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  • Viodi View – 10/13/2010

    The Wall Street Journal had a terrific feature article in yesterday’s edition about the business of scraping data from web sites. Amazingly, as the article highlights, this practice is not just the domain of shady characters, as respectable companies are making money from gathering data, without permission, from others’ web sites, analyzing it and reselling…

  • Viodi View – 09/15/10

    One benefit of social media networks is that they reduce the friction associated with the flow of information and presumably make commerce more efficient (not counting the time spent on the social media games). The downside and the concern I have is that I lose control over the data I post on the third-party sites. I…

  • Still No Nationwide Public Safety Network- Why Not Use LTE To Build One?

    The NY TImes [1] has called attention to the lack of a U.S. public safety network, nine years after 9/11 and despite $7 billion in federal grants and other spending over the last seven years to improve the ability of public safety departments to communicate with one another. The article states that many of the…

  • Viodi View – 07/21/10

    In light of the yesterday’s FCC report, suggesting that approximately 7.7% of U.S. households are unserved by broadband, Dave Burstein's investigative work trying to understand where the NTIA money is going becomes especially relevant. His early analysis suggests that the NTIA money is not meeting the goal of getting broadband to the unserved.1 In a…

  • Viodi View – 06/10/10

    Roger and I are covering the Parks Associates Connections Conference this week in Santa Clara, We will be posting videos from this event over the next couple of weeks. In the meantime, here are some high-level bullets from the event so far: Consumers are still somewhat cautious and, according to Tricia Parks, “No company can…

  • GSA Silicon Series: 4G and the Evolution of Mobile Broadband – Keynote and Panel Discussion

     Introduction: The latest GSA Silicon Series Luncheon: Next-Generation Networks: The Evolution of Mobile Connectivity, was held on May 4th at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. The event started with a keynote address on converged connectivity, the rapid evolution to LTE, and the future of mobile networks. This was followed by a very…