The new episode of House returned to Fox TV on Monday night at 8:00 PM after a two week hiatus in the US for the World Series. For us down-under (according to Nicky at Channel Ten Programming department,) we will have to wait for an as yet unspecified return date - Next year, but [...]
We have previously stated that P2P downloads of English movies are acting as a valuable ambassador of the English language and consumer lifestyle trends to the worlds hungriest P2P market, China. Today, we will be discussing that Cable Broadcasting stalwart, the World Movie Channel. Anyone who subscribes to the World Movies Channel will [...]
Teeth are gnashing at Telstra HQ as PPC1 snakes its way across the Pacific ocean floor – edging closer and closer to its termination destiny with its Guam and PNG landing points. Suddenly the smaller ISP’s will have an alternative. Competition might be slow to start with Pipe Networks desiring to recoup outlays before [...]
In 1994, AS CEO of Australia’s fastest growing ISP, I insisted that we install W3c cache servers at each dial-in pop around Australia. And we cached the “J” server from Palo Alto to our Portland Oregon offices and then replicated that in Sydney. All DNS queries on the Ausnet network stayed in Australia [...]
I spent a couple of hours yesterday at Alcatel in Sydney being shown some of their visions for the near future for convergence… and in particular IPTV. Some incredible stuff. Particularly the change that Consumer Created Content makes. They have done some amazing things. But as they told me it is not about what they [...]
It used to be said that “Life Imitates Art”. Now it may be more relevant to change two letters in that propsition and say, “Life Imitates IT”. This is part of the change to generation compression. We are functioning more like computers do and less like humans did. When I was a teenager, I did [...]
Microsoft and Scientific-Atlanta, a major TV set-top device maker, have just announced an agreement to work together. Microsoft will provide the software operating system. Scientific-Atlanta will make the set-top boxes to give people access and control of all their digital content from one place including video, photos and music. The two companies' technologies will support the [...]