Yahoo and Intel previewed their Widget Channel today, a “television application framework optimized for TV and related devices.” Essentially, the two companies are showing how to bring a wide range of new applications to TV via widgets, and they’re advocating for an open standard in order to fill out a “TV Widget ecosystem”. (Analysis up [...]
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The last time I talked extensively about Motorola’s OCAP software development kit, the name tru2way hadn’t even been unveiled. Now that tru2way is everywhere, and cable operators and CE vendors alike have thrown their weight behind it, I’m thrilled to finally have an update on the SDK. It’s available! Today!
Official word on the hold-up is [...]
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Light Reading hosted a one-day event yesterday on Cable Next-Gen Video Strategies. While I wasn’t able to make it out to LA for the conference, I’m hoping to hear back soon from a friend who was on the ground. In the meantime, Jeff Baumgartner writes that Mark Cuban’s interview with analyst Alan Breznick was as [...]
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Matt Doyle from Motorola ran through a great demo for me in the booth yesterday showing Caller ID on the TV. Unfortunately the noise in the video I shot is a bit overwhelming, so here’s the info in text form.
First, Motorola is showing both an OCAP/Tru2way Caller ID application and a non-OCAP [...]
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It’s been a very productive morning over at the Motorola booth. I’ve spoken to several product managers, shot some video and taken lots of stills. My time with an Internet connection is limited at the moment, however, so for this post I will let the video do the talking. [...]
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Don’t get used to OpenCable. The name, that is. While I’m still stuck on calling the standard OCAP, Mike Robuck at CED reports that the name is likely to change again. With a possible launch at CES, CableLabs appears poised to introduce Tru2way as the new moniker for the Open Cable Application [...]
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It was something of a surprise this summer when Intel announced support for OpenCable (OCAP). But given that move, I guess it shouldn’t be a shock that Intel is joining the Multimedia over Coax (MoCA) Alliance. One takeaway: Big companies still see reason to invest in technologies for coaxial networks. Fiber is [...]
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Brian Santo over at CED has a great article up on the bandwidth implications of the DTV transition. Specifically he outlines why cable hasn’t gone all-digital already (cost of adding in CableCARDs and OCAP technology) and how cable could have had it worse in the recent DTV negotiations if the FCC had mandated triple [...]
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I made some irritating errors in writing about Motorola mobile software last week, so it’s clear that by trying to post again on the subject I’m just making myself a glutton for punishment. Nonetheless…
If you look across the Motorola mobile portfolio you’ll notice there’s a range of software in use. While pushing the [...]
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During a webcast earlier this week, CableLabs officially exchanged the term OCAP for OpenCable Platform. One less acronym on the books. Apparently OpenCable Platform indicates hardware and software where OCAP referred to software only.
A representative from CableLabs also mentioned that program guides are getting the most attention in these early days of OpenCable, [...]
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