans to continue investing through recession say executives |
|
| | | Deals, launches and products |
|
|
4 February, 2009
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| | | AT&T finally introduces the quad play we’ve been expecting for years |
|
| | | DiBcom makes major comeback with Mobile TV chip for any standard |
|
| | | Time Warner Cable slowing down, impairments overshadow sales |
|
| | | Nielsen online TV research only scratches the surface of what’s possible |
|
| | | Thomson urgent cash needs – Grass Valley, PRN on the block |
|
| | | Digital Britain – minus the bluster – leaves little new on the agenda |
|
| | | WiMAX subscribers stalling, but networks still getting built |
|
| | | Cox hits 4 million broadband subscribers |
|
| | | US DTV transition slowly heads towards inevitable delay |
|
| | | Multichoice pounces on soccer rights for Africa as GTV shuts its doors |
|
| | | RIAA reportedly picks up Comcast, AT&T for anti-piracy |
|
| | | PC builders mistakenly follow Windows into the Smart phone world |
|
| | | Motorola running out of time to survive in handset market |
|
| | | Deals, launches and products |
|
|
28 January, 2009
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| | | Sonic takes the covers off the new CinemaNow DRM reality |
|
| | | Obama stimulus pack to throw $10 billion at broadband – but just how? |
|
| | | Actors union fire “strike” negotiator after close call with Hollywood |
|
| | | What recession? Deutsche Telekom sees IPTV doubling, staffing up |
|
| | | YouTube aims to be TV juggernaut, Nintendo, Sony already on board |
|
| | | IMS reckons that digital TV set tops are flying out the door until 2011 |
|
| | | US Senate votes through DTV delay – Congress likely to pass it too |
|
| | | U-Verse and FiOS numbers strong as RBOCs re-assure market |
|
| | | Flash market will shoot to $61 billion on back of PCs and Videocams |
|
| | | Is Plastic Optic Fiber the next medium for home networks? |
|
| | | Nokia ships first 1 million devices of iPhone rival |
|
| | | Apple multitouch patent could spell bad news for Palm |
|
| | | Sun finally puts flesh on JavaFX mobile challenge to Nokia and Google |
|
| | | Deals, launches and products |
|
|
21 January, 2009
|
| | | In a world where devices are homogenizing, why do we need stores? |
|
| | | DTV delay gaining traction – Qualcomm puts its case |
|
| | | Wii’s games console lead is staggering – leading us to ask what’s next? |
|
| | | Online film player Jaman begins new international sites |
|
| | | UK advisor may push for switch off spectrum to be given away |
|
| | | Qualcomm:AMD - Business as usual or the start of a friendship |
|
| | | Sony could kick Ericsson contribution into touch on PlayStation phone |
|
| | | Study: Mobile media demand still limited |
|
| | | Apple opens up cautiously to third party browsers, MS to follow? |
|
| | | Cisco survey puts online video into perspective – especially Hulu |
|
| | | AT&T, Verizon driving down prices for bundles |
|
| | | US advertising shortfall hurts Clear Channel, Warner Brothers |
|
| | | US retail spend plummets as expected, electronics not so bad |
|
| | | Music heads up renewed MSN Mobile drive |
|
| | | Deals, launches and products |
|
|
14 January, 2009
|
| | | Steve Jobs stands down as health issues continue |
|
| | | Siano is now king of the mobile chip makers after Dell and ZTE wins |
|
| | | Mobile TV is coming to America in 2009 whether AT&T likes it or not |
|
| | | Genachowski – Obama’s man to clean up the FCC image |
|
| | | Omnifone offers genuine music portability to attack iTunes, Nokia |
|
| | | 60GHz, UWB and WHDI battle for relevance in HD wireless war |
|
| | | Sonic and Blockbuster join hands to update online film concept |
|
| | | NBC, CBS up the webisode ante |
|
| | | Motorola could halve handset workforce and product range |
|
| | | Nortel files for Chapter 11 |
|
| | | TiVo IV – The knockout – War with EchoStar looking like Rocky films |
|
| | | Mediaroom makes it to China – but through a cable operator |
|
| | | Freesat momentum on track to disturb global pay TV |
|
| | | Expect a music video Hulu |
|
| | | Vodafone in the UK opens door on the “other” P2P app - TV |
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| | | Deals, launches and products |
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7 January, 2009
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| | | Apple is doing anything but “capitulating” over iTunes changes |
|
| | | Intel CE 3100 shows its hand through Samsung CES TV launch |
|
| | | China is ramping mobile TV phenomenally faster than the West |
|
| | | Time Warner Cable Viacom dispute – The first of many |
|
| | | As you were – Digital Home not in sight after all |
|
| | | Alcatel-Lucent leads the DSL, fiber-optic markets |
|
| | | Orange reports upswing in mobile broadband usage |
|
| | | IP Wireless re-merges from shadow of collapsing NextWave |
|
| | | Figures show that more people are buying more music than ever |
|
| | | TV chip makers to suffer same challenges as LCD market |
|
| | | Lionsgate takes TV Guide channels for $255 million |
|
| | | Cisco steps up consumer efforts with hosted social networks |
|
| | | Adobe plays on both sides in the mobile web and media game |
|
| | | Deals, launches and products |
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17 December, 2008
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| | | Digital home versions one and two almost ready to rock and roll |
|
| | | EU now wants to put import duties back onto mobile phones |
|
| | | So what was it like Dad when you had an antenna on your roof? |
|
| | | Strike or no strike - Actors decision to reshape visual entertainment |
|
| | | Barack 'Broadband' Obama wants it 'Now' |
|
| | | BitBand is next VoD-er to use Flash to serve video |
|
| | | IP Prime IPTV services fall from the sky – almost literally |
|
| | | Delay in AWS-3 vote may force rethink of US free wireless plan |
|
| | | Bell Canada buyout crashes |
|
| | | Envivio says that its three screen encoder is going into several cellcos |
|
| | | Nokia’s NoTA approach could transform cellphone economics |
|
| | | Deals, launches and products |
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10 December, 2008
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| | | Advertising will change forever during this recession |
|
| | | Round one to White Space lovers, but it remains a long road |
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| | | South Africa gives DVB-H a fillip, two services opening in 2009 |
|
| | | Sony – the incredible shrinking company shrinks yet again |
|
| | | EC crows over endorsement of a mobile TV plan that will never work |
|
| | | FCC chairman tainted by claims of gross manipulation |
|
| | | TiVo can load relevant adverts, searches when TV is paused |
|
| | | In-car tuner for every type of TV on the planet |
|
| | | After string of wireless chip warnings, who is poised to survive? |
|
| | | IEEE enlists Via Licensing for wireless patent pools |
|
| | | Amazon launches iPhone app |
|
| | | Not one, but two, standards planned for High Speed Bluetooth |
|
| | | MobiTV hits 5 million viewer mark |
|
| | | Deals, launches and products |
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3 December, 2008
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| | | If in-game ads can help make a president, what can they do for you |
