Application development for smart TVs has been hampered by myriad proprietary platforms. But an alliance announced Wednesday by manufacturers LG Electronics and Philips seeks to create on open set of HTML-based standards.…
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Apple jumps to third place in worldwide mobile phone shipments
Apple's huge iPhone sales numbers from its latest quarterly results helped it grow its mobile phone business by 128.4 percent year over year in the fourth quarter of 2011, according to a new report. That makes it the third-largest mobile phone maker by volume.…
Read MoreMPEG LA ready to escalate codec war against Google, WebM
H.264 license holder MPEG LA says it's ready to step up the fight against Google's open-source WebM format. After threatening to form a patent pool to use against WebM, the group now says it has identified 12 companies with patents essential to the VP8 standard.…
Read MoreWhy LG Is Enlisting In the Android Army
LG Electronics hopes to turn around profits in its mobile communications division by building 20 new Google Android devices by the end of this year. Last year, LGE was vocally committed to Microsoft's Windows Mobile platform. My, how one year can change everything.…
Read MoreWhy Buy a Standalone Box When Vudu Has Apps Already On the TV?
Take that, Boxee Box! Take that, Roku Player! Sure, those companies are adding lots of content to their broadband set-top boxes through…
Read MoreComing Soon to a Home Near You: 3DTVs, 3-D Cable Channels
Well how about that. We knew 3-D would be a big topic of discussion at CES this year, but with new 3-D…
Read MoreSkype Wants to Make Your TV More Social
Skype will soon be available on your TV set, thanks to TVs from LG and Panasonic with an integrated Skype client that will be coming out later this year. The plan to move video conferencing to the big screen makes sense.…
Read MoreMWC: Intel Takes on the Mobile Internet Device
After success with its low-power Atom processor in netbooks, Intel (s INTC) is embracing the mobile Internet device, with the chip giant…
Read MoreHow to Sync Calendars from Two Different Google Accounts Over-the-Air
A few days ago, I highlighted my experience with NuevaSync, a free beta service that shoots your Google Calendar and Contacts to…
Read MoreHere Come Broadband TVs
Ever since I sat down with Reed Hastings, the CEO of Netflix (s NFLX), at our NewTeeVee Live conference this past November,…
Read MoreBroadcasters to Make TV Mobile
[qi:032] In a nation with more than 225 million mobile subscribers, only 1.8 million of them watch broadcast television on their cell…
Read MoreBroadcasters Boost Mobile TV With New Standard
Yesterday Ion Media, a broadcaster behind an effort to create a new way to deliver over-the-air broadcast television to mobile phones, announced a successful test of a new mobile digital television standard.…
Read MoreMore Ways To Get Mobile TV
By the look of things, you’d think U.S. consumers were demanding ways to watch TV on their mobile phones. But studies show,…
Read MoreMWC: Mobile OS Scorecard
It’s not as fun as counting delegates from Super Tuesday, and figuring out which mobile operating system is pulling ahead can be…
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