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Michael Whalen Social Networks, Education, and Bullying

WiredSafety Logo 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

Added by Michael Whalen on January 25, 2010 at 6:00am — No Comments

Brian Mahony Digital Security Thought Leaders Highlight Evolving Trends in a New Report by Trender Research

Concern for identity theft and rise of social networking and mobile applications have changed view of online safety and driven the development of comprehensive security suites. 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

Added by Brian Mahony on January 20, 2010 at 12:49pm — No Comments

David H. Deans Technology Media Telecommunications (TMT) 2010 Outlook

Certainly, 2009 was full of challenges for the Technology, Media and Telecoms sector, but I remain upbeat regarding the upside market opportunities in 2010. 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

Added by David H. Deans on December 31, 2009 at 3:57pm — No Comments

Brian Mahony 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

Added by Brian Mahony on December 20, 2009 at 8:00am — No Comments

Brian Mahony Robot Dance Competition in Tokyo: Get Your Computational Groove On!

For all of you robot afficiandos, you have to check out the recent "ROBO-ONE GATE INTERNATIONAL ROBOT EXHIBITION 2009" that took place in Tokyo. It really is amazing how far robots have come. I am especially impressed by some of the side-to-side moves, the ability to get up from a fall, and how well coordinated the dance moves are to the music. There is still a lot of work to do to make robots mainstream, but the technology at least seems to be there: Continue

Added by Brian Mahony on December 9, 2009 at 8:30am — No Comments

Joyce Pellino Crane USDA Telemedicine Grants Announced

USDA announced that 111 projects for $34.9 million in grants will to go to 35 states to increase to expand access to healthcare services in rural areas. The funding will be provided through USDA's Rural Development's Distance Learning and Telemedicine Program (DTL). The program's goal is to help expand telecommunications, educational resources, and computer networks throughout rural communities. The funds are part of USDA's annual budget. Some of the specific funding examples include:… Continue

Added by Joyce Pellino Crane on December 4, 2009 at 7:18pm — No Comments

Joyce Pellino Crane Telemedicine Device Market to Reach $3.6 Billion According to New Study

The market for telemedicine devices and services will generate $3.6 billion in annual revenue within five years, a new study claims. The study by the Silver Spring, Md.-based research firm Pike & Fischer, says mobile-services companies, such as AT&T, Verizon, Sprint and… Continue

Added by Joyce Pellino Crane on December 4, 2009 at 6:59pm — No Comments

Brian Mahony Healthcare Thought Leaders Predict the Impact of Technology in a New Report by Trender Research

Amidst major policy reforms, industry luminaries and a focus group of everyday people are optimistic that technology can substantially reduce costs and improve patient care. 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

Added by Brian Mahony on November 29, 2009 at 7:00pm — No Comments

Brian Mahony 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

Added by Brian Mahony on November 26, 2009 at 12:30am — No Comments

Brian Mahony 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

Added by Brian Mahony on November 26, 2009 at 12:00am — No Comments

Joyce Pellino Crane Bold or Bogus? Digi International's Move toward Smart Grid Technology

Research Analyst Bucks Naysayers 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

Added by Joyce Pellino Crane on November 23, 2009 at 1:30pm — No Comments

Brian Mahony 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

Added by Brian Mahony on November 17, 2009 at 9:00am — No Comments

Brian Mahony 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

Added by Brian Mahony on November 13, 2009 at 8:30am — 1 Comment

Brian Mahony 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

Added by Brian Mahony on November 12, 2009 at 9:30am — No Comments

Michael Whalen 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

Added by Michael Whalen on November 12, 2009 at 6:00am — No Comments

Anthony Smith-Chaigneau Clarity - Canvas-HbbTV-TV Everywhere

Not all things are exactly what they seem...Looking deeper into the requirements, market realities and politics of Hybrid TV solutions. 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

Added by Anthony Smith-Chaigneau on November 12, 2009 at 1:30am — No Comments

Joyce Pellino Crane CyberTerrorism and the Smart Grid

Is There a Crack in the (Fire)Wall? 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

Added by Joyce Pellino Crane on November 11, 2009 at 4:30pm — No Comments

Brian Mahony Comparing Hybrid OTT/Pay TV Solutions on Opposite Sides of the Pond: TV Everywhere and Project Canvas

It is becoming increasingly clear that the flood gates for OTT video—that is TV and movie programming over a broadband Internet connection—have opened and are forcing traditional television service providers and movie studios to build profit tributaries off this rolling river or risk having many of their paying subscribers swept away. The industry is determined not to remake the mistakes of their brethren in the music business and is therefore trying to be proactive. The most promising of these… Continue

Added by Brian Mahony on November 4, 2009 at 8:30am — No Comments

Gail Preslar ebooks - Kindle, Vook, Que, Sony, etc.

I've purchased the Kindle (Fall 2008) & then the Kindle DX(Summer 2009), to check it out. Pretty neat. Great for travelling. Yet, I find myself picking on one of the many paper books from my To Be Read pile when I am ready to start another book. HUM! 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

Added by Gail Preslar on October 29, 2009 at 5:08pm — No Comments

Mary McVeigh Just One More Convert - A Former PC User Goes Mac

I love my MacBook! 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

Added by Mary McVeigh on October 28, 2009 at 9:00pm — No Comments

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HTC says confident can defend against Apple suit (Reuters)

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Viacom-YouTube secrets to be exposed in lawsuit (AP)

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Verizon seeks to ban Cablevision set-top boxes (AP)

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Texan accused of disabling 100 cars over Internet (AP)

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Sprint to support Google's Nexus One smartphone (Reuters)

Reuters - Google Inc's Nexus One smartphone will soon be available to subscribers of Sprint Nextel Corp, the second U.S. wireless service provider to announce an agreement to support the touchscreen phone.

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