The adoption of Kubernetes-enabled infrastructures and applications has revealed the challenge involved in enabling persistent, reliable data storage in an ephemeral compute…
Read MoreInsofar as the internet can be used to distribute video there's no obvious reason to think the historical dynamic between content and distribution won't eventually assert itself as the IPTV market matures.…
Read MoreWhile Intel was never able to get its ambitious OnCue OTT service off the ground, Verizon, which acquired the OnCue assets in January, may be closer to succeeding by refocusing the service on mobile devices.…
Read MoreContrary to its popular image, Apple's successes have more often come from fixing what's broken than from building anew. And that puts today's credit card payment system right in Apple's wheelhouse.…
Read MoreWith the industry now preparing to make the leap from HD to 4K Ultra-HD a pair of announcements this week at the IFA consumer electronics show in Berlin suggested we could be in for more DRM drama.…
Read MoreThe FCC's new CTO has argued for an approach to net neutrality that is more concerned with restraining anti-competitive behavior in network management and rent-seeking by ISPs than with the open-access, innovation or free-speech aspects of the current debate.…
Read MoreThe growing interest in live programming among ad-supported online video platforms mirrors its growing importance to the traditional TV economy.…
Read MoreNow there is more premium video content and ad inventory available online, and brand marketers are starting to experiment with digital techniques to capture the efficiencies and targeting ability offered by programmatic buying, particularly as audiences fragment across screens.…
Read MoreNone of those purported public-interest benefits of Comcast's proposed acquisition of Time Warner Cable is any more transaction-specific than the objections raised by opponents.…
Read MoreOne area where Amazon could still gain an edge on Google in online advertising is video advertising, which could explain its reported interest in Twitch.tv.…
Read MoreI was passed on to a supervisor. Then to another supervisor, and another and another. We went round and round for weeks. Weeks turned into months, during which I was still being sent two bills, while I vainly sought someone with enough authority to sell me what I was pleading to buy.…
Read MoreThe ride-share operator's new delivery service takes a wrong turn in navigating local politics.…
Read MoreInformation on the internet passes through many layers on its way to us, any one of which can act as a filter and many already do.…
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