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Leveraging the Modern Cable Network for “Fused Services" - SCTE Cable Engineering Plenary - by Richard Doherty and Sabrina Doherty The Society for Cable & Telecommunications Engineers opene...    more
As E3 Approaches, is it Next Gen or Last Gen Console Time? - Will graphics and parallel processing CPU learning curves be the big challenge for developers and console makers? or is net delivery the next big thing? - Might we see a duo or trio of new game consoles starting as early is 2010? Or might President Obama's broadband initiatives and services like OnLive mark the beginning of twilight for Consoles?    more
Portable TV's Silent Spring - Digital Pocket & Portable TVs Are Needed To Replace More Than 100 Million Analog Sets - Play Ball! Spring 2009. Ah Spring! Baseball, apple pie, enjoying TV. Portable TV at the backyard barbeque, at the seaside, at work, at the ballpark.    more
Towards Perfecting Search - Infolution's Information Research Tools and Code Engines Promise Better Results for Organizations Large & Small - Nearly a decade ago, Bill Gates stood six feet from me and proclaimed to our assemblage of industry ...    more
After Sputnik, "Tech Island's" Revolution Spurred Today's Microelectronic World - The space events of Fall 1957 triggered a cornucopia of American electronic miniaturization advances, effectively paving the way for the Flat Panel TVs, PCs, Cell Phones & iPods we enjoy today.    more
IFA Berlin 2007 Preview - Berlin & Beyond - Consumer Electronics Makers To Showcase Latest & Greatest Products & Determine Future Designs as IFA Appeal Rises in Asia, Americas - At a late-April gala preview of this Summer's IFA, Berlin show managers, key exhibitors (including Philips.    more
With RealPlayer 11, All The World's Web Videos Are Yours to Cache... and Carry - Click-cache-enjoy web video later from hard disk or burnable CD/DVD - We all enjoy viewing web delivered video. What we do NOT always enjoy is having to stay glued to the...    more
L.G. Philips Shows A4 Size Flexible Color LCD Panel - E-Ink License Empowers Low-Energy Display - L.G. Philips Shows A4 Size Flexible Color LCD Panel (Reporting by Sabrina Doherty) L.G. Phil...    more
LG Committing to 1080P In New TV Ads, Web References - LG Electronics last week rolled out a new advertising campaign aimed at promoting progressive HD tec...    more
1080P for All Mitsubishi Displays, Expanded Color & Game FX Support for LCDs, DLP's - Laser Projector – Coming Soon - (Sabrina Doherty Reporting) Mitsubishi America used their Spring 2007 dealer line show in NY to s...    more
1080P Content Planned for PlayStation 3 - 1080P Content Planned for PlayStation 3 At a time when HD Video display pessimists' exclaim to c...    more
Weaving the Broadband IP Video Universe at Cable-Tec Expo - Green Lights for Cable's IP Video/Data Design & Deployment Challenges at SCTE's Annual Tech Retreat - Attendees hail from China, India, Western Europe, Australia and the Americas. It seems only Antarct...    more
Director James Cameron: Stereoscopic Theatrical Displays Will Save the Movie Theater Industry - The second day of the NAB's Digital Cinema Summit hosted an SRO crowd for Director James Cameron's keynote.    more
Nintendo Emphasizes 3D Over HD for Next-Gen Console Game Play - Home 3D video gaming is expected to take center stage at E3 next week as Nintendo's next-generation ...    more
Apple's Next 30 Years - It was thirty years ago today... - It was thirty years ago today - with acknowledgment to Sgt. Pepper's parent - that Apple Computer was formed.    more
"Interim" AACS Next Gen HiDef DVD Rules Propel Machines, PC Drives to market - It's official, after nearly ten months of NOT being able to hammer out an AACS version 1.00 final...    more
CES Forecast - Cold with Warm Pockets of Bring Your Own Video, Blue Laser Storm Front Threatens - First, anyone attending the show and hoping to keep the same schedules and appointments of previous ...    more
Happy Holidays! Eh...Merry Christmas - Ben Stein Speaks on What Christmas Means to Him as a Jew - This is the finest 120 seconds of articulate, emotional speech, I have heard in a long time. I had the the pleasure of meeting Ben twice.    more
Richard Doherty's Holiday Buying Guide - Consumers are on a gifting spree this year. For themselves, for family, for friends. Maxing credit cards to and fro, Christmas and New Years bargains are beckoning.    more
IBM, Red Hat, Novel, Sony & Philips Switch On A Green Light for Open Linux - Dubbed Open Invention Network, this Linux Asset Powerhouse will freely license the vast majority of the world's LINUX IP and patent assets to anyone, any company (any size!) which agrees not to assert their patents against OIN OIN's goal is to foster an open, collaborative environment that stimulates advances in Linux and Linux adoption in products and applications Former IBM Intellectual property licensing lead Jerry Rosenthal will administer the trust from the Hudson Valley as CEO.    more
MTV Promotes New Digital Technology Leader - "Chief Digital Officer" title is a First - Will Not be the last - MTV Networks this week created a much needed executive position at the youth-centric mega media com...    more
Google Announces Record Profits - October 2014 - 41st straight quarter of profits - Google announced its 41st straight quarter of profitable operation this week, surpassing all analyst...    more
Creative's Zen Vision Shines - Inside A Jack-of-all-Formats Handheld MultiMedia Video Player - How do you compact more than a pound of digital multimedia features into an 8 ounce package? Creative Labs probably won't tell.    more
Real Gains Microsoft Appeal - Partnering Pact Poses New Challenges for Apple, Sony - As October 11 dawned in Asia, traditional rivals Pakistan and India teamed to provide for the desper...    more
