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Look Out Google and Microsoft – Another Internet OS Is Here
One of the more intriguing booths at the Parks Associates’ Connections Conference was ViaCube and their Web OS. Via Cube is a cloud computing solution that can be configured as sort of a hybrid solution, whereby a home appliance can be used as a local store of data. At the same time, the customer benefits…
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Optimizing Video for Wireless & More
Jerky video is the bane of television on mobile devices. Craig Lee of Ortiva Wireless talks about their technology and how it optimizes the transmission of video between wireless base stations and mobile handsets. More than just improving the quality of the video, Lee says that their product also allows carriers to increase the effective…
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Licensing Pools with Via Licensing
I.P. (Intellectual Property, that is) rights owned by multiple parties are often one of the reasons standards take so long to move from concept to commercial reality. In this video interview, Jason Johnson, of Via Licensing, a subsidiary of Dolby Laboratories, explains their newly formed partnership with the IEEE. This partnership promises the expeditious creation…
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Connections at Connections
The Parks Associates conferences are good ones for looking at what’s new from at the intersection of technology and consumer needs and provides a glimpse of what might be. In our ongoing video coverage from last month’s Connections conference event, Kurt Scherf, Vice President of Research for Parks Associates discusses how devices in the…
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Efficient Video Production with the G1 Phone
I am not a big gadget person – really. I have had the G1 Phone for a couple of months and other than the electronic whoopee cushion application and the Shazam application (listens to music and identifies the song and artist), all of the applications I have downloaded from the Android Market have been ones…
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PlumChoice at Connections 2009
Ken Pyle interviews Fred King of PlumChoice, at CONNECTIONS 2009 in Santa Clara, CA. King explains how they work through service providers and consumer electronic manufacturers to help them help their customers. King suggests that now is a good time to provide remote support services, as people are opting for more frugal behavior and as…
