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Video News: Which Tablet Is Best For You?
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Euclid's View
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Is Bandwidth The Next New Currency?
Explore Euclid's View (May 14 2012) Euclid's View
by Richard Wingard
60 hours of video are uploaded every minute, or one hour of video is uploaded to YouTube every second. Over 4 billion videos are viewed a day. Over 800 million unique users visit YouTube each month. Over 3 billion hours of video are watched each month on YouTube. More video is uploaded to YouTube in one month than the 3 major US networks created in 60 years. Click here to read full article.
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Why the Video Explosion Demands New Technologies
Explore Euclid's View (Apr 13 2012) Euclid's View
by Richard Wingard
Video consumption is exploding, and its global proliferation is straining the very fabric of the internet, particularly at it's wireless edges. What new technologies and approaches to video handling and distribution are coming to keep up with the growth? Click here to read more ...
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March Madness & The Elephant in the Bandwidth Pipe
Explore Euclid's View (Mar 28 2012) Nuts and Bolts
by Bob Werner
The NCAA Men’s Basketball tournament kicks off this week with 32 games in 4 days as part of what is commonly known as March Madness. Since many games are played during standard business hours, employees often attempt to watch games in real-time online while at work. This results in a high consumption of bandwidth sucked up by the streaming video in organizations and can put significant stress on routers, firewalls and other IT security appliances. According to the results of a recent survey of 500 IT professionals commissioned by Modis, 42 percent of IT professionals say March Madness historically ...
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The "Spectrum Crunch" - Slowing Mobile Down
Explore Euclid's View (Mar 17 2012)
by Richard Wingard
We are running out of space on our wireless networks. As a result, mobile providers are trying to slow usage down by incorporating new pricing models and doing away with unlimited plans.
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A Deeper Look At Computer Vision Technology
Explore Euclid's View (Feb 15 2012) Euclid's View , Video Technology
by Nigel Lee
In a previous article, we discussed how techniques in the field of computer vision (CV) can be used to improve video compression, the process by which video content can be represented more compactly than in its original form. Video compression is what enables high-quality video data to be stored and transmitted over limited-capacity networks. By emulating the human visual system in viewing and understanding a video, CV builds models that identify (detect) and follow (track) important content across a series of video frames. CV-based modeling enables video processing systems to better exploit temporal redundancy in the video, the cornerstone of ...
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Verizon's and Comcast's data caps: Who wins and who loses?
Explore Technology News (May 19 2012) Nuts and Bolts , Streaming
Broadband data caps were a hot topic this week as Comcast and Verizon Wireless separately talked up upcoming changes to their policies. So how will these data cap tweaks affect consumers? In short, Comcast's move, which increases its existing cap from 250 GB to 300 GB and now offers an overage fee for those who exceed the cap, is likely a positive for its subscribers. Even the consumer advocates who typically hate the idea of data caps applauded the company for improving the policy.
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ATandT, Like Verizon, Pushing Shared Data Plans, Lower Device Subsidies
Explore eweek.com (May 18 2012)
By: Michelle Maisto 2012-05-18 Article Rating: star star star star star / 0 There are user comments on this Enterprise Mobility story. AT&T; plans to swallow fewer device costs for subscribers, CEO Ralph de la Vega said during an investors’ call, in an effort to raise revenue. Like Verizon’s CFO the day before, he also spoke of devices sharing data plans. AT&T plans to increase revenue by reducing mobile phone subsidies
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Brightcove Offers Video Cloud Integration for Nine CMS Platforms
Explore Streaming Media (May 18 2012)
Millions of site owners now have the option of adding video to their workflows, says Brightcove, thanks to newly announced content management system (CMS) integrations for Adobe CQ5, Agility, Atex Polopoly, Drupal, Ektron, Microsoft Sharepoint 2010, PaperThin CommonSpot, Sitecore, and WordPress.
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Verizon Threw Apple A Curveball
Explore Stock Market News & Financial Analysis (May 17 2012) Community
Verizon (VZ) just threw a curveball at Apple (AAPL). The company announced that it would not allow grandfathered unlimited data plans to carry on when customers upgrade into LTE devices. This makes it a whole lot less appealing to make such an upgrade ...
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Verizon Wireless to end unlimited data plan
Explore usatoday.com (May 16 2012) Nuts and Bolts , Streaming
No deal: Verizon dropped its $30-a-month unlimited data plan last July for new users. Fran Shammo, CFO of Verizon Communications, which owns a controlling share of Verizon Wireless, first revealed the change Wednesday at an industry conference and it was first reported by Fierce Wireless, an online publication. Verizon is expanding the latest generation of its wireless network, called 4G LTE. Customers wanting to upgrade phones from their current 3G data plan to use 4G LTE will be required to si
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A Key to Wireless Capacity Crunch
Explore Zacks Investment Research (May 15 2012) Nuts and Bolts , Streaming , Video Technology
Wireless spectrum crunch has become the major issue in the U.S. telecom industry. Carriers are finding it increasingly difficult to manage mobile data traffic, which is growing by leaps and bounds. The situation has become even more acute with the growing popularity of Apple Inc.’s (AAPL Analyst Report) iPhone and Google Inc.’s (GOOG Analyst Report) Android smartphones as well as rising online mobile video streaming, cloud computing and video conferencing services.
