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Sony, Panasonic Cameras Combine Small Size With SLR Features (PC World)
PC World - It's been a year since Panasonic debuted the first digital camera that combined the compactness of a point-and-shoot with the flexibility of interchangeable lenses. The Lumix G1 kick-started a new segment in the camera market, which this week saw a new model from Panasonic and the second showing of a prototype camera from Sony.Xbox 360 Outsold Wii in February, Says NPD (PC World)
PC World - Microsoft's Xbox 360 outsold Nintendo's Wii in February to claim the top spot in the U.S. monthly sales ranking for the first time in more than two years, analyst group NPD said Thursday. Overall the industry had a poor month with total sales down 15 percent from February last year.Firemint wins four Pocket Gamer Awards (Macworld.com)
Macworld.com - On Wednesday, Firemint was honored with four awards from handheld gaming Website Pocket Gamer at a ceremony held at the annual Game Developers Conference. The company behind Flight Control () and Real Racing () has few titles on the iPhone market—virtually every one has become a mega-hit.February video game sales drop 15 percent (AP)
AP - U.S. retail sales of video games declined 15 percent in February, hurt in part by an ongoing decline in sales of music games and lower sales of the Wii system.Web Connectivity a Bigger Deal for HDTV Than 3D (PC World)
PC World - Is 3D television the next big thing in consumer tech? Splashy, flashy, and (virtually) in your face, 3D TV is getting a mega-promotional boost by its backers, including Panasonic, Samsung, and Sony, all of whom hope you'll be so bowled over by 3D's visual splendor that you won't mind paying a few thousand bucks for the 3D-at-home experience.New iPhone OS Rumored To Finally Allow Multitasking (NewsFactor)
NewsFactor - Version 4.0 of the operating system for Apple's iPhone, iPod touch, and the forthcoming iPad will represent a major overhaul of the software and will feature a "full-on solution" to one long-standing gripe about Apple's devices -- their inability to multitask.Razer, GPG pledge Mac support; DICE investigating (Macworld.com)
Macworld.com - Now that Valve has pledged to support the Mac with the forthcoming release of Steam on Mac OS X and simultaneous Mac and PC releases for all its upcoming games, several in the gaming industry have been quick to respond with their own pledges of support.OnLive Plans On-Demand Streaming of Video Games (NewsFactor)
NewsFactor - In a move to shake up the online gaming industry, OnLive has announced PC and Mac versions of its on-demand, instant-play games will roll out in June during the E3 2010 show. Here's the rub: Gamers don't have to buy a console, and they can get broadband speeds.Text message erasing application goes international (AFP)
AFP - A California start-up on Thursday went international with a TigerText iPhone application that lets people kill embarrassing text messages after they have been sent out.
Rumor: iPhone OS 4.0 Update Adds Multitasking (PC World)
PC World - The iPhone will finally support multitasking for third-party apps as part of Apple's iPhone OS 4.0 release, according to AppleInsidier sources. It is just one of many iPhone 4.0 rumors surfacing as interest in what's next for the iPhone's OS mounts.Namco unveils new cross-platform SDK (Macworld.com)
Macworld.com - On Thursday, Namco announced UniteSDK, its new propriety cross-platform technology. During a demonstration on Tuesday night at the Game Developers Conference, Namco revealed Macs, PCs, and mobile platforms like the iPhone will be able to play games simultaneously against each other. Namco also demonstrated Pool Pro Online 3 for iPhone, which was created using the UniteSDK. Pool Pro Online 3 is now available for $5 at the App Store.Novothink debuts solar charging case for iPhone (Macworld.com)
Macworld.com - Sure, the App Store has plenty of ways to help survivalists fend off a zombie apocalypse, or figure out what plants are safe to eat—but without electricity, those useful guides quickly become very useless data on a dead paperweight. Thankfully, Novothink may have a solar-powered solution.GDC: Khronos group unveils OpenGL 4.0 and 3.3 (Macworld.com)
Macworld.com - The Khronos group has released versions 4.0 and 3.3 of the OpenGL spec, the latest version of the cross-platform, royalty-free 2D and 3D graphics API used on all major desktop operating systems, including Mac OS X. It also serves as the basis for OpenGL ES for smart phones and the upcoming WebGL standard for Web browsers.Sony unveils motion-sensing controller for PS3 consoles (AFP)
AFP - Sony on Wednesday unveiled a hotly anticipated motion-sensing controller that it hopes will fuel new interest in its PlayStation 3 videogame consoles.
