In 2010, Sony pioneered the internet-TV convergence as one of the first manufacturers to launch products powered by Google TV.
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The convergence of mobile internet, smartphones, the digital and physical world is likely to generate hundreds of times more data in the coming years, which presents tremendous challenges as well as unprecedented opportunities for development of the ICT industry.
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The convergence of broadcasting and the internet means TV companies now compete with newspapers, video companies and others on the web, in a fierce battle for audiences and advertising.
Think of the convergence of music, apps, Internet, messaging and wearability while working out, for example.
From broadband Internet to latest-generation wireless technologies, from aeronautical and maritime navigation to radio astronomy and satellite-based meteorology, from convergence in fixed-mobile phone, Internet access, data, voice and TV broadcasting to next-generation networks, ITU is committed to connecting the world.
What happened was, is a group, a subset of APEC countries came together and said let's see if we can create a high-standard agreement that is dealing with tariffs and non-tariff barriers to trade, but let's also incorporate a whole range of new trade issues that are going to be coming up in the future -- innovation, regulatory convergence, how we're thinking about the Internet and intellectual property.
More and more, there will be convergence, and more and more people will be watching Internet shows and television shows on their television.
That means he doesn't put much stock in all the hype at the Consumer Electronics Show around the almighty trend of convergence: systems that can shuttle your movies, songs and photos from the Internet to the set-top box to the PC and back without calling an IT specialist.
The merger also sets a powerful precedent in the ongoing convergence of traditional media - TV, publishing, movies, music - with the Internet.
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.
Her Oxygen Media is a U.S. multimedia company, aimed primarily at women, that pursues the ever-elusive goal of convergence -- combining the entertainment power of television with the interactivity and specificity of the Internet.
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