The University of New Hampshire InterOperabilty Lab (UNH-IOL) recently launched a home networking consortium to certify TR-069 and IPv6 products for the digital home. We’re thrilled to have UNH-IOL join us for a panel discussion that outlines the importance of TR-069 and IPv6, as well as discuss their certification initiatives. Their panel description is below:
We’re thrilled to have OnProcess Technology support our event as the Platinum Sponsor. OnProcess Technology works with broadband service providers to achieve increased net subscribers, greater revenue per subscriber, lower operations costs and CapEx, and unprecedented understanding of your customers’ experiences across multiple touchpoints.
We look forward to working with the OnProcess Technology team!
We’re excited to announce that we’ve selected our first round of speakers for Digital Home Summit. They include some great thought leaders from important digital home and broadband ecosystem companies including Alcatel-Lucent, CHR Solutions, Finley Engineering, Qualcomm, Microsoft, IHS, Boxee, iControl, and others. Check out our evolving speaker line-up here.
We’ve gained several new sponsors in the past few weeks including Alcatel-Lucent, Finley Engineering, and Qualcomm. These industry leaders will bring great insight to our program and to the overall telecompetitor community. We thank these sponsors for their support and look forward to working with them as we collaborate on the Digital Home Summit.
We’re busy these days lining up speakers and sponsors for this year’s event. We’re thrilled to have added Alcatel-Lucent and Finley Engineering as key sponsors and we’ll be updating our speaker list early next week. We’ve got some great speakers already lined up and we’re talking to many more thought leaders, which we hope to confirm soon.
We’re thrilled to kick off the 2012 Digital Home Summit. Once again we’ll be assembling the broadband carrier ecosystem to this important event to explore and discuss the business opportunity presented by the digital home.
We’re happy to announce that James Gowen, Vice President – Supply Chain Operations & Chief Sustainability Officer for Verizon will be our featured keynote speaker. Gowen has an interesting role with Verizon. In addition to overseeing the supply chain for the CPE that enables their digital home strategy, he also is the lead executive at Verizon tasked with lowering their carbon footprint. Gowen will offer a keynote presentation which outlines Verizon’s vision of the digital home and explains how they are enabling it for their customers.
We’re also thankful to CHR Solutions for becoming our latest sponsor. CHR will sponsor the event’s luncheon.
“iPad apps are much improved, but new usability problems have emerged, such as swipe ambiguity and navigation overload,” concludes a follow-up study conducted by Jakob Nielsen’s Alertbox. On the plus side, “iPad user interfaces have become decidedly less wacky,” in the year since Alertbox published the results of an initial iPad usability study.
Looking to pump up consumer interest for its much-anticipated BlackBerry PlayBook, RIM announced that it will be available at 32 retailers and 20,000 retail outlets in the US and Canada beginning April 19th. The “ultra-portable” BlackBerry Playbook with Wi-Fi will be available in three models and come out at a starting Manufacturer’s Suggested Retail Price of $499.
The number of home-based businesses and corporate home offices in the US continues to increase despite the challenging economic times. The US home office market will add nearly 2 million home-based businesses and more than 3 million corporate home office households between 2011 and 2015, according to an IDC forecast.
