The ruling looks like a clear victory for subscribers of cable services, long frustrated by awkward set-top box technology and perpetually rising subscription fees.
Big-box technology retailer Best Buy slashed its earnings forecast Friday.
The company, an original player in set-top DVR box technology, may not have lost its hold on the market after all, as it holds a battery of important patents that may carve a foothold for the company in the market.
With TCL's Personal Box Office (PBO) technology, family members just need to press the power button and personally-tailored, commercial-free content streams from the MoVo set.
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Previously, Alison worked for several awesome technology companies, including Box, Aardvark, Nextdoor, and Google.
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There's almost no cost savings to the theater owners to put in all that technology, and with box office receipts in the U.S. recently down for 19 weekends in a row, owners have little incentive to spend.
She claimed that "too often in our schools, technology is seen as a magic box that students use, rather than a tool".
By using quantitative data contained in repositories such as the box score of a baseball game, their technology systematically converts the information contained within into a journalistic narrative that is indistinguishable from that produced by a human writer.
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Most breakthroughs in food technology are taken for granted (see box, p. 22).
This summer a 100-year-old box factory will reopen as the new International Water Technology Center, a seven-story research hub and business accelerator for water-related companies and promising startups.
Today, the TV you watch and interact with is a sophisticated ecosystem made up of a melange of technology including middleware, meta data, content discovery and content rights management technology that converges in your set top box, which in itself is a smarter piece of hardware than your TV.
Cisco also announced earlier today an agreement for sale of its set-top box manufacturing facility in Juarez, Mexico, to Foxconn Technology Group.
Despite all this turmoil, the company maintains it's still well positioned to sell programming guide technology to TV services and set-top box makers.
In the future, we'll be able to surf and shop on the web on television--but where will the interactive technology reside: in the set-top box or the set itself?
In the future, we'll all be able to surf and shop on the Web via television-but where will the interactive technology reside: in the set-top box or in the TV set itself?
My colleagues in the TV box saw it differently - and I thought the use of technology was supposed to remove controversy!
He figured his skills would be in greatest demand in South Korea, with its pressing need for leading-edge technology and its spotty record employing it (see box, p.210).
In June, with little fanfare, Comcast announced it would join smaller cabler Charter Communications in testing a new Sony technology called Passage that allows any manufacturer's box to tap into any cable network.
However, I have a very strong feeling that as a box maker, a hardware manufacturer, you want to have your technology based on whichever chipset is being developed most widely.
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Box will use the funding to expand internationally and invest in its technology, focusing on its mobile strategy, which enables customers to share files and collaborate from a variety of mobile devices.
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TV's clever box thrills gadget freaks, most consumers are interested in entertainment, not technology.
One reason: companies are cramming more technology into the pager's tiny, hand-held box.
It that film can earn more than 50% of its box office from 3-D tickets there might be hope for the technology yet.
Unlike other independent makers of set-top boxes that have simply licensed security technology from Motorola or Scientific-Atlanta, Sony's box goes around the duopoly.
First, the success of this popular remake where the difference is essentially centered around the introduction of 3D technology, which highlights the importance of 3D movies in driving box office sales for media companies including Disney, Time Warner, News Corp and Viacom.
"TV is out of the box and off the wall, " Justin Rattner, Intel's chief technology officer, told BBC News.
Barbara Desoer, chief technology and operations officer, recalls telling him in 2005 that a box of tapes containing credit card data had gone missing at an airport stopover.
Originally developed for military use, this technology has plummeted in price and can now be packaged in a box small enough to fit behind the radiator of a Cadillac DeVille saloon.
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