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Brian Mahony New Over the Top (OTT) Video Study: Trender Research Predicts 7 Percent of Households Will “Cut the Cord” on Pay TV Subscriptions by 2012

Full announcement here: http://www.trenderresearch.com/page/ott-video-report

Thanks to everyone who provided data and perspectives for this report. I think you will find this the most comprehensive analysis of this fast-moving industry.

Westford, MA, — Trender Research™ Inc. (www.trenderresearch.com), a consumer technology market research and co… Continue

Added by Brian Mahony on August 8, 2010 at 7:45pm — No Comments

Brian Mahony Cutting the Cord Part 6: Roku Review— Simple and Easy OTT Video Device

(Click here for Parts 1: Why?, 2: Device Options,… Continue

Added by Brian Mahony on August 8, 2010 at 7:39pm — 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, — 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 industry. The… Continue

Added by Brian Mahony on July 27, 2010 at 12:30pm — No Comments

Brian Mahony OTT Video Adventures Part 5: Cutting the Cable Cord on Pay TV Sports and News

While my dear sweet wife Kirsten seems to be hedging on giving up on our Pay TV service from Comcast, I am doing one last reflection on over-the-top (OTT) video content before we jump into evaluating our h… Continue

Added by Brian Mahony on July 15, 2010 at 11:30pm — 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, — 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 repo… Continue

Added by Brian Mahony on June 8, 2010 at 7:30pm — 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 May 3, 2010 at 9:22pm — 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 an… Continue

Added by Brian Mahony on April 7, 2010 at 8:00am — No Comments

David H. Deans SXSW 2010: Free-Market for Earned Media

My big take-away from the South-by-Southwest (SXSW) Interactive festival this year was a further validation that big media companies -- traditional publishers of print content in particular -- are still searching for a way to halt their collective slide into eventual insolvency.

Surely, given their vast resources, the very best big publishers are capable of evolving their business model. At least, that's their hope for the future. But, how does an inno… Continue

Added by David H. Deans on March 18, 2010 at 11:00am — No Comments

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

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 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 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

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Dell's enterprise challenge remains after 3Par (AP)

FILE - In this file photo taken March 22, 2006, the Dell corporate logo is displayed in a Salt Lake City. Hewlett-Packard is raising its offer for data-storage maker 3Par to about $1.69 billion. Hewlett-Packard Co. emerged victorious in a pricey bidding contest with Dell Inc. over data-storage provider 3Par Inc. after Dell said it would not match HP's latest bid of $33 per share, or $2.07 billion. (AP Photo/Douglas C. Pizac, File)AP - Dell Inc. doesn't have to start over in its quest to become a significant purveyor of technology for businesses after losing a multibillion dollar bidding contest for an obscure data-storage maker.


Video lambasting Google on privacy hits Times Square (AFP)

A video cartoon featuring Google's chief Eric Schmidt (pictured) giving away ice cream to snoop on children aired on a giant screen in Times Square on Thursday as a privacy group continued to hound the Internet giant. A cartoon version of Google boss was shown cruising a residential neighborhood in an ice cream truck, spying on children and disclosing their parents' Internet browsing habits.(AFP/File/Fabrice Coffrini)AFP - A video cartoon featuring Google's chief giving away ice cream to snoop on children aired on a giant screen in Times Square as a privacy group continued to hound the Internet giant.


HP vs Dell: the showdown that ended in spectacle (AP)

FILE - In this Aug. 27, 2010 file photo, 3Par CEO David Scott smiles at 3Par headquarters in Fremont, Caif. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma, File)AP - The showdown over 3Par Inc. that ended Thursday was a puzzling spectacle.


Bug found with Automator and iTunes 10 (Macworld.com)

Macworld.com - As you’re aware, Apple just released iTunes 10. With that release has come some changes—both expected and not so.

Stream TV Android Froyo Tablet: Sneak Peak Now, Preorders Next Week (PC World)

PC World - For all of this year's chatter about the coming army of Android tablets, the near radio silence has been deafening. Until now. First, at consumer electronics show IFA in Berlin, came news of a global launch of the Samsung Galaxy Tab. And starting next week, you can hop onto Amazon.com to pre-order the Stream TV eLocity A7.

IPad faces new tablet challengers (Investor's Business Daily)

Investor's Business Daily - Electronic giants Samsung and Toshiba each unveiled new tablet PCs running Google's (NMS:GOOG) Android OS that aim to tap consumer demand ignited by the Apple (NMS:AAPL) iPad. Samsung's Galaxy Tab features a 7-inch touch screen and WiFi and Bluetooth connectivity. Samsung said pricing will be $200-$300, depending on required 3G phone plans. Toshiba's Folio 100 features a larger 10-inch screen, but initially will only have WiFi connectivity. It'll be priced at $510. Apple rose 0.7% to 252.17.

Google (Investor's Business Daily)

Investor's Business Daily - Google (NMS:GOOG) will continue to provide the search results on AOL's Web site under a new, five-year deal. The deal will put AOL video content on Google's YouTube site for the first time. AOL edged up 0.7% to 23.05.

ArcSight posts higher fiscal 1Q profit (AP)

AP - ArcSight Inc. said Thursday its fiscal first-quarter profit tripled as the cybersecurity software and services company's sales jumped 39 percent.

Dell cedes data-storage maker 3Par to HP (AP)

FILE - In this file photograph taken Feb. 16, 2010, the exterior of Hewlett Packard headquarters is shown in Palo Alto, Calif. The bidding is heating up between computer makers Hewlett-Packard Co. and Dell Inc. for the data storage company 3Par Inc., Thursday, Sept. 2, 2010. Even before Dell could make its latest offer public, HP has come back with a higher bid. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma, file)AP - Dell Inc. is walking away from a bidding contest with rival Hewlett-Packard Co. for data-storage maker 3Par Inc.


Privacy in iTunes Ping (PC World)

PC World - Ping is Apple's music-centric social network that is integrated into iTunes 10. From a privacy standpoint, it's pretty straightforward--as opposed to Facebook's multitude of privacy settings--but then again, Ping is also very limited as to what services it offers. In either case, here's a quick run-down of the privacy features present in Ping.

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