Author: Ken Pyle, Managing Editor
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A Tru2Way Competitor? Yahoo!
Could Yahoo! be giving the world an alternative to Cable Labs Tru2Way approach for providing interactive television? Their relationship with Intel to ensure that the Yahoo! Widgets are integrated into Intel’s System on a Chip set-top platform could give the cable approach a run for its money. Out the gate, they look to have the support…
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AT&T-iPhone Voice Monopoly Bypassed
By opening up the iPhone to 3rd party applications, Apple may have inadvertently created new competition for its infrastructure partner, AT&T. Frequent Viodi View sponsor, 8×8, Inc’s Packet8 MobileTalk application is now available for the iPhone. Not yet available in the Apple App Store, the software to enable the service (it also works on other smart…
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Monitoring Goes Home
One of the best things about the Connections Conference is the quantity and quality of primary research data presented by Parks Associates. Tricia Parks, Founder and CEO of Parks Associates, gave a speech titled, The Consumer Purchase Process – Evolution and Curved Roads, in which she provided an overview of some of their primary research regarding…
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Google’s Trojan Horse Takes Another Step
The announcement of Google’s Media Server, which allows a Windows PC to serve up video, images and music to UPnP enabled devices, is another move towards a Google OS. The Google Media Server requires the Google Desktop 5 or above. This could be another step towards a “Google Inside” type approach whereby a common appliance might serve…
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Battle of the Network CTOs?
Actually, the discourse between Mark
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Hand Waving at NXTcomm 2008
ATIS produced an extremely interesting panel on television navigation at the NXTcomm 2008 conference. This panel went beyond the normal hand waving and showed the future is here in many ways. One of the most interesting applications of this panel is one where broadband could prove instrumental in providing medical rehabilitation. Francis MacDougal, CTO and co-founder of…