From Digital Signage Today
http://www.digitalsignagetoday.com/article.php?id=24198&f=1 Dawn of a brave new world for 4G Natasha Royer Coons managing director, TeraNova• 09 Apr 2010 Over the past five years, the evolution of wireless networks to 3G data speeds, alongside increasingly sophisticated yet cost-effective cellular routers and antennas, has allowed many kiosk and digital signage deployers to have either successfully deployed stable networks using cellular technologies or at least seriously consider it as a viable alternative to landline options.
http://www.digitalsignagetoday.com/article.php?id=24198&f=1
Dawn of a brave new world for 4G
Natasha Royer Coons managing director, TeraNova• 09 Apr 2010
Over the past five years, the evolution of wireless networks to 3G data speeds, alongside increasingly sophisticated yet cost-effective cellular routers and antennas, has allowed many kiosk and digital signage deployers to have either successfully deployed stable networks using cellular technologies or at least seriously consider it as a viable alternative to landline options.
Emergence of 4G is a big event for the DOOH business
Too much of the cost of an installed network is the on-premises systems, routers, servers. With decent 4G networking, all of that logic can be in ‘the cloud’. The in-premises systems can be a simple LCD with a piggy back smart PC running something like Windows Embedded 7, with a USB 4G modem plugged in. Indeed, with such a network, the single sign could subscribe to multiple networks for content, advertising and information.
Unbelievable quote from Josh Bloch, top Java Guru at Google
http://www.itworld.com/software/104484/google-exec-worries-over-rudderless-java Bloch singled out the Java 2 Micro Edition (J2ME) as stagnating and falling behind the times. J2ME was not designed for the amount of power that devices have today. "It doesn't make sense to use a restrictive platform," he said, adding that the platform is in no shape to compete with the likes of Apple's iPhone.
http://www.itworld.com/software/104484/google-exec-worries-over-rudderless-java
Bloch singled out the Java 2 Micro Edition (J2ME) as stagnating and falling behind the times. J2ME was not designed for the amount of power that devices have today. "It doesn't make sense to use a restrictive platform," he said, adding that the platform is in no shape to compete with the likes of Apple's iPhone.
Of course! There is C#/ .NET. From tiny to huge, a single IDE, and single framework, from single micro to massive multi-core, what else?
By Mark Memmott, NPR
"A federal appeals court has ruled that the Federal Communications Commission lacks the authority to require broadband providers to give equal treatment to all Internet traffic flowing over their networks," the Associated Press reports http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2010/04/fcc_net_neutrality_ruling.html
"A federal appeals court has ruled that the Federal Communications Commission lacks the authority to require broadband providers to give equal treatment to all Internet traffic flowing over their networks," the Associated Press reports
http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2010/04/fcc_net_neutrality_ruling.html
Well, we know who lost. Who won? Google. Big time. This is how this will role out.
Google will establish their own IP network, probably based on wireless/WiMax technology. They will not be bound by all the requirements the encumber cable suppliers, like funding C-Span, requirements for ‘Help’ toll free, or ‘Local Offices’ or universal regional coverage. They will probably run it for ‘free’ and if not ‘free’ cheaper than the local cable suppliers. IT will start on some PC Basis- like good ol’ Google providing broadband for the needy inner city schools. One city after another will be networked. Rural, why bother? From the beginning, Google will allow, even encourage, Bit-Torrent, the perfect destroyer of IP (movies, software) that Google does not own Google will continue to expand its network and lower costs until the current broadband suppliers are just limping along. And then the hammer will come down. No Skype- Gtalk (unless Google buys Skype by then). And you want to run Office online or search with Bing? Fagetabowdit.
Bookmark this blog and come back in 10 years.
Nobody has ever managed the issues around tech product rollout like this:
Mystery solved: Why time stands still at 9:42 on iPhone The question has caused me .. many a sleepless night (OK, many a fruitless hour) for the better part of three years: Why in the name of Steve Jobs does every picture of every iPhone in every Apple ad show the time as 9:42. HERE IT IS THE ANSWER "We design the (product launch) keynotes so that the big reveal of the product happens around 40 minutes into the presentation. When the big image of the product appears on screen, we want the time shown to be close to the actual time on the audience's watches. But we know we won't hit 40 minutes exactly." http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/59824
The question has caused me .. many a sleepless night (OK, many a fruitless hour) for the better part of three years: Why in the name of Steve Jobs does every picture of every iPhone in every Apple ad show the time as 9:42.
HERE IT IS THE ANSWER
"We design the (product launch) keynotes so that the big reveal of the product happens around 40 minutes into the presentation. When the big image of the product appears on screen, we want the time shown to be close to the actual time on the audience's watches. But we know we won't hit 40 minutes exactly."
http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/59824
Nobody, every, and ever will, do a tech product intro with this level of precision. Apples performance in this respect is like Fashion Week in Milan compared to the discount bin at TJ Max.
From Forbes Wearable Wireless Displays Are In SightPenelope Patsuris, 05.07.04, 8:00 AM ETNEW YORK - Imagine having a 17-inch screen constantly at your disposal that lets you look up information online, check your e-mail or watch a movie--and that isn't attached to a laptop. Soon, thanks to the burgeoning microdisplay industry, you probably will. http://www.forbes.com/2004/05/07/cx_pp_0507microdisplay_ii.html
From Forbes
Wearable Wireless Displays Are In SightPenelope Patsuris, 05.07.04, 8:00 AM ETNEW YORK - Imagine having a 17-inch screen constantly at your disposal that lets you look up information online, check your e-mail or watch a movie--and that isn't attached to a laptop. Soon, thanks to the burgeoning microdisplay industry, you probably will.
http://www.forbes.com/2004/05/07/cx_pp_0507microdisplay_ii.html
This is sure to happen. A reinforcing technology is speech recognition; the future computer will be ‘heads up’, ‘hands off’ Keep track of the company KOPN; the seem to make most of the displays in these devices. 3:01 AM GMT | Read comments(0)