cablelabs

Comcast Media Center recently conducted a live demonstration of ETV/EBIF applications running on its HITS AxIS platform at the CableLabs Summer Conference (took place August 10th-13th). The applications, which were hosted at the CMC, were delivered via a Virtual Private Network (VPN) to the headend for Comcast's Summit County cable system, which then transported them over its local network to the Keystone Convention Center where the conference was being held. The apps ran on Motorola and Pace set-top boxes, and could be viewed at Pace's and Vidiom's exhibits at the conference. The demo represented the first end-to-end delivery of ITV applications using the HITS AxIS platform.

--Sling Media to Offer Client for Apple's New iPhone 3G At the NCTA Cable Show last month, EchoStar Technologies, a
subsidiary of EchoStar Corporation, announced that it is targeting the
cable industry with a CableLabs-certified DOCSIS 2.0 product dubbed
the SlingModem. EchoStar Corp. was spun off earlier this year from
satellite-TV company, DISH Network (formerly called EchoStar), and
retains the latter's hardware business and certain of its infrastructure
assets. The new modem was developed by TV "place-shifting"
company, Sling Media, which was acquired by EchoStar last fall. "The
introduction of the SlingModem demonstrates our operator-agnostic
philosophy, as well as our dedication to the cable industry," Sling

The NCTA and CableLabs have announced the line-up of companies
that will be participating in CableNET, their annual showcase of new
cable technologies and products at the NCTA's Cable Show (takes
place May 18th-20th in New Orleans). A number of participating
companies, including UniSoft/Strategy & Technology, Sigma Designs
and Zodiac Interactive, will be demo'ing tru2way-based technologies,
and several other companies, including Digeo, Motorola,...