I am just that confident today – if you want real good stats on IPTV there is really just one source outside of Peter White’s Faultline — and it’s Light Reading and Heavy Reading. Did all these analysts and reporters take some Animal House sized oath that they would uphold good old fashioned journalistic code [...]
Entries from July 2008
July 31, 2008
Very cool, futuristic gadgets
Okay this is a fun read — cool gadgets (like the Jetsons!) and before you start saying negative things- just remember that without innovation, we wouldn’t be where we are today and anyway, its fun to think about the future of our beloved gadgets. Frankly, I am having a love affair with the Internet today [...]
July 23, 2008
From the “oh-no” department…
We don’t know about you – but this news about AOL talking with TechCrunch concerning a potential USD30m takeover is a bit unsettling. AOL also signed an ad-serving deal on all the digital properties of US newspaper publisher Gannett. I can’t decide what is worse? And for the latter piece of the news — does [...]
July 23, 2008
Video frame rate conversion just got better
Image by Niffty via Flickr
Sure, it doesn’t sound sexy, but trust us, it is cool. Behind the scenes cool. Why? Well most of the world watches TV and those TV addicts might watch their favorite shows on a fancy flat panel — and this means that your image will look so real that it might [...]
July 23, 2008
The Alchemy of making a business better, bGrand
Is 100% a fusion of tactics – PR, marketing and design together. That is why bGrand is the solution for the new global economy.
July 17, 2008
To the defense of TV – a practical approach
Drat — just when you were all excited about living one step closer to a George Jetson world — a blog on Wired Magazine reminds you of the dark side – middle America. Drat – there goes the bubble – TV will never go away – it will eventually be diluted by the likes [...]
July 16, 2008
Women in Wireless
Well, Silicon Valley maybe low on women – but the wireless industry is not. Fierce Wireless lead by a long time female editor, Sue Marek (from the good old days of Wireless Week) this week published a refreshing list of the top women in wireless. This list has some very impressive names on it in [...]
July 15, 2008
Forecasts are just predictions
Silicon Alley reported that some of those that are forecasting ad revenue on line are scaling back their predictions. Overall the report says that the ad industry is “in a severe slump” and spending was basically flat over the first four months of 2008. Something to think about when we keep seeing user numbers growing [...]
July 15, 2008
Now, this data you can sink your teeth into
Just when you think no one is actually watching the store, someone surprises you. This report from MultiMedia Intelligence says that its the folks that make the money on both coasts in the US that are using/embracing the networked home. And it stresses that targetingspecific consumer characteristics will be a key success factor among companies [...]
July 15, 2008
Numbers say little
Again, I must protest the massive publishing of IPTV subscribers on the rise — again, another report just in from the Broadband Forum – says that the number of global broadband subscribers now number 370 million, while global IPTV subscribers now amount to almost 15.5 million. But the stories never actually detail which operators have [...]
