Smart Home (connected home, home networking) News

Macrovision Acquires Mediabolic, Inc.
Jan 3, 2007 – Macrovision Corporation (Nasdaq: MVSN) has announced that, effective January 1, 2007, it acquired Mediabolic, Inc., a leading provider of software solutions for connected consumer electronics devices, such as televisions, set-top boxes and digital video recorders.
News categories: Macrovision, Digital TV, MandA, Middleware, Smart Home

NDS to Provide End-to-End Content Protection System for KT Mobile Content Service "toest", Enabling Secure Video Downloads to WiFi Hotspots
Jan 3, 2007 – NDS (NASDAQ: NNDS) has announced that it has been selected by KT of Korea, to deploy a full end-to-end system including NDS VideoGuard Mobile and NDS VideoGuard PMP on the company's new 'toest' mobile content platform.
News categories: NDS Group, KT, CES2025, Content Protection, Digital TV, Korea, Mobile, Smart Home, Tablet

Introducing 4HomeMedia Broadband Software and Services Platform
Jan 2, 2007 – 4HomeMedia will, at CES, unveil ControlPoint, an advanced user-interface (UI) for managing all connected home systems, and an underlying server which can remotely render the UI on any compatible device.
News categories: 4HomeMedia, Broadband, CES2025, Digital TV, Middleware, Smart Home

Intellon Announces 12 Service Providers Worldwide Now Deploying Intellon HomePlug® ICs for IPTV Applications
Jan 2, 2007 – Intellon has announced that 12 service providers in Europe and Asia are now using Intellon™'s HomePlug ICs for in-home IPTV distribution.
News categories: Intellon, Digital TV, France, Hong Kong, Iceland, IPTV, Korea, Poland, Semiconductor, Smart Home, Taiwan

Fujitsu to Demonstrate Industry's First H.264 Format Video-Processing IC for HD Recording and Playback at CES 2007
Jan 2, 2007 – At CES, Fujitsu Microelectronics America (FMA) will host a demonstration of Amedia Networks gateways, which use Fujitsu's MPEG-2 encoder and decoder technology with Amedia's wireless chip set to transmit HD video wirelessly at distances up to 75 meters.
News categories: Fujitsu Microelectronics, Amedia Networks, CES2025, Digital TV, Semiconductor, Smart Home

WiQuest Transforms Wireless Video with WiDV™
Dec 11, 2006 – WiQuest Communications has introduced its new WQST100/101 chipset incorporating WiDV, the company's innovative new technology that is the first to deliver wireless transmission of high quality digital video for PC and HDTV applications.
News categories: WiQuest, Digital TV, Semiconductor, Smart Home