|
| | | Investors look to retail numbers for silver lining in US recession |
|
| | | Vodafone Kabel rumors denied – doesn’t mean nothing’s happening |
|
| | | Radio chip maker Mirics gets its CMMB act together |
|
| | | UK Broadcaster quantifies popularity of video overlay advertising |
|
| | | Hand of Murdoch seen behind determined soccer win at Premiere |
|
| | | When will Ericsson land an IPTV client, not another supplier? |
|
| | | Clearwire becomes ‘Clear’ but credit crisis casts shadow over merger |
|
| | | Microsoft drops CSF platform to concentrate on hosted telco services |
|
| | | Europe remains hotbed of broadband, but DSL growth slowing says EC |
|
| | | UK viewers love DVRs almost as much as Americans says Parks |
|
| | | Nokia World: N97 grabs headlines, but Ovi and S40 chase real growth |
|
| | | That beep? Oh it just means my central heating went on at home |
|
| | | Bronfman Jr increases Warner Music's market share |
|
| | | Sony goes snap, crackle, pop with new made-for-web video content |
|
| | | Deals, launches and products |
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26 November, 2008
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| | | Lies, Damn Lies, Statistics and TV viewing figures |
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| | | Blockbuster set top – could do better, but deal shows 2Wire dominance |
|
| | | Sigma blames IPTV for slow down, or is it something else? |
|
| | | Semiconductors to plummet in line with PC and handset falls in 2009 |
|
| | | Sony Ericsson snatches handset third place by just 0.1% |
|
| | | Vodafone fleshes out German Videotheque plans |
|
| | | Amino buys Swedish IPTV set top marker Tilgin |
|
| | | TiVo makes $100 million, has $200 million in the bank |
|
| | | Google CEO calls for bailout of infrastructure |
|
| | | Pace consolidates set top lead with hot new Canal+ deal |
|
| | | Report: Pay-TV not bullet-proof |
|
| | | Deutsche Telekom asks rivals to help build broadband network |
|
| | | Orange takes its mobile TV offering to its Wi-Fi UMA platform |
|
| | | SeaChange makes the long overdue move into VoD for mobiles |
|
| | | Nokia adopts radical measures to improve fortunes in US and Japan |
|
| | | Microsoft smartphone, Zune or otherwise to appear in 2009? |
|
| | | Comverse takes sideways step out of billing to embrace mobile ads |
|
| | | Redstone dilemma hints at entertainment asset changes ahead |
|
| | | Deals, launches and products |
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19 November, 2008
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| | | France will not get DVB-H working before 2010 - Orange |
|
| | | Vodafone is hatching a global quad play in Germany |
|
| | | Chinese mobile TV system now confirmed as African winner |
|
| | | TNTSAT in France picks up another 400,000 since May |
|
| | | Yang falls on his sword – Yahoo now up for grabs |
|
| | | Mobile TV to sleep – then reach $10 billion by 2013 says report |
|
| | | Contrasting styles and success from three DVB-H case studies |
|
| | | Dilithium embraces Android in its high speed cellular video world |
|
| | | European Commission collects evidence in celco versus VoIP war |
|
| | | Broadband hits 400 million. How many more homes will take it? |
|
| | | BitTorrent hits snag |
|
| | | Consumers thinking Apple laptops, Dell desktops |
|
| | | Deals, launches and products |
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12 November, 2008
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| | | US pay TV buyers just want it cheap says survey |
|
| | | It’s time advertisers spoke up about where Yahoo assets should be |
|
| | | $10 billion retail giant teeters on brink, Circuit City opts for Chapter XI |
|
| | | BBC exec finally raises issue of iPlayer being opened up internationally |
|
| | | US IPTV wholesale systems come to boil after slow burn at Telco TV |
|
| | | Dish has its expected disaster, but why is AT&T calling the DTH shots? |
|
| | | Cisco focuses on mobile and video explosion to withstand downturn |
|
| | | Software defined radios make 4G and white spaces usable |
|
| | | Dell jumps on white space like white on rice |
|
| | | Touchscreens and 8MP camera on Nokia’s 2009 roadmap |
|
| | | Dish experimenting in addressable advertising ahead of the US crowd |
|
| | | AOL powers G1 Android campaign to saturate online ad world |
|
| | | MGM, MTV online sorties, but Nokia readies Comes with Video |
|
| | | Deals, launches and products |
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5 November, 2008
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| | | Requiem for a technology: DVB-H hanging on by its fingertips |
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| | | China’s claims for Mobile TV take up “exaggerated” but still thriving |
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| | | IPTV shrank in second quarter, but is growing once again |
|
| | | iPhone to take on 1 Seg to ease Japanese sales |
|
| | | Comcast adds more broadband subscribers than US Telcos combined |
|
| | | FCC’s election day marathon lets slip the wireless dogs of war |
|
| | | Broadband prices fall, but DSL still costs more per Megabit |
|
| | | China jumps to 1.5 million IPTV homes – wants 2 million by year end |
|
| | | Pace shows TV to be counter cyclical – currency is the only problem |
|
| | | CBS writes down TV, radio and outdoor – ups online performance |
|
| | | Intel ends UWB project, in possible deathknell for WiMedia |
|
| | | Hulu beats out ESPN and CNN |
|
| | | Deals, launches and products |
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29 October, 2008
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| | | Entertainment and networks gritty results seem largely recession proof |
|
| | | Two schools of thought on future of 3G iPhone – it’s hot or it’s not |
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| | | Second Thoughts on Broadcasting in the post 2009 Tsunami |
|
| | | Daggers out for Windows Mobile |
|
| | | Flat screen TV pricing has fallen, will fall a lot more |
|
| | | Comcast getting ready to roll out DOCSIS 3.0 in more markets |
|
| | | Cox and Xohm: raising hopes that carriers will invest through recession |
|
| | | Orca tries second attempt to conquer Russian market |
|
| | | Belt tightening right across the digital media landscape |
|
| | | AOL still on top on music and video |
|
| | | Akamai and Microsoft get closer over HD web video |
|
| | | Qualcomm's $1bn challenge from GPS firm |
|
| | | Hands-On challenges Java’s dominance in games |
|
| | | Deals, launches and products |
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22 October, 2008
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| | | Investors must look to consumer passion, network tuning technologies |
|
| | | France shows its true colors on broadband, spectrum and digital divide |
|
| | | Can FEC adapt DVB-T networks for mobile TV? |
|
| | | Results show business was booming before finance train wreck hit |
|
| | | France gets its fourth and least likely IPTV network from Bouygues |
|
| | | US cable TV faces customer satisfaction issues |
|
| | | IneoQuest adds the video dimension to its Quality of Experience line |
|
| | | Verizon, Sprint see blue skies ahead |
|
| | | Opposition mounts to FCC’s white spaces and AWS-3 proposals |
|
| | | Intel and Ericsson team on embedded HSPA |
|
| | | iTunes store sees over 200m TV show downloads |
