Here’s a piece of news a bit outside the norm for this blog. BT, the parent group for British Telecom, is trialing Motorola software for the upcoming Paralympic World Cup that will deliver highlight videos and other event content to consumer mobile handsets. It’s a services and software engagement, but there is a common thread [...]
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With a backlog of CES content to post, I thought I’d start with some new details and exclusive pics of the Motorola-created au Box launched by Japan’s KDDI last November. The idea behind the KDDI au service is to make content transferable between au set-tops and au mobile phones. The last information I had suggested [...]
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In the continuation of our series of executive interviews, I spoke with Motorola’s Fred Wright last week on WiMAX milestones in 2008, and the prospects for WiMAX in 2009. (Scroll down for podcast) In the US, we saw the launch of Sprint’s Xohm service in Baltimore in October, the approval of the Sprint/Clearwire merger, and [...]
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Despite all of its ups and downs, and the uncertainty of US WiMAX deployments before the deal with Clearwire was signed, Sprint is sitting pretty right about now with early deployments of the Xohm network. Quite simply, the launch couldn’t have come at a better time. A year ago, netbooks (also called ultra-mobile PCs, ultra [...]
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KDDI, a major operator in Japan, has picked up the new Motorola VIP1830 set-top. Branded the au Box, the set-top is meant to be used with KDDI’s au mobile phones. The pairing is designed to make content portable from set-top to phone – or portable media player with a USB connection – and back again. [...]
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When I wrote about the Motorola USB transcoder on Monday, I have to admit I didn’t think I’d get too many more details. The product being shown at IBC is a concept demo. It’s not a go-to-market product. At least not yet. Nonetheless, I got details galore.
It turns out the MCU3E (or MCUBE) takes [...]
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Still catching up after a few days of vacation here. As I kick my brain back into gear, here’s a video from CTIA showing Motorola’s Venkat Eswara demoing the DH02. If you haven’t seen the mobile TV device in person, this is a nice close-up view. As a reminder, it runs [...]
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Taking a break for the moment from the highly technical posts, here’s some news that was somewhat obscured by yesterday’s corporate announcement that Motorola will split into two parts. (There, I’ve said it. No, I don’t have any more information. No, I can’t speculate on how the split will occur.) In [...]
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Both US mobile broadband usage and TV viewing on the Internet have soared. In two entirely different articles today I read that:
Mobile broadband usage has gone up 154% in a year, and
NBC.com measured more than half a billion video streams on the Web in virtually the same time span.
This begs the [...]
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Here are some of my favorite shots from the CMTS lab yesterday. (Click thumbnails for a larger view) In order, there’s a photo of fiber nodes, racks upon racks of cable modems, a cable modem close-up, a mess of wires (far worse than my own home entertainment system…) and a BSR 64000 (CMTS) [...]
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