Blog articles from 09/2010

Parks Associates will moderate a special session at the Game Developers Conference Online (GDC) , held October 5-8 in Austin, Texas. The session, “How economic context affects game development from start-up to grown-up companies,” will be held Thursday, October 7th, 11 a.m. - 12 p.m., and is sponsored by Canada at GDC, The Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada and represented by the Canadian Consulate General Dallas. The electronic entertainment industry...

Cox Communications is adding diagnostic capabilities into its data network that could lead to a managed services offering for some of its home networking customers. In June, Cox started selling data gateways with DOCSIS 3.0 and 802.11n from Cisco and Netgear directly to its customers. While the nation's third-largest cable operator has a long history of selling home networking gear to its subscribers, the new gateways could lead to Cox dipping its toe into managed services for home...

Parks Associates is supporting the Digital Media Conference West on October 27th in San Francisco, California. DMC West is a full day of in-depth discussions and networking focused on the top business issues impacting digital media companies, including online video, social media, investments, online advertising, mobile entertainment, mobile apps, the future of news media and the relationship between Hollywood and Silicon Valley. More Info

Parks Associates is supporting 4G World as a Key Research Sponsor from October 18-21 in Chicago. 4G World , the first and only conference and expo covering the entire ecosystem of next-generation technologies that enable the mobile Internet revolution including mobile network infrastructure, advanced devices, applications and content. More Info

From CED , Time Warner Cable's Whole House On Demand service recently became available in Lincoln, Nebraska and surrounding areas. Whole House On Demand allows subscribers to watch purchased on demand programming on digital boxes throughout the home . If a customer purchases an on demand program on a TV in the family room, they can now also watch it on a TV in another room.

NETGEAR's Push2TV is a solution within the wireless laptop-to-HDTV link product category that we're closely watching. This past week, Sigma Designs announced that the SMP8653 secure media processor is the first and only media processor powering wireless PC-to-TV display devices. NETGEAR’s Push2TV™ adapter uses Sigma’s chipset to display content from Intel® Wireless Display enabled notebook PCs on the big screen HD-TV, wirelessly. The market for wireless PC...

From Fierce Cable , Comcast's CFO Michael Angelakis said the comany will "re-launch" TV Everywhere next month. The service, which has been in beta trial "for a couple months" will be called Xfinity Online and "will provide our customers with the content they want anytime anywhere."

From AP and The Boston Globe ,Time Warner Inc.'s chief financial officer John Martin said Thursday that early next year the company will likely test letting people pay $20 or $30 to watch new-release movies at home within a month or two of their debut in theaters. No question the demand is there, even at these price points, as we tested in previous surveys. Demand will be particularly significant in households with children, where the cost of going out to the movies, plus the...