Author: Ken Pyle, Managing Editor
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Rural Broadband PPP Infrastructure Opportunities
The following is the transcript of an interview with Ross Lieberman, SVP of Government Affairs for the American Cable Association, at NCTC’s WEC18 conference in San Antonio. Lieberman talks about barriers to rural broadband and opportunities for various public-private partnerships to speed broadband deployment in hard-to-serve areas. Viodi: Tell us about ACA’s broadband infrastructure plan…
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Electrifying Mobility in Communications, Transport & Smart Cities #CES2018
The “C” in this year’s CES2018 could have easily stood for “cars”, as vehicles from a variety of new entities as well as established players, were seemingly everywhere at CES2018. And it is much more than cars, as the vehicles ranged from personal transport to delivery to shared. The impact of the technologies go beyond…
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The Consumer Experience Show #CES2018
For decades, the acronym CES stood for Consumer Electronics Show. A few years ago, in recognition of its expanded scope, the show organizers changed it from an acronym to simply a word, CES. The meaning of CES continues to evolve and some of the descriptors that might be used to describe CES in 2018 include…
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Viodi View – 02/3/18
A recent newspaper column suggested decentralizing governance and shifting it away from single point hubs, such as Washington D.C., to locations closer to the affected people or industries, For instance, in this scenario, Kansas might be home to the Department of Agriculture. This echos industry stalwart Cliff Albertson’s similar suggestion, made almost five years ago in this ViodiTV…
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The See Through Car – P2P Possibilities #CES2018
The promise of Vehicle-to-Vehicle communications has been around the corner and illustrated in presentations for decades, so it was a treat to see the technology in product form at CES2018, In the above video, Dr. Amine Taleb, Director of R&D for Comfort and Driving Assistance for Valeo North America, demonstrates Valeo’s XtraVue, which streams video…
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Viodi View – 01/05/18
As a preview of the types of things that can be expected at next week’s International CES, this issue is devoted to Viodi interviews from International CES2017 published in the last two weeks. The topics covered in the videos referenced below range from Mobility to IoT/Smart Home to Content Production Tools to Fashion Technology. Go…