|
| | | Deals, launches and products |
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15 October, 2008
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| | | BBC iPlayer opens DRM box of tricks, will it boost N96 sales? |
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| | | European mobile satellite war invites US attention, legal actions |
|
| | | Thoughts on Broadcasting in the post 2009 Tsunami |
|
| | | Microsoft Silverlight barred from iPhone, but should support Android |
|
| | | Should we turn set tops into open platforms with published APIs? |
|
| | | Ofcom chairman looks back on “improving” telecoms sector |
|
| | | China ahead of US broadband, as recession halt broadband uptake |
|
| | | FCC chairman wants to fiddle with US interconnection charges |
|
| | | Intel preaches unity in order to dominate 60GHz standards |
|
| | | Italian free satellite service name as Tivu |
|
| | | Qualcomm wins a legal round against Broadcom, chip ban lifted |
|
| | | Deals, launches and products |
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8 October, 2008
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| | | TiVo final patent victory – EchoStar fumblings will not go unpunished |
|
| | | Netflix suffers from “jumpy” shareholders – first media stock to warn |
|
| | | CFOs must not fall back on saying “It’s the economy stupid” |
|
| | | Germany authorities move to fix mobile TV impasse |
|
| | | In the US internet advertising revenues flatline, the rest is healthy |
|
| | | CDMA iPhone would expose the poor deal for US HSPA customers |
|
| | | Nokia Tube, RIM Storm, LG Renoir - Three touchscreen big hitters |
|
| | | News Corp takes rest of Jamba as Verisign exits non-core businesses |
|
| | | US researcher sees huge CE growth regardless of any US slowdown |
|
| | | Apple dodges royalty hike in iTunes |
|
| | | MySpace music finds equity partners and criticism |
|
| | | Deals, launches and products |
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1 October, 2008
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| | | BMCO Director hints at broadening of European DVB-H markets |
|
| | | Clone Wars: An avalanche of US Androids to spill over into Europe |
|
| | | What shape may WiMAX video take? – We ask Sprint’s VoD company |
|
| | | Freesat numbers endorse view that Pay TV faces major hurdle |
|
| | | DirecTV pushes Dish from the AT&T table |
|
| | | Xohm in Baltimore: A real mobile internet milestone |
|
| | | Broadband continues to grow, but spend cooling rapidly |
|
| | | Studios come after RealDVD – just as we said they had to |
|
| | | Google’s ‘instant bid’ patent puts new weight behind an old idea |
|
| | | Adobe tightens up its security for fun and profit |
|
| | | Yalp gets recognition 5 months too late, but Cisco can take a bow |
|
| | | Surprise: Home will be main location for mobile voice & data |
|
| | | Prediction: 200 million ultra-mobile devices in 2013 |
|
| | | GSMA to push “Broadband inside” label into laptops |
|
| | | Deals, launches and products |
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24 September, 2008
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| | | SanDisk slotMusic cannot be all that it appears |
|
| | | Europe plots to prevent incumbent telcos keeping fiber to themselves |
|
| | | Qualcomm to put CDMA in the sky through US MSS players |
|
| | | BMCO points to potential MoTV business models but not the winner |
|
| | | NextWave avoids financial ruin but must sell off its crown jewels |
|
| | | Sony baffles the market by adding MusicStation to PlayNow |
|
| | | T-Mobile puts flesh on the bones of Google’s Android |
|
| | | Nokia gives N96 its own TV channel to mark Europe launch |
|
| | | Dutch first in Europe to get 100 Mbps DOCSIS 3.0 |
|
| | | Free satellites TV services picking up momentum |
|
| | | German Cartel Office to take long hard look at pay TV set tops |
|
| | | AT&T to integrate iPhone into U-Verse |
|
| | | Deals, launches and products |
|
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17 September, 2008
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| | | Samsung moves in for the kill in the over fed Flash market |
|
| | | IPTV reaches out to reliability, advertising and the internet at IBC |
|
| | | Web TV, format wars, application battles – Next stop for IPTV |
|
| | | Europe starts rule making process for digital dividend |
|
| | | Opera and Nvidia work on full web-on-mobile experience |
|
| | | Mobile TV travels incognito at Europe’s IBC show |
|
| | | Sony open content market opens as DECE |
|
| | | Miniweb Brings Net-like Interactivity to TV |
|
| | | Irdeto lines up new Indian DTH service with CA |
|
| | | Sony Unveils a New Blu-ray Lineup |
|
| | | Napster sold to Best Buy, but the logic is not appealing |
|
| | | Yes there are 6,000 free movies on IMDB but are they worth watching? |
|
| | | Deals, launches and products |
|
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10 September, 2008
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| | | Ericsson IPTV middleware launches 3 years too late, with scant detail |
|
| | | Digital TV on the rise says report – but just what form will it take? |
|
| | | Nokia tweaks Ovi with integrated Avvenu file sharing, placeshifting |
|
| | | Vodafone aims to change Live! portal “beyond recognition” |
|
| | | Is RealDVD legal or not? A tough question which depends on its uptake |
|
| | | Verimatrix and Latens chase one way networks, NDS goes after PCs |
|
| | | HPNA flicks its nose at MoCA, lands Canada’s Telus |
|
| | | AT&T finally introduces Total Home DVR, starting in Bay Area |
|
| | | OpenTV gets embedded version of Flash Lite |
|
| | | Next stop for NDS is to deliver operators more profitable advertising |
|
| | | Harmonic wins all important encoding vote in Adobe Flash |
|
| | | DirecTV tightens grip on NFL by taking it online |
|
| | | Mobile TV chip makers target PCs and DTT networks |
|
| | | Sony Ericsson lines up iPhone challenger Xperia for September |
|
| | | Symbian build up - support now at 40 companies, 100s in the wings |
|
| | | Deals, launches and products |
|
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3 September, 2008
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| | | Shiny new Chrome, looks for success from IE failings |
|
| | | Digital TV world awaits DVB-T2 chips with bated breath |
|
| | | Broadcom backs WirelessHD for home video networks – or does it? |
|
| | | Motorola kicks out Cisco, Tatung in Deutsche Telekom IPTV |
|
| | | Nagravision wins Chinese mobile TV conditional access contract |
|
| | | ALU gains Verwaayen, one of the few CEOs up to the challenge |
|
| | | DVR’s are now indispensable says NDS study |
|
| | | Comcast errs on the side of generous with its new ISP data cap |
|
| | | DirecTV and TiVo falling in love all over again |
|
| | | Qualcomm loses another legal battle with Broadcom |
|
| | | Final Fantasy author may trigger Japanese gaming consolidation |
|
| | | Japan seeks upper hand as emerging markets drive mobile wallets |
|
| | | Nokia’s Comes With Music goes to UK first |
|
| | | Vudu Lays Off 20%, Hires CFO |
|
| | | Deals, launches and products |
|
|
27 August, 2008
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| | | Intel Yahoo widgets initiative catapults them to the head of digital home |
|
| | | DRM Trust Authority to emerge with the blessing of Hollywood |
|
