Category: Viodi View
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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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ViodiTV Kicks Off “Product Buzz”
Follow the Buzz for new products, video tutorials, applications, and more. This is a new section on ViodiTV for sponsor highlight video’s that provide more in-depth details, visuals, and new perspectives on products and services for ViodiTV viewers. Check out Genesis Technical Systems for our first product overview posting on the Product Buzz.. Genesis is bringing…
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Cloud Computing Issues: State of the Net West Conference – August 6, 2008, Santa Clara, CA
Abstract This conference, sponsored by the Congressional Internet Caucus Advisory Committee, has become the "go-to" event for Internet policy makers and observers. To meet the needs of our readers, we are restricting coverage to a single session dealing with Cloud Computing. In particular, we focus on legal and privacy issues associated with "The Movement of…
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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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WiMAX and LTE Go Separate Ways- No Merger Likely Any Time Soon
The Bottom Line: Brad Smith of Wireless Week said it best in his July by-lined article, "It won’t happen. The harmonization of WiMAX and LTE, that is." Please see: http://www.wirelessweek.com/Article-Marriage-WiMAX-LTE.aspx Sprint, which was one of the founding members of the NGMN in 2006, has recently quit that Alliance after it selected LTE as the 4G…
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Will accelerating Internet traffic growth produce a bandwidth famine? Is congestion slowing down your Internet experience?
Yesterday, I read a very thought provoking article in Broadband Properties magazine (I have a print sub). It stimulated my thinking on Internet bandwidth growth and network congestion. I have recently been keenly aware of how long it is taking some web pages to load and I can only attribute that to Internet congestion (probably caused…