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smaxp writes:
Broadcasters can't stop Aereo without hurting themselves, Broadcasters have threatened to stop over-the-air OTA broadcasting. if Aereo prevails before the Supreme Court. Its all bark and no bite because the broadcasters will lose advertising dollars by cutting off OTA viewers.
Aereo and Netflix provides "good enough television" that will convince aspiring cord-cutters to finally cut the cord. Why pay $70 per month for cable when $18 provides Netflix, ABC, NBC, CBS, Fox and PBS — news, prime-time TV, some sports and reality TV.
Broadcasters will lose retransmission fees, but for the bulk of their advertising revenues will follow the the cord cutters from cable and satellite to Aereo. Aereo may be able to deliver better analytics than the cable and satellite providers and Nielsen, and that will help broadcasters in their negotiations with sponsors to increase adverting revenues.
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smaxp writes:
The World Cup match between Cameroon and Mexico was viewed 2.8 million times, setting a world record for the most views of a sporting match streamed over the internet. However, NBC Sports still claims it holds the record for the most internet views of a sporting match, Variety reported yesterday, even though the record-setting 2014 Olympic Semi Final hockey game between the U.S. and Canada generated only 2.1 million views.
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smaxp writes:
Qualcomm’s Liat Ben Zur spoke of the “Internet of Thing,” in the singular case rather than the plural, at the recent MIT Technology Review Digital Summit. She made the point using Google’s Nest thermostat that is connected to the cloud, and the cloud to an app to control it. Add another IoT device, add another cloud, and another app and so on. She brought into question IoT device interoperability and the rationale for sending all IoT data through the cloud when the purpose of much of the data is communicating between local devices on a proximal network. Proximal means local, like a LAN. If IoT devices from different brands are to work together in the proximal network independent of the cloud, the industry will need to agree to standards.
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smaxp writes:
Elan Musk is now going to build solar panels in the US. Musk is the real deal. Building car batteries, cars, spaceships, high speed trains and contributing a bunch of patents into the public domain to transform industry. American business with a few exceptions such as Google don't have the stomach for long term capital intensive bets.
All hail Elan Musk! A 21st century Andrew Carnegie
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smaxp writes:
Android 4.4.3 permissions update is unappreciated by those it helps and upsets a few Android enthusiasts. An app developer could make everyone happy.
Android users worried about the new Android permissions aren't the users this update was intended to help. The minority, Android enthusiasts know enough to protect themselves against the perceived flaws. The controversy that surrounds this update is clearly an example of what Voltaire referred to when he said “perfect is the enemy of good” two and a half centuries ago.
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smaxp writes:
It’s rumored that Amazon will launch its own 3D smartphone on June 18. While it may be compelling, a sexy 3D feature won’t catapult Amazon into the lead of the cut-throat smartphone category. If this were true, the EVO 3D, introduced two years ago by HTC and the W960, introduced by Samsung four years ago, would have been top sellers rather than niche products. However, a smartphone that renders 3D images does present an internet retailing opportunity for Amazon. It would be useful to Amazon in selling tangible consumer merchandise, just like Amazon’s Kindle Fire tablet was designed to improve Amazon’s merchandizing of ebooks and video streaming products.
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smaxp writes:
Intel has solved the problem of ARM-native incompatibility. But will developers bite?
App developers now frequently bypass Android’s Dalvik VM for some parts of their apps in favor of the faster native C language. According to Intel two thirds of the top 2,000 apps in the Google Play Store use natively compiled C code, the same language in which Android, the Dalvik VM, and the Android libraries are mostly written
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The natively compiled apps run faster and more efficiently, but at the cost of compatibility. The compiled code is targeted to a particular processor core’s instruction set. In the Android universe, this instruction set is almost always the ARM instruction set. This is a compatibility problem for Intel because its Atom mobile processors use its X86 instruction set
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smaxp writes:
Intel has solved the problem of ARM-native incompatibility. But will developers bite?