Over 170 Chinese consumers file complaints on HP laptops (AFP)
AFP - More than 170 Chinese laptop users have filed complaints against US computer giant Hewlett-Packard, requesting a recall of products they say are faulty, a lawyer said Thursday.
Sony Targets Nintendo's Wii with PS3 Move Controller (NewsFactor)
NewsFactor - Move over, Wii. On Wednesday, Sony Computer Entertainment announced that its PlayStation 3 Move motion-based controller will launch in the fall. The controller has been discussed by Sony for some time, and was initially expected to be released this spring.Sony's PlayStation Move: What You Need To Know (PC World)
PC World - Sony recently launched PlayStation Move, the company's highly anticipated motion control system that translates your real world movements into video game moves.Census campaign targets tech-savvy Hispanic youth (AP)
AP - Groups pushing for robust Hispanic participation in the 2010 census are enlisting a new corps of foot-soldiers in their battle to reach that hard-to-count demographic: tech-savvy, smart-phone-toting young people.
Sony unveils new motion contoller to slow Nintendo (AP)
AP - Sony has a new message for Nintendo Wii gamers: Come join us.
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Ga. man who posted 'Elton John must die' arrested (AP)
AP - A Georgia man who posted a video of himself on the Internet holding a sign that said "Elton John must die" has been arrested for making terroristic threats.
Web Connectivity a Bigger Deal for HDTV Than 3D (PC World)
PC World - Is 3D television the next big thing in consumer tech? Splashy, flashy, and (virtually) in your face, 3D TV is getting a mega-promotional boost by its backers, including Panasonic, Samsung, and Sony, all of whom hope you'll be so bowled over by 3D's visual splendor that you won't mind paying a few thousand bucks for the 3D-at-home experience.OnLive Plans On-Demand Streaming of Video Games (NewsFactor)
NewsFactor - In a move to shake up the online gaming industry, OnLive has announced PC and Mac versions of its on-demand, instant-play games will roll out in June during the E3 2010 show. Here's the rub: Gamers don't have to buy a console, and they can get broadband speeds.Panasonic Sets the 3D HDTV Bar At Best Buy (PC World)
PC World - A scrum of reporters pressed against Brad and Ashley as they shuffled up to the counter at a Best Buy store in Manhattan. Cameras flashed and elbows flew. Was it the end of Brangelina? Some new reality show?Cable, sat TV firms ask gov't to stop TV blackouts (AP)
AP - The most recent showdown left millions of Cablevision Systems Corp. customers around New York without an ABC station at the start of the Academy Awards.
Trender Posts
Social Networks, Education, and Bullying
New Hampshire State Representatives have sponsored a bill to update and improve the state's anti-bullying laws. According to the Portsmouth Herald’s January article this bill could make a stronger more up-to-date law that takes… Continue
Posted by Michael Whalen on January 25, 2010 at 6:00am
Digital Security Thought Leaders Highlight Evolving Trends in a New Report by Trender Research
Westford, MA, January 20, 2009 — Trender Research™ Inc. (www.trenderresearch.com), a market research and consulting firm that combines expert analysis with the voice of everyday people, announced a new Trender Thought Leaders report for the digital security indus… Continue
Posted by Brian Mahony on January 20, 2010 at 12:49pm
Technology Media Telecommunications (TMT) 2010 Outlook
Why am I optimistic? The public Internet continues to be a disruptive force that's transforming and reshaping the new world order within the Global Networked Economy.
