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New Internet: The Real-World Pied Piper of the “New Internet”
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New Internet: The Real-World Pied Piper of the “New Internet”

by Tatiana Koffman Syntropy, a company building the “new Internet,” announced that Shawn Hakl, former SVP at Verizon VZ +0.3%and 5G strategist for Microsoft, and Roman Pacewicz, former Chief Product Officer at AT&T T +0.4%, will be joining the company’s advisory board, alongside internet pioneer Bill Norton, who became Syntropy team as co-founder in 2019. Norton is recognized internationally for his… Read More »New Internet: The Real-World Pied Piper of the “New Internet”

March 24, 2021

Jumping Through Hoops with Hulu will Hollywood Kill Their Offspring Again
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Jumping Through Hoops with Hulu will Hollywood Kill Their Offspring Again

Jumping Through Hoops with Hulu – Congratulations should go to News Corp., Disney, and NBC Universal for finally creating an online company so big and successful that tech industry giants may stumble over each other to acquire it. Does Hulu or its buyer get the short stick? Amazon, Google, Yahoo, Dish Network, and DirecTV appear… Read More »Jumping Through Hoops with Hulu will Hollywood Kill Their Offspring Again

September 20, 2011

Amazon Trumps All Other Suitors in Quest for Hulu
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Amazon Trumps All Other Suitors in Quest for Hulu

Amazon Trumps All Other Suitors The battle for Hulu has come down to a few prime fighters hustling for victory. I’m placing my vote that Amazon should be the winner. Well, that is for a consumer win. There’s been a lot of courting to acquire Hulu from News Corp., Walt Disney, and NBC Universal’s Comcast.… Read More »Amazon Trumps All Other Suitors in Quest for Hulu

September 20, 2011

Google Wrecks the CDN Market
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Google Wrecks the CDN Market

Google Wrecks the CDN Market Last week Google formally launched its Page Speed Service, the latest in a long line of Content Delivery Network (CDN) services from dozens of suppliers from big and small to hit the market over the last 15 years. In the case of Google though, I see a few novel changes… Read More »Google Wrecks the CDN Market

August 10, 2011

Break Out the Buggy Whips. Is Now the Tipping Point for Streaming Video?
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Break Out the Buggy Whips. Is Now the Tipping Point for Streaming Video?

Buggy Whip Business Who’s in the buggy whip business in technology these days? By that, I mean, what companies are about to become obsolete thanks to major shifts in media delivery and consumption caused by the rise, the serious rise, of streaming? More than a dozen years after the launch of the Streaming Media conference,… Read More »Break Out the Buggy Whips. Is Now the Tipping Point for Streaming Video?

November 17, 2010

The Internet
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The Google/Verizon Walled Garden Plan: No Substantive Impact on Net Neutrality

Net Neutrality Plan By Alex Veytsel and Tony Greenberg In the hubbub over the Google and Verizon new net neutrality plan, a couple of things stand out: 1) There is no actual deal, just a proposed compromise that no one actually likes 2) Everyone seems to be confused about the new, private Internet While more viable… Read More »The Google/Verizon Walled Garden Plan: No Substantive Impact on Net Neutrality

August 10, 2010

Microsoft Starts to Share
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Microsoft Starts to Share

Microsoft Starts to Share I always have thought of Microsoft as Open Source in many ways. I know it may sound odd on several fronts, especially for a guy like me who has been using UNIX flavored operating systems since the early 1980s. But I’ve also been using PC-Windows and Apple Macintoshes since the early… Read More »Microsoft Starts to Share

May 14, 2010

Everyone Loves A Format War
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Everyone Loves A Format War

Format War Everyone loves a format war. These things happen once every five years or ten years. The last one that happened was about ten years ago during the Real Media vs. Windows Media wars for domination of Internet video streaming. Many of us are old enough to remember the battle between Sony’s Betmax and… Read More »Everyone Loves A Format War

April 29, 2010

Google as CDN – No Big Deal, But a Big Deal
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Google as CDN – No Big Deal, But a Big Deal

Google as CDN Craig Labovitz, at Arbor Networks, a company that makes packet inspection gear, released a great article about how much traffic Google serves. It has a few key points that the content delivery, content, and telco companies should note: Google is deploying cache servers in ISPs Google generates upwards of 5% of all… Read More »Google as CDN – No Big Deal, But a Big Deal

March 22, 2010

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