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17Feb/120

The Online Reporter 769- Headlines

Inevitable: Growth of OTT Market & Its Move to Original Content
Broadcom Early to Market with Gigabit-Speed 802.11ac Wi-Fi
STB Maker Amino Ramps Up Revenue & Profits
Altair, Aion Team for LTE Tablet with Windows 7

BROADBAND BEAT
Aereo Launches Internet TV in NYC
Broadband Adds Increase at Comcast
UK Rural Areas Are on Wrong Side of Digital Divide
South Korea Suddenly Doesn’t Have Enough Bandwidth for Smart TVs

ENABLING TECHNOLOGY
Skepticism Grows about Windows 8 in the Corporate Marketplace
Linux Evangelist Says Windows 8 Will Be DOA
Sony’s Vita OS Can Be Used on Other Mobile Devices
Windows-on-ARM Coming to Tablets & Maybe to PCs

HOME NETWORKING
New Wi-Fi 11ac Cannot Rely on Corporates for First Wave of Sales
Bouygues Picks NDS for Next-Gen STB
Russia’s ER Telecom Reaches New Milestones
Qualcomm Atheros, ViXS Team Up on All-Networks Video Streaming
UPC Poland Prepares for Next-Gen Horizon STB
JTS.tv Launches Ad-Free Web Series

IPAD & THE MANY OTHER TABLETS
iPad Sales Outpace Samsung’s Tablet in Home Country
Kindle Fire-Killer Coming from Apple?
Apple Ecosystem Important to Products’ Success
Apple Chief: Tablets to Outsell PCs
iPad 3 Including 4G Models to Debut March 7
Google’s Motorola Falling Behind on Android Upgrades

LEGAL MATTERS
Netflix Adjusts Q4 Earnings after $9m in Privacy Allegation Settlements

LIES, DAMN LIES AND STATISTICS
OTT Adapter Sales Picking Up, 14m in 2012
Cablecos Aim to Take Telecom Services Away from Telcos in
Hospitals & Schools
MySpace Gains 1m New Users
Global Wireless Data Traffic Rose 133% in 2011

THE MOVE TO ORIGINAL CONTENT
Hulu Joins Original Content Race
Netflix Lining up Another Original Series
Netflix Plans Another Original Series

PRODUCT WATCH
Google Files with FCC to Test Whole-Home Entertainment Device

SHOW TIME FOR THE OTT SERVICES
HBO & HBO Go Launched in Holland
Samsung Smart TVs Get App for CME’s Voyo OTT
Google TV Updated for YouTube’s Channels

SMART TVS AND OTHER OTT DEVICES
Apple Might Find Something Bigger than the Apple TV Adapter

DIGIGRAMS
Increased Gas Prices to Prompt More Home Entertainment
New TV Anytime Feature Allows DVD Ripping to Mobile Devices
Bell Canada & Roger Testing Apple TV Sets
iTV Warns Apple about Using iTV Brand
Google, Motorola Mobility Deal Gets Oks
Hulu, Netflix Checking Out Russia
Sales of Freeview HD DVRs Growing
Google Ventures Making Two Investments per Week
Roku Adds iPlayer for UK Launch
BBC to Cover Some of Olympics in 3D
Video Content Rules the Roost at News Corp
Broadband as Cheap as Toothpaste

10Feb/120

The Online Reporter 768 – Headlines

Virgin Media Uses TiVo, Broadband to Turn a Profit
Verizon’s OTT Streaming & Coinstar’s DVD-Loaded Redboxes Challenge
Netflix
Japanese TV Set Makers Losing Billions
Verizon/Redbox Deal Signals Long Erosion of Pay TV Middleman
WSJ: Google to Launch Whole Home Entertainment System
Qualcomm Proposes Gigabit Wi-Fi for Airplanes
New Economy Sprouts from Apple’s App Store
In Spain, Apple Sales Boom Despite Recession
Video Streaming Tech Firm Gets $15m
Coinstar Gets NCR’s 9,000 DVD Kiosks

THIS WEEK IN CONTENT DEALS
Amazon and Viacom Team up to Stream TV
Viddy Raises Capital for Mobile Social Video App
HBO and Quickflix Partner for Investment and Content Deals

