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Viodi View Newsletter - October 4th, 2006
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Apple or Google's Trojan Horse?
By Ken Pyle
ken.pyle at viodi.com
There was a great deal of excitement surrounding last month’s announcement regarding Apple’s announcements of new products. The most interesting announcement was their product called iTV product. Conventional wisdom has it that this product will really be a sophisticated Digital Video Recorder with networking features and access to all of the commercially available iPOD content. Click here to read this article in which I speculate what this box might really be and, if it isn’t, how some company like Google or Yahoo! might be able to deliver a similar offering that could be a Microsoft killer.
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| Posted 9-18-03 - Streaming Television Content: An Alternative Way to Offer Video Services Posted 9-25-03 - From the Ashes........a Distruptive Server (pdf) Posted 10-20-03 - Some Implications for Independent Telcos (html) Posted 11-18-03 - Is It a Product Or Just Good Marketing? (html) Posted 12-02-03 - Bits and Bites...Home Multimedia.. (html) Posted 12-16-03 - Cable in the Classroom - A Refresher Course (html) Posted 12-16-03 - When You Wish Upon A Star.......A New Satellite-Delivered, Headend Service (html) Posted 02-03-04 - From Trader Joes to NATPE (html) Posted 03-17-04 - I Am Like a Bird - A Parrot, That Is (html) Posted 05-12-04 - The Rest of SureWest's Broadband Story (pdf) Posted 05-26-04 - The Freedom to Choose Any Telecom Provider (pdf) Posted 06-09-04 - Rising Oil Prices & the Link to Telecom (html) Posted 08-04-04 - Packet 8 VoIP Qualitative Test Calling Log (html) Posted 09-15-04 - IOC - Cable Television Market Summary (pdf) Posted 11-03-04 - Don’t Like the News? Go Out and Make Your Own (html) Posted 02-16-05 -Must-Carry Decision - Boon for the IOC? (html) Posted 03-02-05 - Digital Must-Carry & USDTV (html) Posted 04-27-05 - NCTA 2005 Cable Show Recap (html) Posted 06-23-05 - Tips from Independent Telcos (html) Posted 07-06-05 - My Switch Back to Comcast (html) Posted 08-31-05 - Some Gossip for Independent Telcos (html) Posted 12-07-05 - The Next Generation DVR - A Review (html) Posted 01-11-06 - Essential Digital Video- A Book Review (html) Posted 01-25-06 - Local Content at OPASTCO (html) Posted 04-05-06 - What Not to Do..... (html) Posted 05-17-06 - Serving Up Video (html) Posted 07-26-06 - IPTV Hurdles & Opportunities/On the Floor Posted 08-09-06 - From VoIP to Net Neutrality to USF – A Regulatory Round-up Posted 10-04-06 - Fair Weathered Friends? (html) Posted 10-04-06 - Apple’s iTV or Google TV
– A Trojan Horse for Something Bigger? (html) |
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