Viodi View – The Bridge Between the Heartland and Silicon Valley

  • No Morning Paper for Denver [Er, One Less Paper]

    It looks like Denver will be the first major city to be without a major daily newspaper [oops, I forgot about the Denver Post]..  The Wall Street Journal reported today that the Rocky Mountain News is folding its operation.  The idea that the demise of a major [market] newspaper was imminent was reported in the…

  • 3G and LTE squeeze WiMAX- is the market window still open?

    Summary: Many pundits have declared the window of opportunity for WiMAX has closed.  Squeezed between he enhanced capability of 3G technologies (e.g. HSPA/HSPA+ for GSM) and accelerated LTE roll-outs, (notably Verizon Wireless) the claim is that WiMAX is DOA.  We disagree!  In particular, we believe there is a reasonable market for WiMAX fixed and nomadic/portable service…

  • Viodi View – 02/18/2009

    Do something to change the world and you will make a difference. That was more or less the message that I heard from Steve Farberat NTCA’s 2009 Annual Meeting and Expo in Long Beach. CA last week. It was somewhat timely when, a few days later, a friend described how he is trying to change…

  • Images from NTCA and Long Beach

    The following is a brief slide show of some of the images from NTCA’s 2009 Annual Meeting and Convention. Especially interesting to me, are the images of the tropical islands off Long Beach. Any Viodi View reader wishing to guess what occurs on these isles, please comment below.

  • In Memoriam: John P. Messmer

    In Memoriam: John P. Messmer

    John Messmer had a passion for engineering. A Cal Tech graduate and someone 13 years my senior, I looked up to John. Messmer was never interested in money or material things. His passions were books and electronic device design. His seemingly contradictory anti-establishment and conservative viewpoints definitely provided me with a more nuanced view of…

  • ViodiTV at MTA 2009 – Primer

    Join us at the MTA 2009 Annual Convention. ViodiTV will be on the conference hotel television channels during the conference, with video reports on ViodiTV after the conference. Watch a short primer video as the MTA Associate Members sponsor ViodiTV at MTA in 2009.