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Top Ten Mobile Navigation Brands By Revenue 2007-12-09 11:03:00 Rank Brand1 Garmin2 TomTom3 Magellan4 Mio5 Pioneer6 Eclipse7 Dual Audio8 Alpine9 Lowrance Electronics10 NavmanTotal Revenue
Share = 97.7%Retail Sales, Nov 2006 - April 2007Source: TWICE July 2007, NPD Group
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TIVO Holiday gift 2007-12-09 08:03:00 Only TiVo offers a complete home entertainment experience, including:Award-winning features that automatically record your favorite shows-whenever they're onA search engine to find and automatically record the shows that match your interests (by title, actor, director, category, even keyword)Easy home networking features that enable online services like Podcasts, Yahoo! Weather & Traffic, and local movie listings & tickets from FandangoEasy-to-use to-go features that let you transfer shows to your laptop or portable device, or easily burn them to DVD*Scheduling last-minute shows from the Web [SKU:TCD652-03200000] Price: $449 The new TiVo HD DVR with Series3 technology represents the latest and greatest in TiVo high-definition DVR technology. The Series3 "lite" retains almo Read more:Holiday
Alloptic Funded for Cable FTTP Growth 2007-12-09 05:59:00 Alloptic Inc. , a company that could figure heavily into cable fiber-to-the-premises (FTTP) strategies, has landed $24 million in Series B funding led by legacy investors Arcapita Ventures and Ritchie Capital Management . (See Alloptic Bags $24M.) The company, which has 69 employees and has raised a total of $39 million since hitting the reset button in 2005, said it will use the new infusion to support international expansion, protect its patent portfolio, and expand support for the MicroNode, a product that handles the optical-to-electrical conversion at the subscriber home or business building. Alloptic, along with companies such as Motorola Inc. (NYSE: MOT - message board), Arris Group Inc. (Nasdaq: ARRS - message board), CommScope Inc. (NYSE: CTV - message board), Scientific Atlanta , and Aurora Networks Inc. , has been developing cable FTTP products particularly as MSOs create momentum for a new initiative called RF Over Glass (RFOG). (See Moto Expands 'Cable
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Cable Troubleshooting Guide 2007-12-08 09:47:00 This guide contains information for fixing issues with cable, mostly compiled from a friend who works for Adelphia cable here in New Castle, Pa. This guide will aim at resolving lost connection and slow speed issues by yourself. You should also try tweaking in addition to those suggestions. After going through the steps in this guide, if you are still having problems with your speed, you may need your cable company to come and replace the cable line from the pole to your house. The cable run from the pole could be damaged, old, or have water in the line. If you are still having problems staying connected after that it is most likely on your ISP's end. Contact them and have them look into the problem. If they don't resolve the problem in a timely manner, or can't, changing ISP's is usually possible. Anyway here are some steps you can take to ensure the best signal levels at your end: Remove unnecessary splitters 1. Take a look at your cable wiring in your house. Trace the one t Read more:Cable
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How can I view my Modem's Signal Levels, Firmware Version & Log Entries? 2007-12-06 11:22:00 Some useful tips for troubleshooting a cable modem connection: Most cable modems have built-in diagnostics for getting information on the quality of the cable signal coming to the modem. The procedures for accessing these diagnostics vary depending on the brand and model of cable modem you have. If the information below won't get you to these diagnostics, please contact the manufacturer of your cable modem (be it leased or owned). A few modems may have this information in the manual that they came with. For some cable modems, you can access these diagnostics even if the cable modem hasn't obtained block sync. 1) Try this first: Open your browser and navigate to http://192.168.100.1/ (or try holding SHIFT key and clicking the links). This is the most common method of accessing the diagnostics. You may need to navigate a bit from here to access the pertinent information. •1.A) For an Ambit cable modem, you may be prompted for a username and password. The username is root and the pa Read more:Firmware
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IPTV World Forum Asia - 3rd Annual 2007-12-06 10:51:00 IPTV WorldForumAsia
