Yet another piece of jargon has entered the lexicon of communications with the concept of Fog. This is not an acronym but is the idea that for many applications and […]
Arnaud Bensaid – Pay TV gets serious about the smart home and NAS
Major exhibitions can be useful barometers of current trends in an industry and that was certainly true at the recent TV Connect show in London.
David Souhami – Cast dongle will feed the live king
The HDMI dongle has been cast as villain in the story of traditional pay TV and broadcasting, but it may well emerge as a hero.
David Souhami – Casting good fit for pay-TV
The Wi-Fi connected HDMI dongle is emerging as a serious solution not just for accessing online content but also for bringing broadcast services to legacy TV sets. There are several […]
Philip Hunter – Cast dongle can unlock true hybrid TV
The HDMI cast dongle was legitimised when Google launched Chromecast mid-2013 and since then has gained force as a disruptive product potentially threatening pay TV operators, set top box makers […]
Lionel Gremeau – Intel Lantiq takeover boost for smart gateway and connected home
Intel’s acquisition of Lantiq is great news for everybody involved in the smart gateway field, for it will galvanise the market and win over anybody who still doubts that such […]
Ros Atkins – The ‘big screen news guy’
The BBC has a report out called The Future of News. The authors are some of my most talented colleagues, and their work is as comprehensive and well-thought through as […]
Christian Knaebel – Vodafone & Liberty Global: a match made in heaven?
Currently, speculations arise more often than usual that Vodafone is considering the acquisition of Liberty Global.
Arnaud Bensaïd: Amazon echoes the future for broadband operators with virtual assistant
Amazon’s Echo has been widely hailed as a major innovation for the digital home by relying entirely on voice for input and output for information and services.
Bjarne Andre Myklebust – Taking public broadcasting over the top
The Norwegian Broadcaster Corp. / NRK just finished it so far last round on launching VOD services OTT on new devices. This fall we launch services on Samsung, LG, Sony, […]