Devices

Today’s cable hybrid fiber coax (HFC) plant has grown from primarily a residential video network to a wireline aggregation network for all types of access markets, including smal... More

By John Chapman, Cisco Fellow, CTO, Cable Access, Cisco - It occurred to me recently that it was in 1997 that the first DOCSIS-based cable modems first entered the market in a ... More

Smartphones are now in 80 percent of U.S. homes, according to the Consumer Technology Association (CTA), making them second most frequently owned tech product in U.S. households, b... More

As Snap tries to outrun larger and better-funded competitors like Instagram, the company behind the popular Snapchat messaging app is having to keep pushing the goalposts further d... More

Microservices architectures offer enterprises a way to break down large monolithic applications into a collection of smaller, more manageable applications or processes that communi... More

Shipments of HDR TV sets will surpass 4K TV shipments by 2020, according to ABI Research. The firm is forecasting that HDR TV shipments will grow at a 41% CAGR and reach 245 millio... More

With an eye toward future-gen mobile devices, Apple has filed an application to the FCC seeking permission to test millimeter wave technology that will factor into coming 5G networ... More

Snapchat has been emboldened to push deeper into news after experiencing success with a topical program of its own creation: “Good Luck America” — the first Snapchat Show to ... More

4K UHD TV sales have been growing at a nearly explosive pace since the market for this new television display technology really started to take off in early 2014. After much better... More

Redbox May 22 announced a new distribution deal with Warner Bros. Home Entertainment that gives the kiosk vendor access to new releases seven days after their retail street date. P... More

Users of Google’s Daydream virtual reality headsets will soon be able to share the videos they’re watching and the games they’re playing with others. Coming with the next ... More

In case you hadn’t noticed, the OS platform battle is over. Oh, and nobody really won, because basically all the big players did, depending on your perspective. Google has the la... More

Fresh off of Microsoft’s Build last week, it’s Google’s turn to host its biggest conference of the year. Google I/O runs today (May 17) to the end of the week. Expect plenty ... More

Slack recently shared insights into how it plans to compete with new entrants to the enterprise chat landscape that include Microsoft Teams, Google’s Hangout Chats, and Workplace... More

Holmes: "If you look at where the market is going, I think [at-home] production is becoming more of a possibility now that we have networked services and more bandwidth available i... More

Video game streaming has really taken off only in the past few years as various consumer-grade technical innovations have caught up with one another. Home recording equipment is ch... More

When TCL first introduced its first Roku-powered smart TVs in 2014, both companies were primarily targeting budget-conscious consumers: People who didn’t want to spend an arm and... More

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella declared that “bots are the new apps" at the Microsoft Build developer conference in March 2016. Little over a year later, at the latest annual Bui... More

Just two weeks after introducing the hands-free camera and style assistant Echo Look, Amazon made another Echo product, Show, available for pre-order – and this time it has a scr... More

Hey parents, do you want reassurance that your kids' screen time is valuable and educational? Nobody does that better than PBS Kids. Hot on the heels of the Playtime Pad tablet, PB... More