JamieG Analysis

Watching TV from Internet based sources has grown drastically in the last year, still, amazingly there has been little more then lip service and toe in the water reactions from the larger encumbent players.
The bandwidth issues has been touted as the main reason.  For example, until the internet is upgraded giving higher bandwidth access to [...]

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Recently I wrote about “The tend towards an open STB continues.”
This trend has just been turned into a reality with Sony announcing that by Christmas, 90% or all TV on sale will be Internet ready,  and to quote the Sony release..
Sony will embrace open standards “to improve interoperability among all of our customers’ devices.”
See this [...]

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The Apple hype engine has been going into overdrive lately about Sproutcore. “What is Sproutcore?” Well, to a long tooth net developer, its JUST ANOTHER JAVASCRIPT FRAMEWORK.  But to the Apple alumni, its the biggest thing to happen to net applications in a long time.
My Web/Javascript programming friends do not even consider sproutcore is as [...]

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A common topic I cover on my blog is what the Set top box of the future is likely to be. Recently in my post named “Discussion with Philip Hodgetts about the digital TV future.”, Philip and I covered many aspects of this idea.  Recently a number of developments connected to this topic have surfaced.  [...]

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I awoke this morning to the chatter on the net about WWDC and the iPhone.  Nothing we didn;t expect.  All and all very boring. Later today I thought I would look at me.com (mobileme) another less noted announcement at WWDC.
Now this is where the story is, and it appears most of the internet have overlooked [...]

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