Metabyte has a deal with Scientific-Atlanta to put its software in new boxes that AOL Time Warner's cable unit is already installing in selected U.S. cities.
Other parents are more generous: In October Tyco said it would pay a 52% premium for the 11% stake in its undersea cable unit, Tycom, that had been sold to the public.
Of course, the results were driven largely by the unit's cable channels--USA Network, Bravo, Sci Fi, CNBC, MSNBC, Oxygen and The Weather Channel--and the Summer Olympics, which aired across its network stable.
The unit receives a video signal from analog cable or a broadcast antenna and rescales the image to be compatible with high-resolution monitors.
This series adopts a discrete component configuration that separates the display section from the tuner section, and these two sections can be connected with a cable or by using an optional wireless video transmitter unit that employs AMIMON's WHDI technology.
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Bharti's unit, Network i2i Ltd, owns the submarine communications cable network by the same name that connects India to Singapore.
TD-LTE is the 4G standard developed for use across China, and it is now being adopted by operators across the globe. lightRadio Metro Radio houses two lightRadio cubes, fully integrated with a directional antennae, allowing it to provide the coverage normally associated with a much bulkier, heavier remote radio unit linked to an external antenna via an RF coaxial cable.
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Users simply place their laptop on the base of the unit and close the side arm, with no key or cable required.
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Anne Sweeney , who runs the Disney-ABC Television Group, a unit of Walt Disney, grapples with stiff competition from wireless and cable.
The Bluetooth unit enables actively-equalized audio, but can be swapped for a 3.5mm cable (included) -- this is ideal for long trips away from power.
Manual, install CD (which basically just includes Windows Media 10, as the iRiver needs no drivers other than its firmware), charger, USB cable (attaches to the charger), the player, and a really crappy clear case for the unit.
Once the device syncs with a navigation unit, the audio is then piped to the Mainnav via a 3.5-millimeter audio cable, and if you're actually in one of those remote areas where an FM transmitter can broadcast something other than fuzz, you're good to go.
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Think along the lines of a special forces unit going deep into enemy territory with embedded geeks in the team, to dig up fibre-optic cable to be able to reach the systems that were supposed to be unreachable.
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