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Friday, August 22, 2003 |
There is a significant battle going on for control of the intellectual property surrounding the delivery of targeted television and internet advertising.
Ad firm 24/7 pushing for patent power. 24/7 Real Media wins another patent for delivering digital ads, giving it new authority over the online-ad serving market as it pursues patent licenses to improve shareholder value. [CNET News.com]
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Monday, August 11, 2003 |
It looks like Samsung is convinced that the standard for UWB proposed by the Multiband OFDM Alliance [http://www.multibandofdm.org/] is likely to win the standards race, so they are trying to get jump on the industry with commercial products. What markets they will go after first should be interesting, but they apparently aren't saying yet.
Samsung to team on ultrawideband. The consumer-electronics company pairs with chipmaker Staccato Communications to develop products using ultrawideband, a technology that's 100 times faster than Bluetooth. [CNET News.com]
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Wednesday, August 06, 2003 |
This article is about the expansion of the bid-for-ad-placement concept from strictly the search domain to the general "web-site" browsing context.
If You Liked the Web Page, You'll Love the Ad. Online publishers are beginning to sense the possibilities of having Google or Overture serve ads to their audiences. By Bob Tedeschi. [New York Times: Technology]
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Tuesday, June 10, 2003 |
Microsoft announced that they've signed the OCAP agreement with Cable Labs. Here's what they say about it:
"Microsoft has agreed to contribute pertinent intellectual property rights to the OpenCable™ project, including the OpenCable Application Platform (OCAP™) software project. In addition, Microsoft and CableLabs have agreed to work together to explore the potential of adding .NET common language infrastructure (CLI) to a future version of OCAP "
3:29:12 PM
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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 |
"The Internet Streaming Media Alliance (ISMA), a global alliance of nearly 40 industry leaders in content management, distribution infrastructure, and streaming media, today announced that it is releasing for peer review a new content protection specification which will serve as the technical foundation for the secure delivery of streaming and download media content."
[See press release http://www.isma.tv/pub/resources/pr.shtml?PR1011.txt ]
1:55:15 PM
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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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Thursday, March 06, 2003 |
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Wednesday, March 05, 2003 |
Tony Perkins (of Red Herring fame) intervied Sony's Idei at Davos and reported on that in a website called "Always On" which The Register picked up on and is now reporting in this story:
Sony keen to buy PalmSource. Or Symbian if Palm won't sell [The Register]
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Monday, March 03, 2003 |
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Monday, February 17, 2003 |
The FCC published a letter from Chairman Powell today (http://www.fcc.gov/commissioners/powell/gross_enum_letter-021303.pdf) suggesting that they are positive about US participation in the ENUM initiative of the IETF. ENUM is an effort to establish a universal numbering schema that converges today's separate telecom and internet numbering schemes.
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Friday, February 14, 2003 |
An exerpt from the press release issued today by the iTV Production Standards Initiative...
"LOS ANGELES, CA - FEBRUARY 10, 2003 - The iTV Production Standards Initiative released today version 1.1 of its open XML specification for writing interactive television (iTV) applications. The updated specification supports static interactive content, such as TV magazines, virtual channels, and electronic programming guides (EPGs). Several improvements to the spec also increase its flexibility and clarity. "
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