Viodi View – The Bridge Between the Heartland and Silicon Valley

Author: Ken Pyle, Managing Editor

  • FCC Looking For Tech Donations

    The FCC is looking for technology donations for their Tech Experience Center.  This is a no-brainer for technology vendors and donating their latest and greatest should be a priority.  Service providers should take a close look at this program and see how they might be able to donate tech service examples.  This might be a…

  • Viodi View – 10/27/2010

    The October 27th issue of the Viodi View includes articles on LTE standards, mobile backhaul via Ethernet, hybrid fiber/wireless solutions for serving the unserved in Vermont and discussion of today being the honeymoon period for brands that use Facebook; but they have to use it correctly, before it loses its luster among consumers.

  • A Honeymoon Period for Brands on Facebook

    Although it states the obvious, as Jeremy Toeman pointed out in a tweet this morning, an AdWeek article about the results of a recent survey of Facebook users has some good pearls of wisdom  for independent communications companies wanting to create a fan base via Facebook.     The people most likely to be supporters…

  • Viodi View – 10/13/2010

    The Wall Street Journal had a terrific feature article in yesterday’s edition about the business of scraping data from web sites. Amazingly, as the article highlights, this practice is not just the domain of shady characters, as respectable companies are making money from gathering data, without permission, from others’ web sites, analyzing it and reselling…

  • The Tablet and Smart Phone as an Input Screen and as a Product Finder

    M2M could be a big driver for LTE networks, as shown in Alan Weissberger's latest article and as evidenced by a conversation I had with one network provider last week at CTIA . Although I never made it to the CTIA showfloor, I did see some interesting exhibits at a pre-CTIA press event. Two items…

  • Viodi View – 09/29/30

    Facebook is the web for some people. This is one of the many insights shared by Mark Cuban at the Media Innovations Summit this past Monday and Tuesday. His point was that content owners should not ignore Facebook as a distribution outlet, since there are a sizable number of people who use this site as…