July 2007

SoonR profile

Mon, 2007-07-23 11:56 — Sabiha Thakur

Part of my interactions with companies enabling public mobile VoIP clients â€¦. SoonR is about mobilizing desktops â€¦. Remote Desktop Connection â€¦ a concept that is gaining traction among the business VoIP users as well. There are some companies that...

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Interview with Patrick Henry, CEO, Entropic (PART 1)

Wed, 2007-07-18 09:29 — Faisal Kawoosa

Entropic, established in 2001, has been focused on Home Entertainment networking. It provides chipsets along with software in this segment. C-Link, its flagship product allows the sharing of multimedia content over COAX infrastructure. The company recently acquired RFIC providers RF...

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TI expects to sell 5 million video surveillance chips in 2007

Tue, 2007-07-17 10:51 — Faisal Kawoosa

Texas Instruments is expecting to ship about 5 million video surveillance and security chip devices in 2007. These will mainly come from TIâ€™s DaVinci product family. Video surveillance and security solutions have seen a boom since the 9/11 incident. But...

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10 organizations that established VoIP industry

Mon, 2007-07-16 11:22 — JR

VoIP represents a major paradigm shift in communications technology. It is changing business processes and consumer lifestyles worldwide. Not only is the change over to VoIP irreversible, VoIP has proven to be the main catalyst in convergence of services and...

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Interview with Andreas Khoshnou, CEO, NewPhone

Tue, 2007-07-17 11:04 — Wasim Khan

NewPhone is a triple play service provider offering services in Norway and Sweden using the incumbent service providers' broadband and mobile Internet. The company has grown from a turnover of SEK 8 million in 2004 to SEK 51 million...

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Flash enabling IP TV set top boxes

Wed, 2007-07-18 07:35 — Staff

Flash could become part of set top boxes as it is a very good substitute to HTML or other user interface presentation layer. In France, Free makes YouTube-like channel available to their IP TV subscriber that allows subscriber to upload...

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Xbox/PS/Wii versus set top boxes

Wed, 2007-07-18 08:03 — Staff

Home entertainment solutions, such as the PlayStation, Xbox and Wii, are enabling services that could bring them in direct competition with IP set-top boxes. Today most IP STBs do not offer gaming at the level proposed by any of the...

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Chinaâ€™s bet on AVS

Mon, 2007-07-16 10:09 — Staff

If we are to believe what they say, then China is going to be the largest IPTV market soon. Microsoft seems to have delayed IP TV plans of many including AT&T and BT. France Telecomâ€™s subscriber take-up seems to have...

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Interview with Mauro Bonomi, CEO, Minerva

Mon, 2007-07-16 10:08 — Staff

Minerva has been involved in video-over-IP space since late 90â€™s. The company is one of the pioneers in the world of IPTV. The main product Minerva sells is iTVManager. iTVManager has two components: middleware and applications. Applications include EPG delivery,...

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Market research bites / blog

Mon, 2007-07-16 10:02 — JR

Over the past few months, I have been wondering why the perceived value of our email newsletter has dwindled. Along with our research reports, we have been updating over 8,000 newsletter subscribers with market analysis (mainly VoIP) on a weekly...

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