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Innovatrix - Notes from Silicon Valley: Qwiki
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Notes from Silicon Valley. Tuesday, March 1, 2011. Qwiki - rich, multimedia narrative search results.a hint of things to come. Bankrolled by one of the founders of Facebook, Qwiki’s ultimate success will be based on how much information it can collect/encompass. The site is visually attractive and the on-the-fly audio and visual presentations hints of things to come. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). View my complete profile. Innovation Observatory - my other blog. Google Voice Number Porting.
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Innovatrix - Notes from Silicon Valley: May 2015
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Notes from Silicon Valley. Friday, May 15, 2015. Fifth-generation Wi-Fi (802.11ac) coming to a hot spot near you. IEEE 802.11ac, a high throughput wireless LAN technology, can provide gigabit speeds and improved the ability for many users accessing access points simultaneously. Practically speaking, initial speeds around the 400-600Mbps will most likely result, but with sufficient capacity for carrying multiple compressed video streams over a single channel. 2. Carriers can better meet the ever-growing d...
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Innovatrix - Notes from Silicon Valley: March 2009
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Notes from Silicon Valley. Friday, March 27, 2009. WEF Global Info Tech Report 2008-09 -"Network Readiness". The World Economic Forum has released it's. Global Information Technology Report 2008-2009. The eighth study conducted by the WEF in conjunction with the INSEAD business school and sponsored by Cisco Systems. The report gauges how 134 economies around the world are prepared to use ICT effectively. Mobile reality mining, and mobility of human talent and R&D flow. Skype and Enterprise Markets. WEF G...
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Innovatrix - Notes from Silicon Valley: 4K TV & High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC)/H.265
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Notes from Silicon Valley. Thursday, January 10, 2013. 4K TV and High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC)/H.265. The ever increasing demands for higher quality, video viewing experiences delivered to high resolution flat panel HDTVs, laptops, tablets and mobile phones, as well as future devices, are driving advances in video compression technologies. As its name suggests, the primary goal of the standard is to provide significant compression encoding efficiencies, 35%-40% or greater than existing standard.
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Innovatrix - Notes from Silicon Valley: TV-Aware Apps
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Notes from Silicon Valley. Wednesday, March 2, 2011. They know what your are watching (and when and where). They can provide ad spaces that broadcasters (or for interactive apps) at a premium rate, conduct a survey or prompt for a purchase transaction. This could make broadcasters more open and accepting of Internet TV. Makes Apple, Yahoo and Google TV efforts more mainstream and less objectionable to broadcasters, cable channels. Labels: Amazon on Demand. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).
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Innovatrix - Notes from Silicon Valley: Google Voice Number Porting
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Notes from Silicon Valley. Wednesday, March 2, 2011. Google Voice Number Porting. New features allows users to port existing number to VoIP service. A new feature inserts Google between customer and carriers; could mature into a service that competes with Skype. Sometime ago I set up Google Voice on my iTouch - so it only works in WiFi - but the rules allow calls to go to other numbers I specify. I especially like being able to read my voice mails. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).
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Innovatrix - Notes from Silicon Valley: Social Micropayments
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Notes from Silicon Valley. Wednesday, March 2, 2011. Show how much you ”like” with a cash donation. Flattr, Rewrd and Kachingle are all social micropayment startups that allow people to demonstrate how much they like a website or content by making a small donation to that site or content provider by pressing a donate button. Those who wish receive peer-to-peer donations, sign up for the service and place one or more donation buttons on the sites. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).
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Innovatrix - Notes from Silicon Valley: Elastic Beanstalk
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Notes from Silicon Valley. Wednesday, March 2, 2011. Amazon Web Services creates new offering - Platform-as-a-Service. There is a renewed interest in Platform-as-a-Service since Salesforce.com acquired Heroku and Red Hat acquired Makara, and several startups have acquired significant funding. Initially targeted at Java developers but Amazon said it will support other programming languages in the future (in public beta Jan. 2011). Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). View my complete profile.
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Innovatrix - Notes from Silicon Valley: March 2011
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Notes from Silicon Valley. Wednesday, March 2, 2011. They know what your are watching (and when and where). They can provide ad spaces that broadcasters (or for interactive apps) at a premium rate, conduct a survey or prompt for a purchase transaction. This could make broadcasters more open and accepting of Internet TV. Makes Apple, Yahoo and Google TV efforts more mainstream and less objectionable to broadcasters, cable channels. Labels: Amazon on Demand. Google Voice Number Porting. Flattr, Rewrd and K...
