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From Smart Appliances to the Smart Grid
Wringing out efficiencies in the grid is big business, with AHAM (The Association of Home Appliance Manufacturers) suggesting a $900M annual savings by shifting just 5% of power consumption from peak to off-peak times. One way to realize this sort of improved efficiency is by controlling the load through communication with so-called smart appliances. In…
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Looking Forward, While Staying Customer Focused
Independent telecommunications companies are typically the technology leaders of their communities. They have to know what is coming in technology, while, at the same time, providing their customers with great service for what is needed today. By bringing broadband to the so-called last mile, they literally connect their rural communities to the World Wide Web.…
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United in Technology for Aging
Revenues for technology and services for digital health services and associated aging in place is expected to triple by 2015, according to the latest research from Parks Associates. “The digital health industry has many subsectors, and near-term growth will be uneven across these segments,” said Harry Wang, director of Parks Associates’ health research team. "Adoption…
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1 Billion Served and Counting
Brian Jacquet, Director of Marketing for Roku, discusses who is using their product and how they got to 1 Billion views and 11 hours per week of playing time per device, while speaking at the Broadband Unlimited Conference at CES 2011. Interestingly, their demographic tends to be older and less geek-like than the typical over-the-top…
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The Evolution of the Portable Media Player
[Note: Added 9/6/15 – the above player, which is empty, is an example of what happens when a streaming video service goes out of business. Unfortunately, there are probably a couple hundred videos like this on the ViodiTV site, as finding them and fixing them was very labor intensive.] Way back in July 2002, Archos…
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From the Doorbell to the Phone to 3DTV
In its CES 2011 booth, D-Link demonstrated several over the top video applications and how they tie together. Their surveillance cameras talk not only to smartphones, but to their Boxee-powered set-top, allowing people to watch their home cameras (or others cameras) from the convenience of their couch.