In particular, the emergence and continued development of low-cost IP Video creation tools, narrowly t… Continue
Posted by David H. Deans on December 31, 2009 at 3:57pm
WHDI Podcast: Can WHDI Become the Video Version of WiFi?
In our latest podcast, we chat with Leslie Chard, President of WHDI, LLC. In it, we talk about WHDI’s release of the new WHDI 1.0 specification, and what this means for the industry. Click here to listen and read on for our thoughts.
For over the top video (and for that matter any home HD video… Continue
Posted by Brian Mahony on December 20, 2009 at 8:00am
Robot Dance Competition in Tokyo: Get Your Computational Groove On!
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Posted by Brian Mahony on December 9, 2009 at 8:30am
USDA Telemedicine Grants Announced
Some of the specific funding examples include:… Continue
Posted by Joyce Pellino Crane on December 4, 2009 at 7:18pm
Telemedicine Device Market to Reach $3.6 Billion According to New Study
Posted by Joyce Pellino Crane on December 4, 2009 at 6:59pm
Healthcare Thought Leaders Predict the Impact of Technology in a New Report by Trender Research
Westford, MA, December 1, 2009 — Trender Research™ Inc. (www.trenderresearch.com), a market research and consulting firm that combines expert analysis with the voice of everyday people, announced a new Trender Thought Leaders report for the healthcare industry. The… Continue
Posted by Brian Mahony on November 29, 2009 at 7:00pm
NewTeeVee Live: Who Cares Who’s Paying the Bills?
Today is Thanksgiving in the States. And, in addition to my family and friends, I am thankful for over-the-top video in all its varieties and monikers—Internet video, streaming video on demand, online TV, hybrid OTT/Pay TV, whatever you want to call it. Simply put— it’s exciting. It is fresh. It’s creative destruction. For an old telecom/IPTV sa… Continue
Posted by Brian Mahony on November 26, 2009 at 12:30am
NewTeeVee Session Notes
Below are my stream of consciousness session notes from the NewTeeVee conference sessions, exhibits, and cocktail hour chats. I will leave it up to you to extract whatever pearls of wisdom you can find.
Xbox Live
• Marc Whitten, GM for Xbox Live, seems to really understand how important the interface is for OTT video. Most of us u… Continue
Posted by Brian Mahony on November 26, 2009 at 12:00am
Bold or Bogus? Digi International's Move toward Smart Grid Technology
By Joyce Pellino Crane
Jay M. Meier may be out on a lonely limb, but the senior research analyst at Feltl and Company is unwavering in his enthusiasm for Digi International, Inc. (Nasdaq:DGII)
Meier is recommending Digi as a buy, insisting that the comp… Continue
Posted by Joyce Pellino Crane on November 23, 2009 at 1:30pm
Telco TV Stars: Orca, PeerTV, Skitter.TV
As I noted in my earlier post, it was not all doom and gloom at TelcoTV last week. There were a few bright spots, all having to do with hybrid IPTV/OTT video solutions. Here are the highlights:
Orca Gets It
Kudos to Israeli IPTV middleware compa… Continue
Posted by Brian Mahony on November 17, 2009 at 9:00am
TelcoTV: Where’s the Innovation?
As you know I spent this past week shuttling from Boston to Orlando to San Francisco. Two days at TelcoTV, then on to the one-day NewTeeVee event (and then the red-eye flight back to Boston from which I write this blog). Below are my thoughts on the TelcoTV event (I will post a summary of NewTeeVee separately).
Overall the event was OK. More or les… Continue
Posted by Brian Mahony on November 13, 2009 at 8:30am — 1 Comment
TelcoTV Conference Session Highlights
Here are my stream of consciousness notes from the conference sessions at TelcoTV, and from walking around the show floor.
