In recent years, many people have been dropping their subscriptions to expensive cable television services in favor of watching entertainment programming that can be streamed over the internet. One of the leaders in this new revolution is Netflix, a monthly subscription service through which members can rent DVDs and Blu-Ray disks through the mail orContinue Reading
Janus Friis, millionaire and co-founder (with Niklas Zennstrom) of Skype (VoIP software) and Kazaa (file sharing client), has been silent on his blog. Not a single entry at all in November (as of this writing), and certainly nothing more about The Venice Project, the top secret closed beta of his and Niklas Zennstrom’s rumored-to-be groundbreakingContinue Reading
Talk about a wireless global village. By May 2007, Northern Singapore will have 2400 wireless hotspots set up. Citizens will have free Internet access. For a monthly fee, they will also have unlimited VoIP calls and TV over broadband (IPTV), amongst other services. The free services are will be available for 2-3 years, depending onContinue Reading
Blogger Alec Saunders thinks that the new, sort-of-top secret but not, The Venice Project by Kazaa and Skype cofounders Janus Friis and Niklas Zennstrom, is already sunk, and gives three reasons why (my rebuttal below). Venice marries the P2P (peer-to-peer) technology of Kazaa with IPTV (Internet Protocol TV). Om Malik presented an interview with JanusContinue Reading
APT has a new audio codec (code-decoder) for live performances, which they will be testing with Shure Inc., in Shure’s new digital wireless microphone. The algorithm is designed for performances that will be broadcast over wireless links. Because of the low lag time, this could potentially be useful for the live online concerts that MicrosoftContinue Reading