BROADBAND BEAT
BT to Offer 300 Mbps in 2013
TalkTalk Loses Another 50,000 Subscribers
Ofcom Wants BT to Reduce Wholesale Broadband Rates

ENABLING TECHNOLOGY
Windows 8 Beta: February 29 in Barcelona
Disney’s Iger Less than Enthusiastic About UltraViolet Locker
Key Microsoft WP7 Exec Leaves for Amazon’s Kindle

IPAD & THE MANY OTHER TABLETS
‘Hidden Planet’ Becomes NBC’s First iPad App Series
Asus Transformer Prime Shows Its Magic in the UK
Sprint Launches $100 ZTE Tablet

LEGAL MATTERS
Brightcove Files for $55m IPO

LIES, DAMN LIES AND STATISTICS
The Two-Tablet Home: 5m This Year
Broadband Beat Ramps Up in Spain
Hong Kong Boasts High Speeds, South Korea Lets Data Do the Talking
Google Mobile Searches Skyrocket During Super Bowl
Internet Accessing via Mobile Devices Nearly Doubles
Young Watching TV But Less on the TV Set
580m Homes Have Broadband

MOBILE MEDIA
Telus Launches Mobile TV to Mobile Devices

SHOW TIME FOR THE OTT SERVICES
Amazon Gets 2,000 Viacom Shows
Blip Gets $12m; Loses ‘tv’
Flingo Raises $7m to Develop Recognition Technology & Advertising Apps
Lenovo Focuses on China for Smart TVs
Samsun to Offer Less Expensive Line of TVs
Holland Goes for HbbTV

DIGIGRAMSBT: YouView Delayed Until Mid-Year
Amazon to Open First Physical Store
Motorola Turns Patent Lawsuit Tables on Apple
Cox Beats the Drums on Facebook & Twitter
Google Promises to Be Good Boy with Motorola Patents
BT’s Wi-Fi Hotspots Pass 3.5m
DT Reorganizes Product & Innovation Department
Disney: ESPN Must Be in Most Popular Bundles
Android Devices Get Chrome Browser but No Flash
Corel Acquires Roxio from Rovi
Hmmm, OTT or Baby Clothes?

30Jan/120

This week’s headlines – Issue No. 765

DiiVA Debuts; World’s ‘Next Great’ CE Home Network Celeno Lands Amino for HD-Capable Wi-Fi Chips
Wi-Fi Alliance Certifies Wi-Fi, Not IEEE’s 802.11
Quantenna CEO Clears the Air about Multi-MIMO Wi-Fi
Q411 Results Give Clues to 2012 Challenges for Big Three Platforms
New CEO, Otherwise No Change at RIM

APPLE SLICES
iPads Outsell All of HP’s PCs, Not Just Its Laptops
Limited-Function Kindles No Threat to iPad
More iPhones Sold in 2011 than 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 Combined
1.4m Apple TVs Sold and Still a Hobby

BROADBAND BEAT
London Olympics to Require 20,000 Simultaneous Wireless Connections

ENABLING TECHNOLOGY
Kit Digital Adds Sezmi, Aims to Be Cisco of Multi-Screen TV
Red Bee Uses Civolution’ Watermarking to Develop App

iPAD & THE MANY OTHER TABLETS
iPads Have Breached the Corporate Market

LIES, DAMN LIES AND STATISTICS
YouTube Getting 60 Hours of New Videos Per Minute
TV Viewing Time Peaks at 4 Hours Per Day, Maybe
29% Now Own Tablet and/or eBook Reader
100m STBs with OTT to Ship in 2015
European OTT Stampede Will Reach 83 Million Devices by 2015
UK Survey Says Smart TVs Slow to Grow
Each Kindle Fire Generates $136 in New Income for Amazon

ONLINE MUSIC SERVICES
HP to Release Open Source Version of WebOS in September
Rhapsody Goes to Europe by Buying Napster Europe

SHOW TIME FOR THE OTT SERVICES
Netflix Starts Its Road to Recovery
Hulu Orders Two More Original Series