App developers now frequently bypass Android’s Dalvik VM for some parts of their apps in favor of the faster native C language. According to Intel two thirds of the top 2,000 apps in the Google Play Store use natively compiled C code, the same language in which Android, the Dalvik VM, and the Android libraries are mostly written.
The natively compiled apps run faster and more efficiently, but at the cost of compatibility. The compiled code is targeted to a particular processor core’s instruction set. In the Android universe, this instruction set is almost always the ARM instruction set. This is a compatibility problem for Intel because its Atom mobile processors use its X86 instruction set.
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smaxp writes:
HTC's Dario Laverde shares his crow's-nest view about why Android Wear is important to consumers and how smart devices will get human-like perception.
At the Android Developers conference, AnDevCon, I had a chance to catch-up with HTC’s master Android developer Dario Laverde about Google’s new wearable user interface (UI) called Android Wear and HTC’s new dual-lens camera. Laverde spends a lot of time in front of innovative software developers, teaching them about the newest mobile and wearable technologies making for an insightful discussion.
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smaxp writes:
Apple has a knack for creating excitement over pretty ordinary features. While there was some big news for developers in the WWDC keynote yesterday, like its new programming language Swift and health dashboard Healthkit, some of the announcements were humdrum enough to make you wonder why Apple did not make its keynote shorter.
Here are nine new iOS features announced yesterday at WWDC that Android has had for quite some time. Some are pretty ordinary, while others have long been a big hole in Apple’s offering.
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smaxp writes:
Apple has a knack for creating excitement over pretty ordinary features. While there was some big news for developers in the WWDC keynote yesterday, like its new programming language Swift and health dashboard Healthkit, some of the announcements were humdrum enough to make you wonder why Apple did not make its keynote shorter.
Here are nine new iOS features announced yesterday at WWDC that Android has had for quite some time. Some are pretty ordinary, while others like beta testing have long been a big hole in Apple’s offering.
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smaxp writes:
What if you could transmit data without link layer flow control bogging down throughput with retransmission requests, and also optimize the size of the transmission for network efficiency and application latency constraints? Researchers from MIT, Caltech and the University of Aalborg claimed to have accomplished this with stateless transmission using Random Linear Network Coding, or RLNC. The universities have collaborated to commercialize this promising technology through joint venture called Code On Technologies.
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smaxp writes:
Professor John Leonard tipped the audience that California just released rules for testing autonomous vehicles on California’s roads and highways. Californians will soon be seeing more autonomous vehicles than just those built by the Google X labs.
These vehicles offer great promise, such as freeing the driver’s attention for productivity or leisure, better safety and less congestion. It will be a while, though, before we see these vehicles on the road. Autonomous vehicles will move the Zip Car car-as-a-service concept forward when deployed, because a subscribers would simply summon cars using an app.
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smaxp writes:
The Surface Pro 3 raises the question for the enterprise — why buy a notebook and a tablet?
Microsoft announced the Surface Pro 3 today, which aims to put the squeeze on enterprise tablet shipments. It’s a WinTel all-the-way tablet that is also an Ultrabook that looks like a very capable alternative to buying both types of devices. In light of Apple’s 16% year-over-year decline in iPad shipments last quarter, the potential for the pure-play large tablet market may be over estimated, because while touchscreens are important, keyboards are needed to get work done.
Microsoft’s Surface Pro 3 was designed to fit this opportunity, which Android and iOS tablets with accessory keyboards don’t address as well as a Windows 8.1 device does with a keyboard.
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smaxp writes:
People who depend on their smartphones for mobile internet access might have guessed Verizon was upgrading its network in large cities like New York, San Francisco and Chicago before the announcement of XLTE this week. Verizon didn’t just turn on XLTE today; it’s been testing for months and you might have noticed.
At the Moscone Center for the RSA Conference, Verizon customers with an AWS-compatible smartphone saw LTE speeds at 53 Mbps downstream and 24 Mbps upstream and faster. This is counterintuitive because data-hungry attendees at tech venues like the Moscone Center use up the Wi-Fi capacity first, and then flood the 3G and 4G capacity. Experiencing these speeds during the RSA conference tipped Verizon's hand.
