Viodi View – The Bridge Between the Heartland and Silicon Valley

  • You Might Not See This, If You Answered No

    I like the look of the Minnesota Telecom Alliance's revamped web site (I know, the renovation took place months ago).  One of the things that caught my eye today was a real-time poll they had asking the simple question, "Do you use Twitter?"  Presumably, the people taking the poll are primarily people who work for…

  • A PRIMO Event – A Good Idea for Independent Telcos

    A grassroots marketing organization; something the cable industry has done a great job with through their organization, CTAM, but it something that has not taken root in the independent telco industry in the same way. Thus, I was excited to learn more about and to be able to participate in the PRIMO (Public Relations Independent…

  • Round 2 Funding Explained

    Bob Primosh of Wilkinson, Barker, Knauer, LLP, provides a great summary of the round 2 of the broadband stimulus: http://w2i.com/resource_center/the_w2i_report__weekly_newsletter/news/p/id_254

  • Clearwire to disclose Developer Opportunities with CLEAR WiMAX 4G

    IEEE ComSoc SCV is very fortunate to have two influential Clearwire professionals speak at our Feb 10th IEEE ComSoc-SCV meeting in Santa Clara (logistics and other details at www.comsocscv.org).  The topic is: Developer Opportunities with CLEAR WiMAX 4G Abstract: Mobile WiMAX as provided by Clearwire (the CLEAR network) is also available from Sprint, Comcast, and…

  • Viodi View – 01/22/10

    Navin Johnson– I couldn’t help but think of Steve Martin’s blissfully incompetent character from the classic film The Jerk, while at the recently held Consumer Electronics show in Las Vegas. As you may recall, Navin Johnson stumbled into success and fortune by inventing a pair of glasses that would not slip off one’s nose. It…

  • Viodi View – 01/06/10

    With all the press releases and noise coming from the Consumer Electronic Show this week, I am reminded of Everett M. Christensen’s 23rd postulate, “What you do speaks so loudly I can’t hear what you say.” I hope to be able to see through all of the hype and hyperbole at the show and bring…