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An old friend of mine sent me an email a few days ago that went something like this … “Maybe you can help me out.  I’m looking for sponsors for our Podcast show.” One has to be a friend to have a friend, so I dutifully visited his website and listened to a few of Continue Reading →

I was delighted to moderate a panel discussion at Streaming Media East yesterday entitled, Enabling Open-Architecture-Based IPTV Services.  This is an eclectic subject — even for me. My fellow panelists included Peggy Dau, Solution Portfolio Manager Digital Content Distribution NSP Broadband & Media Solutions for HP; Hamilton Altstatt, Director Research & Development, Idealab and the Continue Reading →

The British aren’t coming … they’re here!  The BBC will move a step closer to delivering what it calls “iTunes for the broadcast industry” later this year, launching a public trial of iMP, which allows viewers to download any show from the previous week that they may have missed. Some of us call this a Continue Reading →

According to Michael Starr at the New York Post, Good Morning America (GMA) ABC New’s (now very, very competitive morning show) will start broadcasting in HD (High Definition Television) this fall.  If all goes as planned, they will shoot the studio segments in HD and upconvert SD (Standard Definition Television) footage from other sources to Continue Reading →

This article appeared in the New York Post.  It’s priceless.  There’s Sabre rattling and then, there’s Sabre rattling.  On a more specific topic, you can be sure that the cell phone purveyors are thinking about a phone-based MP3 world.  But, as history has so often shown — thinking doesn’t mean you going to get it Continue Reading →

The technical definition of the Internet is fairly unimportant to this thought experiment.  What I want you to think about is the conventional or popular definition.  To non-technical people (which is most everyone) the Internet is a means through which they browse the web and get email.  In their mind’s eyes, they imagine the access Continue Reading →

According to Wired.com – Internet powerhouse Yahoo is introducing an online music subscription service that will enable consumers to download thousands of songs onto their portable MP3 players for $60 annually, undercutting the prices of the current industry leaders by more than 60 percent.   The Sunnyvale-based company planned to unveil “Yahoo Music Unlimited” Wednesday Continue Reading →

Last night I attended a networking event, put together by Ashley Heather and James Joice of MoMeMo, where Thomas Gewecke, SVP Global Digital Business Group, Sony BMG Music Entertainment was giving the keynote address.  It was followed by a panel discussion which included Himesh Bhise, VP/GM of AOL Mobile, Matt Rowlen, VP Biz Dev at Continue Reading →

“What’s next … washing machines?” asked Judge Harry T. Edwards in a strongly worded decision by a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia.  They unanimously agreed that the Federal Communications Commission overstepped its authority in adopting the rule stating, “In the seven decades of its existence, the FCC Continue Reading →

About half of Google’s staff works on identifying and delivering relevant results based upon keyword search strings entered by users.  The actual Google search algorithm is a well kept “trade secret.” However, many find consensus in the notion that in the “post Florida update” era, Google still ranks pages by counting the number links back Continue Reading →