Roku
• Jim Funk, VP BD for Roku, says online video sites like Netflix make heavy use of CDNs, and encode streams from 500K up to 3.5 MBs depending on the connection that is available. For this reason he suggested… Continue
Posted by Brian Mahony on November 12, 2009 at 9:30am
iPod Touch 3.1 Content Filtering
Apple’s iPod Touch version 3.1 update adds a feature that parents have been clamoring for--content filtering. It is now possible to filter content based on a predetermined setting. Prior releases allowed disabling applications such as YouTube or Safari and the icons would disappear fr… Continue
Posted by Michael Whalen on November 12, 2009 at 6:00am
Clarity - Canvas-HbbTV-TV Everywhere
1. Canvas is supposed to solve a BBC "business issue" which is the exhorbitant cost associated with Re-Purposing and Re-authoring of Content to deliver over the Internet…Just look at the technology (we have to) and there lies the issue – which of the 14 Codecs, which of the multiple DRM do you select is it Video or Video and Interactivity - if the latter which… Continue
Posted by Anthony Smith-Chaigneau on November 12, 2009 at 1:30am
CyberTerrorism and the Smart Grid
Joyce Pellino Crane
Last December when 325,000 Massachusetts homes went dark for days on end, I finally understood the transformative powers of electricity.
For starters, my hair went limp when the blow dryer didn't turn on, my laundry piled high, my food froze in the garage, and my stove was stone cold. After five days of living like Pioneer Woman, I got tired of waiting for the utility company to restring snapped cable wires, and checked int… Continue
Posted by Joyce Pellino Crane on November 11, 2009 at 4:30pm
Comparing Hybrid OTT/Pay TV Solutions on Opposite Sides of the Pond: TV Everywhere and Project Canvas
Posted by Brian Mahony on November 4, 2009 at 8:30am
ebooks - Kindle, Vook, Que, Sony, etc.
When the Que is released (early 2010), I think I'll give it a try, as well. Plastic-Logic seems to know what it is doing.
Trying to be open minded and even progressive, I have very, very mixed thoughts about Cushing Academy dismantling its 20K v… Continue
Posted by Gail Preslar on October 29, 2009 at 5:08pm
Just One More Convert - A Former PC User Goes Mac
My husband has been a diehard Apple/Mac fan for years. I was a die-hard PC fan. In fact, we are a probably a bit like the Apple television ads with 'PC' and 'Mac', I am the dry, stuffy accounting type, and my husband, a video editor, is more of the trendy artist.
Until last year, it suited me just fine, I was perfectly happy with my PC. After all, I NEEDED Windows, didn't I? I needed to be able to run Microsoft Office, manage my life through Outlook, and be able to do my groce… Continue
Posted by Mary McVeigh on October 28, 2009 at 9:00pm
Service Provider News
Avaya, Polycom Partner on UC Solutions
Avaya and Polycom are expanding their relationship to include the development and marketing of new voice and video unified communications solutions. The integrated offerings will be based on Avaya's Aura UC platform and Polycom's Open Collaboration Network strategy. The Avaya-Polycom partnership is the latest move in a quickly changing UC landscape as vendors attempt to take on major players like Cisco Systems.- Avaya and Polycom are expanding their partnership to include integrated video, voice and collaborations offerings, the latest move in a quickly evolving unified communications market. The two companies March 9 announced plans to jointly develop and market a host of new, tightly integrated UC sol...
Verizon Wireless on Track for Big LTE Rollout in 2010
Verizon Wireless is on track to deploy LTE in 25 to 30 markets, it has previously announced, after successful testing in Boston and Seattle. The rollout will enable LTE to finally begin catching up to WiMax, which Clearwire and Sprint currently offer in 27 U.S. markets.- Verizon Wireless officials are saying their plans to roll out 4G Long-Term Evolution networks are coming along swimmingly. LTE trials in Boston and Seattle reportedly saw peak download speeds of 40M to 50M bps and peak upload speeds of 20M to 25M bps quot;significantly faster quot; than cu...
