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Over 40 percent of U.S. broadband households are very positive on TV Everywhere services — offerings that let cable customers view TV programs online as part of their subscription — but only 16 percent are willing to pay an additional $5 per month for this service. These consumer realities create business challenges for companies in the digital living space, even as new technologies open more opportunities in value-added services and connected CE.

CONNECTIONS™: The Digital Living Conference and Showcase, hosted by international research firm Parks Associates on June 8-10, 2010, at the Santa Clara Convention Center, tackles these and other issues in the markets for connected home technologies and digital living solutions. The conference agenda focuses on key topic areas:

• Entertainment Platforms & Value-Added Services
• Consumer Electronics
• New Media and Digital Content
• Home Systems & Controls

Sessions feature analysis from industry executives and leading consumer research from Parks Associates on the best business and product strategies to succeed in the connected home industries:

• Connected CE will exceed 100 million units worldwide in 2010 – and the number of device sales/installations of will increase threefold from 2010 to 2014.
• Over one-third of smartphone owners are very interested in using this portable device to stream multimedia content from home CE, program a DVR remotely, and monitor their home.

CONNECTIONS™ keynotes:

• Scott Birnbaum, Vice President, Samsung LCD Group
• Eric B. Kim, Senior Vice President, General Manager, Digital Home Group, Intel Corporation
• Mitch Singer, CTO, Sony Pictures Entertainment; President, DECE
• Scott Smyers, Senior Vice President, Sony Electronics; President and Chairman of the Board, DLNA

Register today for CONNECTIONS™, June 8-10, 2010, Santa Clara Convention Center.

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The evening event takes place on May 13, 2010 at the Cafe du Nord in San Francisco.

CEOs and/or founders of 10 companies, chosen by their peers and vetted by judges will have the opportunity to present onstage and give a three-minute pitch in front of some 400 business professionals, comprised of industry peers, VCs, and media. Want to present onstage? Enter the Splash competition today and join other onstage presenters, Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh, gWallet CEO Gurbaksh Chahal, Founders Fund VC Dave McClure, August Capital VC Howard Hartenbaum, Lightspeed VC Jeremy Liew, Mayfield VC Raj Kapoor, Robert Scoble, and others.

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Microsoft has changed the name of its new search engine Kumo to Bing. The name is short and well memorizing as marketing dep. says.

At the present time new search engine is accessible only for staff in Microsoft. It is supposed that Kumo (Bing) woll be much better than search service Live. Such Microsoft wants to consolidate its presents on search market.

Microsoft will spend about 100 millions of dollars on advertisement. This is very huge sum of money. The advertisement strategy is presented by JWT ads and marketing company.

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Soon, cell phones with fitted projectors will become true and will be armed on every phone. Recently Sumsung presented its new mobile phone with fitted projector DLP pico by Texas Instruments. It name is Sumsung Show (i7410).

Sumsung Show can project image from 15 inches with resolution of 480×320 pixels. It has WQVGA display with TouchWiz UI interface, 5Mpx camera, Bluetooth 2.0, USB 2.0 port, microSD slot and 150Mb fitted memory.

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BlackBerry Curve 8900 appeared on the Rogers site. This gadget doesn't support 3G so you have look for Wi-Fi hotspot.

BlackBerry Curve 8900 works in 4 GSM ranges, supports EDGE and has 2.4 inches display, 512Mhz processor, WiFi, 3.2 Mpx camera, GPS, microSDHC, Bluetooth 2.0. The price in Canada will be about 179.99$ on conditions that you will sign a contract for 3 years.

One more gadget by ASUS - notebook Asus Eee PC S101 will be on sale in the USA starting from November the first 2008. The price will be 699$. The main characteristic is that asus Eee PC S101 is thin (0,75 inches) and stylish.

It will work under Windows XP, has Atom N270 processor, 1Gb of memory, 10.2 inches of diplay, LED, WiFi, Bluetooth, touchpad ans etc. regular devices.

GPSMAP 640 - almost perfect GPS system by Garmin. It was developed for those who travels by sea or road. GPS navigator GPSMAP 640 is portable and dampproof by IPX7 standart.

GPSMAP 640 has 5.2 inches sensority WVGA display, pre-installed maps of the North America and BlueChartg2 for sailors. It also has XM WX Satellite Weather plugin to get the weather forecast directly on display. The price is 1200 USD.