Category: Viodi View
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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…
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Viodi View – 02/13/15
How can a driverless delivery truck that has a cab for a driver be patentable, asks Alain Kornhauser in his latest newsletter. He was referring to Google’s patent application for a self-driving delivery truck. It does make one wonder whether this author should have patented his idea for a driverless laundromat that would provide door-to-door service. To…
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Viodi View – 01/29/16
Silicon Valley is abuzz with the excitement of Super Bowl week and the influx of the purported 1 million visitors that are descending upon the Bay Area. In a news release, Verizon indicates they have invested $70M in LTE network upgrades to prepare for the onslaught. If an Indianapolis-based, IoT company, profiled below in the Korner, was…
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Viodi View – 01/15/16
With thousands of booths and hundreds of press conferences, it is easy to get caught up in the inflated expectations that permeate the air at CES. It often takes years for the cutting edge ideas shown at this mega-event to become mainstream. The Consumer Technology Association illustrates how CES has been at the forefront of new technnology…
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Viodi View – 12/22/15
Google Spurring FTTH Deployment in the Former Valley of the Heart’s Delight After reading through a 200+ page, Google Fiber commissioned Draft Initial Study, it’s no wonder that Google’s Milo Medin stated in 2013 that Google wouldn’t come to California as long as CEQA was in place. The design of a Fiber to the Home network…
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Viodi View – 12/02/15
Is there another way to fund rural broadband? That question has rattled around in my head for 11 years, which is when I penned an article suggesting a fee on every device with a MAC ID as an alternative way to fund Universal Service. As mentioned in the previous issue of the Viodi View, a combination of…