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  • A Tru2Way Competitor? Yahoo!

    Could Yahoo! be giving the world an alternative to Cable Labs Tru2Way approach for providing interactive television? Their relationship with Intel to ensure that the Yahoo! Widgets are integrated into Intel’s System on a Chip set-top platform could give the cable approach a run for its money. Out the gate, they look to have the support…

  • ViodiTV Kicks Off “Product Buzz”

    Follow the Buzz for new products, video tutorials, applications, and more. This is a new section on ViodiTV for sponsor highlight video’s that provide more in-depth details, visuals, and new perspectives on products and services for ViodiTV viewers. Check out Genesis Technical Systems for our first product overview posting on the Product Buzz.. Genesis is bringing…

  • More telco woes: WiMAX spending drops + Broadband growth slows as RBOCs add fewer xDSL lines!

    FierceBroadbandWireless wonders if the recent reported financial results of WiMAX companies is the beginning of a shakeout in the industry between winners (few) and losers (many).   http://fiercebroadbandwireless.com/story/wimax/2008-08-10   Key WiMAX vendors including Alvarion, Redline, Airspan and NextWave posted quarterly results recently as did WiMAX bellwethers Sprint-Nextel and Clearwire: The general takeaway is that WiMAX spending is way…

  • Cloud Computing Issues: State of the Net West Conference – August 6, 2008, Santa Clara, CA

    Abstract This conference, sponsored by the Congressional Internet Caucus Advisory Committee, has become the "go-to" event for Internet policy makers and observers. To meet the needs of our readers, we are restricting coverage to a single session dealing with Cloud Computing. In particular, we focus on legal and privacy issues associated with "The Movement of…

  • WiMAX in India Update

    Indian WiMAX Spectrum Winners can offer voice, says DoT – August 29, 2008   India’s Department of Telecommunications (DoT) has proposed that winners in the upcoming licence auctions for broadband wireless access (BWA) – read mobile WiMAX – will be able to offer voice as well as data services. But the dispensation comes at a price.…

  • 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…