December 5-7, 2007 Singapore - The IPTV World Forum Asia conference and exhibition will reflect the marked progress of IPTV deployment in the region, gathering together companies who are driving its advance across Asia.Asia's Leading IPTV Event Please click here for the 2007 brochure Online Conference Registration Over 1500 attendees pre-registered . Over 300 speakers from telecoms, cable and mobile operators and leading content ownersAsia's leading IPTV event - with over 2000 visitors anticipated to attend and over 80 exhibitorsOperators speaking at the show include: MTNL, Singtel, PCCW, KT, Chunghwa Telecom, Shanghai Media Group, Pakistan Telecom (PTCL), NTT, Telecom New Zealand, True Internet Thailand, City Telecom, Bharti Airtel, TT&T etcLeading content owners and broadcasters invited: Warner Brothers, Turner Broadcasting, Discovery Channel, HBO, ESPN, BBC, Disney, Sony Pictures Cohosting and coexhibiting three leading conferences: The Conne Read more:Annual
World of Warcraft edition laptop from Dell 2007-12-05 17:10:00 It's the PC game that saved PC gaming, now World
of Warcraft
is adding quite a significant amount of money to Dell's 'bottom line'. Two new ludicrously expensive WoW-badged XPS laptops have been announced by the PC flogger, coming in either Horde or Alliance designs to match your particular in-game allegiances. They have two things in common with the rest of Dell's XPS range - they're amazingly expensive and rather powerful. Coming in at a starting price of $4,499, the base units boast a 17" widescreen display, a decent Core 2 Duo, 2GB of RAM and a 160GB hard drive. If you want a MAXIMUM POWER machine with the top spec and biggest everything - and a boast-worthy 128GB solid state hard drive RAID - expect to shell out an enormous $8000. Do people who play Warcraft have enough spare time to hold down jobs that earn that kind of money? (Via Dell Techdigest)
BelAir Networks Wireless DOCSIS Products 2007-12-04 17:33:00 Did you know that BelAir Networks offers a complete family of wireless mesh products optimized for cable operators? Now you can take advantage of BelAir's DOCSIS 2.0 strand-mount solutions to extend your cable plant beyond "hotspots" to capture those hard-to-reach residential and commercial customers. BelAir's DOCSIS 2.0 family includes the 100S and 50S, which support both Wi-Fi unlicensed and licensed WIMAX radios. The BelAir100S is a two-radio wireless multi-service node designed for strand-mounting on existing cable infrastructure. Advantages include: Superior coverage Single and dual radios 40 – 90 VAC cable plant powered Environmentally hardened Carrier class design DOCSIS 2.0 termination Support VoIP, video, and Internet Security and manageability BelAir enables cable operators to leverage their existing infrastructure and expand their market opportunities with business customers, city-wide Muni Wi-F Read more:Products
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Cable still doesn't like DCR+. Brenner Defends OpenCable 2007-12-04 17:16:00 And the industry got a chance to elaborate on that position in yesterday's Cable
NEXT lunch keynote by David Brenner, National Cable & Telecommunications Association (NCTA) senior vice president of law and regulatory policy. Predictably, Brenner said the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) should reject DCR+ (Digital Cable Ready-Plus), a proposal of the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) , in favor of what he called a more universal option: OpenCable. This is all about a two-way plug-and-play agreement that would allow TVs to authorize and display digital cable services, including video-on-demand and interactive program guides, without a set-top box. The FCC adopted a one-way plug-and-play agreement in 2002, leading to TVs that use an operator-supplied CableCARD to authorize services. Now the FCC wants to have a two-way accord settled well before the February 2009 digital TV transition. But cable and the CEA have been unable to reach a consensus and continue to espo
Cable Modem Diagnostic 2007-12-02 12:26:00 Cable modem diagnostic a very simple program for displaying a measuring of basis parameters of cable modems. Output level,Upstream power levelInput level,Downstream power levelPing of modemUpstream frequencyDownstream frequencyModel of modemDownstream signal to noise ratioName of config fileDetect standby mode of modemModem
up time Version: 1.0.4 (Free To Use)File Size: 0.9 MBOS: Windows 2000/XPdownload
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Drop, Drop, Drop ! 2007-12-01 18:05:00 At last service without registration, account, signup etcEasy and simplyAnd It is working!Each drop is: A private place for storing and sharing photos, video, audio, notes, docs, etc. Each is accessible only to those whom you tell exactly where to look. No signup and no 'account'. We don't even ask for your email. Create as many drops as you want, and access each at: drop.io/thedropname. learn more useful for: privately sharing pictures & videotransferring files to yourselfsharing documents with co-workerscreating 'instant' collaboration spaceposting your resume privatelyand more!
