Parks
Associates and CEA announce that Phil McKinney, vice president and chief technology
officer of the Personal Systems Group at HP, will present the opening visionary keynote
at CONNECTIONS:
The Digital Living Conference & Showcase.

McKinney will address conference attendees at 4:30 p.m. on the first day of the event,
which will take place June 24-26 at the Santa Clara Convention Center. The keynote
address is titled “20 Years into the Future” and will discuss the technological innovations
that will define the media and entertainment landscape over the next two decades,
as well as what issues businesses and consumers can expect as the physical and virtual
worlds collide.

“HP’s growing presence at many points of the computing, entertainment, and support
value chain makes this a company to watch closely as the digital home grows in reach,”
said Stuart Sikes, president, Parks Associates. “Entertainment and multimedia networks
are expected to account for 50 percent of the more than 89 million home networks in
U.S. households in 2012, due in part to the innovation and vision of consumer electronics
giants like HP.”

“The world of media and entertainment continues to undergo radical change, and will
continue to do so over the next 20 years,” said Phil McKinney. “As people adjust to
a world of always-on connectivity, and ubiquitous and personal content and devices,
it is important to understand the challenges that will arise and what businesses are
doing to help consumers respond to them.”

The CONNECTIONS executive conference and showcase provides high-level research, knowledge,
and analysis to 800+ executives on the converging consumer technology and service
industries. It provides the ideal venue to learn, network, share ideas, and gain a
greater understanding of new business models, industry trends, and market forecasts.

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CONNECTIONS: The Digital Living Conference and Showcase, hosted by leading research
firm Parks Associates in partnership with the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA),
is the premier executive event focused on the market developments and growth factors
for advanced digital lifestyle solutions. For twelve years, the following industries
have participated at CONNECTIONS: new media, digital entertainment and gaming, home
networks, Internet and television services, software and middleware, digital health,
mobile applications and services, consumer electronics, and home control systems and
security.

For more information about CONNECTIONS 2008, visit http://www.connectionsconference.com.

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Verizon Wireless’s acquisition of Alltel makes it the biggest player in the US mobile market and poses an ever growing problem for the UK’s Vodafone, which owns 45% of the market. A huge amount of capital is tied up in this business and Verizon has announced that it will not be paying a dividend until 2012.

This situation, reminiscent of that other transatlantic telecom debacle, Concert. Vodafone can’t afford to buy out Verizon (especially given current market conditions) and Verizon has little need to stump up to buy back shares in a majority owned subsidiary. And the figures are so enormous and the pill so poisoned that no one else will touch the situation.

The relevance of this to the growth of TV over IP is huge. The show is moving on and we are now with mobile devices and video where we were with PCs and video some decade ago.

The sector has, to date, been a graveyard for many startups whose business models simply aren’t viable due to the walled gardens and oligopolies run by the mobile operators in almost all markets around the world. There are simply too many mobile orientated companies to mention and the few who have been modestly successful have acted as suppliers to the mobile giants.

I remain bullish about this sector as a whole and expect mobile TV takeup to increase gradually, but more on PDA type devices (or MEDs – mobile entertainment devices) than on traditional cellphones, but it’s going to be a relatively trivial task for current video on PC operators to adapt their services to these devices, especially as the boast more and more powerful processors and better web browsers.

Whilst the giants at the top of the industry maintain their oligopolies there is very little nurture that trickles down to mobile video startups and they face a tough task.

Source:
Mobilopoly

Pixelmetrix will
co-sponsor the QoE: Holy Grail of IPTV live webinar, scheduled on Tuesday, June 10
at 2.00 pm New York / 7.00 pm London.

Danny Wilson, Pixelmetrix President & CEO, is one of the key speakers at this webinar
presented by Light Reading. His talking points will include the challenges telcos
must tackle with escalating global IPTV subscription figures, soaring revenues and
the inevitable rising service expectations, key success factors to capitalize on and
techniques to optimize QoE.

“QoE includes the end-to-end system effects – client, terminal, network, service infrastructure
and so on. Keeping continuous visibility of end-to-end service quality is essential
to provide a robust and profitable television service,” said Danny Wilson.

According to Light Reading, telcos are putting money on the table with high hopes
of challenging the traditional TV providers. By delivering TV channels over an IP
network, telcos expect to have a more cost-effective business model that will also
result in increased revenues. But if they are to be successful, telcos will have to
provide IPTV services that, at a minimum, are as good as what subscribers have become
accustomed to. This is why IPTV vendors of all sorts are talking about Quality of
Experience, or QOE.

Join us at this live webinar! Sign
up now.

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Technosummits announces
the line-up of speakers for the second annual Broadband Connect Summit taking place
on 30 June 2008 at the Courthouse Hotel Kempinski in London.

The agenda focuses on “Enabling fixed and wireless networks for broadband media services”.
Panellists and speakers will address how the next generation networks will bring entertainment
to the home and to the handset.

IPTV, wireless and mobile broadband service offerings are some of key topics areas
included in this summit’s panel discussions.

Dr. William Cooper, founder and CEO of informitv, the chair for this summit, will
provide the welcome introduction against the backdrop of increasing pressure on current
infrastructure as consumers demand rich media over broadband and on mobile devices.

Bill Scott, Leader of Digital Consumer Media and Entertainment at IBM will provide
the morning keynote “Next Generation media consumption: Who Pays?” He will discuss
the rapidly changing landscape and what motivates telcos and internet service providers
to invest more on network infrastructure to meet demands and create new revenue streams.

Allan Hadden, President of the Global Mobile Suppliers Association will provide the
afternoon keynote focusing on the current trends and future prospects for mobile broadband.

There will be two panels for this event. The morning session, moderated by Anette
Schaefer from Yankee Group, will focus on “TV is Dead, Long Live IPTV”. It brings
together speakers including Richard Young of BT Vision, Simon Danker form the BBC
Worldwide, Myles Macbean from Disney online, Chris Brake from Virgin Media and Suranga
Chandratillake from blinkx.

The afternoon session, moderated by Dr. Katja Mueller from Point Topic, will tackle
issues on “Mobile and Wireless Broadband on the Go: a must have or just hype” and
panellists include Russel Buckley of Admob, Houston Spencer from Alcatel-Lucent, Niall
Murphy of The Cloud and Andy McKinnon from Motorola.

Eran Rom, CEO of Jungo, who will discuss “Delivering profitable and cost-effective
gateway solutions”, commented: “The need for bandwidth is constantly growing which
requires state of the art software solution which is cost effective and sustainable.”

Joseph de Villiers, Managing Director for Technosummits said: “This year’s agenda
highlights some of the issues and challenges that network operators, telcos, broadcast
and media companies attending this event face as they struggle to create new revenue
streams while controlling the cost of delivering services.”

The highlight for this year’s event is a new event feature “STRAIGHT TALKING” – a
one to one interview on stage with a surprise guest that looks into the “The Future
of TV”.

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