Category: Viodi View
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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…
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Monitoring Goes Home
One of the best things about the Connections Conference is the quantity and quality of primary research data presented by Parks Associates. Tricia Parks, Founder and CEO of Parks Associates, gave a speech titled, The Consumer Purchase Process – Evolution and Curved Roads, in which she provided an overview of some of their primary research regarding…
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Battle of the Network CTOs?
Actually, the discourse between Mark
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Obscenity on ABC, Advertising on PBS, H.R. 6320 – Regulation of Broadband TV on the Horizon?
The inspiration for this article was a decision a few months ago by the FCC to slap a huge fine on ABC Affiliates for violating obscenity rules in airing an episode of “NYPD”. The FCC Order, although extremely descriptive about the nudity, sparked my curiosity. "………The camera shot includes a full view of her buttocks…