VoIP application server software provider BroadSoft has partnered up with Web software developer BEA Systems, Tuesday, a marriage meant to build a better product for carrier customers, according to a BroadSoft spokesperson. The multi-year deal centers around the idea of melding BroadSoft’s BroadWorks VoIP application platform… Read More »
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Cableco VoIP and IP application infrastructure supplier Arris today snapped up Tandberg TV for $1.2 billion. The deal, expected by analysts, adds Tandberg’s IPTV smarts to Arris’ arsenal, to better compete with Cisco and Motorola, who have both made similar moves recently to beef… Read More »
If just watching the Golden Globes broadcast awards show Monday isn’t enough stimulation, MSN and Dick Clark Productions will have a companion online red carpet show that will offer live feeds from the press room (ooh look! media people with laptops!) as well as… Read More »
With all the recent talk about bringing Internet video to the living room, a little nugget of an idea about a YouTube TV channel got me thinking that a better idea would be The YouTube Show — say, a half-hour program every now and… Read More »
It might be a bit of Friday killing-two-birds-with-one-post here, but it’s not too great a leap to link BT’s announcement of reaching 1 million VoIP users with the $144.8 million bid by Avaya for SIP app server vendor Ubiquity. Just more confirmation that VoIP… Read More »
Consolidation in the VoIP infrastructure market continues with Avaya’s $144.8 M bid to purchase Ubiquity, maker of SIP application server software. Read More »
The unrelated announcements this week of Apple’s iPhone and Vonage’s plan to bundle Wi-Fi with VoIP got me thinking: Do we need some new competitive analysis to figure out what’s really happening in the world of good ol’ talk talk talk? After spending most of… Read More »
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Since it seemed like every other person at CES this year was sending video up the tubes, we asked a videoblogging authority — Blip.TV’s Dina Kaplan — for her take on the intersection of Vegas, videoblogs and the future of TV. We caught up with… Read More »
Talk about doing anything to get ratings: Amanda Congdon turns in some truly shocking coverage from CES, where she decides to test-drive the perp end of a personal taser. As painful as it looks, it’s only about half as wrenching as watching Amanda’s attempts at… Read More »
Amidst all the hubbub about Internet-based TV, the cable industry was relatively quiet, though not silent, at this week’s CES. On the DVR front, it looks like Comcast and TiVo have made nice, probably since potential Comcast DVR customers kept calling up asking… Read More »
Maybe it’s too soon for the good news to show up on Covad’s bottom line, but a report out today from In-Stat should cheer Covad strategists, since it claims that hosted Voice over IP services “will continue to experience dynamic growth over the next… Read More »
Reading the press release last night was a head-scratcher moment deluxe: Vonage is getting into the business of selling Wi-Fi? What, they don’t have enough scars from taking on incumbents in voice, now they’re going to butt heads over Internet access as well? During a Monday… Read More »
No news yet on any announcements, but we have heard that CBS head honcho Les Moonves will be joined by YouTube’s Chad Hurley, Sling Media’s Blake Krikorian and Philip Rosedale from Linden Labs during his Tuesday afternoon keynote at CES. Read More »
Call this one of those annoying to-be-continued TV shows: While we don’t know what CBS will officially announce during Les Moonves’ keynote at CES Tuesday, we do know some of the people who will be joining him onstage as the big-eye network attempts to burnish… Read More »
Sling Media is scheduled to announce tonight SlingPlayer Mobile support for the Palm Treo 700p, the new smartphone currently offered by Sprint and Verizon. The company is also expected to show a technology demonstration of Slingbox running on Microsoft’s Vista, with some snazzy controls… Read More »
Friday afternoon at Sling Media’s HQ in San Mateo, we got a look at a prototype for one of the first entrants in the bring-Internet-video-to-the-TV race: The SlingCatcher, a sort of Slingbox-in-reverse that should hit the retail shelves sometime this summer, priced at $200 or less. While… Read More »
Friday afternoon at Sling Media’s HQ in San Mateo, we got a look at a prototype for one of the first entrants in the bring-Internet-video-to-the-TV race: The SlingCatcher, a sort of Slingbox-in-reverse that should hit the retail shelves sometime this summer, priced at $200 or… Read More »
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