SMART TVs and Other OTT DEVICES
Red Bee Launches Two Content Discovery Programs
Nyxio Launches Line of Android Smart TVs
Shodogg Launches Streaming Video Platform for Smartphones & Tablets
FetchTV Maker IP Vision Goes Belly-Up

DIGIGRAMS
Intel v ARM Battle Is One for the Ages
Cooking Up an Industry Standard Always Takes Longer Than Expected
Buicks & Home Network Sales in China
Boxees Get Antenna for Local TV Stations
Panasonic Reveals Details of Its WiGig-Based Networking
The Need for Speed Is Accelerating
Barnes & Noble Adds Large Nook Boutiques in Stores
Almost 100m Tablets to Be Sold in 2012
Netflix Positions Itself as Catch-Up TV
Netflix Expects Tougher Competition from Amazon & Hulu

20Jan/120

This week’s headlines – Issue No. 764

THIS WEEK’S HEADLINES
NVIDIA Shows Tablets with PC Power HomeGrid (G.hn) Readies Global Debut
HomeGrid (G.hn) Readies Global Debut
Qualcomm Atheros Ready to Start Shipping Draft P1905 Upgrade

ENABLING TECHNOLOGY
Rovi – Vision or Illusion? – A Multi-Piece Russian Doll
Samsung May Merge Bada and Tizen Oss
Spotify’s Top Tier Subscribers Outspend iTunes Users
Qualcomm Atheros Shows Wi-Fi Display

HOME NETWORKING
Broadcom, Qualcomm Atheros Fire Pre-Launch Broadside at G.hn
HomePlug Sets its Sights on  the World’s Telcos
Celeno, Quantenna Taking Wi-Fi Video Deals
Wi-Fi Standards Proliferate to Meet HD Video Demands

SMART TVs and Other OTT DEVICES
HbbTV Platform Used by Free-to-Air Broadcasters
Lenovo Shows Smart TV with Qualcomm’s Processor
Comcast Accelerates Full TV on Tablets with AnyPlay

9Jan/120

Headlines – Issue No. 763

WiGig Chips to Appear in 2012, Products in 2013
Users Spend Twice as Much Time on Netflix than Hulu
Samsung, DoCoMo, Panasonic Form Mobile Chip Venture
Intel Launches the Latest Atom
Sony, Samsung End LCD Alliance
China Establishes New Internet Competition Regulation
2012 Is Microsoft’s Last Year at CES
Entropic Bids $55m for Trident’s SoC Business
Acer Ponders Cutting back Mobile Teams

ENABLING TECHNOLOGY
Libratone Shows AirPlay Speakers
LG Supports Intel’s WiDi
Amazon Could License Kindle Fire’s Content Platform

HOME NETWORKING
Broadcom: 802.11ac Faster, Wider Range & Better at Wall Penetration
P1905.1 Standard Progresses
TangoTec to Offer G.hn Chips
Broadcom to Show MoCA 2.0 Chips & Smart TV Platforms at CES
Celeno Introduces Cost-Effective HD-Grade Wi-Fi Chip
Celeno Lands 75th Operator, First of 2012
Liberty Global Delays Horizon STB Launch in Germany to Second Half of 2012
New Sigma Reference Design for Its Media Processor Includes Quantanna’s Wi-Fi Technology
Quantenna Chips to Stream Video from Outdoor Surveillance Cameras
Broadcom Goes 11ac

iPAD & THE MANY OTHER TABLETS
Kindle Fire Eats into iPad Sales Kindle App Offers Magazines, Textbooks on the iPad
Tablet Reality Check
Sony Cuts Tablet Price, Offers Content & Games
Barnes & Noble: Sales of Nook B&W Tablet Less Than Expected
DataWind Takes Orders for 1.4m $41 Tablets

LEGAL MATTERS
Google Partially Bests Oracle as Patents are Invalidated
Apple Gets Hit with Italian Fine
Android’s Patent Problems Have Future Echoes
Universal Music Removes YouTube Videos from its Artist

