For the smart home to ignite the IoT, home automation software platform vendors must provide open APIs. SmartThings and future open-API platforms could be the disruptive players that encourage a tidal… Read more »
The shift in consumer media consumption from fixed, dedicated platforms to open, IP-based platforms caused problems for both in the second quarter. The period also saw a courtroom showdown between Apple… Read more »
Many long-standing legal rules of engagement between publishers and consumers tilted the playing field in unexpected ways in the first quarter. The period also saw a major expansion in the amount… Read more »
The purpose of the on-screen guide has shifted too. While the main objective is still to provide information on television programming, the EPG has the potential to be a much broader… Read more »
Sony has big plans for a competitive home video service to compete with programming offers from the cable and satellite companies – or maybe I should say ‘had’. Those plans are… Read more »
By , Ph.D." rel="author" class="url fn">J. Gerry Purdy, Ph.D.
Today tablets are a fast-growing sector of mobile computing, and while the tablet market is still in the early stages of adoption, tens of millions of units are being sold each… Read more »
The number of connected devices is steadily on the rise, but it’s not smartphones or computers that will lead us to the 50 billion connected devices expected by the year 2020… Read more »