| | | Cellular streaming TV to make a comeback with breakthrough codec |
|
| | | Alcatel finally clambers onto the BCAST bandwagon in Singapore |
|
| | | Broadcom tops and tails its DTV chips with AMD division |
|
| | | IPTV prices crash in Germany, new Hansenet bosses follow suit |
|
| | | Comcast FCC war may need lawyers to resolve entrenched positions |
|
| | | Nokia upgrades multimedia Nseries – OLED screen, bundled games |
|
| | | Intel’s next attempt to define standards: the mobile wallet |
|
| | | What do you get when you marry a PMP and an internet tablet? |
|
| | | Intel puts in a bid to unify 60GHz efforts |
|
| | | UK legal firm triggers massive bout of suing P2P gamers |
|
| | | Deals, launches and products |
|
|
20 August, 2008
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| | | Nokia takes on Intertrust DRM patents after years in the wilderness |
|
| | | What will the NDS strategy be, under private equity control? |
|
| | | Ericsson ST move helps consolidate wireless chip makers |
|
| | | Cox Cable lays out simple plans to conquer quad play using 700 MHz |
|
| | | Netherlands mobile TV system finally opens arms to Nokia devices |
|
| | | Norway sticks to its T-DMB guns for mobile TV |
|
| | | “Lonely Planet” guides killer app to go with Nokia Maps |
|
| | | Samsung leads in US LCD TV market, Sony market share falls |
|
| | | Silicon Image shows HDMI chips for multi-room multi-device video |
|
| | | BitTorrent Shaky |
|
| | | US handset market appear to plummet |
|
| | | BitBand offers ten myths of IPTV to expectant IBC crowd |
|
| | | Deals, launches and products |
|
|
14 August, 2008
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| | | Korean Telcos finally to be allowed to launch IPTV services |
|
| | | Qualcomm: Interview with a cellular Vampire |
|
| | | Siano funding round comes on the back of breaking into China |
|
| | | Digital UK: More broadband, digital TV and internet advertising |
|
| | | AppStore on way to $500m, but beware of the threat from open phones |
|
| | | MediaFLO alive and well and biding its time |
|
| | | German Mobile TV - Still in search of a business model? |
|
| | | Qualcomm demos 20 Mbps from a phone – ahead of the crowd |
|
| | | Telefonica to spend heavily to extend TVA TV reach in Brazil |
|
| | | Pulse~Link scores much-needed standards win on coax |
|
| | | Motorola looks to steal a march in white spaces debate |
|
| | | Motorola readies its Tru2way offering |
|
| | | AT&T and Verizon have disastrous Broadband quarter |
|
| | | Sony takes rest of Sony BMG, Bertelsmann goes back to music rights |
|
| | | Deals, launches and products |
|
|
30 July, 2008
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| | | Sony, Samsung lend weight to HD wireless home effort from Amimon |
|
| | | Satellite Radio: A merger for investors, stalled by bureaucracy |
|
| | | Disruptive Freesat eco-system and momentum begin to build in UK |
|
| | | Is Dark Knight going to hold the box office record for some time? |
|
| | | Counting the IPTV subscribers suggests that cable is suffering |
|
| | | Motorola restructures again, with full break-up now a possibility |
|
| | | AT&T dust up with Sprint over WiMAX plans |
|
| | | Top UK ISPs to police consumers in P2P music piracy deal |
|
| | | AT&T to offer new broadband tiers, bye-bye "up to" pricing schemes |
|
| | | Microsoft and Google shift war further towards mobile |
|
| | | Qualcomm-Nokia wars: Peace breaks out suddenly – as predicted |
|
| | | NDS lands first DVB-H deal, with Russian major Sistema |
|
| | | Netflix numbers show the effects of online initiatives |
|
| | | Deals, launches and products |
|
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23 July, 2008
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| | | Gaming riding waves of mergers, console wars, advertising and mobility |
|
| | | All’s well at AT&T – but is it enough to stop a rocking US economy? |
|
| | | WiMedia Alliance board shrinks in line with promise of its technology |
|
| | | Amazon changes course in online video wars - heads for streaming |
|
| | | Sony gathers supporters to make TransferJet a de facto standard |
|
| | | G.hn looms in battle for wired digital home |
|
| | | Predictable running order for CA DRM system comparison |
|
| | | FCC Commissioners play political games over satellite radio merger |
|
| | | Sony Ericsson rolls out Christmas music phones – with few surprises |
|
| | | Symbian hints at Google truce for handset unified platform |
|
| | | Despite iPhone, simple handsets still main vehicle for the mobile web |
|
| | | Telecom and Media face a harsh quarter of sub-prime panic economics |
|
| | | LCD screens set to take most of the global TV market by 2012 |
|
| | | FCC indecency fines get another courtroom reversal |
|
| | | Deals, launches and products |
|
|
16 July, 2008
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| | | India awakens sleepy cable sector with $ billions of cash for digitization |
|
| | | Motivated, moneyed, murderous – is that enough in defense of IPTV |
|
| | | If we don’t see a PSP phone by Christmas, it will be too late |
|
| | | iPhone scores on apps despite activation "fiasco" |
|
| | | Macrovision sees single user interface for TV shows, movies, music |
|
| | | Will first generation addressable advertising systems be a disaster? |
|
| | | BT to lay fiber to 10 million homes, bids for Ofcom deal on pricing |
|
| | | “Homes need 2 Wi-Fi networks, one for video, one for data” - Linksys |
|
| | | Pace lands prime HD set top deal at Sky Italia |
|
| | | DVB-T2 ready, being tested and will hit during 2009 |
|
| | | Can Guitar Hero and the top record label take on Apple’s iTunes |
|
| | | Sony and Microsoft lead E3 efforts with online films, price cuts |
|
| | | Just when you thought it was safe to use your phone – Spam II |
|
| | | New entrant Silicon Image wants to drag HDMI onto the handset |
|
| | | Deals, launches and products |
|
|
9 July, 2008
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| | | Nielsen good news report disguises an industry in flux |
|
| | | Yahoo-Google-Microsoft wars - as much about the mobile as the net |
|
| | | Broadband shifts emphasis to fiber, but not here |
|
| | | Sony puts more and more of the PSP into a phone |
|
| | | Cartiza gets Comcast boost for mobile content platform |
|
| | | Let’s watch some music on the TV |
|
| | | Google Viacom will form the case law to build an industry on |
|
| | | Widevine files its third patent suit against Verimatrix, but no-one else |
|
| | | Apple promises ambitious global launch for “unhackable” 3G iPhone |
|
| | | GSMA groans at prospect of regulator intervention on data roaming |
|
| | | Mobile TV is $15 billion opportunity |
|
| | | Deals, launches and products |
|
|
2 July, 2008
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| | | Permira bid for NDS hints at new era for News Corp orphan |
|
| | | Sony to send films to US homes, aims for 3 new $10 billion businesses |
|
| | | The only European mobile TV success story – now wants to change tack |
|
| | | Long wait to use mobile as a wallet should end in 2009 |
|
| | | Dish given notice by AT&T, also wants its $500 million back |
|
| | | Nokia “Comes with Music” partners with Warner |
|
| | | Intel approaches fortieth birthday at a wireless crossroads |
|
| | | Google signs with TeleAtlas, challenging Nokia Navteq |
|
| | | Game changer? NetEx touts 10X speed increase over existing wires |