LIES, DAMN LIES AND STATISTICS
Premium Video up Across All Areas
Apple Delivers 5m Free App Downloads Daily
Amazon Sold 4m Kindles in December
Smartphones Take 25% of Photos, Video in the US
Distimo Dishes on 2011 Apps
TV Market Is Ripe for Apple, Google, Microsoft
Samsung Pushes Further into Smartphone Lead
Touchscreen Apps Push Retailers’ Buttons

MOBILE TV
MetroPCS First in US with ATSC M/H Mobile TV

ONLINE MUSIC SERVICE
Sales of Digital Music Up in UK

PRODUCT WATCH
Next Wii Likely to have an App Store

SHOW TIME FOR THE OTT SERVICES
Netflix’s Original ‘Lilyhammer’ Series Available February 6
Pandora Adds Live Performances to the Mix
Cord Cutting with Safety Scissors
Motorola Mobility Buys SetJam for Entertainment Offering
Telemundo Signs Second Deal with Netflix
Big Names Adopt Rovi’s Smart TV Advertising
Vudu Streams to Xbox 360

SMART TVS AND OTHER OTT DEVICES
Roku Launches Smart TV Dongle for HDMI Port
Ono, TiVo Add New Apps
Boxee Will Drop PC Updates for STB Focus OLED Is Next TV Technology

DIGIGRAMS
CES Attendees will Get Free Time Magazines on Tablets
Western Digital Releases Android Remote STB App
RIM Cuts All PlayBooks to $299
Canal Plus Closes Down 3D Channel
Netflix Customer Satisfaction Dips
Yahoo Picks PayPal President for CEO
TiVo Picks up Cash from AT&T
Showtime Clips Arrive on Roku
FilmOn Adds TV through Air
Apple Employs a New Knight

16Dec/110

Headlines – Issue No. 762

Qualcomm Atheros Lands 10 Major Chinese Cablecos
Endavo Offers Complete ‘Telco OTT’ Platform
Spotify Finally Delivers on True Web Radio

THIS WEEK IN CONTENT DEALS

BROADBAND BEAT
STMicroelectronics Breaks EoC Stranglehold in China
Only 4% of Brits Subscribe to ‘Superfast’ Broadband

ENABLING TECHNOLOGY
Raystream Compresses HD Videos up to 90%
Ultraviolet Launches in UK Amid Tech Troubles and Biz Model Concerns

HOME NETWORKING
AT&T Successfully Testing G.hn
Wireless in Every Pay TV Box

IPAD & THE MANY OTHER TABLETS
WebOS Goes Open Source, Not with a Bang but with a Whimper
Kindle Fire Being Criticized for Not Being an iPad
Amazon Selling 1m Kindle eReaders & Tablets a Week
RIM Sinking with PlayBook Tablet

LEGAL MATTERS
Chinese Government Investigating Telcos’ Possible Abuse of Their Broadband Monopoly
Samsung’s French Suit Against Apple Is Tossed
iPad Will See an Aussie Rival
Motorola Mobility Beats Apple in German Patent Rumble
Wi-Lan Picks Up 1,400 Patents
Apple Hit with Caller ID Suit
Apple Feeds Patent Troll, Sets It on Competitors

LIES, DAMN LIES AND STATISTICS
Broadcom Survey Reveals Appetite for Connected and Mobile TV
19m Wireline Pay TV Subs in Russia by 2016
Broadband Figures for Russia
China’s Major Cable TV Companies
French Government Reports on Smart TVs
Apple to Sell 4m Apple TVs This Year
YouTube Dominates Online Video Market with 43.8% Share

SHOW TIME FOR THE OTT SERVICES
Netflix Saved the Day for Epix
Dish May Offer Its Blockbuster OTT to Non-Subscribers

SMART TVS AND OTHER OTT DEVICES
Smart Electronic to Make HbbTV STBs

DIGIGRAMS
TV: World’s Most Universal Technology
Hulu’s Face Match Provides Actors’ Names & Details
Time Warner Cable App Finds Nearest Hotspot
Sonic.net Wants to Build All-Fiber Network in San Fran
Verizon Deploying 100 Gbps ‘Middle Mile’ Network in 7 Cities
Comcast Offers iPad Shopping App
Redpine Signals Designs Low Power 802.11ac
Netflix Adds Apple App for Latin America
Al Jazeera English Goes Google TV
ARTE to Showcase New Bands Online
Cox App for iPad Eliminates STB
Hisense Launches Table That’s a TV Too

