Posts Tagged with ‘broadband’

Today we are watching an extraordinary move from Google. The internet giant seems to be exhausted in its pursuit for unlicensed use of unused airwaves (”white spaces”) between broadcast TV channels for internet access and decided to call for support from general internet users. Instead of continuing to try to reach the solution that it wants on its own Google has decided to invite all the internet users it can access to sign a petition that this unused spectrum should [...]

Yesterday marked the official launch of blinkx BBTV, which is aimed to provide “a high-quality television experience over the internet” by offering a large library of independent films and premium programming from existing partners of blinkx.
The new BBTV (BroadBand TeleVision) platform is now being offered as a free download and makes use of blinkx’s patented speech and visual recognition technology and hybrid P2P streaming to provide users with interactive internet television that will add “dimension and context to the [...]

Not a week has passed since I assembled a list of predictions for 2008 for your amusement, and already we find two well-known corporate entities deliver an official press release proving one postulation to be quite on-target.
Indeed, both Netflix and LG have teamed together to form a sort of digital download alliance, giving something of a morsel of credence to the article published here in Profy last Saturday. The arrangement the two partners in cinematic deliverance [...]

It’s January 1st, and we’re creeping ever closer to the day of the 700MHz spectrum auction, a so far widely publicized event to be orchestrated by the FCC. Some 260 or so applicants have submitted their names as participants in the process, including Google, AT&T, Qualcomm, and Alltel. Even Chevron is on the roster.
We mention this contest once more here at Profy for the fact that Forbes, a highly-regarded publication with a primarily business-centric focus, recently put forth [...]

If you somehow managed to keep up with the goings on of the broad international news space throughout 2007, you know there’s one topic in particular that received copious amounts of attention. No, not that Mexican repellant them paranoid repubs and loose-limbed dems signed off on. Nor the tinderscape that was/is southern California. Darfur? Nope. (Too bad, though. It sure would’ve been good to see the American media juggle that ball a tad bit more.) Pakistan? Nah. The year was [...]

An interesting yet thoroughly predictable finding resulting from a survey taken by the website Broadbandchoices.co.uk, as reported by the BBC today, is the overwhelming demand for fast and high-quality digital downloads of feature-length films.
Why interesting? Why predictable?
Well, clearly consumers wish to have their Web connections and cloud-based services provide easy access to great catalogues of titles of all genres, a la Netflix (albeit operated entirely over the Internet), as it would require one to perform fewer functions to enjoy items [...]

YouTube, a global Web-based phenomenon if there every was one, has proven itself, over the course of its existence, both as an independent service and one held under the dominion of Mountain View, to be a very effective outlet for everyone from amateur paparazzi to diarists to people-strangely-obsessed-with-unboxing-electronic-goods to get their clips out to the masses, from whence millions on a daily basis look in to the Web video hub for news, entertainment, and plenty other miscellaneous items anyone might [...]

In today's news, the chief excecutive of the Federal Communications Commission announced that his group is opposed to a plan by a Silicon Valley entrepreneur to offer free wireless broadband Internet service nationwide, according to the Wall Street Journal.
The broadband plan was devised by a Menlo Park-based company, known as M2Z Networks, which happens to be run by the FCC's former head of the wireless bureau, John Muleta. M2Z wants to take 25 megahertz of currently unused space [...]

For a good period of time, there was noticeable discontent over the increasing use of the term ‘Web 2.0’ by bloggers, and, eventually, full-fledged journalists. To a sizable portion of Web users, the label had no real meaning whatsoever. They thought it was simply a name conjured for use as a marketing tool. A new spin devoid of meaning. It aggravated. It caused a ruckus on some occasions. And then, almost at once, everyone began to accept it en masse.
Now, [...]