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Miracast™ Makes a Splash with Partners at Mobile World Congress

 By: Neeraj Sahejpal Posted: Feb. 25, 2013

The geek love for Wi-Fi Certified Miracast™, an innovative Wi-Fi standard that relies on a technology dubbed “wireless display mirroring,” seemed to be inevitable when we first started talking about it. The technology, which allows consumers to easily and seamlessly share media from one device to another over Wi-Fi, was designed for today’s multimedia lifestyles.

The Miracast technology standard is built on the premise that users have a ton of content on their smartphones and laptops – photos, …

DLNA’s CES Mission: Premium Content on Any Device in Your Home

 By: Nick Kim Posted: Jan. 09, 2013

“Connecting everything” is Broadcom’s tagline, but we’re not the only ones living up to its ideals. The DLNA (the Digital Living Network Alliance) is on the floor this week at the International Consumer Electronics Show demonstrating that it, too, is into connecting everything.

This year at CES, the DLNA group is joining forces with other connected-home organizations (MoCA, Wi-Fi Alliance and HomePlug) to show off all the ways it can give consumers their media content.

It’s pretty much …

Tech Overdrive: Inside the Broadcom Booth at CES

 By: Rachel Rosmarin Posted: Jan. 08, 2013

The technology practically jumps out at you when you walk into Broadcom’s booth at the International Consumer Electronics Show.

As the annual CES show kicked off in Las Vegas, a flood of industry analysts, reporters, customers and executives converged on the the company’s red-emblazoned private booth, complete with 350 linear feet of live demos. All were there to gawk at Broadcom’s latest and greatest connectivity-related designs, which will roll out in consumer devices over the next year and a half.…

IPTV Gets Supercharged with 5G WiFi

 By: Sarah Murry Posted: Jan. 08, 2013

Perhaps the most salient feature of the “always-on” digital age is that consumers want their content, and they want it now.

Whether it’s viewed on a smart TV, a tablet or a smartphone, streamed via an Internet-connected set-top box or stored on a laptop and beamed to another device, the expectation is still the same: Access to content should be easy, seamless, and available anytime, anywhere in the home.

For cable, satellite and other pay-TV operators around the world, the …

Home Theater of the Future: Ultra HD Gets Real at CES

 By: Rachel Rosmarin Posted: Jan. 08, 2013

By now you’ve likely heard that the buzz around 4KTV, or Ultra HD, has reached a deafening roar during the first day of this year’s International Consumer Electronics Show.

Hundreds of thousands of show-goers are flocking to exhibitors’ booths today to watch television — not for the programming, but rather for the picture quality. Ultra HD TV (or Ultra High Definition) is the insider’s lingo for an upcoming display technology the Consumer Electronics Association has defined as delivering a …

Comcast Picks Broadcom for Cloud-based IPTV Set-Tops

 By: Aaron Schmidt Posted: Jan. 07, 2013

Comcast is on the road to an all IP-based set-top box, and Broadcom’s helping it get there.

It’s one of the many cable innovations being delivered through powerful new set-top boxes on display across the convention center floor at the International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas this week.

Cable operators like Comcast are hoping to thrill subscribers with new offerings that go beyond the typical “triple play” broadband package. 

The rise of Internet Protocol TV (IPTV) boxes and …

Miracast™ Technology Brings Wireless Streaming to the Living Room

 By: Sarah Murry Posted: Jan. 03, 2013

Moving high-definition content from a small-screen device such as a smartphone or a tablet to a bigger screen, such as a TV or desktop computer, can be a challenge. But thanks to a technology standard that’s on the verge of going mainstream, those headaches are about to become a thing of the past.

Meet Miracast™, a technology that CNET Australia has called “a near-perfect wireless streaming solution.” At next week’s International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, expect to …

Just in Time for CES: Broadcom and Intel Team Up to Drive Wireless Display Adoption

 By: Susan Vander May Posted: Jan. 03, 2013

The volume of video being consumed over the Internet is growing at an exponential rate, representing about half of all global Internet traffic today and expected to reach 93 percent by 2015. At the same time, the number of devices consumers are using to watch video is also on the rise. Researchers estimate that approximately 4.8 devices are in an average U.S. household with a home network — nearly double from just four years ago.

The challenge for consumers is …

Show Preview: A “Geek Peek” at Top Trends for the 2013 International CES

 By: Sarah Murry Posted: Dec. 12, 2012

‘Tis the season—for obsessing about consumer electronics.

The holidays are in full swing but Broadcom’s already looking ahead to January, when the technology industry will be abuzz with all things CES. That’s shorthand for the International Consumer Electronics Show, a yearly trade show that’s the biggest of its kind.

Come January, hundreds of thousands of retail buyers, analysts, exhibitors, customers and, of course, tech reporters are set to descend on the Las Vegas Convention Center for a week of …

Android “Taps” Broadcom Software for Near Field Communications

 By: Mohamed Awad Posted: Nov. 14, 2012

Near Field Communication (NFC) technology has been touted as the key to unlocking mobile payments. And although the “digital wallet”—where payment information can be transmitted with the tap of a smartphone— is predicted to be the big future payment method of choice, potential for this transformative technology is much greater and broader, with more immediate applications today at the device-to-device level.

Now, NFC technology is about to spread it wings and push its way into the mainstream. Google, which is …

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