Additionally, Ruehle's alleged co-conspirators, founding partner Henry
T. Nicholas goes to trial in February on the fraud case and also faces
separate drug charges. Other founding partner Samueli awaits sentencing
after pleading guilty to one count of making a false statement to the
Securities and Exchange Commission. He may testify in Ruehle's trial,
which is expected to last approximately nine weeks.
"Over the
next few years, service providers will drive the growth of in-home
networks enabling additional services such as multi-room DVR,” Joyce
Putscher, principal analyst, In-Stat. “The growth during the multimedia
phase of home networks is being driven by the rapid rise in
network-enabled devices; by 2013, the average household will have 2.5x
as many digital media devices (computing, gaming, stationary digital
consumer electronics, portable and mobile wireless devices) in use as
in 2008."
"Broadcom continues to fuel the technical innovation
to drive the transition to the connected home with integration and
performance levels that will reduce energy consumption and overall
product cost,” Dan Marotta, Sr. VP and general manager, Broadband
Communications Group. “The new cable set-top box solutions will enable
manufacturers and service providers to offer their customers advanced
HD programming and popular services like multi-room DVR."