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GoogleTV as an Operator’s Middleware
Two-plus years since its release and the verdict as to whether GoogleTV will be a consumer success is still to be determined. The Trojan horse into the consumers’ living room for GoogleTV could be the operator. At the TV NEXT 2012 conference, start-up, iRevo, demonstrated its application of GoogleTV as a multiscreen middleware. With Google’s acquisition of…
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The Operator App Store
“It’s a competitive issue. They [Operators] want to be offering these solutions on their platforms so that their customers don’t go somewhere else,” said David Adams VP Corporate Development for Accedo. Adams was referring to the idea that operators are beginning to offer app stores to stay relevant in a world where over-the-top is causing…
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Video Anywhere over Anything
Sang Kim and Tal Sliwowicz of Tversity talk about transcoding and packaging signals at the home and how they are offering this capability to service providers, in the above video filmed at Parks Associates’ 2011 Connections Conference . What started out as a product for the PC is migrating to home gateway-type boxes and could even find its…
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An App for That with Paul Bunyan Communications
A telco as an app developer? Leo Anderson of Paul Bunyan Communications proves that is happening in this interviewed recorded at the 2011 MTA Annual Convention. Appropriately enough, the theme of the show was, “There’s an App for that.” Anderson talks about the motivation behind the iPhone app they developed, how it works with their…
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That’s the Ticket
Overnight successes rarely live up to that description. So many times in the technology world, someone will have a good idea, everyone starts talking about the possibilities of this greatest next big thing, and suddenly the hot air of hype is everywhere. Then the pinprick of inertia deflates the balloon of over-inflated expectations and yesterday’s…
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From ATM to IPTV
In this brief interview Paul Cox, President of Manti Telephone and an early video over copper service pioneer, talks about his company’s& recent transition from an ATM-based video service to one that is IP-based. In addition to IPTV, Manti is also transitioning to a Fiber to the Home network for both their Greenfield and existing…
