Author: Ken Pyle, Managing Editor
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IPTV Middleware – A New Player in Town
The announcement of Ericsson as a middleware provider is interesting, as their solution supports Internet Multimedia Subsystem and is from a player that is big enough to make a difference in this space, especially as it relates to delivering video across multiple devices. This approach promises increased blurring between applications (e.g. caller ID on TV, control…
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A Tru2Way Competitor? Yahoo!
Could Yahoo! be giving the world an alternative to Cable Labs Tru2Way approach for providing interactive television? Their relationship with Intel to ensure that the Yahoo! Widgets are integrated into Intel’s System on a Chip set-top platform could give the cable approach a run for its money. Out the gate, they look to have the support…
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AT&T-iPhone Voice Monopoly Bypassed
By opening up the iPhone to 3rd party applications, Apple may have inadvertently created new competition for its infrastructure partner, AT&T. Frequent Viodi View sponsor, 8×8, Inc’s Packet8 MobileTalk application is now available for the iPhone. Not yet available in the Apple App Store, the software to enable the service (it also works on other smart…
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Monitoring Goes Home
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 of their primary research regarding…
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Google’s Trojan Horse Takes Another Step
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 a common appliance might serve…
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Battle of the Network CTOs?
Actually, the discourse between Mark