Devices
Technicolor Makes Hollywood’s Digital Dreams Come True (Forbes)
In a hip, newly renovated industrial park in Culver City, CA, the 10,000 square foot Technicolor Experience Center (TEC) nestles unassumingly amongst the stylishly naked concrete a... More
Apple’s Developer Conference Takes Place Next Week – Here’s What to Expect (WiredUK)
It's almost certain that Apple will release its latest iPhone and iPad operating system at this year's WWDC. The event, which is held around the same time each year, almost always ... More
App Revenue: Apple’s App Store is Minting Millionaires (ARC)
Publishers who are keen to join the ranks of app millionaires should prioritize Apple over Google. A new report said that nascent app publishers are more likely to make their fi... More
Cisco Launches ‘Infinite Broadband’ for Cable Access Networks
Today’s cable hybrid fiber coax (HFC) plant has grown from primarily a residential video network to a wireline aggregation network for all types of access markets, including smal... More
World’s First 96 MHz Symmetrical Full Duplex Broadband Capacity
By John Chapman, Cisco Fellow, CTO, Cable Access, Cisco - It occurred to me recently that it was in 1997 that the first DOCSIS-based cable modems first entered the market in a ... More
Smartphones Overtake DVD/Blu-ray for No. 2 Most-Owned Tech: CTA (Twice)
Smartphones are now in 80 percent of U.S. homes, according to the Consumer Technology Association (CTA), making them second most frequently owned tech product in U.S. households, b... More
Snapchat Tries to Reinvent TV For Mobile Millennials (Fortune)
As Snap tries to outrun larger and better-funded competitors like Instagram, the company behind the popular Snapchat messaging app is having to keep pushing the goalposts further d... More
Google, IBM, Lyft Collaborate on Microservices (eWeek)
Microservices architectures offer enterprises a way to break down large monolithic applications into a collection of smaller, more manageable applications or processes that communi... More
ABI Research: HDR TV Shipments Will Pass 4K TVs by 2020 (FierceCable)
Shipments of HDR TV sets will surpass 4K TV shipments by 2020, according to ABI Research. The firm is forecasting that HDR TV shipments will grow at a 41% CAGR and reach 245 millio... More
Apple Eyes 5G Tests (MCN)
With an eye toward future-gen mobile devices, Apple has filed an application to the FCC seeking permission to test millimeter wave technology that will factor into coming 5G networ... More
Snapchat Shows: Inside the Plan to Reimagine TV for the Mobile Era (Variety)
Snapchat has been emboldened to push deeper into news after experiencing success with a topical program of its own creation: “Good Luck America” — the first Snapchat Show to ... More
4K TV Sales Expected to Grow Almost 40% In 2017 (4K)
4K UHD TV sales have been growing at a nearly explosive pace since the market for this new television display technology really started to take off in early 2014. After much better... More
New Redbox Deal With Warner Shortens Rental Delay to One Week (HMM)
Redbox May 22 announced a new distribution deal with Warner Bros. Home Entertainment that gives the kiosk vendor access to new releases seven days after their retail street date. P... More
Google’s Daydream VR Platform Gets Chromecast Support, YouTube Watch Parties and Chrome Browser (Variety)
Users of Google’s Daydream virtual reality headsets will soon be able to share the videos they’re watching and the games they’re playing with others. Coming with the next ... More
The Next Looming Battle in the Tech World Will be Based Around Digital Assistants (Recode)
In case you hadn’t noticed, the OS platform battle is over. Oh, and nobody really won, because basically all the big players did, depending on your perspective. Google has the la... More
Google I/O: What to Expect from the Huge Developer Conference (The Next Web)
Fresh off of Microsoft’s Build last week, it’s Google’s turn to host its biggest conference of the year. Google I/O runs today (May 17) to the end of the week. Expect plenty ... More
Slack is Working to Make Bots More Discoverable (VentureBeat)
Slack recently shared insights into how it plans to compete with new entrants to the enterprise chat landscape that include Microsoft Teams, Google’s Hangout Chats, and Workplace... More
NAB Reflections: Deluxe MediaCloud’s Tom Holmes on 4K Over Public Internet, the At-Home–Production Boom (SVG)
Holmes: "If you look at where the market is going, I think [at-home] production is becoming more of a possibility now that we have networked services and more bandwidth available i... More
How Streaming Changed the Gaming Ecosystem (The Ringer)
Video game streaming has really taken off only in the past few years as various consumer-grade technical innovations have caught up with one another. Home recording equipment is ch... More
TCL Aims to Move Roku TVs Upmarket With Dolby Vision HDR (Variety)
When TCL first introduced its first Roku-powered smart TVs in 2014, both companies were primarily targeting budget-conscious consumers: People who didn’t want to spend an arm and... More