Author: Ken Pyle, Managing Editor
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Hard Questions for ISPs
It isn’t often that a former boss and mentor’s son makes the news. My first professional awareness of André Vrignaud was last September when I read an announcement that he had moved from one Seattle internet giant to another Seattle internet giant. So, it was a bit surprising to see him making headlines for a…
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Viodi View – 07/20/11
Where were you 42 years ago today? Those of us old enough to remember that historic day were probably fixated on a black and white moving image of Neil Armstrong taking a giant step for all of us. Like a modern-day Columbus, Armstrong and his partner Buzz Aldrin, were exploring terrain that was a mystery.…
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The Age of Multi-Screen Video Is Here
The report on a survey of independent operators regarding the challenges and opportunities in implementing multi-screen video services. The age of multi-screen video – that, is the ability to watch video where one wants and on a screen of one’s choosing – is here. The results of the MRG/Viodi 2011 survey of Tier 3 and…
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Viodi View – 07/06/11
A social network of devices is how IBM’s Scott Burnett described the oncoming onslaught of machine to machine connectivity. His comments, made at the 2011 Parks Associates’ Connections conference, echoed those of Glenn Lurie, President of Emerging Devices, Resale and Partnerships for AT&T Mobility and Consumer Markets, who suggested that, “Everything will be connected.” He…
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Viodi View – 06/22/11
A Connected Living Boom for Boomers Declining population and an aging demographic are challenges for many rural U.S. telecom operators and their communities. These challenges may be even greater in other countries, such as China where it will only take 26 years for its population aged 65 and over to increase from 7 to 14%…
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A Connected Living Boom for Boomers
Declining population and an aging demographic are challenges for many rural U.S. telecom operators and their communities. These challenges may be even greater in other countries, such as China where it will only take 26 years for its population aged 65 and over to increase from 7 to 14% of the general populace (as compared…