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The Post-IPTV Era has begun. Have you noticed?
IPTV has traditionally been defined as a facilities-based solution that delivers high-quality pay TV over a quality of service–managed network. ...
Could Best Buy and Walmart become OTT video service providers?
Analyst sees an opportunity for retailers and other major brands to become video service providers ...
Should users finance fiber-to-the-home?
If we’re paying for broadband deployment with federal taxes anyway, should we be able to buy our own fiber connections?...
Telcos seek role in mass of OTT experiments
Telcordia exec predicts train wreck as telcos look to replace linear programming with monetizable online TV...
Shared residential Wi-Fi as a service
The increasing use of in-home wireless gear to handle everything from mobile voice to video has me thinking about a conversation I had this fall with Paul Evans, CEO of Sharedband,...
What Comcast/NBCU means for competition
Comcast (NASDAQ:CMCSA) and General Electric (NYSE:GE) made their intentions to acquire NBC Universal official this week, creating a joint venture majority-owned and operated by Comcast...
Breaking Down the Walled Garden
Apple is to closed what Google is to open. This was always thought to be a common understanding among wireless developers, but as it turns out the dichotomy...
Voice 2.0 parade carries on
The never-ending search to find the right formula to do for apps on voice-over-IP and carrier networks what the iPhone (and maybe now the Droid) has done...
Avail: Over-the-Top video still small, but don’t ignore it
“The TV experience is not going away,” Ramu Potarazu, CEO of Avail-TVN, told attendees at the Telco TV show today, addressing their concerns about the rise of over-the-top video offerings but backing up his assertion with hard data....
Energy management not waiting on smart grid
In-home energy management is a cornerstone of the smart grid movement, but it’s not necessarily reliant on having the updated grid infrastructure and demand response technology in place...
