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The Sometimes Fallacy of The Long Tail
ESPN and the inverse of net neutrality. I hope this doesn't work for them. Very bad precedent.
picoChip partners with KT for WiBro/WiMAX femtocells -- picoChip is one of many small companies developing chips with a huge number of processor cores -- in their case 200 DSPs on a single chip. This approach has the potential to provide very high performance at low cost while maintaining programmability. Multimedia and communications are two key targets for the various vendors of centicore chips. ("Kilocore" is already taken as the name of a company. It looks like "Centicore" was used at some point as the name of a product. "Centicore" is also the name of a mythical beast and a Swedish metal band.)
Apple's iPod looks to dominate the dashboard
Good news if this is for real:
Dan Kaminsky, DNS hacker and rootkit infection sleuth, has devised a test for checking to see if your Internet connection is "neutral" -- that is, whether your connection is being filtered, throttled, slowed down, or monkeyed with secretly by your ISP:If it's easy for people to figure out (and publicize for others) which ISPs are neutral, and which are trying to sell limited access to the internet, it should help market forces to push things towards the neutral side.Kaminsky calls his technique "TCP-based active probing for faults." He says that the software he's developing will be similar to the Traceroute Internet utility that is used to track what path Internet traffic takes as it hops between two machines on different ends of the network.
But unlike Traceroute, Kaminsky's software will be able to make traffic appear as if it is coming from a particular carrier or is being used for a certain type of application, like VoIP. It will also be able to identify where the traffic is being dropped and could ultimately be used to finger service providers that are treating some network traffic as second-class.
AT&T launches Homezone -- DISH Network satellite service (from Echostar) coupled with DSL (from AT&T). The DSL service is used as transport for long tail (and mainstream) video services from Akimbo. Not to be confused with U-verse, which is a pure DSL play based on very high speed DSL.
Kingston enters the portable media player market
Opinion: Apple's Copy Protection Isn't Just Bad For Consumers, It's Bad For Business
Mixing media
Giant cable companies are duking it out with the nation's telcos to see who can provide the most comprehensive phone, broadband, video and mobile services to tech-savvy consumers
apple i talk
High-definition video add-on coming to iPod
"The initial players will be able to handle MPEG 4, Divx, HD.264 and other video formats."
Interesting piggy-back strategy. Rather than doing the whole thing from scratch, they hitch a ride off Apple's base technology and extend it.
Online Videos & Playing Into Apple’s Hands
This is reminiscent of the digital music market, which is chockfull of players with marginal market share. Apple’s iPod/iTunes dominates the market because it provides a stress free (some call it integrated) experience for the end user.
CNN snatching page out of YouTube's book
AOL to Test-Launch Video Search Service
NEW YORK (Reuters)—AOL plans to announce on Monday it will test launch a new Internet video service in an attempt to demonstrate how much it has learned from mistakes that cost the once reigning king of the online world its leading position.
The new service, AOL Video, aims to be the one-stop shop for online videos and will let users search for videos across the Web, upload their own, or buy or watch for free thousands of TV shows from any one of 45 video-on-demand channels on nearly any device.
The Hard Disk That Changed the World -- happy 50th to the hard disk. The winchester disk (a sealed unit rather than a unit with interchangible disk packs) came along in '73, also developed by IBM in San Jose.
DirecTV: August Launch For New DVRs -- long awaited box with H.264/AVC support. non-TiVo (yuk)
Motorola Buying Broadbus Technologies -- Broadbus is a SW based video-on-demand (VOD) system vendor. This article cites Mot as a cell phone maker, but this probably has more to do with their cable TV business. They provide both headend and settop equipment for cable and IPTV.
YouTube strategy sticks to clips
2.5Gb/s Internet For French Homes Sacre bleu!
Amazon Looks to Movie Downloads
Although it has refused to confirm, Amazon has been rumored to be readying its video download service for launch in mid-August. First reported by trade magazine Advertising Age on Sunday, the service is said to offer both movies and episodes of television shows.