|
| | | Another IPTV pioneer bites the dust as Espial sweeps up Kasenna |
|
| | | Sirius to go cash generative overnight after merger |
|
| | | AT&T Enters Content Delivery Network Market |
|
| | | Fragmented media will thrive on fragmented 10 second advertising |
|
| | | Deals, launches and products |
|
|
25 June, 2008
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| | | DVB-H on/off show doesn’t mean that China’s STiMi won’t happen |
|
| | | Comcast and friends could put a femtocell in most US cable homes |
|
| | | UWB patent stands up against Tzero on HD over Coax |
|
| | | Nokia gathers its forces to strike back at Android and Linux |
|
| | | US Newspaper industry ready for massive consolidation |
|
| | | Nokia plans dominance of mobile advertising, which is on its way |
|
| | | FCC defies chairman to rap Verizon over-aggressive marketing |
|
| | | NXTcomm: Wireless broadband, home networks, copper wires |
|
| | | Muni wi-fi is baaaack - SkyZhone resurrects hopes for muni wi-fi |
|
| | | European set top tax just part of wider job exodus to China |
|
| | | Nokia buys Symbian, to turn it into Google’s open source nightmare |
|
| | | FCC raises notion of free mobile broadband - We’ve heard it all before |
|
| | | Deals, launches and products |
|
|
18 June, 2008
|
| | | MHP licensing to be kick started in the free to air sector |
|
| | | FCC chairman pushes for Satellite radio deal, wants open devices |
|
| | | Delay or failure of Chinese Mobile TV satellite, may hurt EchoStar |
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| | | Sony Ericsson reaches for PlayStation, Cybershot to invigorate handsets |
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| | | Apple and Adobe further apart than ever on iPhone Flash issue |
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| | | Sigma Designs takes its HDMI UWB system to market with Monster |
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| | | Huawei to add DiBcom DVB-T chip to laptop HSPA dongles |
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| | | Supreme Court ruling hits Qualcomm, but its 3G forecasts are up |
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| | | Mobile broadband to be bigger than wired broadband in 2 years |
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| | | GPS pioneer loses out to Broadcom in round one of IPR legal battle |
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| | | EA continues forlorn undervalued bid for GTA owner Take-Two |
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| | | Mediaroom makes new friends, Microsoft buys interactive Ad company |
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| | | New EMI owner could be on the verge of selling out |
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| | | Deals, launches and products |
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11 June, 2008
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| | | In-Game advertising endorsed by Sony, tear up your old forecasts |
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| | | You can copy the iPhone, but not the iPhone experience |
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| | | NextWave next stop is Taiwan – to show what MXtv can do |
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| | | Apple sacrifices iPhone price for volume, carriers may bear the burden |
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| | | Wi-Fi, UWB and WirelessHD battle for IEEE’s 60GHz standards |
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| | | AT&T offers single triple play bundle wireline with wireless broadband |
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| | | Iliad’s Free looks to have landed Telecom Italia’s French ISP Alice |
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| | | Top US cablecos test ways to better manage Internet traffic |
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| | | Amino provides a home for struggling AssetHouse |
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| | | European operators pushing free IPTV to capture broadband riches |
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| | | Microsoft enhances CSF to target key role in ‘Telco 2.0’ value chain |
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| | | Comes with internet video: What a good idea for a TV maker like Sony |
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| | | XM settles last Inno “hear it, click it, save it,” lawsuit |
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| | | Deals, launches and products |
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4 June, 2008
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| | | Sony is just one of the problems on the dark Motorola horizon |
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| | | If you’re starting a technology revolution: Makes sure everyone gets it |
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| | | Blockbuster dusts off video kiosk idea, says it will work |
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| | | Philips, Axel Springer promise electronic guide for TV and the net |
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| | | Intel inspired PC PAN eco-system gives rise to Ozmo low power Wi-Fi |
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| | | Italy next in line to launch free to air satellite HD TV |
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| | | Russia opens its doors to Microsoft Mediaroom IPTV |
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| | | Nvidia takes major gamble in targeting Intel Atom |
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| | | Flash memory accelerating towards storage dominance |
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| | | Chinese telco reorganization should be clean sweep for LTE |
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| | | Korean S-DMB Mobile TV shifts to free TV in SKT bundles |
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| | | Amazon to move up to streaming movies from Unboxed downloads |
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| | | Triple and Quad Play News |
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| | | Internet TV and Advertising News |
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| | | Mobile and Mobile TV News |
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28 May, 2008
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| | | France sticks with its “communal” populist model for DVB-H |
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| | | Sony agrees terms to liberate US cable from clutches of Moto and SFA |
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| | | The potential for Apple’s future extends way beyond the digital home |
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| | | Cellular mergers made in heaven or the newspapers |
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| | | Akimbo caves in, its new ideas have no time to take |
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| | | EU may not be able to crush levies, but it can at least harmonize them |
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| | | Sarin gives way to Colao; Vodafone looks like real mobile data giant |
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| | | On-device portals find their place at the heart of new mobile internet |
