Written by Kurt Scherf, Vice President and Principal Analyst, Parks Associates

I'm so appreciative of the work that Jim Denney at TiVo, Jose Pinero at Microsoft, and Hank Skorny from RealNetworks put in to make our "Disruptive Technology in Action" plenary a huge success yesterday evening. It was great to see demonstrations of tablet-to-TV interactivity, natural human interaction with gaming and entertainment, and a "cloud indexing" solution in action.

Hank Skorny at RealNetworks did remind the audience that the Unifi software platform will be available as a mobile value-added service. Their first customer is Vodafone in Germany. iCloud and MotoBLUR, watch out!