Motorola to Acquire Leapstone

Posted on July 10, 2007 by Mari Silbey

The acquisition train keeps on rolling. Motorola announced today its intent to acquire Leapstone Systems. Leapstone has a Service Delivery Platform for delivering content across multiple devices and networks. Think seamless mobility. Think quad-play. Think convergence. All those good things. That’s probably as much as I can say about [...]

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Set-Tops on eBay

Posted on July 10, 2007 by Mari Silbey

People will always find a way to make a buck. Jeff Baumgartner points out that Motorola DVRs with integrated security (i.e. non-CableCARD compliant) are showing up on eBay. Worse, someone’s buying them. Word to the wise, these set-tops won’t work unless activated at the cable headend, and no operator is going to [...]

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