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This week’s headlines – Issue No. 759

World’s Broadband-Connected Homes to Double
Broadcom Brings DOCSIS-Based EoC to China
Entropic’s c.LINK EoC Being Deployed in China & Europe
USA Today Discovers It’s a Good Time to Buy a TV

THIS WEEK IN CONTENT DEALS

BROADBAND BEAT
Cisco Linksys 3x3 MIMO Wi-Fi Router Reduces Deadspots

ENABLING TECHNOLOGY
Contact Lenses Project Text & Images
Google’s Chromebooks Showing Signs of Life

HOME NETWORKING
Wilocity Says 7 Gbps Capable WiGig Devices Are Only Six Months Away

IPAD & THE MANY OTHER TABLETS
Asus Shows Tablet with Android Ice Cream Sandwich
Tablet Reality Checks
PC Makers to Exit the Tablet Market?
HP’s Failed & Discontinued Tablet Leads Rest of the Pack in Sales

LEGAL MATTERS
Motorola A Patent Theif?
Dish Trademarks Ollo for Web, Mobile
Universal Music Sues Grooveshark & Friends
Under Fears, Penguin Shelves New eBooks
Apple In the Clear from HTC Patents
Western Digital Must Shell out $525m
Apple Still Suing Amazon over ‘App Store’

LIES, DAMN LIES AND STATISTICS
Kindle Fire Runs Neck-and-Neck with iPad as Holiday Preference
If Tablets Are PCs, Apple Will Be Number 1 PC Maker in 2012
1 in 3 Americans to Use a Tablet by 2014
Consumers; Tablets & Smartphones to Dominate LTE
22% of Tablet Buyers Say It’ll Be a Kindle Fire
Nokia off to Slow Start with Windows Smartphone
131m Households in US

SHOW TIME
Sundance Brought TV Show to Twitter, Hulu, Web and then TV
Miramax Moves Movies to Brazil Via NetMovies
Netflix Contracts for More Original Programming, Sort of
24/7 3D Gets a Web Home

SMART TVS AND OTHER OTT DEVICES
Samsung Next in Line for Google TV
Roku Looks North & Across the Pond
Sony’s $80 Blu-ray Player Replaces Apple TV
Google TV Returns to Best Buy
Microsoft Buys VideoSurf for Xbox Search

SOCIAL TV
Forget Commercials, They’re ‘Tweet Breaks’
A Look at Social Sharing Stats

DIGIGRAMS
CNN’s List of Tablets ‘You Never Heard of’
Amazon to Launch Bigger Tablets & a Smartphone
$900 for 60-inch LG Plasma TV
Apple Apps Now Accept Yuan
Motorola Stockholders Give Google the Go-Ahead
Blu-ray Goes Connected In-a-Box
Apple Reducing Component Purchases from Samsung
China Passes US in Smartphone Shipments
iPad2 Cut to $458 for Black Friday
Media Companies Cannot Ignore What and How Consumers Want to Watch
Sony: ‘A Life Insurance Company with a Money-Losing TV Business’