Author: Ken Pyle, Managing Editor
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Viodi View – 9/25/09
Summer is now a memory and the fall 2009, trade show season is in full swing. From net neutrality to the stimulus, Washington is providing pretty of fodder for the conference agendas. Alan Weissberger provides a very timely article on a topic that is at the center of many of these conversations. Weissberger caught up…
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Viodi View – 09/11/2009
It is hard to believe that it was eight years ago that the brave souls on flight 93 sacrificed their own lives to save the lives of countless others. There are many web sites dedicated to the tragedy of 9/11, but this particular site, www.honorflight93.org, touched me. Maybe it is because my friends involved with…
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Android Clicks
Friends at Motorola had hinted to me that an Android-powered Motorola phone was planned for this fall and they were right. Exclusive to T-Mobile, and just one day after no new iPhone announcement from Apple, the newest Motorola phone, the CLIQ, made its debut yesterday at the GigaOM’s Mobilize 09 conference. Like the first Android-powered…
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Video Innovation in Iowa
Iowa Independent Telcos have always been at the forefront of adding video and other services to their broadband offerings. It is appropriate then, that the Iowa Telecom Association would produce one of the best one-day programs on the topic of video. Topics ranged from over the top video, to local content to Emergency Alert Services…
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Rural FTTH Clarity through RFOG
The year was 1995 and, after poring over real world maps and comparing architectures, I discovered that fiber to the home (FTTH) was less expensive than hybrid fiber coax for delivering video to extremely rural areas. The problem was that, although it was cheaper, it was still too expensive to justify; and, it did not…