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Ericsson: Philippines to have IPTV in two years

News Strong market interests and falling bandwidth costs are paving the way for Internet Protocol TV services to be finally made available in the Philippines.

Thursday, August 07 2008 11:18 AM

Tags: TVs, Web sites, Web 2.0, IP Television, Philippines, Japan, multimedia, revenue, Internet, set-top box

Will Silverlight or Air hit enterprises?

News Winning consumers and developers over is key to getting enterprises to pay attention to adopting either platform, says analyst.

Thursday, May 15 2008 06:48 PM

Tags: Web 2.0, Web services, Internet, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Silverlight, Standards, Adobe Systems Inc., NBC, U.S., principal analyst

Asian chip market to hit US$160B

News Led by China, India and emerging markets Thailand and Vietnam, Asia's semiconductor industry will grow 6.4 percent in 2008, says Gartner.

Monday, September 01 2008 07:17 PM

Tags: Processors, Mobile processors, Memory, Mobile, India, Semiconductor, Chip, Gartner Inc., China, revenue

Android set-top box in the works

News Google's open source operating system will soon end up on a set-top box built buy Motorola for a Japanese service provider, according to the blog Android Guys.

Tuesday, April 14 2009 10:04 AM

Tags: Open source, Consumer Technology, Mobile, TV, KDDI Corp., Device, Cell Phone, phone, Google Android, set-top box

Motorola denies developing an Android set-top box

News Company clarifies that it's not working on an Android set-top box. Rather, the device it's delivering to Japan's KDDI is based on an OS developed by Motorola called KreaTV.

Tuesday, April 21 2009 10:44 AM

Tags: Open source, Mobile, Motorola Inc., KDDI Corp., Google Inc., Open Embedded Software Foundation, operating system, phone, software, Google Android

ARM takes on Intel with Adobe partnership

News The chipset designer says it is working to optimize Adobe's rich-media software for ARM's architecture, in a bid to take on Intel.

Tuesday, November 18 2008 02:11 AM

Tags: Processors, ARM, Macromedia Flash Player, Intel Corp., Mobile, Adobe AIR, AIR, processor, Adobe Systems Inc., partnership

Google sees separate paths for Android, Chrome OS

News Android is already on the horizon for Netbook makers, and Chrome is supposed to be a Netbook-optimized operating system. What's a Netbook company to do?

Monday, July 13 2009 10:08 AM

Tags: Operating systems, Notebooks and tablets, Smart Phone, Google Inc., Google Chrome, operating system, Google Android, partnership, strategy, set-top box

Study: Huge growth in Wi-Fi devices expected

News In-Stat predicts that a billion consumer electronics devices will come equipped with Wi-Fi by 2012.

Tuesday, October 07 2008 09:45 AM

Tags: 802.11/Wi-Fi, TV, phone, Wi-Fi, Apple iPhone, Internet, Ethernet, NetFlix Inc., DVD player, set-top box

Motorola surprises Wall Street with profit

News Company manages to eke out a small profit as it still struggles to get its handset business back on track.

Friday, August 01 2008 08:01 AM

Tags: Earning reports/forecasts, Cellular phones, Networking, Mobile platforms/communications, Networking technology, Motorola Inc., Touch Screen, phone, revenue, Apple iPhone

Interactive service for Singapore's free-to-air TV

News Interactive TV may be common in Singaporean households next year, says software engineer working on a project with MediaCorp.

Thursday, June 11 2009 06:49 PM

Tags: Internet advertising, VoIP/IP telephony, IP Television, TV, IP, Singapore, 3D, Japan, interactive TV, CEO

Cisco's virtualization push could benefit consumers

News news analysis Cisco Systems' latest strategy to transform the data center could help pave the way for consumers to get cooler apps on cheaper devices.

Tuesday, March 17 2009 10:48 AM

Tags: Data centers, Virtualization, Cisco Systems Inc., Device, IP, IP network, Server, vision, network, strategy