Viodi View – The Bridge Between the Heartland and Silicon Valley

Author: Ken Pyle, Managing Editor

  • 50/50 Isn’t Enough – The Key to Successful Relationships – A Book Review

    50/50 Isn’t Enough – The Key to Successful Relationships – A Book Review

    Try as he might, Jimmy Stewart’s character in the classic Christmas film, It’s a Wonderful Life, cannot escape his hometown for the carefree adventures of his youthful dreams. Instead, he always puts others’ needs before his own. Just before it is too late, he realizes that those contributions to others had been his purpose. I…

  • Another Reason for Embedding

    At the Tampa Bay International Airport, WiFi access to the Internet is bundled with the price of your airline ticket; aka it is "free access". There is a price to "free", however, and, in this case, it is the blockage of video streaming and adult content sites. When attempting to access one of these sites…

  • Viodi View – 12/23/09

    Where’s the Gee-Touch? One of my family members has the ever-fashionable, iTouch on his Santa wish list. For various reasons, I have never been a fan of personal media players (PMPs) for kids. It is too easy for a PMP to hijack a kid’s free time and prevent them from having to find creative ways…

  • Where’s the Gee-Touch?

    Watching my son and his friend tussle over a game on the Apple iTouch the other day provided first-hand evidence of the popularity of these devices as not only Portable Media Players (PMP), but as next generation portable gaming devices.  A new report from research firm IMS confirms the popularity of the Apple devices, as Apple…

  • Viodi View – 12/06/09

    One of the things I failed to acknowledge in the Thanksgiving issue of the Viodi View is how I much I appreciate the consistent and quality contributions of Alan Weissberger and Roger Bindl to the Viodi View and ViodiTV. Alan’s insightful articles regularly generate comments from a broad audience. In this issue, he digs deep…

  • Broadband Grants – the Link to Tobacco

    Unlike the federal broadband stimulus, which may remind some of the Carly Simon song Anticipation, a grant program funded by the Virginia Tobacco Commission just awarded $1,514,143 to members of the Mid-Atlantic Broadband Cooperative (MBC). These 50/50 matching grants are helping to expand broadband to over 15k residential and business customers who previously only had…