rssHugger . Will this really work? 2007-12-01 15:18:00 If you want to expand your readership, and your answer is yes, there is a new site which will advertise your RSS feed it is called RSSHugger. By the word itself you may be able to guess what is it doing for your site feeds. RssHugger is a promotional network for bloggers. Its goal: to unite bloggers and readers, forming a felicitous and perhaps profitable relationship. Your profile is basically your blog ad as it includes pertinent info about you along with a short description of your site and RSS feeds.The site is the brainchild of Collin LaHay, an experienced entrepreneur, search engine optimizer, and internet marketer looking to expand his portfolio. Collin hopes to get 50,000 blogs signed up to rssHugger. If he reaches that goal, he will have all of college paid for, be able to invest in new business ventures, sponsor other like-minded people and continue his support of Kiva, a non profit that support entrepreneurs in developing countries.The concept is simple. Submit your blog, pr
BigBand Networks Selected by Five Chinese Cable Operators for Digital TV Expansion 2007-12-01 13:14:00 BigBand Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ: BBND), announced that five additional Chinese
cable operators are deploying its Broadband Multimedia-Service Router (BMR®) to process and deliver digital television services. The customers initiating these new deployments include Tibet Cable
, Taicang Cable in Jiangsu province near Shanghai, Jiayuguan Cable in Gansu province, Nanchang Cable in Jiangxi province and Luan Cable in Shanxi province. “The BMR’s ability to deliver and manage high-quality digital video services has made it a leading digital headend solution in China,” said Mr. Chuanhua Qu, director of Taicang Cable in Jiangsu province. “We’re using the BMR to deliver 100 digital TV programs to more than 80,000 subscribers.” The new customers are using the BMR to improve the bandwidth efficiency and optimize picture quality of their digital TV services. China continues to be one of the fastest growing digital TV markets in the world, as local operators continue to expand digital s Read more:Digital
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SG TCP Optimizer 2007-11-28 15:36:00 TCP Optimizer
Description: The TCP Optimizer is a free, easy Windows program that provides an intuitive interface for tuning and optimizing your Internet connection. There is no installation required, just download and run.The program can aid both the novice and the advanced user in tweaking related TCP/IP parameters in the Windows Registry, making it easy to tune your system to the type of Internet connection used. The tool uses advanced algorithms, and the bandwidth*delay product to find the best TCP Window for your specific connection speed. It provides for easy tuning of all related TCP/IP parameters, such as MTU, RWIN, and even advanced ones like QoS and ToS/Diffserv prioritization. The program works with all current versions of Windows, and includes additional tools, such as testing average latency over multiple hosts, and finding the largest possible packet size (MTU).The TCP Optimizer is targeted towards broadband internet connections, however it can be helpful with
ARRIS Fixed Wireless Solutions - WiDOX 2007-11-27 19:05:00 A CableLabs DOCSIS 2.0 based Wireless
Modem Termination System (WMTS)designed for providing advanced IP services over DOCSIS based wireless networks. The ARRIS WMTS offers operators of any size the opportunity to deploy next generation IP services in wireless networks worldwide.Features• Multiple Downstream operational modes: QAM64, QAM16, and QPSK• More upstream modulations including SCDMA• Upstream Compression Technology with A-TDMA technology• Improved multipath distortion and error correction• Flexible Upstream Channel Configurations (2, 4 or 6)• Full Quality of Service for VOIP services• Supports over 3000 subscribers• Efficient and Automatic Bandwidth Management• Superior RF performance including active ingress noise cancellation• Redundant Power Supplies• Compact size (1 rack unit)The ARRIS Wireless Telephony Modem WM502 gives cable subscribers both high-speed data access and Voice over IP (VoIP) technology. The WM402A is designed to be highly flexible and Read more:Fixed
