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FRED at Museum of Flight
The FRED Event, during the OPASTCO 2010 Summer Conference, is Monday, July 26th at 6:00pm at the Museum of Flight in Seattle. Contact Melissa Korzuch for more information.
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Broadband to the Unserved
The relentless banging noise of a Step by Step switch in a small, rural central office pounds away in my head some 13 years later. The irony that I was in this central office to terminate an advanced state-of-the-art, video fiber network was not lost on me. This central office was a reflection of the overall…
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Hybrid Fiber Wireless Broadband
In this interview, Irshad Ansari, President/CEO, NI Solutions, Inc., discusses the Navajo Tribal Utility Authority’s project that will require the buildout of 550 miles of gigabit fiber backbone and a total of 59 towers, resulting in one of the earliest wide-scale LTE deployments in the United States. The ARRA funding is accelerating the completion of…
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From the Idiot Box to Works of Art
Scott Birnbaum, vice president of the LCD (Liquid Crystal Display) Business at Samsung Semiconductor, Inc., discusses the state of television displays and some of the near and longer-term developments that will make them more useful and ubiquitous. Birnbaum suggests that almost 1/3 of the homes in U.S. are expected to have 3D in their homes…
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Simplifying the Development of Apps for TV
Since March 2009, the Yahoo! Widgets platform has been bringing Internet applications directly to the TV. In this video interview filmed at Parks Associates’ Connections Conference, Ronald Jacoby, Senior Director and Chief Architect, Connected TV, Yahoo!, explains their reasons for developing their connected TV platform. Jacoby tells of their success at integrating this open platform…
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More than a Logoed Napkin
ViodiTV coverage at events is a sponsorship that keeps on going and going… Marketers talk about the "Long Tail" effects while ViodiTV has been creating tails with trails since the early 2000s. The videos posted on ViodiTV provide sponsor benefits that go beyond lips to an octagon file. ViodiTV posts are categorized, indexed, searchable, embedded…
