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Original Content
The announcement of the Starz, LLC partnership with the BBC to co-produce content for their respective networks was hinted at in this interview with John Penney, EVP of strategy and business development, of Starz at the 2011 Connections™ conference. He was a keynote speaker at Connections™ and one of the things he spoke of is…
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A Platform for Supporting the Customer
Jordan Socran of Radialpoint discusses their solution for helping service providers and CE vendors help provide support to their customers. Through its platform and/or agents, Radialpoint leverages a brand’s existing customer support approach to help consumers with their connected home needs. Radialpoint wants to help their customers compete with offerings such as Best Buy’s Geek…
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Crossroads for Mobile Carriers
Mobile carriers are at a cross roads in terms of being able to monetize the investments they have made in their infrastructure, according to Harry Wang, Director of Health and Mobile Research for Parks Associates. Looking at other markets and ways, such as Machine to Machine connectivity, to build on that infrastructure will be critical…
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Networking Inside the Plug
A Smart Energy HAN Consortium is how Alan Weissberger titled his blog post about an alliance of alliances that consists of the WiFi Alliance, the Home Grid Forum, Zigbee Alliance and the HomePlug Alliance. As Alan explains, the intent of this super group is to help companies that provide products that communicate over IP to…
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Lights, Shades and Temperature Control – Automatically
According to a newly released Parks Associates’ report, , IP-Based Home Monitoring: Security, one-third of U.S. households find the idea of remotely turning on and off lights, controlling thermostats and appliances via web-enabled devices to be very appealing. Matthew Swatsky of Lutron demonstrates what this looks like by remotely controlling lights, shades and temperature control at Parks Associates…
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Enabling Everything with Wireless
< The Wall Street Journal published an excellent article today on how wireless networking is being embedded in devices and used for activities that, until recently, wouldn’t be associated with wireless; things like slippers, bovine mating and pill bottles are all candidates for a wireless treatment. One of the people quoted in the article is Glenn Lurie,…