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Femtocell Trials to Start in Singapore 09.May.2008 05:26 AM Hwai Lin Khor | Research Analyst, Wireless Singapore will have its first taste of femtocell this mid May following the announcement from its No. 2 mobile operator, StarHub. 200 of its existing cable broadband customers will test the technology over a six-month period to assess its ability to improve residential wireless coverage and conseque... [ read ] Coppergate Acquires HomePlug AV Assets of Conexant 07.May.2008 01:32 PM Michael Wolf | Research Director, Digital Home Today Coppergate, the primary provider of HPNA 3.1 silicon, acquired the HomePlug AV assets from Conexant. Conexant, which continues to be parted out like a 67 Chevy (it announced the sale of its set-top box products to NXP last week), hasn't been much of a presence in HomePlug, selling some HomePl... [ read ] Goodbye Xohm, Hello New Clearwire JV 06.May.2008 06:32 PM Philip Solis | Principal Analyst, Mobile Broadband The WSJ is reporting that Sprint and Clearwire have reached an agreement, along with Intel, Google, and cable operators Comcast, Time Warner Cable, and Brighthouse. The spun-off 4G group from Sprint and Clearwire are valued at approximately $9 billion, and with the additional $3.2 billion in f... [ read ] HomeGrid: Believe It or Not, Another Physical Layer Home Networking Standard 30.April.2008 10:06 AM Michael Wolf | Research Director, Digital Home Yes, another standard to add to the large collection of phoneline, powerline and coax standards. Since I am on the road, I have yet to get briefed by the folks representing HomeGrid, the new standard, but I will definitely be interested to hear how and why they decided to start a new standard later ... [ read ] TD-SCDMA IC design house Commit leaving the TD-SCDMA game; what lies ahead? 29.April.2008 02:28 PM Hwai Lin Khor | Research Analyst, Wireless The recent news that the China-based TD-SCDMA IC design house Commit will cease operations at the end of April 2008 after failing to gain revenue for its TD-SCDMA venture deals a severe blow to the TD-SCDMA community, particularly when TD-SCDMA is yet to take off. Commit is one of the few success... [ read ] NAB Wrap-Up: Why NAB is Now the Most Important Show for Convergence (and not CES) 17.April.2008 01:25 PM Michael Wolf | Research Director, Digital Home Got back from Vegas last night, and overall have to say it was a very good show. Lots of interesting stuff going on in the digital media space, with all of the large hardware, software and enabling technology vendors in the digital media food-chain working on getting this whole multi-platform world ... [ read ] The Blockbuster Box? No, thank you, but... 11.April.2008 12:07 PM Michael Wolf | Research Director, Digital Home This Ars article states the obvious, that we don't need another proprietary STB for a single service online video provider. If you haven't seen the gravestones littering the proprietary STB service graveyard, some of the names of the dearly departed include Akimbo's box and Moviebeam's among others.... [ read ] FubuHulu? Facebook Meets Hulu and I Like It 09.April.2008 06:49 PM Michael Wolf | Research Director, Digital Home I've been a fan of Hulu since beta, and my fondness for Facebook grows by the day. Imagine if the two meet! I actually stumbled across the new Facebook app today that allows for Hulu streamed video within Facebook. While not all of the shows are available, it has a pretty good selection. Now, I thi... [ read ] Service Providers - Provision Your Networks Correctly 09.April.2008 03:14 PM Philip Solis | Principal Analyst, Mobile Broadband The BBC is finding that it has to argue its position against ISPs who want to charge the BBC extra because they are selling more access capacity than their network can handle. This is about wired networks, but there is of course the same issue in mobile wireless networks - for the issue being dis... [ read ] BBC iPlayer Bumps Usage of Streaming by 62% in one Month 09.April.2008 10:11 AM Michael Wolf | Research Director, Digital Home The launch of the iPlayer from the BBC is a great controlled experiment, because its a fairly ubiquitous launch in the UK since it left beta in December of 2007. Early indications were that it had done well from the very beginning, and now this blog from UK ISP Plus.Net show that traffic has spike... [ read ] |
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