OnLive, the start-up whose technology streams video games over an Internet connection, is expanding its service to tablets and mobile devices. OnLive said Thursday that it will now stream console-quality games on tablets and phones using a mobile application. Users could already stream such high-end video games using OnLive’s “microconsole,” a cassette-tape sized gadget. The […]
Applications
Microsoft launches Xbox app for iOS
Microsoft yesterday launched Xbox Live apps for both Windows Phone 7 (WP7) and Apple’s iPhone. While the WP7 app has more features, including the ability to control an Xbox directly from a user’s phone, the Apple version, which includes apps for the iPhone and iPad, comes off pretty slick, as well. My Xbox Live is […]
In the media: Verizon down with OTT
Verizon Communications is working on an over-the-top service that would stream movies and TV shows to customers outside of its FiOS video service footprint. While all is cozy between Bright House Networks, Time Warner Cable, Comcast and Verizon Wireless with last week’s $3.6 billion spectrum deal and agreement to resell each other’s services, Verizon’s OTT […]
Qualcomm paints HomePlug green
Qualcomm Atheros is sampling a green version of its HomePlug PHY circuitry aimed at supporting applications such as plug-in electrical vehicles, smart energy, Smart Grid and remote monitoring applications. HomePlug Green PHY is interoperable with the IEEE 1901/HomePlug AV powerline networking protocol, but it swaps the greater-than-200-Mbps rate of the HomePlug AV protocol for low-energy, […]
Copps sets departure date; nominee vote pending
FCC Commissioner Michael Copps formally announced his retirement on Tuesday just days before a key Senate vote for two nominees to the agency. The departure of the 71-year-old Democrat, which had been expected, takes effect Jan. 1, unless the Senate confirms his replacement or adjourns before then. The Senate Commerce Committee is set to vote […]
AT&T hits bottom in consumer survey
For the second year in a row, AT&T finds itself at the bottom of Consumer Reports’ annual survey that measures consumer satisfaction with wireless carriers. Meanwhile, a relatively little-known provider called Consumer Cellular topped the ratings. Of the four major wireless carriers, Verizon Wireless again scored the highest in this year’s ratings, followed closely by […]
Humbled Netflix CEO still thinking, talking big
To hear Netflix CEO Reed Hastings tell it, the bone-headed decisions that have dragged down the Internet’s leading video subscription service during the past five months eventually will be forgotten like a bad movie made by a great film director. Shaking off the stigma of a massive flop won’t be easy, a challenge Hastings acknowledged […]
Imec presents MEMS energy harvester suitable for shock-induced energy harvesting in car tires
Washington, DC, and Leuven, Belgium – December 7, 2011 – At today’s 2011 IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM) Imec and Holst Centre announced that they have made a micromachined harvester for vibration energy with a record output power of 489µW. Measurements and simulation show that the harvester is also suited for shock-induced energy harvesting […]
The Tinker’s Toolbox – Peter Green of International Rectifier on Driving Solid-State Lighting
Hosted by Alix Paultre, the Tinker’s Toolbox is the Advantage Design Group’s web-based interview show where we talk about the latest technology, components, and design issues for the electronic design engineering community. In this podcast we talk to Peter Green of International Rectifier about solid-state lighting and the circuits needed to drive them. The company […]
Cablemas phasing out VOD for streaming
Last May, Cablemas bought more than a quarter million hybrid set-tops. The other shoe just dropped: Cablemas is going to phase out its traditional video-on-demand (VOD) system for a quarter of its TV subscribers in favor of a broadband-based streaming service managed by Avail-TVN. Avail-TVN said it will stream on-demand content from studios, networks and […]