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| | | US mobile phone sales down 22% |
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| | | Seagate 'showcases' new DVR storage |
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| | | Time Warner Cable – Could a cash cow feed the crows |
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| | | Watch out for when the whole studio industry goes straight to DVD |
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| | | Products, Partnerships and Deals |
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21 May, 2008
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| | | DVB-T2 puts mobile TV on the back burner, says DVB-T has long life |
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| | | Qualcomm and BSkyB, a scary unpredictable combination |
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| | | Vodafone and BSkyB likely to fight over Tiscali spoils |
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| | | US inches towards a Mobile TV strategy – no DVB-H comeback |
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| | | Yahoo Microsoft talks back on, over ad cooperation, not merger |
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| | | US Cablecos keep broadband and market share lead with 54.8% |
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| | | Qualcomm takes largest slice of $30 billion wireless chip cake in 2007 |
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| | | MBMS not exactly limited to 7 TV channels says Ericsson |
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| | | Dilithium tackles mobile video delivery |
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| | | Time Warner Cable pays $11 bn dowry to separate from Time Warner |
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| | | IPTV growing to $37 billion service business by 2012 |
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| | | DSL pricing up, but speeds up too says researcher |
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| | | IPTV counts for European majors all headed upwards |
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| | | Netflix intros direct to TV device for its online video service |
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| | | Dish, NagraStar suit on NDS disappears in a puff of smoke |
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| | | Deals and Devices |
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| | | Financial and Regulatory News |
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| | | Mobile and Mobile TV News |
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14 May, 2008
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| | | Korean partners sit down and agree to set aside ATSC differences |
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| | | MBMS is inevitably seeping into the 3G eco-system |
|
| | | Will broadcast TV die or just settle to something smaller than it was |
|
| | | Apple shifts iPhone model chasing market share, fending off RIM, HTC |
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| | | Cablevision buys piece of New York history, builds a piece of its future |
|
| | | Hard times ahead for DSL |
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| | | How many telcos does it take to kill Skype? |
|
| | | Pay TV styles are neck and neck in the first quarter |
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| | | Sprint and Sun push Java as the unifying force for the ‘middle web’ |
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| | | Carphone partners Best Buy for retail, looks to broadband for growth |
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| | | Microsoft cozies up to content owners |
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| | | Video search co blinkx tipped for acquisition among usual web suspects |
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| | | Deals, launches and products |
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7 May, 2008
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| | | Sprint-Nextel puts together Clearwire deal with Google, Intel, Cablecos |
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| | | Cellcos and friends back European report to speed UHF allocation |
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| | | Both Microsoft and Yahoo NEED a new deal – what about each other |
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| | | Ruckus claims patent breach at Netgear as MIMO becomes commodity |
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| | | AT&T launches “me too” mobile TV service destined for early failure |
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| | | Format, codec fragmentation drives managed video market says Nativ |
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| | | Iridium enjoys 41% growth but plows different furrow from Inmarsat |
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| | | GoView! download service from BSkyB to Sony PSP coming in Summer |
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| | | Motorola building online movie store |
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| | | Adobe’s Open Screen boosts its bid for mobile media standards |
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| | | Kontiki released to plow its own furrow |
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| | | Microsoft tweaks Zune recommendations, adds stacks of video |
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| | | Widevine says it can protect ALL Microsoft video formats, and Flash |
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| | | Deals, launches and products |
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30 April, 2008
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| | | Texas confesses that UWB simply not mature enough, looks to wi-fi |
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| | | Adobe’s sprint into DRM may just be the start of a marathon |
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| | | Dish deal over DVB-SH may well decide Alcatel’s future in mobile TV |
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| | | Widevine lands plum Motorola reseller deal |
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| | | Sprint still needs cablecos as Pivot fails, but will Comcast go it alone? |
|
| | | TIA report touches every forecast in the communications industries |
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| | | Growing field of contenders for internet-connected set-top boxes |
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| | | Conexant bows out of set tops in $145 million NXP deal |
|
| | | NextWave simplifies its story with return to spectrum trading |
|
| | | Sun, Apple each buy chip start-ups for influence in handhelds |
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| | | TV Shows Start Appearing Online Illegally Within Minutes |
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| | | Deals, launches and products |
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23 April, 2008
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| | | Gracenote fingerprinting, metadata to enrich all future Sony offerings |
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| | | Conditions for conditional access drive new strategies at NAB |
