Viodi View – The Bridge Between the Heartland and Silicon Valley

  • Viodi View – 12/03/13

    Viodi View – 12/03/13

    It is nice when someone is listening. That’s the feeling I had last Friday while reading Congresswoman Anna Eshoo’s (D-Ca) letter. Her letter was in response to my suggestion that Senator Rockefeller’s bill, S1680, provides an opportunity to reconsider the best way to serve the public interest with spectrum now used for broadcast television. She…

  • Viodi View – 11/18/13

    Viodi View – 11/18/13

    Can drivel be thought-provoking? Sometimes it can, even if not for the reason intended. A recent episode of Two Broke Girls had me thinking thoughts that CBS probably had no intent on stirring. Those thoughts, combined with the timing of Senator Jay Rockefeller’s (D-W.Va.) bill, S1680, regarding the creation of a new class of online video…

  • How is the Public Interest Served When Broadcasters Depict Illegal Behavior with No Consequences?

    How is the Public Interest Served When Broadcasters Depict Illegal Behavior with No Consequences?

    A recent episode of CBS’ hit series, Two Broke Girls, was thought-provoking; thought-provoking in the sense that it made me ponder, “In 2013, what is the public interest with regards to television broadcasters?”  That is, does it serve the public interest when a prime time (8:30/7:30 pm Monday), entertainment television program depicts behavior which is…

  • Silicon Photonics – Cisco and Intel see “Light at the End of the Tunnel”

    Introduction: Among the many presentations on Silicon Photonics (SiPh) at the excellent 2013 Open Server Conference,  two were of special interest: Joel Goergen of Cisco called for a radically new data center architecture that used SiPh to interconnect components and modules, rather than circuit cards or racks of equipment. Mario Paniccia of Intel focused on using…

  • Facebook Progress Report, Goals, and China Activities at SVIEF Annual Conference

    Background: The Silicon Valley Technology Innovation and Entrepreneurship Forum (SVIEF) is an international conference designed to foster innovation and promote business partnerships between the U.S. and China. The SVIEF third annual conference -held on Saturday, November 2, 2013 in Santa Clara, CA- brought engineers, politicians, business leaders and startup entrepreneurs together to foster innovation and…

  • Viodi View – 11/01/13

    Viodi View – 11/01/13

    One of the best things about conferences is catching up with people and hearing the progress they are making in helping their communities stay up-to-date with the latest in technology. Sometimes, there are just too many conferences. Fortunately, Kshitij Kumar helps out this issue with his reporting on what he saw at TelcoVision. Kumar not…