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Faster Innovation Of Service
As widely reported, Verizon will be using this week’s CES to announce home monitoring and control services accessible from smart phones, computer and their FiOS TV service. Verizon’s FiOS service has received kudos from customers and industry pundits for its continued innovation. In this interview, filmed at Parks Associates 2010 Connections Conference, Joseph Ambeault of Verizon…
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Invisible Network Management
Andy Melder of Gigle Networks talks about the importance of having network intelligence at the device level to make network management invisible to the end user at the June 2010, Parks Associates Connections Conference. Gigle Networks made the news yesterday,….
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Verizon Invests in the Smart Home Through 4Home
The announcement of Verizon’s investment in 4Home is significant in that it shows the importance of smart grid and smart home type services as part of a Communications Services Provider's total offering. Embedded in the router, which eliminates the need for another box, the 4Home software adds the capability for the service provider to offer…
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From the Idiot Box to Works of Art
Scott Birnbaum, vice president of the LCD (Liquid Crystal Display) Business at Samsung Semiconductor, Inc., discusses the state of television displays and some of the near and longer-term developments that will make them more useful and ubiquitous. Birnbaum suggests that almost 1/3 of the homes in U.S. are expected to have 3D in their homes…
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Simplifying the Development of Apps for TV
Since March 2009, the Yahoo! Widgets platform has been bringing Internet applications directly to the TV. In this video interview filmed at Parks Associates’ Connections Conference, Ronald Jacoby, Senior Director and Chief Architect, Connected TV, Yahoo!, explains their reasons for developing their connected TV platform. Jacoby tells of their success at integrating this open platform…
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Creating a Better, More Efficient Consumer Video Experience
Creating a better consumer experience, while fixing the broken digital supply chain, are the objectives of the DECE. Mitch Singer, Chairman of the DECE anad CTO of Sony Pictures, discusses how this is an industry-wide initiative that includes participants from retail, infrastructure, content and telecommunications organizations. A key to what they are doing is the…