Top Lobbyists Swarm FCC Over Plug-and-Play 2007-11-19 17:33:00 The FCC is hearing comments on whether it should adopt the cable industry’s OpenCable Applications Platform (OCAP) as a standard for nationally deployable two-way set-top boxes, and big-time representatives of major corporations are busy sharing their views with the commission.Oct. 26, Comcast boss Brian Roberts and two of his top henchmen met with four of the five commissioners to plug OCAP and oppose DCR+, the solution proposed by the Consumer Electronics Associations.The same day, officials from HBO, Starz!, Disney, News Corp., Viacom and NBC Universal managed to met with the legal advisors for all five commissioners to talk up OCAP, according to a FCC filing.These companies and others, including many consumer electronics makers, have touted OCAP as the only platform would incorporate advanced functionality into consumer devices.“Consumers reasonably expect that something called a ‘digital cable-ready’ device will let them have access to all of the cable services that are pa Read more:Swarm
Internet TV boxes expected to remain "relatively unsuccessful" in 2008 2007-12-21 17:16:00 TV services that depend on set top boxes like the Apple TV, are unlikely to see a considerable jump in sales in 2008, ABI Research believes. Even with Apple TV at its front line, the company describes this market segment as a "struggling breed of retail-based Internet
video devices" and estimates that about 1.2 million of these systems will make their way to consumers in 2008.So far, ABI said, Internet TV boxes "have had difficulty resonating with consumers, largely due to their higher prices and competition from legacy set-top boxes, as well as confusion over the benefits they will ultimately bring to the buyer"."The high cost of these devices, their reliance on the home network, the need for consumer self-installation, and the scarcity of content have all contributed to their lack of commercial success," said research director Michael Wolf.Emerging video services on game consoles aren't helping this segment, but ABI said that "there is a possibility of a break-out suc
Cisco, Arris & Casa Make the CableLabs Grade 2007-12-21 16:52:00 CableLabs has awarded Docsis 3.0 qualification to three cable modem termination system (CMTS) vendors -- Arris Group Inc. (Nasdaq: ARRS - message board), Casa Systems Inc. , and Cisco
Systems Inc. (Nasdaq: CSCO - message board) -- following the conclusion of Certification Wave 56, the first to conduct official tests on a spec that promises shared speeds in excess of 100 Mbit/s. (See CableLabs Stamps CMTSs .) While CMTS 3.0 approvals mark a significant milestone in the history of cable's Docsis effort, CableLabs officials confirmed Wednesday morning that it did not award 3.0 certifications to any modems submitted in the recently concluded test wave. CableLabs has not disclosed any of the participants in Wave 56, but, according to data culled by Cable Digital News, at least three cable modem makers -- Arris, Motorola Inc. (NYSE: MOT - message board), and Scientific Atlanta , the Cisco subsidiary -- submitted modems for 3.0 testing. Those models were based on chipsets from Texas In Read more:Grade
FCC announces names of 700MHz wireless auction bidders 2007-12-21 16:45:00 The US telecoms regulator the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) yesterday published the names of applicants wishing to bid in the much-anticipated January auction of wireless spectrum in the 700MHz band. Among the 266 names listed a few come as no surprise: Google, which earlier this year said earlier this year made it clear it was willing to pay up to USD4.6 billion for licences in the "C' block of spectrum, has thrown its hat in the ring along with cable operator Cablevision Systems, mobile chipmaker Qualcomm, satellite TV provider EchoStar and telcos AT&T Inc and Verizon Wireless. However many of the other names to make the regulator's original 3 December deadline are far less well known, such as GreenFly LLC, Paul Bunyan Rural Telephone Cooperative Inc, Vulcan Spectrum (backed by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen) and Guam Cellular & Paging. Another company raising eyebrows over its desire to be involved in the telecoms sector is Chevron USA.A total of 96 applica
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