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. Hit “play” for a walk-through of [...]
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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 Platform. Name change [...]
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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 spreading, but there [...]
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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 carriage [...]
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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 new [...]
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