12Dec/110

This week’s headlines (Issue No. 761)

TV Set Makers Look Ahead to a STB-Free World
Celeno Lands 2 More Major Pay TV Service Providers

THIS WEEK IN CONTENT DEALS

ENABLING TECHNOLOGY
UltraViolet Heads to Canada, UK
Google: Majority of TVs to Have Google TV by Summer
MHL Wants a Place at the Table with AirPlay and WiDi

HOME NETWORKING
Home Networking Battles Coming in 2012
Amper Explains Why It Picked Quantenna’s Wi-Fi Technology

IPAD & THE MANY OTHER TABLETS
Motorola Mobility Shipping 2 LTE Tablets with Corporate Class Security

LEGAL MATTERS
EU Looking at Apple, 5 Publishers for Price Fixing
Web Content Being Pursued in Asia
Netflix Gets Its Law Passed!
Apple, Samsung Each Win One

LIES, DAMN LIES AND STATISTICS
Broadband, OTT Boom Happening in Russia
Netflix CEO: Half of TV Viewing Will Come from OTT Services
Netflix Builds up Cash in Expectation of Losses in 2012
The TV Viewing Times Are a-Changing
Samsung Sells Record 5.7m TV Sets

SHOWTIME
Verizon Has Netflix-Class Video Play Up Its Sleeve, Reports Say
Comcast, Time Warner Collude with Arch Rival Verizon on Quad Play

SMART TVS AND OTHER OTT DEVICES
Endangered Species: Set Top Boxes for Pay TV
Hooray! Logitech Downloading New Google TV Version, Finally
Microsoft Brings Xbox Closer to Replacing STBs

DIGIGRAMS

Microsoft Expands Kinect Gesture-Control
Cox Subscribers Can Watch All Channels on iPad
The Internet as Time Waster
Elementary School Uses Kindles to Increase Students’ Reading
Beijing Residents Get Free Wi-Fi Hotspots, Sort of
HomeGrid Members to Show Products at CES
$100 HP Tablets Return
Comcast to Start Selling Verizon Wireless Plans
Verizon, Kiosk King Redbox May Team Up for OTT Service
Next iMacs to Get Apple TV and iCloud Features
Asus Shipping EeePad Tablet with Ice Cream Version of Android
3D Sports & Games Needed to Sell 3D Sets, Not Movies

5Dec/112

This week’s headlines (Issue No. 760)

Umami Takes the Lead in Companion/Social TV
PHXX Aims at Telcos Wanting to Add OTT to Their Pay TV
Kit Digital Lands Largest Middle East Satco for OTT
Ultrabooks to Shake up Mobile PC Market
HP Acknowledges Inevitability of Apple

THIS WEEK IN CONTENT DEALS

APPLE SLICES
Apple Smart TV Rumor Mill Keeps Spewing

BROADBAND BEAT

UK Designates £100 ($157) million for Faster Broadband

ENABLING TECHNOLOGY
Apple Deepens Alliance with Sharp to Create a Samsung-Free AMOLED Display Zone
Seagate Combines Solid State Drive and 750 GB Hard Drive
Rovi, Pace Team Up on Next Gen Cloud-Based STBs

HOME NETWORKING
Broadcom Brings DOCSIS-Based EoC to China
Quantenna Keeps on Winning Wi-Fi Deals
ST Micro Joins Pincer Movement on MoCA’s Entropic
WHDI Could Partner with Wi-Fi to Make the Leap to Video Dominance

IPAD & THE MANY OTHER TABLETS
Interest in a Windows Tablet Is Declining

LEGAL MATTERS
Court Issues Injunction Against Verizon over FiOS
Facebook, FTC Settle over Deception Charges
FCC Study: AT&T Didn’t Show Public Benefit of Merger
Galaxy Tab Un-Banned in Australia

