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Autonomous Vehicles, New Mobility & the Built Environment Internet of Everything Smart Home Telemedicine Virtual Reality

Beyond Aging – Living in Place #TIS18

CableLabs’ COO Chris Lammers provides the behind the scenes view of one of Rance Howard’s final acting roles in this interview filmed at TIS18. Howard, an accomplished actor with credits in 283 television shows and movies as well father to director Ron Howard, was the star of the CableLabs video, The Near Future – a […]

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Autonomous Vehicles, New Mobility & the Built Environment Smart Cities Smart Grid Smart Home

Some Innovative New Thinking and Some Big Impacts – #InnovationandImpact

What was the bigger announcement? That the Valley Transit Authority is looking at how they transform the organization to become a mobility manager or that they are looking at autonomous buses in rights-of-way they own, instead of fixed rail solutions. These were just a few of the may insights from ProspectSV’s Innovation and Impact Symposium, […]

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Alan Weissberger Cloud Computing Smart Home

Alexa Lost Her Voice on Friday and Isn’t Learning as Advertised

Amazon’s digital assistant Alexa went down on Friday while speaking the wrong error messages to customers.  During a ½ hour span Friday morning, I heard the following from Alexa on my Echo device, Amazon Fire Tablet and Fire TV stick:  “I’m having trouble understanding right now… try again later.” “Your echo device lost its WiFi […]

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Internet of Everything Local Content Smart Home Viodi View Virtual Reality

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 […]

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Fiber to the Premise Local Content Marketing Mutliscreen Video Smart Home

Continuity of Experience at #NCTCWEC 2017

“Continuity of experience” was a recurring theme at NCTC’s 2017 Winter Education Conference. Keynote speaker, Bruce Leichtman of LRG explained that this means creating user interfaces that transcend device, as well as making it easy for customers to discover and view content wherever and how they want. He emphasized that this means creating new ways […]