In case you missed it yesterday, Motorola acquired 4Home, Inc., a software and services company in the home management space. From the press release: 4Home delivers connected home services through its carrier-grade software platform, ControlPoint. These services include energy management, home security and monitoring, media management and home health. ControlPoint is based on a customizable [...]
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Over-the-top video is only one flavor of IPTV; the kind that relies on DOCSIS data pipes for delivery. So what about the other kinds? As cable operators examine their infrastructure options, it doesn’t hurt to recap how the industry could be looking at IP video going forward. Here’s how Dr. Robert Howald defined the options [...]
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Last week Motorolan Dr. Rob Howald presented in a Light Reading webinar on the topic of cable’s migration to IPTV. This is a subject matter that’s going to be at the top of the cable industry’s agenda for several years to come, but given the complexity of the topic, it shouldn’t get stale any time [...]
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Mark it down. November 2010 is the month TV went mobile. Forget earlier efforts, or the fact that there is still massive room for growth and improvement. This month two major providers, Verizon and Comcast, have announced new applications designed to take their TV offerings to the small screen. So far the two approaches are [...]
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Although it seems like a natural progression for cable set-tops to start integrating Internet-based content, there have been few indicators of actual activity in that area until recently. Now, several signs seem to point the way toward cable set-top convergence. First, Jeff Baumgartner reported in two articles over the last few weeks about Comcast plans [...]
