Blog articles from 09/2010

Nokia Siemens Networks has launched a new software client for 'any device with a screen' that allows people to watch TV via any network, integrating over-the-top TV and broadcast TV with Web and social network access. The new software client provides a user interface for services delivered via the company's Ubiquity Multiscreen TV platform (launched last March), irrespective of location or device. The Ubiquity Multiscreen TV platform enables operators to provide live, recorded or...

At a press event in Manhattan on September 16, Samsung announced that Media Hub will go live imminently and also revealed partner information. As for what you'll be able to download to your phone, Samsung has worked with a number of entertainment studios, including Paramount, NBC Universal, Warner Bros., and MTV Networks, to provide the content and ensure that it's optimized for viewing on a phone. At launch, the catalog will contain more than 1,000 movies and TV shows, and...

Remote control specialist Ruwido has developed a new mobile device that enables viewers to watch content from the main TV set anywhere in the home. The portable device, called TV Radio, uses WiFi to display the content being shown on a TV set, enabling users to watch TV anywhere within range. Showing the device exclusively to DTVE Daily at the IBC trade show, Ruwido’s innovation project manager Thomas Fischer said that the device had been designed to make watching TV anywhere...

Verizon FiOS TV customers are getting another piece of the TV Everywhere pie, with the company and HBO today announcing the launch of MAXGO.com, Internet access to Cinemax online video. The website gives FiOS subscribers unlimited access to Cinemax offerings from any Internet-connected computer at no additional charge.  

D-Link and Boxee are getting ready to ship the Boxee Box in November, and Amazon.com is taking pre-orders. It is also preparing to ship in Europe. The box will be available in a number of European countries including Albania, Austria, Belgium, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Croatia, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Macedonia, Montenegro, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Serbia, Slovenia, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland...

PlayJam is a company that we covered in a recent report titled Gaming ARPU: Games & the Service Provider, and we concluded that there is a significant opportunity for games-on-TV as a value-added service through pay-TV operators and connected TV players. With DTT set-top boxes becoming hybrid, however, there are also opportunities in this space. PlayJam has expanded the availability of its network across UK digital-terrestrial platform Freeview through set-tops sold by retail...

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...

The company that pioneered the concept of whole-home DVR has hung its hat with the Multimedia over Coax Alliance .