Viodi View – The Bridge Between the Heartland and Silicon Valley

  • Gary Reback: US Government Must Enforce Antitrust Laws to Encourage Innovation

    On the need for government intervention in the free market to protect competition and encourage innovation Gary Reback is one of the nation’s most prominent antitrust attorneys, best known for spearheading the efforts that led to the federal lawsuit against Microsoft.   Gary spoke to an attentive and eager audience on May 14th in Santa Clara,…

  • Viodi View – 05/08/09

             “Déjà vu’ all over again”, as Yogi Berra reportedly once said, is the term that describes today’s popular news events. The stagnant economy and, more importantly, consumer confidence seem reminiscence of the 70s. There is a definite tension in the air as we are waiting for the affects of the government spending…

  • Mobile Broadband Ecosystem in Pacific Rim

    1:30 – 5:30pm, Saturday May 30th, 2009 Daly Science Room 206, Santa Clara University 500 El Camino Real, Santa Clara, CA 95053 Agenda: (Click here for the complete brochure) 1:30 – 1:50PM Registration 1:50 – 2:00PM Welcome & Introduction 2:00 – 2:20PM Chris Boyer, VP, AT&T 2:20 – 2:40PM Dawei Zhang, Director of Wireless, China…

  • WiMAX in smart meter sets the stage for “open standards” based smart grids

    San Francisco start up software company Grid Net, is using WiMAX technology in its wireless smart meter instrument. The meter, being built by GE, uses Intel’s WiMAX chip and Grid Net software. It is said to be one of the first truly "open-standards" based approaches to building a meter. Grid Net’s meter went on sale…

  • 50K WiMAX Subscribers in India Before the Spectrum Auction- Number to Exceed 13 Million by 2013

    The Economic Times of India reports that Tata Communications (TCL) has signed up 50,000 subscribers for its fixed WiMAX service. TCL, earlier known as VSNL, had received WiMax spectrum in the 3.3 GHz band under its Internet Service Provider (ISP) licence with the Indian government.   Other Indian network operators- Bharti Airtel, Aircel, Sify and Reliance Communications…

  • New apps and smart phones to drive demand for 4G mobile networks

    We now believe that smart phones and "all-in-one" gadgets will drive the need for more bandwidth and QOS and accelerate mobile network movement to 3.5G (EVDO, HSPA, mobile WiMAX, etc) and 4G (LTE and Advanced WiMAX- IEEE 802.16m). UK research firm Mobile Squared reports that Apple to hit 1 billion app downloads on April 23rd!  Please see:…