Analytics firm Neustar launched PageAdvisor, a tool to help marketers provide personalized ads to visitors of heavily trafficked websites and landing pages, the company announced Monday (http://bit.ly/XUZzqQ). PageAdvisor uses Neustar data to “display relevant offers and messages in real time to each visitor -- before any registration information is collected and without compromising user privacy,” the release said. Marketers drive users to websites, but rarely have the information they need to provide personalized advertising experiences once those users get there, said Neustar Senior Vice President-Information Services Dennis Ainge in a statement. “Neustar PageAdvisor solves this problem by delivering offline, predictive insights on virtually every visitor allowing the marketer to continue the conversation in a personalized way that will lead to a higher relevancy and an increase in engagement."
The FCC Wireless Bureau offered guidance in a Thursday public notice (http://bit.ly/12THVba)to private land mobile radio licensees operating in the VHF/UHF bands. The licensees faced a narrowbanding requirement to operate in a maximum 12.5 kHz channel bandwidth or equivalent efficiency by Jan. 1 of this year, and the bureau warned those who failed to comply: “Licensees who operate in violation of the Commission’s rules or the terms of the licensee’s license, or who cause harmful interference to another licensee, may be subject to appropriate enforcement action. Such enforcement action may include admonishments, license revocation, and/or monetary forfeitures of up to $16,000 for each such violation or each day of a continuing violation, and up to $112,500 for any single act or failure to act.” It alerted people on the best ways to complain to the FCC if they know of any narrowbanding violations. There’s a new narrowbanding licensing tool as part of the Universal Licensing System, the bureau added, describing how to file narrowbanding modification applications now. It also discussed how entities that have received narrowbanding deadline waivers should handle issues related to the wideband-capable equipment they may still need. The bureau outlined the need for licensees to remove wideband emission designators eventually. “A licensee requesting a post-deadline waiver should not assume that the waiver request will be granted, and grant of a waiver request does not insulate a licensee from possible enforcement action for the period of unauthorized wideband operation after January 1, 2013,” the bureau said. “However, the Enforcement Bureau may consider the length of unauthorized operation when evaluating the severity of the violation of the Commission’s rules as well as the appropriate sanction.”
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The budget cuts that took effect March 1 reduced CBP's ability to use the funds collected through user fees for inspection services, said National Treasury Employees Union (NTEU) President Colleen Kelley in testimony submitted to the Senate Homeland Security Committee, which held a March 14 hearing on border security issues. The sequestration cuts pare back CBP's mandatory spending, including user fee accounts, by $100 million, she said.
The commercial satellite industry can expect a short-term slow-down in government procurement as a result of budget constraints, but increasing demand for capacity and bandwidth will create growth in the market, said Claude Rousseau, an analyst for Northern Sky Research. Commercial satellite “is still a part of the solution for government markets” and there are emerging opportunities in Asia and Africa, he said Wednesday during a webinar. There must be a realization “that times are tough but it will be short-term,” he said. The troop drawdown in Iraq and Afghanistan is affecting the bulk leasing of Ku-band capacity, land mobile communications-on-the-move sales, and satellite handheld equipment, he said. “Government use will be more specific and refined.” The industry can expect continued use of Ku-band capacity for unmanned aerial vehicle users, he said. If there were a transition to Ka band, “it would require retrofitting the aircraft, which is a costly endeavor,” he said. The market requirement for satellite is moving from narrowband to broadband, he said. But, there will continue to be significant need for narrowband systems in the military, he said. Commercial satellite companies will continue to obtain contracts from the government, but the rate will be slower than in previous years, he said: “People are waiting for sequestration” and how it will impact actual revenues for commercial satellite companies. Growth for commercial services also will likely be driven by the so-called “pivot to Asia” strategy, an effort by the Obama administration to shift military focus from the Middle East to the Pacific region, Rousseau said. Parts of Africa, like Mali, also are emerging as “hot spots,” he said. The French government spent 100 million euros for military missions since the war in Mali began this year, Rousseau said: “They may need more support from commercial satellite.”
Rovi will deploy its TotalGuide interactive program guide (IPG) with a half-dozen small- and medium-size cable operators in the first half, but it will be a “slow process” that’s not expected to generate “meaningful” revenue until 2014, Rovi Chief Financial Officer Peter Halt said Wednesday at the Piper Jaffray investor conference.
Rovi will deploy its TotalGuide interactive program guide (IPG) with a half-dozen small- and medium-size cable operators in the first half, but it will be a “slow process” that’s not expected to generate “meaningful” revenue until 2014, Rovi Chief Financial Officer Peter Halt said Wednesday at the Piper Jaffray investor conference.
The long-awaited HDMI 2.0 spec with support for 4K video at 60 Hz likely will be available by mid-year, with the first 2.0-compliant chips expected to reach volume production in 2014, Silicon Image Chief Financial Officer Noland Granberry said Thursday at the Wedbush investor conference in New York.
Nvidia interim Chief Financial Officer Karen Burns landed a $100,000 bonus from the Nvidia board’s compensation committee for fiscal 2013, the company said in an SEC filing. Burns, who has been interim CFO since March 2011, wasn’t included in Nvidia’s 2013 variable compensation plan because of the “anticipated interim nature of her role,” Nvidia said.
LAS VEGAS -- Nationwide Marketing Group is throwing its support behind derivative entry-level TV models after having also tested the waters a year ago with a private-label brand, Douglas Schatz, Nationwide vice president-electronics merchandising, told us.