The only long-term solution to this connected set of problems is to reduce the world's reliance on oil.
The Wall Street Journal has anonymous sources saying the company will unveil an Internet-connected set-top box that combines live, on-demand and recorded TV to compete with the likes of Apple and Google.
The battle for the online TV market has gathered pace this year after BT joined forces with other big names in the industry such as BBC to develop YouView, an internet connected set-top box.
"This case has always been about making sure that there isn't one set of rules for the wealthy and connected, and another set for everyone else, " Rice said.
The fantastic response and uptake from our customers and beta testers is allowing Connected Data to set the standard for what peer-to-peer storage can and should be.
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Sure, there have been experiments in interactive TV -- gadgets like WebTV and modern game consoles are connected devices, and set-top boxes like the Roku and TiVo add connected components -- but most TVs in the US remain blissfully ignorant of the internet.
But its Yahoo Connected sets have another set of apps that look and perform differently.
It'll even tell Philips' connected Hue lightbulbs to set a mood.
Once the standards were set, connected users exploded.
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This trend of internet-enabled, or "connected" TV is set to be a major theme of this year's CES, where TV makers from Panasonic to Sony are announcing app stores and other features that are designed to bring social media and Web experiences to TV.
PayWizard supports transactions made on multiple devices -- including online, iPads and other tablets, smart phones, connected TVs and digital set-top boxes -- and features a unique, web-based management dashboard that provides detailed real-time activity reports as well as valuable, actionable marketing information on viewer behaviour.
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Floating wind farms are set to be connected to mainland grids via cables across the seabed.
All devices containing the Marvell ARMADA 1500 chipset-and all OEMs that choose to implement it-have the power to run Agawi's CloudPlay platform, from smart TVs to connected Blu-ray players, set-top boxes and HDMI dongles.
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Wii U has to make the case to turn to it rather than a set-top box connected TV, competing games console - Xbox's extensive range of TV partners makes it a formidable competitor in this respect - and even a tablet or smartphone.
Dragon TV is Nuance's voice and language understanding platform for set-top boxes and connected TV devices.
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The tablet can't display 3-D on its screen, but like the phone, the G-Slate can be connected to a 3-D TV set.
The HW-F750 also connects wirelessly to select 2012 and 2013 Samsung Smart TVs via Bluetooth, which means the soundbar may be connected without any audio cables, making set up a breeze.
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In order to teach detailed techniques in live demos, we set up a special wired camera connected to a digital light projector.
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The two stories Beane is telling are brilliantly connected by John Lee Beatty's rotating set, which takes viewers both backstage and in the seats at a burlesque theater, as well as inside the apartment of Lane's Chauncey Miles.
Mr Huang boasted that "latency was so short it was as if you are connected to the PC" - playing down potential concerns that this kind of set-up might involve a delay between a user pressing a button on the console and the connected PC registering the command.
This year, it has set its ambitions even higher with a connected city.
Steven Sasson invented the digital camera itself, starting at Kodak in the 1970s with an eight-and-a-half-pound box connected to a magnetic tape drive and a TV set, which produced a .01 megapixel image.
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The new LTE network from Ericsson will enable UNE offer unique experiences to individuals and businesses in pursuit of achieving a connected society, thus contributing to the major objectives set by the Colombian government aimed at closing the digital divide and increase Internet penetration.
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The borough council set up a task force to examine problems connected to the large migrant work force in the area.
The network is ready to work and the easy-to-use set-up software helps users get their devices connected simply and quickly.
But this year there's something else - just about every new set is a smart TV, designed to be connected to the internet.
These applications are deeply connected across the ecosystem to bring together a complete and contextual set of information to the user to enable them to make empowered decisions, and can be delivered from the most suitable location for the business, whether that be traditional on-premises, hosted in a partner or delivered through a cloud service.
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He didn't figure in how fast the home-router market would get saturated or how quickly the set-top box would begin to move inside the guts of connected TVs.
What is clear that regulation will need to be as cross-border and connected as the industry it is regulating, but that finding even a common set of standards that can still allow for national implementation will be difficult enough.
Just a few pages later we hear from Ken Lay, the CEO of Enron who died in 2006 shortly before being sentenced for securities fraud connected to the most well-known financial fraud of the decade, which set a new standard for creative criminal accounting.
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