Michael Dell Jokes No Dependence on Microsoft Needed for Blu-ray HD PCs - At New York "Concierge-Class" Consumer Product Launch, Dell Affirms Blu-ray is Better - At the conclusion of Dell Computer's New York Media Center PC and HDTV Display product launch event, CEO Michael Dell's last press and analyst question was one he seemed to be waiting for: a clarification of Dell's Blu-ray HD media commitment, announced at the CES show 20 months ago.    more
Nintendo's New Twist on Game Controllers - Nintendo's New Twist on Game Controllers Nintendo CEO Iwata not only used his Tokyo Game Show keynote to bolth remind the industry of Nintendo's love for gaming (and gamers) but also unveiled a Revolution-ary cordless game controller to accompany its next generation game console - dubbed Nintendo Revolution.    more
The iPod Nano -Personal Music Redefined - Again - Apple once again proves good things come in even smaller packages - and even snazzier packaging - Sure, Apple was expected to introduce some form of new "Flash Memory" iPod music player - a follow-...    more
Nano Design = Award Magnet - Apple's Nano Product - and Packaging - Design Will Surely Score Big for 2005 - We confidently predict Apple will need to allocate more office space to harbor the awards they are l...    more
911+4 = 1461 Days of Nibbling Terror with Little Effective Response - "Never confuse Motion with Action" - Mark Twain - If you had asked me four years ago would I ever be likely to fly on the actual anniversary date of 9/11 again, my response (and my family's) would have been resounding "only in an emergency.    more
Microsoft Longhorn Officially Named WindowsVista - NextGen OS Strives to Pull Clients, Servers from Win2000 & Sluggish XP - It's Official, as of 6 AM Friday July 22, Microsoft has released the official name of its much anticipated next-generation OS.    more
Broadcast Flag is KO'd - For Now - Supreme Court Soon to Rule on P2P Sharing - Don't pop the champagne too early. Sure, the appellate court finally lent some consumer reaction and voice to the FCC's right to entertain - let alone mandate - broadcast flag.    more
"There must be better songs to sing than this!" * - The road to better product and interface design begins with your own next dialogue, purchase or "with-held" purchase - There must be better songs for ALL of us to sing, especially in product designs which touch hundreds...    more
Apple's Newsest PowerBook - More Power, Longer Battery and Hard-Drive Shock Protection - Apple's Fastest PowerBooks Are Champs at Fast External Drive I/O, they Now Protect the Internal Drive from Sudden Shock - and We Test It, Non-Destructively! - It is difficult to stir definitely passionate, yet somewhat finite, user base to purchase "iterative speed bump" computers (particularly laptops) yet Apple has managed to guild its Aluminum Powerbook line with a handful of neat new features.    more
The "Paper" Watch Arrives - Who Needs a Video quality display for a wristwatch? No one, if E Ink's design marks time well - E Ink of Cambridge, MA unveiled the first thin wristwatch application of their electronic paper di...    more
A Whole Lot of Shakin' Goin On - Immersion Technologies Claims against Sony Playstation are Hollower than a $1 Chocolate Easter Bunny - Many of the more tradional business and consumer publications rang out early this week with predicti...    more
Will consumers warm to paying for Home Network Mangement Services? - Are network management services neccessary for "sigital living rooms" to proliferate? And, who keeps you media preferences "safe" from hacking? - At this week's Digital Hollywood conference in Santa Monica, and next week's National Cable Show in San Francisco, marketers are salivating over potential As long as five years ago, Paul Kagan Associates and Merill Lynmch's Jessica Reif Cohen boldly forecast that "many" American households would pay $30-$40 a month to hire their (cable) company to act as outside MIS managers for the networked home.    more
The Best Kept CES Stealth Secret - The IEEE Consumer Electronics Conference - Want to know what will be hot for Holiday 2005 AND 2006? - Despite no, and I mean absolutely NO publicity, attendance was at an all time peak this decade for t...    more
All Hail the CES-DEX/Convergence2005/Digital Hollywood Marathon - In striving to be all things tech to all people seeking new markets, the 2005 Consumer Electronics Show diluted its traditional core strengths - CE - It was a huge show. More than 140,000 people (and over 6,000 press and analysts!) before you count the endless treams of badge-passers who shuttled un-bdged associates into the Las Vegas Convention Center unchallenged.    more
Here Comes the $249 Playstation Portable! - Almost lost among CES announcements was Sony's score of UMD publiishing support from EA & Fox - Here Comes Sony's PSP on March 24th- Might it truly be the Walkman of the 21st Century? Bulldozin...    more
Richard Doherty's 2005 Predictions - Keeping Media PCs Simple, Watching out for Wireless, Onerous Media Rules, Handheld Digital Video, Next-Gen Storage Media - Background: These 2005 forecasts detail macro-categories which overlap and affect one another. For example, problems in 802.    more
A New Hot Pocket - Sony's One-Pound Vaio U - A Pocket Full of XP Miracles May Redefine Mobility - After months of witnessing what is perhaps the world's "smartest" one-pound computer being smuggled ...    more
HDTVs and HD Displays "A Buyers' Market"...Protected with Cryptic Codewords - Holiday 2004 PC, HDTV Screens Beckon - But Retail Confusion Abounds - Flat TV. Digital TV. HD Ready. Plasma. Half-Life. LCD. Micro Display. Wal Mountable Projectors. Projection vs.    more
Microsoft's Softer Side of Media Center Seers - Crossing the Media Center Extender Gap - Ah. Is it Digital Media Bliss. Or...Miss? You are the lucky owner of a $1,200 to $2,000 Media Center 2004 Edition PC, perhaps equipped with the highly desirable HDTV tuner card.    more

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