When there's a struggle to build revenue, someone inevitably steps up to fill the moneybags. While technology companies such as Vyyo (formerly the Terayon part) and RGB Networks work with TV-specific models to insert unavoidable advertising onto screens, others such as GET Interactive enter the space from... http://www.cable360.net/motorola/mobilevideo/23655.html Thu, 24 May 2007 0:00:00 EDT NextWave Wireless created some small ripples in the wireless pond this week when said it would plunk down up to $135 million to acquire IPWireless, the industry's largest provider and biggest booster of TD-CDMA gear. Most obviously, this meant that IPWireless was seeking help in what has been an uphill... http://www.cable360.net/motorola/mobilevideo/22960.html Thu, 12 Apr 2007 0:00:00 EDT The telecommunications industry tends to overthink everything - often overlooking the easiest answer. For instance, how many times have you heard "Who wants to watch television on a 2-inch screen?" as a reason why TV on a mobile phone won't ever happen? It's only a solid argument, though, if you... http://www.cable360.net/motorola/mobilevideo/22961.html Thu, 12 Apr 2007 0:00:00 EDT For the growing number of wireless users who are not completely, voyeuristically immersed in the lives of their friends and acquaintances, a new service from Tivantis called GotZapp may be the answer. GotZapp is a social network that uses the Zirada mobile content creator to design and create mini-Web-like... http://www.cable360.net/motorola/mobilevideo/22516.html Thu, 15 Mar 2007 0:00:00 EDT Content is still king. Honoring that king - or rather the many claimants to that throne - calls for a propagation and distribution network that preserves the integrity of the content/customer relationship.... http://www.cable360.net/motorola/mobilevideo/22265.html Thu, 1 Mar 2007 0:00:00 EST WorldGate Communications, while continuing to push the standalone video phone concept, opened the door a crack to other video-centric communications devices by making its high-performance Ojo phones "backward compatible" with older video phone codecs under the H.263 umbrella. This, said Hal... http://www.cable360.net/motorola/mobilevideo/22220.html Fri, 23 Feb 2007 0:00:00 EST Cable operators have buried treasure – aka recorded media – in DVR-enabled set-top boxes in their consumers' homes, and they should give consumers the keys to retrieve it and do with it what they'd like, including carrying it out of the house. Motorola calls this a "cache and carry"... http://www.cable360.net/motorola/mobilevideo/22112.html Thu, 15 Feb 2007 0:00:00 EST For those of you who may have missed it while fighting winter storms and sundry strains of influenza, competition has arrived. The hype's over: Verizon is serious about television, and cable is serious about telephony, and the satellite guys know that HD is the only way they'll stay ahead of both wireline... http://www.cable360.net/motorola/mobilevideo/22113.html Thu, 15 Feb 2007 0:00:00 EST Last month, we profiled Cox's Craig Smithpeters, manager, advanced technology and standards, in CT's Pipeline, but ran out of room to include his thoughts on the cable operators' joint venture with Sprint Nextel. Here's what Smithpeters had to say: Is the Sprint JV looking more like a business partnership... http://www.cable360.net/motorola/mobilevideo/21436.html Wed, 3 Jan 2007 0:00:00 EST It’s not a secret that over-the-top Web players are using cable’s $100 billion broadband infrastructure to offer video. Yes, most cable operators view them as freeloaders and worry that potential net neutrality rules could effectively sanction their end-run actions. But cable execs... http://www.cable360.net/motorola/mobilevideo/21239.html Mon, 18 Dec 2006 0:00:00 EST