Digital Home zone
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Half of world’s population will be online by 2017
Global IP traffic is set to grow three-fold between 2012 and 2017, according to research from Cisco, whose latest Visual Networking Index (VNI) Forecast predicts that more than a trillion gigabytes will be transmitted over IP networks each year by 2017. -
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YouView has “no plans” to support Xbox One
While much of the gaming and tech press have been cautiously optimistic about the new Xbox One console revealed earlier this week, the UK's new connected TV platform YouView just revealed on Twitter that it has no plans to support the new Xbox. -
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Xbox One raises pulses, tracks them
Microsoft has finally presented its new Xbox to the world, describing the console as an all-in-one home entertainment system for the decade ahead that can connect to existing set-top boxes, snap between live TV and other tasks such as Web surfing and video calling (courtesy of Skype), and detect user gestures with much greater accuracy thanks to an improved Kinect peripheral so sensitive it can detect heartbeats.
Analysis & Opinion
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And in this corner: Microsoft Xbox One and the future of OTT
Microsoft announced the Xbox One on Tuesday in Redmond, Washington. Given that the Xbox 360 has been around since 2005 and sold over 70 million units worldwide, finally seeing the next-generation console from the #1 player in the market is a pretty big deal.
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Microsoft’s bid to dominate the future entertainment stack with the Xbox One
Microsoft’s reveal of the Xbox One yesterday evening in Redmond signaled the culmination of its ambitions to be at the centre of the future living room entertainment landscape.
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AT&T boldly enters home security market with Digital Life
One of the more ambitious and promising initiatives announced at CES was AT&T’s Digital Life, an application and services platform that will offer a broad range of services to consumer households including media management, home security services, home energy monitoring and a broad variety of sensor-based services such as water leak detection and water main control.
Bollywood comes to YouView from TalkTalk
Bright future for residential security at the Digital Home World Summit
Virgin Media's new COO named
Shazam's Daniel Danker: "This can be a very confusing time for TV viewers"
Worldwide IPTV subs up 36% in 2012
Twitter amplifies TV advertising
INTERVIEWS
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Roku: “Most smart TVs have lousy UIs”
Scott Rosenberg, vice-president of business development, content and services...
May 14th, 2013 -
Spotify: “By the end of the year, we hope to be on the majority of TVs”
Pascal De Mul, Global Head of Platform Partnerships at...
March 26th, 2013 -
Electronic Arts: Gaming on connected TVs will be a learning curve for everyone
Richard Hilleman, Chief Creative Officer at major video games...
January 3rd, 2013
EXPERTISE ZONE
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The operator survival guide: rules of engagementViaccess-Orca’s Ofer Weintraub discusses the requirements for second screen apps....
March 25th, 2013
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IPTV meets Big Data – predicting user behaviour to create attractive offeringsThe tough challenges faced by communication service providers (CSPs) from...
March 13th, 2013
By Spyros Sakellariou -
Podcast: Multiscreen video, consumer expectations and user-generated contentIn this podcast, we speak to Steve McCaffery, VP and...
March 8th, 2013
By Jamie Beach
