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UHD Isn’t Just More Pixels, It’s Better Pixels
Ultra HD is more than just 4 times the resolution, as it also offers the opportunity for greater color depth, so explains Steven Corda, Vice President of Business Development North America for SES. Providing a bit of a pre-NAB Show tutorial at the 2017 ACA Summit, Corda explains in the above video some of the…
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Digital Opportunity as the End Goal
Digital opportunity is the end goal, says FCC Chairman Ajit Pai.¹ In the above interview, Pai states, “Broadband is not a Republican issue, it is not a Democratic issue; it is an American issue.” He explains that providing digital opportunity requires that Internet is available to all who want it or, as he put in…
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Privacy Rules
In the soundbite era of social media, it is easy to overlook the nuances of a given policy. Tom Cohen of Kelley Drye provides his seasoned perspective on this week’s vote by Congress to overturn the December 2016 FCC rules governing customer privacy by broadband ISPs. As he points out, these rules were an extension…
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The Power and Force of Today – 2017 MTA Annual Convention
If last night’s kick-off reception is an indication, this year’s Minnesota Telecom Alliance’s Annual Convention and Conference is off to a great start. In the above interview, MTA’s president and CEO, Brent Christensen provides a preview of the event that is taking place today and tomorrow. He hints at some of the changes on the exhibit…
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A New Way of Powering IoT Devices – Wood @IDTechEx
Harvesting forests may soon yield wood that allows harvesting of energy, thanks to researchers from the University of Wisconsin at Madison and with help from the USDA. Speaking at the 2016 ID-TechEX conference, Chunhua Yao, co-founder of EWPanel and Xudong Wong, Associate Professor at UW-Madison explain that an electrode is embedded into the wood fiber. The wood…
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IoG – Internet of Gardens or Data Science for the Micro Farm
“It really comes down to recipes,” said Vince Kimura, co-founder and CEO of Smart Yields. He was referring to the idea that the needs of a crop are different and are location dependent. The goal of Smart Yields is to help farmers understand what they should plant and how to take care of it to most…
