"As a manufacturer that is committed to bringing the ultimate digital entertainment experience to households worldwide, LG is pleased to leverage DLNA technology to ensure consumers have the best in connected consumer products, " said Byungjin Kim, Smart Convergence Technology Team Leader, LG.
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Mr. CLELAND: Well, you really can't project the future from looking at the past because when you start doing voice over technology--and we call it techcom, which is a convergence of technology and telecom--you're really changing from a service to an application.
Maybe the convergence of technology and curiosity will solve this problem.
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"We are defining a new era of convergence in technology, with one unified operating system that underpins cloud computing, data centers, PCs and consumer electronics" says Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Ubuntu and VP Products at Canonical.
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With AOL Time Warner and Vivendi Universal both faltering, it's clear the investment community has lost its faith in their entertainment and technology convergence strategies.
Look, too, for convergence of consumer technology with corporate aims.
The trend has been underway for years as the traditional cellular business of the 1980s and early 1990s was challenged by the traditional information technology convergence in the late 1990s.
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At the nexus of the consumer electronics-technology convergence sits Cisco, which makes many of the routers, switches, and other Internet protocol networking products that carry Internet content to the home.
Robert Scoble and I have been collaborating since July on Age of Context, a book about the convergence of five technology forces: mobile, social media, big data, location-based and sensors.
It begs the question, with the ongoing convergence of media, technology and brand narratives, what should the next evolution of branded entertainment be?
The convergence of media and technology may be essential for both industries, but nobody has tried to bring both together under the same corporate roof with quite so much daring.
In the early smartphone years, the big telecommunications companies, Nokia, Ericsson, Motorola, Seimens and others, formed a consortium to develop an operating system for smartphones called Symbian, to address convergence of telecommunications and technology albeit with the telecommunications bias.
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This convergence of information and communications technology and physical infrastructure in the built environment is providing building owners and occupants with actionable information about a building or space that allows them manage that building or space more effectively.
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So I think the convergence is how do you use technology to benefit your users, and how do you use the technology to advance your business model.
Because Ericsson, Nokia and Motorola did not embrace convergence so readily, disregarding information technology as forever secondary to voice, they allowed a new product to enter the market, mobile email, without giving it much consideration.
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Brilliant sees the convergence of his experience in networks, technology and disease eradication in mystic terms.
TiVo and Replay Networks "offer a really logical progression to convergence because they take a lot of computer technology and apply it to television in a manner that is very easy for the consumer to understand, " Baker said.
That is leading to a convergence between different categories of devices that could have wide ramifications across the technology industry.
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The collaboration between the X PRIZE Foundation and Qualcomm will bring together experts in technology usability, wireless sensors, cloud computing and mobile health to accelerate the convergence of these fields.
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Perhaps they think that outsiders will be better at managing the convergence of different industries: a retailing company might gain an edge by recruiting somebody with a background in information technology, for example.
It reports on the convergence of five forces: mobile, social media, Big Data, sensors and location to create an entirely new technology era, one in which context will shape business, marketing, advertising, our health, entertainment and our relationships with connected devices.
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