Even as tru2way held the spotlight at The Cable Show this year, EBIF was equally present, and perhaps even more top of mind for MSOs. If tru2way is the gold standard, then EBIF is the currency you can use to cash out quickly.
Part of the evidence on site included a number of EBIF applications demoed [...]
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Interactive TV got a bad name back in the nineties when poor execution (and financial meltdowns) took all of the momentum out of the iTV movement. So some people are quite reasonably skeptical when the topic of interactive television comes up today. Fortunately the environment – from technology standards to market competition – has changed [...]
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This just in: Motorola and Time Warner Cable are working together to deploy the cable industry’s first tru2way multiroom DVR solution. Motorola started developing this home networking technology literally years ago, but it’s the advent of tru2way that has made it appealing for cable operators to deploy. More to come on this subject…
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Before closing the book on this year’s CES, I thought I’d post some final pics from the booth. Some of these photos are mine and some come from the official Motorola Flickr stream. Enjoy.
Here are several colorful versions of the new Motorola CPEi 775 WiMAX/WiFi modems.
This is the Motorola CCE Storefront app shown on a [...]
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Even as President-elect Obama aims to digitize health records within five years, the commercial and academic sectors are working at other ways to improve the health system through technology. MIT, for example, is working with the video industry on an application for providing medical reminders to patients through their TV sets. Very few people take [...]
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I’ve heard many people say that CES 2009 was evolutionary rather than revolutionary. The follow-on is that with no break-out products, the latest gadget extravaganza was rather dull. While I agree with the first premise, I heartily disagree with the second.
When I think back to CES 2008, netbooks were barely on the radar, only road [...]
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Lots of folks covering lots of TV news this week. The NCTA blog has a piece up on the launch of the first retail tru2way TVs, and Jeff Baumgartner prognosticates on tru2way in 2009. Plus, Comcast hit the 1,000 mark for HD content offerings. And Nielsen reports that nine million homes are still not ready [...]
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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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Every so often the press latches on to the idea that the set-top is on death row. The notion is absurd for a number of reasons, but to make the point in the briefest of terms I thought I’d disclose the set-top shipment numbers that crossed my desk today for Motorola’s Q2. If nothing else, [...]
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