Verizon Business Launches Risk-Correlation Service

Verizon Business expanded its Managed Security Services suite with the launch of a fully automated, managed-security solution that automatically calculates risk and displays the results via an online scorecard. The service prioritizes current and emerging threats -- allowing enterprises to more effectively and efficiently remediate high-risk vulnerabilities, better plan security strategy and allot security-related spending. The global service is...

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RMI and SPIRIT Form Strategic Partnership

SPIRIT DSP and RMI Corporation have signed partnership and platform license agreement to deliver high quality voice and video over IP for RMI's Alchemy Processor family, an advanced MIPS-compatible processor solution.Under the deal, SPIRIT licensed to RMI its TeamSpirit Voice&Video Engine bringing high quality wideband real-time voice and video to the next generation electronics based on RMI's highly integrated SoC, starting with the Alchemy Au1250, a power-optimized single-chip media processor. TeamSpirit Voice&Video Engine is a pre-integrated...

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RMI and SPIRIT Form Strategic Partnership

SPIRIT DSP and RMI Corporation have signed partnership and platform license agreement to deliver high quality voice and video over IP for RMI's Alchemy Processor family, an advanced MIPS-compatible processor solution.Under the deal, SPIRIT licensed to RMI its TeamSpirit Voice&Video Engine bringing high quality wideband real-time voice and video to the next generation electronics based on RMI's highly integrated SoC, starting with the Alchemy Au1250, a power-optimized single-chip media processor. TeamSpirit Voice&Video Engine is a pre-integrated...

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Microsoft Enhances its Mediaroom IPTV with "Anytime" Features

Microsoft has enhanced its Mediaroom IPTV platform with "Anytime" features that allow viewers to watch TV on their own time. In addition to existing Mediaroom features, such as video on demand, DVR Anywhere and Remote Digital Video Recording, the new Mediaroom Anytime features enable viewers to access previously aired shows directly from the Interactive Program Guide or immediately restart currently airing shows without any preplanning or prior DVR...

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MediaFLO Plans to Expand its FLO TV in More Than 100 Markets in 2009

Qualcomm's MediaFLO USA division announced plans to expand its FLO TV service across more than 100 markets in 2009. The market launch schedule will commence within weeks of the February 17, 2009 digital television (DTV) transition date and continue throughout the year.MediaFLO USA also noted some interesting mobile TV user trends. Metrics show that FLO TV viewers are spending an average of more than 20 minutes per day watching television on their...

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Verizon FiOS TV Now Offers 100 or More HD Channels

Verizon FiOS TV is now providing 100 or more channels of high-definition (HD) television in every market where the TV service is offered.Verizon noted that more than 1.6 million customers currently subscribe to the all-digital service, which is available for sale to more than 8.2 million homes and small businesses in 14 states. http://www.verizon.com/fio...

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Wi-Fi Chipset Sales Grew 26% to 387 Million in 2008

Wi-Fi chipset sales jumped 26 percent in 2008 to 387 million, according to new statistics released today by the Wi-Fi Alliance and In-Stat. Highlights from the In-Stat findings examining Wi-Fi chipset sales by category:Cellular-Wi-Fi Phones: 56 million units shipped (up 52 percent)Stationary Consumer Electronic Devices (gaming consoles, digital televisions, set-top boxes, printers): 48 million units shipped (up 51 percent)Portable Consumer Electronic...

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Broadcom Introduces MoCA-Integrated Set-Top Box Chip

Broadcom introduced its first high definition (HD) set-top box (STB) system-on-a-chip (SoC) solutions with Multimedia over Coax Alliance (MoCA) integration. MoCA uses a subscriber's existing in-home coax cable to create a home media distribution network. "Because coax is already in the bulk of U.S. homes, Broadcom's MoCA-integrated solutions are a low cost and efficient way to network the next generation digital home to enable whole-home media distribution," said Dan Marotta, Senior Vice President & General Manager of Broadcom's Broadband...

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Broadcom Announces Integrated Wi-Fi Router Chip

Broadcom introduced a new single-chip Wi-Fi router solution for small, entry-level models. The Broadcom BCM5356 chip integrates everything needed to build a router onto a single chip, including an 802.11 media access controller (MAC) and baseband, a 2.4 GHz radio, a 333 MHz MIPS 74K CPU core, a 5-port Fast Ethernet switch and physical layer (PHY) device, and several options for system memory interfaces. The new Wi-Fi chip also integrates the highly efficient CMOS power amplifier that has shipped in millions of devices and provides the same level...

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Marvell Adds Single Stream 802.11n Device

Marvell introduced a low-cost 802.11n single stream Wi-Fi solution designed for a broad range of mainstream consumer devices, such as digital cameras, printers, gaming platforms, etc. The Marvell 88W8786 is designed to support bit rates up to 150Mbps and to support STBC and various aggregation schemes for increased range and robustness, providing high throughput. http://www.marvell....

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Marvell Introduces New Applications Processor for Consumer Devices

Marvell introduced the first device in a family of new application processors targeted at mass market digital consumer devices.The Marvell PXA168 is based on a new architecture that delivers the processing capabilities of an entry-level laptop. This new class of applications processor is scalable beyond 1GHz to enable converged consumer devices. Target applications include connected digital photo frames, portable navigation devices, portable media...

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Broadcom Shows Bluetooth Running at 24 Mbps using Alternative MAC/PHY

Broadcom demonstrated a working implementation of next generation Bluetooth supporting data rates of up to 24 Mbps. The implementation leverages an alternative MAC and PHY (AMP) technology to achieve the increased data rates along with a significant increase in range.Broadcom's Bluetooth AMP technology is being demonstrated at CES on its wireless solutions including the Broadcom BCM4325 single-chip Bluetooth + Wi-Fi combo device, as well as modules that integrate the BCM2046 single-chip Bluetooth solution and BCM4312 single-chip Wi-Fi device....

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Hughes Develops Satellite-based Government Crisis Network

Hughes Network Systems has leveraged its SPACEWAY 3 satellite to launch a new Inter-Government Crisis Network (IGCN) service that enables government agencies to communicate securely and reliably in preparing for and responding to an emergency --- when terrestrial networks are most vulnerable to failure.IGCN provides broadband connectivity throughout North America for federal, state, and local government agencies. The service offers the capability...

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SanDisk and Sony Envision 2TB Memory Sticks

SanDisk and Sony announced the joint development of a extended high-capacity Memory Stick format with a maximum storage capacity of 2-terabytes (TB). The companies have also set their sights on a "Memory Stick HG Micro" format enables a maximum data-transfer speed of 60 megabytes per second (MB/s), making it one of the fastest-smallest memory card formats to date. Format licensing corresponding to the "Memory Stick format for Extended High Capacity" and the "Memory Stick HG Micro" is scheduled to start in 2009.The new "Memory Stick Format for...

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AMD Plans Peta-Flop Capacity "Render Cloud" to Drive Online HD Video

AMD unveiled plan for the "AMD Fusion Render Cloud," a massively-parallel supercomputer with petaFLOP capacity and designed for HD video rendering. The supercomputer, which is planned for the second half of the year, is being engineered to process up to a million compute threads across more than 1,000 graphics processors. The system is being designed to enable content providers to deliver video games, PC applications and other graphically-intensive applications through the Internet cloud to virtually any type of mobile device with a web browser...

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