Viodi View – The Bridge Between the Heartland and Silicon Valley

Author: Ken Pyle, Managing Editor

  • Viodi View – 05/27/09

    In this issue, Roger Bindl and Margaret Hines of Inspire Marketing report from the 2009 Wisconsin State Telecommunications Association Convention. Alan Weissberger reports on a talk given by famed anti-trust expert, Gary Reback. The comments that follow from Reback and others provide an interesting look at the changing anti-trust climate. Finally, I follow up with…

  • Enter a New Gateway

    I recently had a chance to catch up with Robert Peterson and Jeff Christensen of Entry Point, LLC based in Idaho Falls and Salt Lake City. Entry Point is an early stage company with a gateway product capable of supporting so-called triple play services, as well as advanced broadband services such as smart meters, femtocells…

  • Viodi View – 05/08/09

             “Déjà vu’ all over again”, as Yogi Berra reportedly once said, is the term that describes today’s popular news events. The stagnant economy and, more importantly, consumer confidence seem reminiscence of the 70s. There is a definite tension in the air as we are waiting for the affects of the government spending…

  • Mobile Broadband Ecosystem in Pacific Rim

    1:30 – 5:30pm, Saturday May 30th, 2009 Daly Science Room 206, Santa Clara University 500 El Camino Real, Santa Clara, CA 95053 Agenda: (Click here for the complete brochure) 1:30 – 1:50PM Registration 1:50 – 2:00PM Welcome & Introduction 2:00 – 2:20PM Chris Boyer, VP, AT&T 2:20 – 2:40PM Dawei Zhang, Director of Wireless, China…

  • Viodi View – 04/17/2009

    Security is a state of mind. It can be somewhat an abstract concept until it is pierced by some criminal act. Once breached, there are constant reminders, whether in the form of taller fences or long security lines, of the vulnerability we face due to unsavory actors . We had a recent event on the…

  • Viodi View -04/03/2009

    The first time I got serious about using a personal digital assistant was something that Atari produced some 20 years ago. This was before the term PDA was coined. I bought it because somehow I thought it would make me smarter or, at least, better organized. It did neither and it was soon relegated to…