Linux and TV called key to broadband tsunami [EE Times]
Jan 9, 2003 — by LinuxDevices Staff — from the LinuxDevices Archive — viewsEE Times reports on the CES keynote address by Sony president Kunitake Ando . . .
“Adopting a genial and occasionally evangelical tone, Sony Corp.'s chief operating officer Kunitake Ando keynoted the opening of the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) here Thursday (Jan. 9) by calling for a 'global open standard' for broadband technology based on an advanced Linux platform under development by Sony that… will 'smash barriers' between industries, technologies and applications.”
“Ando warned the assembled consumer electronics industry representatives that broadband interconnectivity is a tsunami that could sweep them away unless they work together on industry-wide open standards . . .”
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