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Vodafone launches Webbox

Vodafone has launched the Vodafone Webbox, a device aimed at bringing affordable Internet access to a customer’s existing television set, just by plugging in a keyboard. The Webbox is a Vodafone innovation developed specifically for customers in emerging markets, where technology and cost barriers often exclude many from enjoying affordable, ready Internet access at home […]

February 14, 2011

AirTies secures expansion investment

AirTies, Turkey’s wireless home media network vendor, has announced that it has received a ‘multi-million dollar investment’ from US private equity firm, Invus.  The investment will be used to help the company to build its sales and marketing presence in Europe as well as to strengthen its technology leadership in the wireless media networking markets […]

February 2, 2011

Verizon: High-IQ networks and smart collaborations to spread technology innovation

A keynote speech from Verizon Chairman and CEO Ivan Seidenberg focused on how high-IQ networks and innovative content and applications are combining to fuel “one of the most innovative eras in the history of technology.” During the keynote address, Seidenberg noted that today’s more than two billion Internet users and five billion wireless users form […]

January 7, 2011Nick Snow @CES

AirTies innovates HDTV home wireless

AirTies has won a significant order from Turkey’s TTNET to supply its innovative set-top box and clever IPTV wireless solution for distributing HDTV signals around the home. AirTies’ home gateway supplies one of its Air 7120 high-def boxes along with its 4420 video bridging devices, taking advantage of any DNLA-enabled consumer items in the home, […]

November 25, 2010

BNI Video launches ‘video control plane’

BNI Video, a software company backed by Cisco, Comcast Interactive Capital, and Time Warner Cable, has launched with the announcement of a video control plane that enables video service providers (VSPs) in the cable, telecommunications and wireless industries to achieve breakthrough gains in service delivery flexibility, scalability, velocity and reliability. The company also revealed it […]

October 13, 2010

MoCA joins CEDIA

    MoCA, the worldwide standard for home entertainment networking, has confirmed its membership in CEDIA, the Custom Electronic Design and Installation Association. Membership is part of the Alliance’s strategy of educating electronic system contractors about the technological and economic benefits of MoCA technology for moving HD content around the home using already existing coaxial […]

September 15, 2010

Set Top Box Round Table 2010

The Set Top Box has been key to all new television developments in the last 20 years but has it had its day? Will functionality migrate to the Cloud leaving the STB as a ‘dumb’ thin client, or does a new future as the home gateway and hub of the smart home await?

August 29, 2010

Home Networks feature from Euromedia 2010

Home Networks Feature Euromedia MAR/APR 2010 THE SEAMLESS TRANSPORT OF ANY MEDIA TO ANY DEVICE AROUND THE HOME IS THE MOST IMPORTANT NEAR-TERM CHALLENGE FOR SERVICE PROVIDERS. IT IS A SIMPLE PROBLEM THAT HAS MANY – OFTEN COMPLEX – SOLUTIONS. COLIN MANN FINDS OUT WHAT THE OPTIONS ARE FROM A RANGE OF INDUSTRY EXPERTS

August 13, 2010