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Verizon launches the three-channel DVR Verizon has a fiber-based IPTV system, which uses MPEG-2 video.
This description of an installation may give you an idea why the FIOS system will cost Verizon billions more than the SBC/AT&T approach: plain old twisted pair, plus advance modulation and advance video compression.
Maxian T700, another PMP -- [Portable Media Player]
Maxian's announcement page,
translated.
This device features a 480x272 resolution screen, which they describe as WQVGA ( wide quarter VGA). This is the same resolution as the Sony PSP. The T700 spec claims support for a wide array of video formats, including h.264.
Japanese Cos. Plan Web TV Joint Standard
OKYO (AP) - Sony, Matsushita and three other Japanese electronics makers plan to develop a join standard for new Internet televisions that will make it easier for people to see video available on the Web, a Sony spokeswoman said Thursday.
The TVs aim to make accessing video and similar online content easier than with computers, spokeswoman Mina Naito. The other companies involved are Sharp Corp., Toshiba Corp. and Hitachi Ltd.
Asus WL-700gE WiFi Router with built-In 160GB Drive:
It has a built in network iTunes client, so it'll show up as an iTunes client to your PCs. And it has a BitTorrent client that can rip down 7 streams automatically (and 10 FTP or web streams at the same time.) That's with your PC off, all downloads handled by the router.This is the right idea I think. Having the BitTorrent client inside the router should (if they were smart) get around the big set up hassle with BitTorrent - namely, if you're running behind a router you have to forward the right ports to your machine, and to be reliable you have to have the router assign you a static IP instead of using DHCP, so it's doubly tricky. Presumably this device should be able to handle all firewall traversal issues on it's own since it is the firewall.
Cool that you can add another drive to make a RAID (RAID 1 presumably.) I wonder if two drives is the limit? Probably. It would be really cool if you could keep daisy chaining drives and it would just automagically grow the RAID array (maybe RAID 5.) That's the sort of thing Sun's ZFS filesystem can do.
Anyway, this Asus router looks good.
As Flash turns 10, Adobe looks ahead
Sony Unveils Mylo Device -- MP3, messaging, VoIP, browsing, video player, video games, 1GB memory, BUT no connectivity other than WiFi
Sony to launch a new kind of wireless handheld for IM, other Internet-based communications
Sprint to build 4G network
Sprint to Use WiMax for 4G Network
Sprint to Invest as Much as $3 Billion in New Network
Sprint to spend up to $4.5 bln on WiMax network
DirecTV-EchoStar Merger Seen Unlikely
-- This Forbes article mentions possible cooperations on data services via the AWS spectrum auction. -- WARNING -- Hit mute before following the Forbes link. There's a talkiing pop-up of Steve Forbes. Aaaaahhhh!
Ultranet2go spreads WiMax across Mexico
Caltrain commuter rail pulls WiMAX at 79 mph
Google to distribute MTV clips with ads
Google Shies Away from Digital Music Sales
County Wide Wireless To Be Deployed in Michigan
The Sometimes Fallacy of The Long Tail
ESPN and the inverse of net neutrality. I hope this doesn't work for them. Very bad precedent.
picoChip partners with KT for WiBro/WiMAX femtocells -- picoChip is one of many small companies developing chips with a huge number of processor cores -- in their case 200 DSPs on a single chip. This approach has the potential to provide very high performance at low cost while maintaining programmability. Multimedia and communications are two key targets for the various vendors of centicore chips. ("Kilocore" is already taken as the name of a company. It looks like "Centicore" was used at some point as the name of a product. "Centicore" is also the name of a mythical beast and a Swedish metal band.)
Apple's iPod looks to dominate the dashboard
Good news if this is for real:
Dan Kaminsky, DNS hacker and rootkit infection sleuth, has devised a test for checking to see if your Internet connection is "neutral" -- that is, whether your connection is being filtered, throttled, slowed down, or monkeyed with secretly by your ISP:If it's easy for people to figure out (and publicize for others) which ISPs are neutral, and which are trying to sell limited access to the internet, it should help market forces to push things towards the neutral side.Kaminsky calls his technique "TCP-based active probing for faults." He says that the software he's developing will be similar to the Traceroute Internet utility that is used to track what path Internet traffic takes as it hops between two machines on different ends of the network.
But unlike Traceroute, Kaminsky's software will be able to make traffic appear as if it is coming from a particular carrier or is being used for a certain type of application, like VoIP. It will also be able to identify where the traffic is being dropped and could ultimately be used to finger service providers that are treating some network traffic as second-class.
AT&T launches Homezone -- DISH Network satellite service (from Echostar) coupled with DSL (from AT&T). The DSL service is used as transport for long tail (and mainstream) video services from Akimbo. Not to be confused with U-verse, which is a pure DSL play based on very high speed DSL.
Kingston enters the portable media player market