Viodi View – The Bridge Between the Heartland and Silicon Valley

Author: Ken Pyle, Managing Editor

  • 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…

  • Viodi View – 11/23/09

    The tradeshow season is ending just in time for the start of the holiday season. This week will be a good one for taking a breather before a final push before the holidays and end of year work. One thing we have seen this year and that will probably continue into next year is consolidation…

  • An Interactive Chat With an Old School Instrument

    Received a fascinating telemarketing call that I almost hung up on, but have been listening now for 30+ minutes. One of the only groups that can escape the do not call laws are the politicians. This call was from Tom Campbell, who is running for the governor of California. Instead of a recorded call, this…