With an elegant, user-friendly interface, unparalleled speed and performance and a broad content line-up, the DivX TV platform is easy to implement and can be supported on virtually any kind of Internet-connected consumer electronics device, including digital televisions, blu-ray players, gaming consoles, pay-tv operators set-top devices, multimedia storage devices, and even mobile phones.
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He has spent most of his time trying to undo the damage caused by Nasser's grandiose strategy for turning the automaker into an Internet-oriented consumer company.
The 2012 Accenture Video-Over-Internet Consumer Survey shows that nearly two-thirds (64 percent) of respondents use international online providers such as Netflix or YouTube for viewing video content over the Internet on their televisions, PCs, smartphones and other mobile devices.
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If his firm does invest, it will get a holding that's about 51% focused on the Chinese financial sector, with additional concentration in communications (18%) and energy (15%), but few Internet or consumer-goods holdings.
"The dramatic growth of open source software development can now be seen in internet-based, always-connected mobile and consumer products, " said Tom Lantzsch, executive officer, Linaro.
Telecommunications, the Internet, gawk-worthy consumer electronics and frontier technologies like biotech and nanotechnology face challenges fending off predatory regulations like those that slammed health care, energy and financial services in 2010.
All of the red-hot consumer Internet sites now dominating the conversation about the Web are built on a public cloud infrastructure.
But companies should not simply give them an all-you-can-eat consumer Internet access account and expect them to be happy, Girard said.
DivX has long been a pioneer in bringing high-quality Internet video to consumer electronics, with over 250 million DivX devices shipped into the market from every major consumer electronics manufacturer.
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For nearly a decade the surest sign of trouble for a consumer-based Internet startup was simple: lousy web traffic numbers.
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Like libel laws and consumer-safety rules, Internet-related regulations can be dealt with piecemeal, one country at a time.
Chinese internet research consultancy, iResearch, estimates that consumer-to-consumer represented more than 87% of the Chinese e-commerce market last year.
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The poor post-IPO performance of the likes of Facebook, Zynga and Groupon has chilled market interest for some consumer internet companies, subsequently turning some investors toward more stable enterprise software companies, whose business-subscription models offer a more steady stream of revenue.
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It did report an increase in direct-to-consumer sales, which include catalog and Internet, by 6.5%.
Most succeeded by either dominating the local market (most of the richest people in China now lead domestically-focused consumer goods, real estate or Internet companies), or assembling PCs, phones, components, tablets, printers or other gadgets designed by overseas firms.
Good times among corporations have led many to invest heavily in software productivity tools, while those marketing consumer goods have boosted spending for software and internet-related advertising.
In addition, in May 2002, I founded the Distributed Computing Industry Association (DCIA) www.dcia.info , a nonprofit organization working toward a viable framework for the Internet peer-to-peer community agreeable to copyright owners, consumers and consumer electronic industries.
Mark Roberts of Montgomery Securities, a San Francisco investment bank, points out that the one soon to occur in the Internet will be particularly savage because it depends on the fickle and cut-throat consumer market (businesses such as mobile telephones and fax machines began in the corporate market).
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"Any consumer, anywhere can now enjoy an affordable, high-speed internet bundle that includes DIRECTV service, " said Shannon Campain, senior vice president of Sales and Marketing Operations for DIRECTV.
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The aftermath of the dot-com bust may seem like an odd place for a venture capital firm to get its start, but that was the case for Emergence Capital and in the decade-plus since the firm started it has eschewed the consumer-centric booms and blowups of the first wave of the Internet in favor of business-focused services.
Separating from the pack is increasingly important for travel sites now, as more and more travelers rely on them: According to 2012 travel-consumer statistics compiled by Funsherpa, 87% of travelers used the Internet for a bulk of their trip planning, whether it was to research an upcoming vacation, read online reviews or source initial ideas about where to travel.
Consumer demand for free, high speed, on-the-go Internet connections is growing rapidly as data-hungry smartphones and tablets continue to increase and the number of public hotspots expands.
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In turn, the utility can offer its ratepayers a package of some two dozen consumer services, including Internet access, appliance protection, satellite television, long-distance telephone service, carbon-monoxide protection and security.
"We have gone from mobile as an experiment to mobile banking being a core experience that is just as important as the branches, call centers and the Internet, " said Ryan McInerney, who runs the New York bank's consumer-banking operations.
It is a fexible, cost-effective and proven delivery platform for providing business or consumer IT services over the Internet.
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"Together, we've developed the most technologically advanced recliner to date and have created a way for every consumer to be comfortable with interactive television, e-mail, and the Internet, " bragged Kevin R.
On the whole, the research demonstrates that the largest consumer-facing companies are still struggling to adapt to the ways that the Internet is providing them to reach out and engage with their customers.
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In a sharp departure from the FCC's traditionally broad and vague regulations, including its proposed net neutrality mandates, this new direction would tie the FCC's regulatory oversight over broadband Internet service providers (ISPs) to marketplace-based decisions regarding alleged competitive abuses that cause demonstrable consumer harm.
About two-thirds of FiOS consumer customers have purchased a "triple play" of phone, Internet and video services.
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