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| | | Video Wars: Microsoft’s journey from monopoly to ecology in web video |
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| | | Is video quality becoming the next frontier in IPTV? |
|
| | | Qualcomm sees UK L Band as latest chance for a European beach head |
|
| | | Magic box promises all web content (legal & otherwise) on the TV |
|
| | | What’s the hullabaloo about Hulu or Paramount’s film channel? |
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| | | News Corp ponders damage to FCC ownership regulations on new deal |
|
| | | Nokia Music Store hits France and Australia with new phones |
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| | | AT&T lawyer throws a lot of mud at Net Neutrality wall. None sticks |
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| | | Nokia shares fall on warnings over handset prices and “crazy currency” |
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| | | Deals, launches and products |
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16 April, 2008
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| | | US Mobile TV moves at NAB begin to shape its ATSC M/H future |
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| | | Sony feels new HD confidence in aftermath of Blu-ray win |
|
| | | Philips watermarking coming to the aid of internet video |
|
| | | ioko taps Kontiki partner for US CEO, targets tier 1 accounts |
|
| | | Are film studios and broadcasters lightening up? |
|
| | | Mediaroom quietly moves towards scale and promised feature set |
|
| | | STMicro-NXP wireless venture signifies handset realignment |
|
| | | Has Texas fallen away from the WiMedia Alliance UWB effort? |
|
| | | Nokia Comes with Music will be a game-changer |
|
| | | NBC Universal says mobile platform is crucial |
|
| | | Blockbuster Circuit City deal seen a solution to all that real estate |
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| | | Deals, launches and products |
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9 April, 2008
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| | | MOCA – Trying to build a European bridgehead from FiOS success |
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| | | My name is Motorola, king of mobile: Look on my works, and despair |
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| | | Telcos look to entertainment for growth in France and Ireland |
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| | | Malone takes yet more of DirecTV as it loses AT&T’s favor |
|
| | | Yahoo and Microsoft face off, bolster mobile software armories |
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| | | ICO launches satellite to support mobile TV ambitions |
|
| | | Microsoft fights back with Windows Mobile upgrade |
|
| | | Sprint CEO hits out at doubting Thomases - WiMAX is not slideware |
|
| | | What about putting iPhone OS on a non-iPhone phone? |
|
| | | Tandberg updates Mediapath for something other than cable VoD |
|
| | | RIAA takes a step back in onus of proof in piracy cases |
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| | | Deals, launches and products |
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2 April, 2008
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| | | Broadcast International - First HD at 3 Mbps, now MoTV at 46 kbps |
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| | | DVB-H patent pool is set, but grumblings likely from rivals, cellcos |
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| | | One of the last great French sales threatens new ISP map |
|
| | | Why are the TV and Mobile global maps the way they are? |
|
| | | Google looks to white spaces to be ‘third time lucky’ for open access |
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| | | Thomson properties likely to go on the block as CEO departs |
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| | | Mobile TV – a service which cellular operators don’t yet control |
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| | | Motorola DVB-H push, round 2 – looks more and more the part |
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| | | AT&T MediaFLO deal likely to launch Sony film channel |
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| | | Poland may have delays to 2009/2010 for DVB-H Mobile TV |
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| | | Gartner Report: 10 million 3G Capable iPhones Coming |
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| | | Revived cableco alliance could save Xohm – and Sprint |
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| | | Comcast, BitTorrent Snuggle Up for More Efficient Broadband Use |
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| | | Legend harnesses aigo for USB dongle to show Olympic HD on PCs |
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| | | Harmonic’s Rhozet wins deal at Akimbo |
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26 March, 2008
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| | | Dishing up a new mobile TV approach – with a spattering of Chinese? |
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| | | Karmazin to turn red ink to black, when he unveils post merger plans |
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| | | The last great American movie scam |
|
| | | Adobe completes video DRM to support all online business models |
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| | | European broadband revenue topped $98bn in 2007 |
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| | | TiVo allows access to web videos |
|
| | | Look East if you happen to want to supply cable and IPTV systems |
|
| | | Enfant Terrible of Digital Music Defends New Startup |
|
| | | Japan joins countries where ISP will crack down on piracy |
|
| | | Could the flat rate plan by why iPhone users access the web so often? |
|
| | | French Quad player offers DVB-T handset, calls it mobile TV |
|
| | | Motorola to be broken into handsets and the rest |
|
| | | Triple and Quad Play News |
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19 March, 2008
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| | | The rise of the P4P architecture to turn the Internet into a big TV set |
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| | | Satellite madness halts US DTH rush to Russian space craft – HD stalls |
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| | | NEC’s arrival unlikely to make a dent in Europe’s IPTV scene |
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| | | EU backs DVB-H – but we see Mobile TV splintering in Europe |
|
| | | Plan mooted for European super-chipmaker to challenge Intel |
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| | | Vodafone silences the mobile data cynics with fourfold growth in usage |
|
| | | Comcast not going to stand idly by and be capped by the FCC |
|
| | | UPC Romania may fall to partner Orange |
|
| | | Researchers sees TV advertising rising to 2012 – were not so sure |
|
| | | What do you call an Xbox without a DVD drive? – An ExBox |
|
| | | Hollywood Lobs Hulu Missile at Arrivistes |
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| | | Windows Mobile signs for Adobe Flash Lite, now on 500m devices |
|
| | | EMI Cuts Anti-Piracy Funding of IFPI |
|
| | | Triple and Quad Play news |
|
| | | Regulator and Financial News |
