"tablets" articles
The Apple iPad is proving to be one of the most successful consumer electronic devices of all time. Despite much derision at its time of launch, the iPad is now selling faster than the iPhone and leading the way in the worldwide tablet revolution.
At this rate, the Apple iPad is not only flying of the shelves faster than the iPhone, but is also far ahead of entire categories of tech products like the 350,000 DVD players that sold in the first year. The iPad will reach sales of...
Cisco has made its poorly-kept secret official - it has introduced Cisco ?mi™ telepresence , a consumer videoconferencing product and service. The product (which comes with an HD camera, a console, and a remote control) will cost $599 and there is a $24.99 monthly service. In addition to some high-profile positioning at Best Buy Magnolia Home Theatre stores, Cisco is also spending major marketing dollars in Q4, with positioning on the Oprah Winfrey show, new commercials with Juno...
Parks Associates is supporting the 2010 Digital Hollywood Fall in Santa Monica, California.
Heather Way , Research Analyst, Parks Associates will be moderating the session, "A dvertising on Tablets and SmartPhones - the Immersive Commerce and Communication Experienc e" on Thursday, October 21 from 2:15 PM - 3:30 PM.
Digital Hollywood is the premier entertainment and technology conference in the country. For more information about this event, click here .
On September 13, Verimatrix and Harmonic announced a solution that leverages the HTTP Live Streaming adaptive bitrate standard to securely deliver video services to the iPhone®, iPad, PC and a range of other devices. The solution is an integration of Harmonic’s MediaPrism Convergence Suite with the Verimatrix Video Content Authority System (VCAS™) for Internet TV to create a unified headend that delivers protected standard (SD) and high definition (HD) content over unmanaged...
On September 13,Synaptics announced that its capacitive TouchPad solution is featured in the Philips Dual remote control, that was introduced at IBC 2010 in Amsterdam.
To develop the remote remote, Philips Home Control combined a variety of leading-edge innovations including ZigBee® RF4CE technology (Radio Frequency for Consumer Electronics), a QWERTY keyboard, and Synaptics TouchPad solution. The 2-inch diagonal TouchPad recognizes gestures such as pointer navigation, flick, and...
Okay, I'm really not sure how they're going to get away with this, but meet ivi TV , providing Internet access to broadcast stations in Seattle and New York for a $4.99 per month fee. Fierce IPTV has a good overview of what ivi TV is doing:
It offers more than three dozen broadcast channels, including ABC, CBS, NBC, FOX and Telemundo to Macs, Windows and Linux computers.
It says it will feed to mobile devices, including the iPad soon.
ivi claims it already...
Today, Verizon announced the development of an app that will allow streaming of FiOS TV to Apple iPads. Verizon's app further expands the growing TV Everywhere trend as well as the number of companies providing video content to the iPad platform. However, before you plan on watching reruns of Top Shot at the office, you may note that Verizon plans for the service to only be available inside the home for FiOS customers.
We've been pleased to have Mitch Singer from Sony Pictures and the Digital Entertainment Content Ecosystem (DECE) coalition speak at our recent CONNECTIONS events and speak about the potential of "digital locker" services. Roughly defined, these would be services that could authenticate and manage a wide variety of user-owned content in a virtual environment. One key element of the digital locker is widely agreed-upon digital rights management protocols, where multiple...
