Featured Story
A Nokia sale of mobile, especially to the US, would be nuts
Nokia's hiring of Intel's Justin Hotard to be its new CEO has set tongues wagging again about a mobile exit, but it would look counterintuitive and inadvisable.
Liberty Global announces plans to build mMultimedia home gateway with world-class partners
May 17, 2010
ENGLEWOOD, Colo. -- Liberty Global, Inc. (“Liberty Global”, “LGI”, or the “Company”)(NASDAQ: LBTYA, LBTYB and LBTYK) announces plans to work with Samsung, Intel Corporation, NDS andNagravision to build a revolutionary new device for our digital TV customers. This multimedia home gatewaywill be an all-IP platform capable of distributing video, voice and data content throughout the home and tomultiple video displays. The user interface, which will seamlessly integrate video content, widgets, apps, andan advanced search and recommendation engine, will forever change how our customers experience digitalTV and IP-based content.
Liberty Global has selected a set of world class technology partners for this project. Samsung will build themultimedia home gateway, which will be powered by the Intel® Atom™ CE Media Processor. The middlewareand the user experience will be provided by NDS, based on Flash™ Technology. Nagravision will provide theconditional access solution through NAGRA Media Access. This solution will support MoCA and WiFi, andparticipate in the Digital Living Network Alliance (DLNA) ecosystem.
Liberty Global’s President and CEO Mike Fries said, “This revolutionary platform will provide LGI’s customersin Europe with a groundbreaking new product that has long been anticipated but never delivered: aseamless, intuitive way for people to access their live, time-shifted, on-demand, and web-based content onthe television. Consumers everywhere are increasingly demanding smart, elegant and simple tools tonavigate, share and enjoy their video content. Together with our partners, we are making this experience areality for our customers.”
Liberty Global Inc. (Nasdaq: LBTY)
You May Also Like