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Cisco Supports Chunghwa Telecom Cloud Service Optimizing Cloud Applications
Explore The FINANCIAL (May 15 2012) Nuts and Bolts , Streaming , Video Technology
The FINANCIAL -- Cisco announced that Chunghwa Telecom, a leading cloud service provider in Taiwan, enhanced its ‘hicloud' Cloud Server Service with the deployment of the Cisco Unified Data Center architecture. This offers virtual server computing services through a stable, highly secure and reliable network platform, helping enterprises improve IT system and facility utilization, and swiftly and flexibly providing computing resources for enterprises, effectively paving the way for cloud business.
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Ponemon Institute Study Looks at Mobile Risks As More Devices Invade The Enterprise
Explore cmswire.com (May 14 2012)
The Ponemon Institute has released the results of a global study into the risks presented by the use of mobile devices, which they define as including “laptops, USB drives, smartphones, and tablets.”
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Amazon Web Services Launches Dynamic Content Support in Amazon CloudFront
Explore businesswire.com (May 14 2012) Nuts and Bolts , Streaming , Video Technology
Amazon Web Services LLC (AWS), an Amazon.com company (NASDAQ:AMZN), today launched support for dynamic content in Amazon CloudFront. This new capability gives AWS customers a simple, cost-effective way to improve the performance, reliability and global reach of their website by using Amazon CloudFront to deliver all their content, including the dynamic portions of their ...
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Wireless carriers eye solutions to spectrum crunch
Explore Reuters.com (May 11 2012) Nuts and Bolts , Streaming
(Reuters) - Top U.S. mobile operators are turning to a new type of equipment known as small cells to boost network capacity in the face of a shortage of wireless spectrum. With consumer demand for wireless data services like mobile video streaming growing sharply, network operators say they need access to more wireless airwaves soon or they will risk running out of capacity to support their customers.
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Industry Buzz
New York Times: AT&T Chief Regrets Offering Unlimited Data for iPhone
Explore Technology (May 4 2012) Community , Nuts and Bolts , Streaming , Wingard Top 5
When Randall Stephenson, AT&T’s chief executive, spoke about the state of the wireless industry at a conference this week, he shared some surprisingly frank comments about the iPhone.
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Strange Bedfellows – Apple's Carrier Saga
Explore redOrbit (May 11 2012) Wingard Top 5
Image Credit: TonyV3112 / Shutterstock.com Michael Harper for RedOrbit.com It shouldn’t be overlooked that Apple is unlike any other handset manufacturer to come before them. You remember the days before Apple, of course. When the time came to buy a new phone, whether it be because you were switching carriers or because your two-year contract was up and you felt like a change, you would visit your local carrier-authorized store. There, a helpful rep
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A peek at 'Cisco TV' and the Silicon Valley TV battle lines...
Explore zdnet.com (May 10 2012) Nuts and Bolts , Streaming
Cisco is arming itself for a major battle in the coming TV Wars and newly acquired NDS is Cisco's key weapon.
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CTIA's Wireless 2012: Verizon urges streamlined spectrum auctions
Explore IT news, technology analysis and how (May 10 2012)
As momentum across the government gathers behind policies to make larger portions of spectrum available to wireless carriers to handle the growing volume of mobile data, industry players are hoping that the auctions through which the licenses will be sold will not carry significant conditions. Meantime, the trade group representing the television broadcasters who would be asked to relinquish their spectrum licenses in exchange for a cut of the revenues generated at auction, is working to slow th
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The ABCs of camera phone technology
Explore Computerworld (May 11 2012) Nuts and Bolts
Camera phones have come a long way since the first sub-megapixel models of the late 1990s and early 2000s. Aside from being more broadly available -- there's barely a phone sold today that doesn't have a camera -- they've also become much less of a novelty and much more useful as cameras.
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10 New Initiatives in Cloud Computing
Explore eweek.com (May 11 2012) Nuts and Bolts , Streaming , Video Technology
It uses HDX optimization to reduce bandwidth load over wide-area networks and manage printing communications outside the virtual desktop channel for enhanced quality of service.
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Industry Mavericks Team Up to Build TenHands HD Video Collaboration
Explore Digital Journal (May 3 2012) Community , Video Technology
TenHands, Inc., the innovative service provider that delivers free, easy video collaboration for business announces that industry leaders have teamed to create this revolutionary advancement in video communications. Founded by Mark Weidick, former head of Cisco's Telepresence Exchange business, and Jack Blaeser, former President of BT Conferencing, TenHands is the first 100% virtualized, cloud based commercial offering available. Based on Google’s WebRTC initiative (http://www.webrtc.org) to put
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AT&T Drunk Dials the FCC
Explore Businessweek (May 10 2012) Streaming
Think 4G is 10 times faster? Think again
Explore GigaOM (May 10 2012) Wingard Top 5
We’ve all heard the commercials and seen the ads. The major cellular carriers are rolling out their shiny new 4G networks, and they’re promising speeds “up to 10 times faster” than regular 3G networks. They also toss the term “LTE” around as if it were going out of style.
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Mobile Data Traffic Might Exceed Capacity By 2014
Explore ITProPortal.com (May 11 2012) Streaming
The Cellular Telecommunications and Internet Association (CTIA) event, which has taken place in New Orleans, has seen a few revelations. The representatives of the companies present at the event have debated over data overloads, and the spectrum crunch that threatens networks. Some carriers have tried to blame the data overload on the customers' habits and even on technology. At the beginning of this year, Siri, the digital assistant featured in Apple's latest iPhone, was seen as the culprit. On
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