LIES, DAMN LIES AND STATISTICS
Broadband Booms in Russia
Tablets Impacting TV and PC Usage

MOBILE MEDIA
Sky Movies Now On Smartphones & Tablets
Comcast Starts Trials of Anyplay With Xoom and iPad

SMART TVS AND OTHER OTT DEVICES
Lenovo Aims to Beat Apple to Market with Smart TV
Spain Goes for HbbTV
Boxee Adds Slingplayer for Remote Access

DIGIGRAMS
LG Adds Smart TV App with 600k Masterpieces
PBS Goes British
Microsoft Developing Office Version for iPad
Britannica App Available for iPad & iPhone
Windows Phone Market Share Declines
Kindle Fire Outsells iPad at Best Buy, Sort Of
Nokia’s Glory Days Are Over
iOS5 Beta Goes Out for Testing — and Scrutinizing
YouTube Revamps Service
Sony TVs Get More Social
MTV May License Vevo Videos

25Nov/110

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’

21Nov/110

This week’s headlines – Issue No. 758

Rovi Brings Discovery, Recommendation, Search & View to TVs, Tablets, Smartphones & PCs
Quantenna First with 4x4 MIMO Chipset with Next-Gen 802.11ac
4 Smartest Buys in Smart TVs Under $1,000
Apple, Google Beef Up Music for Tablets, CE

THIS WEEK IN CONTENT DEALS

HOME NETWORKING
HomeGrid Gang Aims at Lucrative SmartGrid Market

BROADBAND BEAT
BT Offers 100 Mbps Down
Belgacom Brings 500,000 Free Wi-Fi Hotspots to Belgium

ENABLING TECHNOLOGY
Broadcom Joins Consumers in Wanting Wi-Fi in Every Device
Motorola Lands First Order for DreamGallery with Canada’s Shaw

IPAD & THE MANY OTHER TABLETS
Kindle Fire Attracting Lots of App Developers
Amazon’s Fire Spells TROUBLE for Apple
Will Apple Respond to Kindle Fire and Nook?
Nokia’s Tablet Plans Need Qualcomm
Australian Rates Sony’s Tablet S High
Tablet Reality Checks

LEGAL MATTERS
Samsung Redesigns Galaxy Tab After Apple’s Sales Ban
Rambus Loses Price Fixing Suit
Google Promotes Wi-Fi Opt-out, Misses the Point
Apple, S3 Graphics Ruling Delayed
Motorola Wins German Injunction Against Apple
Ire Against SOPA Reaches Epic Proportions

LIES, DAMN LIES AND STATISTICS
Tablet TV Viewing Increasing
Case for Kindle Fire May Be Overwhelming
Pay TV Losing Eyeballs But Not Subscribers
Aging-in-Place to Drive Home Health Care Market
PC Sales Drop in Europe

SHOW TIME
TV Anytime, Anywhere, Any Device Launches in Portugal
Starz Wanted Netflix to Offer Tiered Pricing

SMART TVS AND OTHER OTT DEVICES
Logitech Whacks & Abandons Google TV
PHXX Lands Dubai’s Etisalat for Smart TV Platform
Skitter.TV Adds Support for Western Digital Boxes
YouView to Get ‘Friends and Family’ Tests, Finally
CE Device Makers Want to Offer Live Linear TV
Boxee Says: Raise the Antenna & Cut the Cord!

THE SOCIAL SCENE
Chill.com Brings Social TV to Hulu

DIGIGRAMS
Celluloid 35mm Film Era to End
Netflix Grabs Exclusive on Lionsgate for UK, Eire
ARRIS Adds MoCA-Certified for In-Home Use
Dish Facebook App to Help Blockbuster Service
Hooray! Iger Becomes Apple Director
Bouygues Telecom Picks Alcatel-Lucent for IP Upgrade
Qualcomm Wants Its Processors & Wi-Fi in the Digital Home
Japan Tries to Save its Small- & Medium-Display Business
HP Launches $900 Ultrabook
Amazon Has Edge in Customer Relations
Ballmer: Windows Now! Windows Everywhere! Windows Forever!