Translation Please
Last Wednesday night, on the eve of the Consumer Electronics Show, Steve Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft Corp., tucked a small remark into a gadget-y keynote. And if you
Nothing like a few years of bankruptcy drought to color the imaginations of the resource-challenged! In this season’s techie-wish roundup, Charter Engineering
The apparent impasse between energy-efficient windows and the signals of the “Clear” mobile broadband service seemed cause to look into the basics of
Here’s another example of video lingo from different sectors bumping into one another: The way video is streamed on the Web, versus the way it works on cable. (
In case you missed it (I did), the home team achieved two world’s firsts last month, when it comes to getting 3D content into consumer homes. Both occurred
In combing through pages of notes from CTAM Summit and SCTE Cable-Tec Expo, one word popped up over and over (and over). Scale. Examples: “What EBIF will give
For such a nerdy, network-y name, IPv6 rides with some pretty colorful language. Without it, for instance, the global Internet faces “IP address exhaustion.
In the blur of last week’s mash-up of cable events, the lingo landscape bulged with EBIF, pronounced “ee-biff.”   EBIF refresher: Five or so
Big doings in Denver this week, especially for the tech-interested. That’s good, because it’s been six months since the last big core dump in cable
We’ll take a break from the lingo of IPTV this week in favor of a more fundamental question: How much bandwidth does it take to send linear and on-demand video