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This is a picture that helps understand the impact of open access and interoperability in the information/news business (although its intention was different). These two valuable qualities, inherent in the Internet world, have enabled the uncontrolled and unconditional dissemination of diverse information for the benefit of the consumer. It has also facilitated the creation of [...]
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Last Sunday I watched the “el classico” of the Greek footbal via a High Definition broadcast from SKAI.gr, a pioneer radio/TV station of the country. With a 720p resolution and a relatively low bit rate (around 700Kbps) the broadcast made a decent watch. The thing is that it would not be possible to watch the [...]
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Cisco and the city of Amsterdam announced yesterday the rollout of Urban EcoMap, an Internet-based tool that enables cities around the world to provide smarter climate change information for their citizens.
The tool at this stage helps cities to build a footprint of their carbon emission (soon through real-time data from public utilities and [...]
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Here’s a nice chart depicting the top money makers from ad placement inside video clips on the youtube.com. The business potential from content sharing seems strong enough to drive Sony and Universal into building VEVO later this year.
I am a firm believer that there are more ways (other than advertising) to leverage on content at a [...]
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I was on my way to an appointment figuring out new view-points and reasons why we must consider seriously the option to allow sharing of the NGN physical infrastructures (e.g. open access, unbundling and the like) and not simply let/allow/encourage/facilitate anyone to digg at will, when there before my eyes saw the hardest evidence I [...]
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James Boyle, co-founder of the Center for the Study of the Public Domain discusses the biases and virtues of openness and copyright/fight. It is a must see, especially if you are in the (printed or electronic) content creation and distribution business.
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In late 2008, the e-inclusion awards were established for the first time by the European Commision to recognise excellence and good practice in using ICT and digital technology to tackle social and digital exclusion across Europe.
The Greeks got home with the Inclusive Public Services Award for a pilot e-health project run by Sotiria Hospital. The [...]
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Naive for our standards (is it really?), yet an excellent forward-looking video clip from the 1969. Found at itvt.com.
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Back in the old days of dialup we used to joke that if someone wanted to send a picture or, boy even worse, a video clip he should better put it in a disk and hand it over the next day rather than sending it by email. It would be faster, cheaper (dialup was priced [...]
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One day after I posted the “A Killer-App for the Internet Service Providers: An Urban Legend or Not?” a colleague in our team’s internal mailing list has pointed to a very interesting research initiative by Texas A&M University ITEC, Inuk Networks, and Internet2 to design, build and evaluate an IPTV delivery platform and play-out model [...]
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Costas Troulos is a telecoms analyst and passionately covers wireline broadband and related developments in Greece and the rest of the world. For the last 4 years he has been involved in several consulting and research projects on public broadband investments, FTTH and metro network deployments. His is interested in everything related to telecom regulation/policy, national strategies and NGN business models.