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12/14/2012
After New Year’s Day, What?
It’s the time of year when we’re all making some sort of list and checking it twice. December seems to be the month we all move into panic mode, and only a little of that can be contributed to the holidays. Operators and vendors of all kinds are thinking about the coming year, and just […]
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12/12/2012
Setting The Standard 12/12/12
IEEE unveiled updates to four wireless communications technologies in the IEEE 802 family of standards as well as a new IEEE 802 standards-development project. The new standards support smart-grid data communications infrastructure. Comments James Gilb, chair of the IEEE 802.24 Technical Advisory Group (TAG), “These new updates to the IEEE 802 standards will enable utilities […]
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12/11/2012
Call Security! 12/11/12
France-based INSIDE Secure, a developer of semiconductor and software solutions for securing transactions, content and digital identity, today unveiled its DRM Fusion for DTCP-IP, a software-based, end-to-end security solution it says helps ensure that such high-value content as high-def video remains secure and is copy protected when transmitted between PCs, tablets, smartphones, smart TVs, gaming […]
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12/07/2012
Operators, Manufacturers Commit To ‘Green’ STBs
A group of video providers and device manufacturers that deliver service to more than 90 million American households are launching what the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) and National Cable & Telecommunications Association (NCTA) say is “an unprecedented ‘Set-Top Box Energy Conservation Agreement’ that will result in annual residential electricity savings of $1.5 billion or more […]
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12/04/2012
Deals Of The Day 12/04/12
Universal Sports Network, a multiplatform media destination for Olympic and endurance sports programming, plans to relocate the network’s production and broadcast operations from Southern California to Denver as of Jan. 1, 2013. The Los Angeles-based company chose Comcast Media Center (CMC) as its local partner in Colorado to provide studio production facilities, linear master control […]
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11/30/2012
New Stuff 11/30/12
TerraWave Solutions’ high-performance indoor antennas has been accepted into iBwave Design, the software standard for in-building network design; the antennas now are listed in iBwave Design 6.2. According to TerraWave, “Distributed antenna systems (DAS) architecture is becoming the most efficient and cost-effective way to deploy in-building coverage,” and its antennas “meet a range of frequency […]