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| | | Mobile and Mobile TV News |
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12 March, 2008
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| | | NextWave waving (not drowning) – as it solves the WiMAX TV riddle |
|
| | | Orca Viaccess deal is far from black and white |
|
| | | Apple unveils iPhone SDK and iFund, but developers remain frustrated |
|
| | | Inmarsat in talks with three national carriers about satellite services |
|
| | | IPTV World Forum - Content, DRM strive for three screens – but why? |
|
| | | Edgeware lands its first tier 1 telco for breakthrough Flash VoD |
|
| | | PCCW takes the first steps to HD on back of Harmonic deal |
|
| | | Neptuny offers hosted IPTV recommendation engine for smaller Telcos |
|
| | | Motorola extends DVB-H reach with investment in Italy’s Quantum |
|
| | | Regulatory and Financial news |
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| | | Triple and Quad Play News |
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5 March, 2008
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| | | Will US 700 MHz auction be remembered for dismembering wireless |
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| | | Nokia gets the upper hand in global IPR wrestle with Qualcomm |
|
| | | Sprint-Nexel: Waiting for a way to walk the WiMAX walk |
|
| | | Will future generations do three things at once, and talk less |
|
| | | Sony PlayTV combines DVR and Placeshifting, for $200 on PS3 |
|
| | | Nokia and Microsoft get closer with Silverlight deal to challenge Adobe |
|
| | | European cellcos split on Nokia Ovi, T-Mobile latest to be hostile |
|
| | | Is it too soon for a Zune phone? |
|
| | | Handset makers ready to deploy contactless payment standard |
|
| | | Akimbo business strategy all Akimbo – still |
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| | | US homes need 10 Mbps so they can watch HD web video, placeshifting |
|
| | | Japan launches Big Kizuna satellite broadband |
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| | | Cablevision approaching 50% broadband penetration |
|
| | | Mobile and Mobile TV News |
|
| | | Triple and Quad Play News |
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| | | Regulatory and Financial News |
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27 February, 2008
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| | | IP Wireless and cousin Packet Video make bid for all DVB-H refugees |
|
| | | Quietly creating a Ruckus while holding the hands of telcos |
|
| | | As the US Upfront process transitions, networks psych themselves up |
|
| | | Thomson France Telecom Sagem pact to open up home IP service stack |
|
| | | DISH subscriber rates crash and burn in the fourth quarter |
|
| | | Will embedded 3G on PCs force Intel’s hand to support cellular |
|
| | | Disney ups the ante in online multiplayer games |
|
| | | Google move to video overlay adverts – a follower not a leader |
|
| | | P2P research plans Europe wide broadband broadcasting network |
|
| | | DVD Jon strikes music CDs this time |
|
| | | MySpace planning move into crowded music market |
|
| | | AT&T's MediaFLO mobile TV delayed again |
|
| | | Motorola launches DOCSIS 3.0, buys Chinese cable set top maker |
|
| | | Regulatory and Financial News |
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| | | Mobile and Mobile TV News |
|
| | | Quad and Triple Play News |
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20 February, 2008
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| | | HD DVD is dead – Will Sony turns its big guns to the Xbox now |
|
| | | Can the US Mobile Satellite Services market ignite in the near term |
|
| | | NDS EchoStar trial on hacking comes to court after 5 years |
|
| | | Net Neutrality with sanity – This time it might make it |
|
| | | Mobile TV chip market attracting more and more players at MWC |
|
| | | Linux takes helm of mobile web, but too immature to bear the burden |
|
| | | Siano partners India’s Tata to court local and global DVB-H market |
|
| | | Better late than never – NXP, Thomson put analog tuners into JV |
|
| | | DirecTV seems to be flourishing in the teeth of US recession woes |
|
| | | Cox thrives as Comcast broadband growth slows |
|
| | | Starbucks dumps T-Mobile for AT&T |
|
| | | Clear Channel still haggling over the deals that will rejuvenate it |
|
| | | Nokia rolls out mobile ad network building on Enpocket acquisition |
|
| | | What Darwin might have said about the Hollywood writers strike |
|
| | | Products, Partnerships and Deals |
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13 February, 2008
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| | | European Cellcos act rather than wait for DVB-H spectrum |
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| | | Texas says 2008 for a chip to put TV projector into a handset |
|
| | | Mobile TV gets to grips with integration |
|
| | | Top device makers flood MWC with GPS, music, FM and megapixels |
|
| | | Nokia is happy to take on Google Search as a front door for its mapping |
|
| | | Nvidia thinks it’s time to go after handset application CPU role |
|
| | | If a Nortel Motorola tie up is the answer, what’s the question? |
|
| | | Microsoft and Yahoo just coy while they think about marriage terms |
|
| | | BT Vision now promised a future – BT Fusion is quietly buried |
|
| | | Motorola joins lengthening list of companies taking Intertrust patents |
|
| | | Content delivery legal spat reduced to single Akamai patent |
|
| | | Verizon goes after Charter now, is it lining up entire cable industry? |
|
| | | Products, Partnerships and Deals |
|
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6 February, 2008
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| | | IBM’s Cell Z Series marriage – the tools for a gaming revolution |
|
| | | Now Broadcom wades into mobile TV market on the heels of NXP |
|
| | | Microsoft-Yahoo - Perhaps the first internet-mobile internet combo |
|
| | | Digital Fountain Raptor FEC for IPTV installed first European Telco |
|
| | | TiVo EchoStar and Dish need to sit down and work it out |
|
| | | Yahoo takes Rhapsody, may buy Maven. Both are snubs for Microsoft |
|
| | | DiBcom will deliver Alcatel DVB-SH receiver in Q3 |
|
| | | Giants and minnows adopt strategies to feast on LTE transition |
|
| | | Garmin offers touch screen handset, mp3 player, maps, GPS |
|
| | | Top ten things that will NOT make any difference to technology |
|
| | | Move over Apple & Microsoft, here comes Amazon |
|
| | | Amazon Europe drops out of online DVD rental, partners LOVEFiLM |
|
| | | Sony dampens PS3 sales forecast |
|
| | | Products, Partnerships and Deals |
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30 January, 2008
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| | | NXP re-awakens mobile TV chips efforts with $2, low power device |
|
| | | Mobile TV – Operators still have their head in the clouds |
|
| | | Nokia will bring Indonesia to the DVB-H fold after two years trying |
|
| | | Microsoft lands Wall Street Journal web ad serving deal |
|
| | | Nokia Trolltech purchase directed at Google |
|
| | | Tiscali CEO sees things the same way we do |
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| | | Grown up Pace Micro, happier in itself, looking forward to marriage |
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