"smartphones" articles
There have been a number of announcements this year regarding cable operators' push toward deploying customer premise equipment that takes on the functionality of the residential gateway, set-top boxes, media server, and manager of remote user interfaces. So far, I've seen news from Liberty Global, and NDS is preparing to introduce its version at the SCTE Cable-Tec Expo next week.
Demonstrations will include:
* Secure end-to-end delivery of triple and quad play services from...
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...
Western Digital announced WD Photos™ (photo), the newest release of its photo viewer app, which is now optimized for iPad™ and iPhone®4. Available as a free download from iTunes®, the WD Photos app provides remote access to photos stored on a WD network hard drive including My Book® World Edition™, My Book Live™ and WD ShareSpace™. The images are displayed in native iPad and iPhone resolution, and users can access up to 285,000 of their favorite photos anywhere they can...
Logitech unveiled its Google TV accessories today, centered on the Revue™ companion box. The additional products showcased include:
* Logitech Mini Controller : a compact palm-sized keyboard/ touch pad/remote control combo.
* Logitech TV Cam and Logitech Vid™ HD : Plugs into the Revue compansion box and allows HD video calls (up to 720p).
* Logitech Google TV Apps: Logitech will offer two downloadable smartphone apps: the Logitech Harmony for iPhone and the...
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...
The word from Light Reading comes that Comcast has made its XFINITY™ Home Security service available to the Houston market. This is another example of mobile and broadband service providers expanding their value-added services offerings into home, health, safety, energy, and security monitoring.
What is the demand for home and health management solutions from broadband providers. In Customer Support in the Digital Home, we found 15% of consumers in U.S. broadband households...
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...
