July 7, 2009

Recent Articles

• Live Traffic Information on GPS Devices in Canada

  December 9, 2009 in Applications, Consumer devices, Infrastructures, Mobility, public broadcasting

  In my recent reflexions about the new potential for hybrid radio based on FM I identified RDS-TMC as an incentive to maintain and even expand the FM (RDS) infrastructure in Canada. While speaking about that at a meeting last week I learned that Corus Entertainment was deploying RDS-TMC traffic for Garmin devices in major cities [...]

• My eComm 2009 Talk Now Available on Video

  December 2, 2009 in Applications, Consumer devices, Mobility

  I’m happy that my eComm talk finally got published online, 8 months after the conference. Events sponsors got published much earlier but hey, that’s fair for a professionally produced clip. I must admit that the AV infrastructure and the team at the event were excellent.
  My talk was titled: “Mobile Digital Broadcasting: An Infrastructure for One-to-Many [...]

• Livio NPR Radio

  November 26, 2009 in Consumer devices, Industry, Networked media, Services, public broadcasting

  Livio announces its NPR branded Internet Radio Appliance. This device will offer a specialized menu to easily access NPR’s 800 radio stations. Of course, all other Internet radio stations can be accessed as well.
  Are such “specialized” devices the future? We’ve seen the WikiReader recently which only does one thing: portable unconnected access to Wikipedia.
  I don’t [...]

• Challenges for GPRS and 3G Radio

  July 24, 2009 in Infrastructures, Mobility, Networked media, public broadcasting

  There is a nice post on the Public Radio Player (PRP) blog about some challenges for Internet radio when distributed over mobile wireless networks and some strategies used in the PRP.

  “A dropped stream is the nemesis of any regular Public Radio Tuner user. Nothing is worse than being caught up in a great public radio [...]

• Royalty-Free Public Domain – A path towards Ubiquity

  July 8, 2009 in Applications, Infrastructures

  I read this excellent story some time ago in Vanity Fair titled “An oral history of the Internet“. I believe that one of the reasons why the Internet is what it is now comes from the fact that the Web is a royalty-free technology. And that does not happen by itself. To produce RF-tech these [...]