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Friday, August 22, 2003 |
Hauppauge [HAUP; Nasdaq] and others are making these devices that the NYT's Mcmanus describe as "bridging the gap" between the PC and the TV enabling consumers to display "media content" that resides on PCs. Curiously, there is no word on the Hauppague website about the MediaMVP product that Mcmanus references in his article [From PC to TV Screen, a Stream of Multimedia. Your PC is brimming with great photos, MP3's and videos. But your family and friends are glued to the television. By Neil Mcmanus. New York Times: Technology] and no indication of its price or feature set.
Among other things, Hauppaauge makes a 350 Meg PC/DVR card that sells for $200.
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Tuesday, June 10, 2003 |
Sony plugs TV into Vaio notebooks. The Japanese company looks to boost its PC fortunes with a notebook that lets people pause and record live TV for future playback and another that packs Centrino wireless technology. [CNET News.com]
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Yesterday at NCTA, Microsoft introduce Microsoft® TV Foundation Edition what they descirbe as "a new digital TV software platform designed to help cable operators get more value from on-demand and other digital TV services"
They simultaneously announced support (http://www.microsoft.com/tv/mstvIndustrySupportPR.mspx) for the platform from cable industry vendors Motorola, Inc., SeaChange, Concurrent Computer Corp., MetaTV Inc., Two Way TV Ltd. and Advanced Digital Broadcast Ltd.
They also announced a customer win (http://www.microsoft.com/tv/cablevisionselectsmspr.mspx) for the software platform with Televisa's Cablevision (CVC) subsidiary, one of Mexico City's largest cable MSO with ~450k subscribers announcing that they will adopt it.
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Thursday, April 03, 2003 |
Wave Systems announced their earnings for Q4 2002 today. According to their press release [see exerpt below] they are looking for strategic partners.
"Steven Sprague, Wave's president and CEO, said, "In order to raise the additional capital required to fund Wave's operations, we have engaged an investment banking firm and are exploring a number of financing alternatives which include debt or equity financing (or a combination of both) or one or more commercial or strategic transactions."
"The personal computing industry is now committed to a historic transition to trusted computing. The most influential players -companies including Microsoft, Intel, Hewlett-Packard, AMD, National Semiconductor, Infineon and others - have publicly committed to a trusted PC environment secured by a hardware chip. Without a doubt, today's inherently insecure PC is morphing to tomorrow's secure and trusted PC which will offer a range of productive services for users. Wave's long commitment to hardware and services-secured trusted computing has made us influential in the evolution of this huge and evolving market opportunity."
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Wednesday, March 05, 2003 |
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Monday, February 17, 2003 |
Here's how opencola describes their P2P approach to enterprise knowledge management...
Inefficient search and the resultant rework costs billions.
According to the Meta Group, workers spend approximately 25-35% of their time searching for the information they need, rather than working on strategic projects and business opportunities. IDC states that Fortune 500 companies will lose $31.5 billion by 2003 due to rework and the inability to find information.
Search breaks down because it can't find distributed information
The Delphi Consulting Group has found that only 12% of a typical company's knowledge is explicitly published. The remaining 88% is distributed knowledge, which is comprised of employees' personal knowledge. This knowledge is captured by their work-in-progress Office® documents, e-mail, web sites they visit, and the searches they perform. Knowledge workers are in a constant process to keep their own personal knowledge and knowledge relationships current. However there are limited tools to perform this personal knowledge gathering well, and even worse, some companies are trying to solve the problem of what somebody knows by automatically profiling them - a solution that Opencola does not support.
Opencola® is a distributed solution for distributed information
Instead of auto-profiling, Opencola provides the knowledge worker with a powerful desktop tool that allows them to automate the collection and management of information. Once organized and automated, people can easily share folders with their team and the enterprise. The ability to create local folders of information on topics that the user already tracks and automatically find other people who have relevant information, is a powerful motivator to use the tool. When the time comes to share information, it can easily be shared from desktop to desktop via the secure peer-to-peer network easing the friction of uploading information to a central repository.
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© Copyright 2003 Douglas L Ross.
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