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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

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

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

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

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’

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!

Headlines – Issue No. 757 (November 11-17, 2011)

THIS WEEK’S HEADLINES
Home Network Market Bigger in BRICs than US & Europe
Sigma Design’s HPNA EoC May Have Edge in India
Qualcomm Atheros Jumps to Lead in China with HomePlug EoC
TV Buyers’ Paradise Is Set Makers’ Hell
Amazon, IBM, Intel, Oracle and RIM Kicking the WebOS Tires
Talk Talk TV with YouView to Debut in February 2012
Google Pledges to Support Android Makers
Tenenbaum Demands Another Piracy Rehearing

THIS WEEK IN CONTENT DEALS

BROADBAND BEAT
3 More Cablecos Offer $9.95 Broadband

ENABLING TECHNOLOGY
Technicolor Brings Second Screen App to Tablets
Adobe Halts Development of Flash for Browsers
Google TV to Lose Adobe’s Flash Player
Minerva Buys OTT Platform TVBlob
Netgear Launches WiDi Competitor

HOME NETWORKING
Need for Speed Is Disrupting Broadband & Home Networking
Actiontec’s MyWirelessTV Is, Well, Wireless TV
HPNA Reduces Bell Aliant’s Installation Costs
Telefonica Becomes Investor & Strategic Partner to Wi-Fi Magician Quantenna
Sigma Has 2 Unnamed Wins for HomePlug ClearPath

IPAD & THE MANY OTHER TABLETS
Barnes & Noble Intros Fire-Eating Nook Tablet
Asus to Start Shipping Tablet in the States
Huawei to Start Shipping MediaPad Tablet in 2012
HTC to Have Another Go at Tablets
Motorola Shipping 2 New Xooms

LEGAL MATTERS
LG Joins with Patent Guru Intellectual Ventures
Amazon Says Its Patent Suits Are Increasing
Apple Must Show Mobile Contracts to Samsung

LIES, DAMN LIES AND STATISTICS
CBS Sees Web Record with College Football Stream
Wi-Fi Hotspots to Increase 350% Globally in 3 Years

MOBILE BROADBAND
US Trial Raises Hopes for Mobile TV over LTE

SHOW TIME
Disney & YouTube Make a Deal
Netflix Gets MGM Flicks for UK & Ireland

DIGIGRAMS
‘Second Screen’ Demand in Developing Countries
Dish Considering Offering Pay TV Service over Broadband
Google Considering Offering Pay TV
Ultrabooks Not Yet Priced to Compete
CityFibre to Build Fiber Network in London, Other UK Cities
Carphone Warehouse Closes all 11 Best Buy UK Stores
Kindle Fire Causing Consumers to Delay iPad Purchases
‘A Limit to Where Sports Costs Can Go’
Jobs: Google Ripped off iPhone for Android

Headlines – Issue No. 756 (November 4-10, 2011)

Google TV 2.0 Arrives
Altibox Selects Motorola STBs with Quantenna’s HD Wi-Fi Chips
All TV Set Makers Are Having Troubles
RIM Launches BBM Music, Only Gets Share PRice Coverage
Amazon Launches eBook Lending Library
Video Ads Are Coming to LG Smart TVs
‘This Week in Content Deals’

THIS WEEK IN CONTENT DEALS

BROADBAND BEAT
Nokia’s Free London Wi-Fi Lights Up
Broadcom Chips Sit Behind Alcatel’s 50 Mbps Broadband Rewiring of Belgium

ENABLING TECHNOLOGY
Adobe Targets TV Everywhere and UGC Sites with Auditude Buy

HOME NETWORKING
Novatel Hits 3m MiFi Hotspots Shipped
G.hn Barges in on HomePlug’s SmartGrid Party

IPAD & THE MANY OTHER TABLETS
More Reality Checks in Tablets
TV & iPad Are Getting Closer Everyday
Barnes & Noble Reportedly Developing Nook Tablet
Ho Hum! HP Launches Windows Tablet

LEGAL MATTERS
Tiny Tablet Beheads a King
Samsung Wants iPhone 4S Source Code, Carrier Agreements
Apple Sued As Patent’s Ink Dries
French Presidential Frontrunner Looks Music & Consumer Friendly

LIES, DAMN LIES AND STATISTICS
44% of Brits Connected to the Net 24 Hours a Day
US Home Video Spending Is Up!
Coldplay Doesn’t Stream Album, Sees Record Downloads
Teachers Picking iPads for Classrooms
551m Smart TVs in Use by 2016

ONLINE MUSIC SERVICES
Pandora Customizes Music for Businesses
Global Race Begins for Spotify, Rdio
Apple Kicks Cloud Drive to the App Store Curb

SHOW TIME
Orb Adds 35m Hours of Video & Audio Programs
Amazon Keeps Adding Content Pre-Launch of Kindle Fire
Hulu Signs Exclusive Deal with The CW
Linear TV Era Ending
CBS Brings Year’s Number 1 Football Game to Net
Immoveable Pay TV Companies Meet Irresistible OTT

SOCIAL SCENE
Zeebox Goes Live

DIGIGRAMS
Hulu Nabs UK Content for US Audience
LoveFilm Gets Paramount Flicks
Toshiba’s Thrive Tablet Selling for $360
Ubuntu Won’t Be on Mobiles Anytime Soon
EMI’s Auction Quagmire
Justin Bieber First to Reach 2b YouTube Views
Apple Missed October iTunes Match Deadline
Buy an HP PC & Get a TouchPad for $149
Redstar Raises DVD Rentals by 20 Cents
Bye Bye SeeSaw!
Technicolor Develops Interactive Shopping App for ‘Sons of Anarchy’

