http://viodi.com Viodi - The Bridge Between the Heartland and Hollywood Wed, 23 Jul 2008 13:39:11 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Yesterday, I read a very thought provoking article in Broadband Properties magazine (I have a print sub).  It stimulated my thinking on Internet bandwidth growth and network congestion. I have recently been keenly aware of how long it is taking some web pages to load and I can only attribute that ... http://viodi.com/2008/07/15/will-accelerating-internet-traffic-growth-produce-a-bandwidth-famine-is-congestion-slowing-down-your-internet-experience/ One of the best things about the Connections Conference is the quantity and quality of primary research data presented by Parks Associates. Tricia Parks, Founder and CEO of Parks Associates, gave a speech titled, The Consumer Purchase Process - Evolution and Curved Roads, in which she provided an overview of some ... http://viodi.com/2008/07/09/monitoring-goes-home/ Overview: The global Broadband Wireless Access (BWA)/ WiMAX subscriber base increased by more than 200,000 in the first quarter of 2008, reaching nearly 2 million (1.98M ) subscribers worldwide, according to Montreal based market research and analysis firm Maravedis. Service revenue increased more than 20% to $366.2M.    Author's Note:   It is not clear ... http://viodi.com/2008/07/08/maravedis-bwa-webinar-wimax-counts-1q08-market-survey/ The announcement of Google’s Media Server, which allows a Windows PC to serve up video, images and music to UPnP enabled devices, is another move towards a Google OS. The Google Media Server requires the Google Desktop 5 or above. This could be another step towards a “Google Inside” type approach whereby ... http://viodi.com/2008/07/02/trojan/ Summary of Location Based Technologies and Services Workshop [June 19, 2008, Crown Plaza Hotel, San Francisco International Airport]  Alan J. Weissberger IEEE ComSoc- SCV Secretary and Program Chair Backgrounder:   Yankee Group tele-briefing report on Location Based Services and Technologies: http://viodi.com/2008/06/13/location-based-services-and-technologies/ Speaker Remarks 1. Dave Reid, Director of Business Development, SiRF Technology Inc. http://sirf.com/   The world is on the go ... http://viodi.com/2008/06/26/ieee-comsoc-scv-workshop-location-based-technologies-and-services/ Actually, the discourse between Mark http://viodi.com/2008/06/24/battle-of-the-network-ctos/ ATIS produced an extremely interesting panel on television navigation at the NXTcomm 2008 conference. This panel went beyond the normal hand waving and showed the future is here in many ways. One of the most interesting applications of this panel is one where broadband could prove instrumental in providing medical rehabilitation.    Francis MacDougal, CTO ... http://viodi.com/2008/06/24/hand-waving/ The inspiration for this article was a decision a few months ago by the FCC to slap a huge fine on ABC Affiliates for violating obscenity rules in airing an episode of “NYPD”.   The FCC Order, although extremely descriptive about the nudity, sparked my curiosity.  ".........The camera shot includes a full ... http://viodi.com/2008/06/24/fcc/ The signs of the changing video landscape were literally signs in the case of these photos I snapped yesterday. The demise of Bradley Video, a once strong independent video store in Silicon Valley, is an indication that the traditional brick and mortar approach to renting and selling videos is quickly being ... http://viodi.com/2008/06/20/signs-of-the-video-times/ Note:  IEEE ComSoc SCV had a great workshop on this topic June 19th at the SFO Crown Plaza Hotel.  The workshop summary report appears elsewhere on viodi.com.    The following notes are a transcription from a Yankee Group LBS telebriefing I attended June 12, 2008:   Location Based Services (LBS):  The Final Destination • Navigation is a ... http://viodi.com/2008/06/13/location-based-services-and-technologies/