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Beyond the Connected Home & Towards the Connected Life
The extension of communications service providers’ business beyond the network demarcation point and into the home is in full swing, as evidenced by the recent introduction of connected home services from the major operators. In this interview, Kevin Petersen of AT&T provides an overview of their offering that goes beyond the home and encompasses what…
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MVPD-Driven BroadbandTV
A year can make a big difference in the world of technology rollouts; at least between 2012 and 2013. Paul Woidke of NAGRA/OpenTV points out how many of the developments around broadband TV are now being driven by the MVPDs, as compared to earlier when Over-The-Top providers were pushing the envelope. Woidke points out that…
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The Jury Is Out As To Who Will Bring It Together
“In some respects, the jury is still out,” said Frank LaBarbera, Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing for Affinegy. LaBarbara was talking about the notion that there might not more than one entity, whether it is service provider, retailer or manufacturer, who brings together all the disparate devices in the home. In the above…
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Driving Efficiency With a Price Insensitive Customer
Jarrett Simon of Centerpoint Energy talks about the challenge of driving efficiency when customers are somewhat price insensitive. He talks about the importance of being able to use the data from the Smart Meters and providing the consumer with specific actions that will help them with their energy consumption.
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Reinventing the Telephone & Reinventing the Process of Product Development
Don’t tell the founders of Urban Hello that you can’t teach an old phone new tricks. At CES 2013, Urban Hello demonstrated a working prototype of their high-definition voice, high-fashion telephone. This video was filmed two days after Urban Hello’s launch of a Kickstarter campaign. Although they didn’t make their campaign goal, they are to…
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Scaling Apps Through Open APIs
Unlocking the value of the data that already exists in various databases is what Steve Wilmott of co-founder and CEO of 3scale discusses in this interview. 3Scale helps entities create the Application Programming Interfaces and manage the back-end to allow proprietary databases to interface to mobile and other applications, such as connected TVs or even the…
