While many industry conferences do a good job of bringing people together, one of the best ways for vendors to collect industry data and learn what products and services customers need is via small, focused networking events. With that goal in mind I am please to announce that StreamingMedia.com is starting a new series of […]
I’m pleased to announced that we have just launched the new website for the 2011 Content Delivery Summit, taking place May 9th, at the Hilton hotel in NYC. Now in its third year, the Content Delivery Summit is a one-day conference designed to bring together telecom carriers, service providers, content owners, and industry vendors for […]
Two professors from the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at the Technical University of Bari, Italy have released a white paper detailing their testing of Akamai's HTTP-based adaptive video streaming technology. The paper includes a lot of charts and graphs on their testing methodology as well as the results. They analyzed the client-server protocol […]
Over the past two weeks I've not had the time to do too many blog posts as I have been hard at work planning the advance program for the Streaming Media East show, May 10th-11th in NYC. I'm pleased to announce that in addition to the East show, we're also adding a two-day track dedicated […]
Those who have read my blog before know that I believe that there is a lot of hype around cord cutting. Yes, it is taking place by some, but it's not a "trend" and the numbers we have seen to date show it's not having any major impact on the broadcast industry. We also don't […]
As a thank you to readers of my blog, over the next six weeks, I'm going to be giving away lots of different devices including multiple NETGEAR Roku's, Apple TV's, Logitech Revue's, Harmony Remotes, Boxee Boxes by D-Link, Zune HD players and a Sling Pro HD. A couple of these devices I personally bought as […]
By all accounts, last week's Streaming Media West show in LA was a great success thanks to all of the speakers, exhibitors and attendees. We had the best lineup of speakers to date with over 130 executives across more than 40 sessions talking about the business, content and technology of online video. We had packed […]