Third Internet Pipe
Posted on June 20, 2011
Earlier this month, the CEO of Time-Warner Cable publicly recognized the primacy of Internet access over traditional video services. Glen Britt said, “People are telling us that if they are down to their last dollar, they’ll drop broadband last.” Consequently, he anticipates a future marketing emphasis on “Single Play” Internet access as higher priced “Triple Play” bundled Internet-TV-Voice packages become less attractive to subscribers.
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Yet it appears Britt wants to implement “Single Play” in a manner failing to save consumers money. For example, he predicted consumption-based pricing which means the more Over-the-Top (OTT) video subscribers watch, the more they will pay. Additionally, he wants to charge subscribers a premium for OTT-videos merely to have them available for mobile devices. Representing consumer interests, David Pogue of The New York Times laments metered pricing “is one crazy, scary development” that could strangle the promise of cloud computing in the cradle. Read more…
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Inventing the Future at Apple
Posted on January 30, 2010
Phil Leigh
As Xerox PARC pioneer Alan Kay once put it, “The best way to predict the future is to invent it”. Much like it did with the iPod and iPhone, Apple again invented the future when it introduced the iPad tablet computer in January.
From one perspective the iPad is an evolutionary extension of the iPod Touch. It uses the same operating system and user interface. Consumers familiar with the iPod Touch will quickly get the hang of the iPad. Neither device has a hard drive, or unpacks out of the box with a keyboard. Both can use the approximate 140,000 apps available at the Apps Store. The most obvious difference is the iPad screen which is about seven times larger. Read more…
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Legal Green Light for Cloud Computing
Posted on July 7, 2009
Jim Burger, Copyright Attorney, Dow, Lohnes
If you would like learn about a recent Supreme Court action providing a legal green light to a future “Networked Economy”, this interview is for you.
Our guest today is Jim Burger who is an attorney with Dow, Lohnes in Washington, D. C. His specialty is intellectual property, including copyright law. Read more…
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