Tag archive: Mike Wolf

A new survey from ABI Research shows that over half of the broadband-equipped households in the US employ some kind of home network, making it a mainstream adoption now. More people are using laptops, game consoles, and Wi-Fi equipped cell phones at home. "Our research shows that more than a quarter of home network owners have a games console on their home network, while another eight per cent have connected their mobile phone,"… Read More

A new report from ABI Research finds that Apple's move in late 2005 to sell television episodes and video through its iTunes Music Store marked the “big bang” for online video, although the new distribution channel will still need as long as five years to catch up with traditional avenues. According to ABI analyst Mike Wolf, “At this year's CES, gadgets took a backseat to the bevy of announcements by large… Read More

From the press release: Family vacations. Weddings. Sporting events. Baby's first steps. Just hanging around. Canon's new five megapixel PowerShot S2 IS digital camera allows consumers from the novice to the photo enthusiast the ability to capture high quality still images and movie clips of life's most significant events. “Canon leads the photo industry. Our convergent digital imaging technologies allow consumers… Read More

Multimedia networking will drive the home networking semiconductor market over the next five years, as revenues grow 12% per year to reach over $2.3 billion in 2008, according to In-Stat/MDR (http://www.instat.com). The high-tech market research firm reports that this growth will come despite decreasing per unit prices, as overall unit momentum through 2008 will create a "rising tide" for the connected home silicon market.… Read More

ViewSonic Corp. today unveiled a wireless media networking initiative targeted at the burgeoning home networking market, estimated to reach $8.5 billion by 2008. The first products bringconsumers a complete solution for sharing digital video, pictures and music across consumer electronics devices. ViewSonic's product offerings include a wireless media adapter, the WMA100, along with two wireless media gateways, the 80GB WMG80… Read More

Netgear, Inc., and hard drive manufacturer Western Digital Corp. today announced the companies will jointly promote a complete, affordable wireless LAN solution with network-attached storage for home networks. In a co-marketing effort between Netgear and WD, an affordable, wireless networked storage solution is available for under $200 USD. Customers who purchase from Best Buy both the Netgear Super G 108 Mbps Wireless Media Router (model… Read More

Maxtor and Linksys are teaming up to offer a network storage solution, pairing Maxtor's external USB hard drives with the new Linksys Storage Link. The small network appliance connects up to two USB 2.0 hard drives directly to an Ethernet network. The device will also accept USB flash drives. The Network Storage Link can also be set up so that storage devices are accessible from the Internet and it features… Read More

From In-Stat/MDR's press release: Home networking entered the mainstream in 2003 and early 2004, as large numbers of broadband users installed home networks to share Internet connections and electronics vendors delivered new products to send high-value entertainment content over the network. According to In-Stat/MDR (http://www.instat.com/), the continued need for broadband sharing and a growing interest in entertainment networking… Read More

Linksys, a division of Cisco Systems, Inc., today announced the deployment of the Linksys Wireless-G Cable Gateways as part of the Comcast Home Networking Platform. This teaming helped deliver theindustry's first CableHome deployment, which includes a certified all-in-one networking hardware device -the Wireless-GCable Gateway (WCG200) - which makes it easy for households to share a cable broadband connection wired or wirelessly… Read More

From TI's press release: Making the networked home more user-friendly and compatible, Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) has delivered a new level of cost-effective performance with its latest digital media processor solution for networked streaming media electronics in the home. Announced today, TI's recent streaming media solution will enable a fresh level of functionality for consumer electronics: Less bandwidth needed for… Read More

From TI's press release: Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) today introduced two new DSL residential gateway reference designs that add Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) and wireless home networking functionality. The new designs are based upon TI´s AR7 DSL router-on-a-chip and combines key technologies of TI´s broadband portfolio. These DSL, VoIP and WLAN technologies were designed to allow future system-level integration… Read More

From TI's press release: Until now, most dual-band routers and access points (APs) were too expensive for mass consumer adoption since they required two chipsets in order to maintain simultaneous operation. With TI´s wONE software, manufacturers can offer dual-band routers at an affordable price to the consumer market, making universal connectivity of 802.11a, 802.11g and 802.11b in the home a reality. This all-in-one router… Read More

D-Link released a performance and interoperability upgrade firmware for its high-performance D-Link Xtreme G wireless networking line of products that deliver 108Mbps bandwidth in the 2.4GHzfrequency range. The new upgrade firmware for D-Link Xtreme G is free and it delivers the industry's fastest wireless network with excellent results and consistent data rate throughput, besting the802.11b wireless by as much as 15 times while remaining… Read More