Voice Profiling Is Coming. Are You Ready? If you ever order a product by phone, or call customer service, you might undergo voice profiling. On a sales or customer service call, you may have heard the following message: “This call…Continue Reading →
Las Vegas Consumer Electronics Show: TV This year, Las Vegas isn’t seeing as much joy as it has in previous years. Following the great Pox Pandemic Panic, nothing remains as it was. Virtually everything, with precious few exceptions, has undergone…Continue Reading →
Movie Theaters May Stream Movies to Homes For decades, cable, telecom, and satellite video systems have fought fiercely with theater chains and with TV and movie studios– sometimes over market share, more often over licensing. They have to deal with…Continue Reading →
Interactive Livestream Launched by Comcast Following Disney and Sling TV, Comcast is exploring new frontiers in two-way video communication. This includes interactive TV. last month, America’s largest cable system operator launched Watchwith, an interactive livestreaming app, in concert with a…Continue Reading →
The Federal Communications Commission just approved an interesting new fixed wireless device. Called Skyboxe, the device combines a pay TV box, a WiFi router, and a modem…
Sure, you’ve heard this before. Every few weeks, someone announces a massive breakthrough in internet speed, and over and over again you’ve had reason to question if this will affect your own internet service…
Boost Mobile Deal Closed by DISH on July 1 For months, the technical press has been abuzz with speculation about the finalizing of Dish Network’s purchase of Boost Mobile. The satellite systemfinally put this speculation to rest on June 17,…Continue Reading →
The Web Didn’t Break The assembled wise men told us the internet would break. A massive spike in usage, we were told, must certainly follow the forced quarantines and the temporary (?) layoffs induced by panic over the Pulmonary Pox….Continue Reading →
Amazon Fire TV Stick Free with Sling TV If you’ve been thinking of getting Sling TV, now might be the ideal time to do it. This is because, for a limited time, the video streaming platform is offering free Amazon…Continue Reading →
AirTV 2: DISH Unveils Over-the-air DVR Of all pay TV providers, Dish Network may be the most energetic in technical innovation. It was the first with picture-in-picture, and the first with a whole-home HD DVR, the Hopper. This morning, DISH…Continue Reading →