Bill Gurley shared his insights on new trends in the emerging online video market and how it may impact conventional distribution of content
Gurley then invited his panel out “OnDemand Video has arrived, who profits?”:
Adam Cahan, CEO, Auditude Mike Glickenhaus, CEO, VMIX Shishir Mehrotra, Director Product [...]
Today Google announced that it will supply a personal computer operating system
…signaling a bold move on Redmond that will likely reverberate within big tech for many years to come. The new operating system is to become available in beta form later this year, with broad availability during 2010.
Microsoft has been very vocally and publically working [...]
Microsoft’s Bing.com Search Engine, and Google’s “Chrome” Browser – are two “Wow!”’s.
Chrome and Bing – a hot browser and search engine, respectively – are worth keeping your eye on.
Live becomes Bing
I had the chance to evaluate search engines from Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft at the SMX Search Engine Marketing conference last November. I was surprised [...]
Palm’s new Smartphone, the Pre, is a sensation
I have owned this phone for 16 hours now, and have logged less than 45 minutes using the phone. But already, i can tell you this phone is a sensation, and will become a significant factor in the Smartphone business – especially at Palm, Sprint, Apple, Research and [...]
In this Networld+Interop interview we visit with Jim Kruger and get a demo of Polycom’s latest incarnation of it’s start of the art video telephones, the VVX 1500C, targeted at mid-market firms (100-500 employees) and the enterprise market.
Polycom has partnered with Cisco Systems to bundle these phones with Cisco’s VoIP PBX’s, branded UCS (Unified Communications [...]
StartupTrek interviews Dean Lee, Product Manager for IXIA, to get the story on this massive test
In the never-ending battle between instrumentation companies to push the envelope of test capacity, IXIA seems to be setting the pole position for high-density, wire-speed 10Gbps Ethernet testing. In this impressive display of testing horsepower, Dean Lee leads us through [...]
I spent Tuesday May 19 at the Mandalay Bay Conference Center in Las Vegas, attending the 4th annual “rise-from-the-ashes Networld + Interop (N+I) trade show. I’m happy to report that after three somewhat false start years of getting this great annual computer networking industry tradition “rebooted”, N+I is now truly “back”.
Once again, intelligent wire-speed switches [...]
A new era of mobility seems to be arriving, with the success of CradlePoint’s versatile family of “WiPipe” (TM) 3G-uplinked Wi-Fi routers. The photo at right shows me using a CradlePoint CTR-500 3G+Wi-Fi router in my car.
To make a long story short, I was driving into San Francisco on a beautiful, sunny Saturday morning when [...]
Watched the Space Shuttle STS-125 launch this morning while working at Starbucks in Los Gatos, CA. AT&T Wi-Fi handles video streams very nicely! The video below provided courteousy of NASA (live coverage of the mission, and replays):
Startup Trek is pleased to announce that Dr. Lloyd Nirenberg, has agreed to contribute articles here as guest blogger. Lloyd will be publishing the “Smart Grid Technology Channel” on Startup Trek. He plans to explain all aspects of the “Smart Grid” technology initiatives to us, in plain English! Both from a technological, [...]