This week’s headlines (Issue No. 755; October 28 – November 3, 2011)

Android’s Window Is Narrowing
UltraViolet Needs a Boost
AT&T Brings Wi-Fi to the Wireline Home Network Dance
Netflix Growth Slumps, But Don’t Fret

THIS WEEK IN CONTENT DEALS

THIS WEEK IN FINANCE DEALS

APPLE SLICES
BBC Adds AirPlay to Global Version of iPlayer
iPhone 4S Not Banned in Italy

BROADBAND BEAT
UN Sets Global Broadband Targets
EU Targets €9.2b for Broadband Aims

HOME NETWORKING
WiGig’s 60 GHz Monster Gets Set to Roll

IPAD & THE MANY OTHER TABLETS
Report: iPad 3 Coming in March! Connection Issues Coming Too?
Prepping for Its Tablet, Amazon Pumps eBooks with HTML5

LEGAL MATTERS
RIM Gets Hit with OS-Name Lawsuit
ActiveVideo Patent Award Bumped to $140m
Android Is Microsoft Treasure Trove
UK Upholds First New Web Censorship Ruling

LIES, DAMN LIES AND STATISTICS
Whole Home DVRs Driving Sales of IPTV STBs
iPads, Social Networks Drive Tablet Market
Surprise: US Consumers Watching More Online Videos
OTT/IPTV Boxes Are Popular with Pay TV Companies, Especially Satcos
50% of Web Sales to Come from Apps, Social by 2015
AT&T Wi-Fi Usage Sees Meteoric Rise
Music Ownership Is a Purposely Mixed Bag
Wireless Health Tech Has Growing Interest

ONLINE MUSIC SERVICES
Apps Could Be Key for Album’s Successes
Africa Brings a New Level to Social Listening
ReDigi Still Exists, Surprisingly
Myspace Mismanagement Admitted

PRODUCT WATCH
Nokia’s WP7 Models Arrive!

SHOW TIME
Roku’s Halloween Is What Content Aggregation Should Look Like
Netflix to Launch in UK & Ireland
YouTube Sees Second Major Account Hacked

DIGIGRAMS
Jobs Wanted an Easy-to-Use TV Set That Was Completely Integrated
Logitech Discovers Apple’s AirPlay, Finally
Apple TV Patents
RealNetworks’ Rinse Coming to the UK
HP Keeps PCs
Pace, Technicolor Get 1m STB Order for DirecTV Argentina
Hulu Japan Lands on Sony Devices
$10m Investment Develops Ustream Korea
Oracle-Google Trial Delayed
PlayBook Price Cuts Don’t Lead to Sales
Sony Buys Out Ericsson from Mobiles

This Week’s Headlines – Issue No. 754 (October 21-27, 2011)

THIS WEEK’S HEADLINES
TVGuide.com Breaks through the Social TV Barrier
Apple’s AirPlay, Intel’s WiDi Get Competition on Android Smartphones & Tablets
Philips, Panasonic, LG Having TV Troubles
Amazon Is More Media than Machine
What Will the New Intel Media Develop?
Amazon Could Sell 4m to 5m Tablets This Quarter

THIS WEEK IN CONTENT DEALS

THIS WEEK IN FINANCE DEALS

APPLE SLICES
Apple’s 4S by the Numbers

ENABLING TECHNOLOGY
ARM Lowers the Price Bar
RIM’s New BBX OS Converges BlackBerry, Tablet OS & HTML5

HOME NETWORKING
Qualcomm Atheros States the Case for HomePlug
Quantenna Strikes Again with HD-Video-Capable Wi-Fi

IPAD & THE MANY OTHER TABLETS
Motorola Mobility Follows HP, RIM in Cutting Price of Its Tablet
Samsung to Have First Android 4 Smartphone
Vizio’s $248 Tablet Includes 3 Months of Hulu Plus

LEGAL MATTERS
Samsung Seeks iPhone 4S Bans, Courts Likely to Keep Saying No
HTC’s Apple Smashing Didn’t Happen
Viacom, Google Aren’t Done Dealing Blows

LIES, DAMN LIES AND STATISTICS
Sales of Smart TVs to Double in 2012
20% of Homes to Have Connected TVs by End of 2012
BBC iPlayer Remains Dominant ‘Catch Up’ Service

ONLINE MUSIC SERVICES
Rumor Mill Cranks Out More Google Music
Hype Machine Hits 1m
HMV May Offload 7digital Stake
Merlin Licenses Thousands of Indies to YouTube
Pandora Has No UK Plans

SHOW TIME
Amazon Prime Lands Treasure Trove of PBS Shows
OK, Hulu. What’s Next?
Roku Users Can Get the Adult Stuff
Vudu First to Get Dolby 7.1 Surround Sound

DIGIGRAMS
NEC Doubles Life Span of Lithium-Ion Batteries
US Cellcos to Notify Customers Before They Exceed Quotas
Sony’s PS Vita to Ship February 22 in US, Europe
Kit Digital Lands Deal with Telecom Argentina
RIM Offers App-Penance for BlackBerry Downtime
1m Smart TVs in Poland by Year-End
Beaucoup Tablets
Ole! Apple TV Winning the War in Spain
OTT Is Here to Stay
Netflix Adds Android App
French Version of Apple Versus Samsung Postponed
Elemental Supplies Video Encoding to HBO, AP, Eurosport
Samsung Designs with Apple In Mind