Cisco Announces HealthPresence Platform
Cisco Systems is integrating its TelePresence video collaboration technology and its unified communications products to create a health care platform designed to improve patient care in virtual physician visits. The platform, which will launch later in March, will allow more collaboration between doctors and patients, Cisco says.- Cisco Systems is bringing together its TelePresence video collaboration technology and unified communications products to create a platform to enable better patient care in virtual settings. Cisco announced its HealthPresence platform March 1 at the HIMSS (Healthcare Information and Management S...
Nortel Sells VOIP Business to Genband
Nortel Networks, just over a year into its bankruptcy, is selling off its last significant business by accepting Genband's $182 million offer for its VOIP business. Nortel over the past few months already had sold off the bulk of its units, including its wireless and enterprise businesses. The deal leaves Nortel with only a handful of assets, such as its multiservice switch business.- Nortel Networks, which has sold off significant parts of its business since filing for bankruptcy protection in January 2009, is now selling its voice-over-IP unit. Genband, a small company based in Plano, Texas, has agreed to buy Nortel's VOIP business for $182 million, Nortel announced Feb. 2...
REVIEW: Jabra PRO 9470 Makes Every Phone Wireless
Jabra PRO 9470 extends one wireless headset simultaneously to desk, soft and mobile phones.- Jabras PRO 9470 wireless headset is a fine alternative for heavy callers looking for a single headset that supports every phone in the arsenal, but the gimmicky touch screen on the unit base station enhances the device's cost more than user productivity. With the PRO 9470, Jabr...
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Chinese minister insists Google obey the law (AP)
AP - China's top Internet regulator insisted Friday that Google must obey its laws or "pay the consequences," giving no sign of a possible compromise in their dispute over censorship and hacking.
You don't know tech: The InfoWorld news quiz (InfoWorld)
InfoWorld - What happened this week? Online retailer Newegg leaped out of the frying pan and into the fire after it was found to be selling ersatz silicon.Appeal filed in Phil Spector case (AP)
AP - Lawyers for legendary music producer Phil Spector have asked an appellate court to throw out his second-degree murder conviction on grounds of judicial error and prosecutorial misconduct.Lenovo says business will focus on mobile Internet (AP)
AP - Lenovo Group expects wireless Internet products to account for up to 80 percent of its sales within five years as it pursues expansion in faster-growing emerging markets, CEO Yang Yuanqing said Friday.
'Uncharted 2' nabs 5 trophies at video game awards (AP)
AP - "Uncharted 2: Among Thieves" stole the show at the Game Developers Choice Awards.
India May Delay Mobile Number Portability Again (PC World)
PC World - The roll-out in India of mobile number portability (MNP) is likely to delay beyond a March 31 deadline, because operators have not yet upgraded their infrastructure, the country's minister of state for communications and IT, Gurudas Kamat, said on Thursday.Sony, Panasonic Cameras Combine Small Size With SLR Features (PC World)
PC World - It's been a year since Panasonic debuted the first digital camera that combined the compactness of a point-and-shoot with the flexibility of interchangeable lenses. The Lumix G1 kick-started a new segment in the camera market, which this week saw a new model from Panasonic and the second showing of a prototype camera from Sony.iPad available for pre-order at 5:30 Pacific, 8:30 Eastern (Macworld.com)
Macworld.com - If you're looking to be first in line to pre-order Apple's new iPad, then set your alarm, because Steve Jobs's latest creation is available for pre-order in the U.S. early on Friday, March 12: 5:30 a.m. Pacific Time or 8:30 a.m. for those of us on the East coast.iPad available for pre-order at 5:30 Pacific (Macworld.com)
Macworld.com - If you're looking to be first in line to pre-order Apple's new iPad, then set your alarm, because Steve Jobs's latest creation is available for pre-order in the U.S. early on Friday, March 12: 5:30 a.m. Pacific Time or 8:30 a.m. for those of us on the East coast.© 2010 Created by Brian Mahony
