Author: Ken Pyle, Managing Editor
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Viodi View – 04/18/16
Thanks to the combination of sensors and deep learning (i.e. artificial intelligence) we have entered the era of the super-human. That was a key takeaway from Nvidia’s GPU-Tech Conference. Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang termed 2015 as “a defining year for AI, the computer industry and likely for all of humanity.” Hopefully, 2015 won’t be viewed as a milestone along a path…
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More Than IP – People Do Business With People
“People do business with People” was the common sense wisdom that Nancy White provided at the 2016 IP Vision Conference and Expo. In this single sentence, White, who is president CEO of rural TN broadband provider North Central Telephone Cooperative (NCTC), summed up one of the major threads of this multi-day event. That is, collaboration…
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Viodi View – 03/28/16
With the first shipments of the Oculus Rift going out today, will we soon see a new world of content? How will virtual reality shake up the content distribution business, if at all? Will VR only have niche applications or will it become a new way of life, just like the smart phone has become an appendage for many…
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Viodi View – 03/08/16
Should smaller broadband operators even offer video, given all the marketplace and regulatory challenges? That’s a question I am looking forward to posing at a panel at next week’s NTCA TEF conference. This session should be interesting, given this week’s proposal to the FCC by INCOMPAS (PDF) that, as a condition for approval of the Charter/Time-Warner merger, a…
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Tech as the New Mobility Status Symbol
“We are entering a time when price and size get decoupled,” says Mark Platshon, Senior Advisor of BMW i Ventures in the above video filmed at the Joint Venture Silicon Valley 2016 State of the Valley Conference. Platshon was referring to the idea that today’s buyers are increasingly looking to technology to improve the mobility experience and value that…
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Viodi View – 02/26/16
What do set-tops, wireless and Silicon Valley have in common? Besides being referenced in today’s Viodi View, they also represent opportunity in one form or another to one group or another. More or Less Competition from FCC’s Approved “Open” Set Top Box Proposal? by Alan Weissberger On Feb 18, 2016, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) narrowly approved a…