4Home gives you ultimate control over your electronics, appliances — snags $4.3M

February 7th, 2010
4Home gives you ultimate control over your electronics, appliances — snags $4.3M
“4Home, maker of software that allows you to control all the appliances and electronics in your home from a central dashboard (spanning your television, computers and smart phones), has just raised $4.27 million in fourth-round equity, according to a filing with the SEC. Riding the trend toward greater household automation, the Sunnyvale, Calif. company is poised to become a Smart Grid contender as well as a major home media service.”

Zugara’s Newest Technology Enables Augmented Reality To Be A Social And Collaborative Experience

February 7th, 2010
“Today Zugara is introducing “ZugSTAR” (Zugara STreaming Augmented Reality), a technology that allows people in different locations to have shared Augmented Reality experiences from within their video feeds. Picture a web based video conferencing system similar to Skype, but with the added functionality of being able to see one another’s “augmented” experience in real time.”

Windows exec leaving Microsoft to work on Amazon Kindle

February 7th, 2010
“Nash would be joining the Kindle team at a pivotal moment, as Amazon.com prepares to compete with Apple’s iPad and an onslaught of smaller players in the e-reader business.”

Fiber Broadband Subscribers to Total 106 Million Worldwide in 2014

February 7th, 2010
“The number of fixed broadband subscribers will rise to 501 million at the end of 2014, according to new market data released by ABI Research. Of those, about 106 million will subscribe to services delivered via fiber. Fiber broadband subscribers totaled 44 million at the end of 2009. The number of fixed broadband subscribers totaled more than 422 million at the end of 2009, a 9% increase from 2008.”

Building Automation Systems Market to Exceed $36 Billion in 2015

February 7th, 2010
“Despite being a traditionally slow growth area and one that was impacted by the latest economic downturn, the market for Building Automation Systems will grow 3% globally from 2009 to 2015, when the total market will reach a value of more than $36 billion.”

Visa Europe to invest €200m in development of contactless payments by card and mobile

February 7th, 2010
“For us, m-commerce is a strategic priority and we are working and talking with all the mobile operators and handset manufacturers to develop standards for payment on mobile phones.”

Hitachi, Panasonic and Toshiba Developing Millimeter-Wave Communication Chips

February 7th, 2010
Hitachi, Panasonic and Toshiba Developing Millimeter-Wave Communication Chips Show all
“Three companies – Hitachi, Panasonic Corp., and Toshiba Corp – have disclosed they are independently developing 60GHz-waveband radio frequency (RF) transceiver ICs. All three hope to make ultra-small transceiver modules with integrated antennas, for use in digital home electronics. The first products could appear as early as the second half of 2010.”

Opera partners with Ford for in-vehicle browsing

February 7th, 2010
Opera partners with Ford for in-vehicle browsing
“Opera is looking at getting its browser onto in-vehicle computer systems with a partnership with Ford to bring in-dash web browsing to Ford trucks and vans to cater to a “growing need for remote access to the office while on-the-road”.”

H.264 Will Stay Royalty-Free for Free Internet Video Through 2016

February 7th, 2010
“MPEG LA—who licenses the h.264 codec—has announced they’re going to continue H.264’s royalty freeness for free internet video through 2016.”

Major infrastucture supplier calls it: LTE over WiMAX

February 7th, 2010
Major infrastucture supplier calls it: LTE over WiMAX
“In the race to actual 4G commercialization, LTE’s still got a ton of catching-up to do — but once it does, it’s looking poised to blow past WiMAX pretty quickly here.”

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