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So Many Stories Yet to Be Told #CES2020
The decade that Gary Arlen has been talking about for at least a decade is finally here and ViodiTV caught up with him at the CES Unveiled exhibition on the eve of CES2020. This is a follow-up of sorts to our 2010 interview where Gary made predictions and talked about his button, “2020 I can’t…
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Augmented Reality & HUD in an Automobile World
The most practical application for augmented reality may be mobile; the old-fashion definition of mobile as being part of an automobile. In the above video, Maxime Sutra and Thibaut Aglioni of French company, Eyelights, demonstrate an add-on device that turns a smartphone and a windshield into a Heads Up Display so that a driver doesn’t…
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Connecting and Moving Forward
Matt Polka, President & CEO of ACA Connects, provides highlights of some of the issues discussed on a panel he moderated at Calix’s 2019 ConneXions. Featuring ACA’s legal counsel, Tom Cohen, and NTCA’s VP of Industry Affairs and Business Development, this panel looked at the issues broadband operators face in Washington D.C. Polka focuses on…
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AB 5: A Consultant/Business Owner’s Perspective
“This is what your clients will soon be thinking and doing under AB 5. It will change your consulting practice,” writes Walt Maclay, a successful business owner/consultant, in an email to this author. Maclay was following up on the presentation he gave to fellow consultants at a recent CNSV event on the unintended repercussions of…
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Will AB 5 Drive Technology Consultants Out of California?
Will the recently passed AB 5 drive independent IT contractors, engineers, and software engineers from California to other states? That is a potential outcome that Russ Harrison, Director of Government Relations of IEEE-USA, suggests in the above interview filmed at the conclusion of a Consultants’ Network of Silicon Valley (CNSV) event on this topic. He suggests the vagueness and inconsistencies of…
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A Marriage of Marketing & Technology
One of the key takeaways from Calix’s 2019 ConneXions is the marriage of technology and marketing, according to Bernie Arnason, Principal with the Pivot Group. One might say this marriage has been formalized with Calix’s Go to Market Partner program, which Pivot Group is one of the certified partners. From a technology perspective, it is…
