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How To Predict The Future

Feld Thoughts

It was difficult because we had limited bandwidth to send the bits through, and limited processing power to compress and decompress the video. We needed improvements in video compression and in TCP/IP – the underlying protocol that essentially runs the Internet. Napster just happened to have been first. That’s the ideal case.

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Ubiquitous Computing and the Misguided Frenzy About “Mobile”

Agile VC

At present tracking and targeting consumers on ubiquitous computing devices is inferior to the desktop web for a range of reasons, largely pertaining to the way third-party cookies are treated (the kind used by advertisers as opposed to the actual websites you visit) and the logistics of tracking IPs across wireless networks.

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Browser-Powered Television

Andrew Payne

I tried (unsuccessfully) to convince him that TCP/IP would be the winning network infrastructure for the fancy interactive TV services everyone was talking about. And adding Flash makes it even more compelling). Here’s the test: how hard is it to write Boxee’s UI or any STB UI as a full-screen JavaScript or Flash app?

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Special: The 56 Israeli Companies Exhibiting in Mobile World Congress 2011

VC Cafe

Allot is a leading provider of intelligent IP service optimization and revenuegeneration solutions based on Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) technology, Allot Service Gateway solutions for mobile broadband are compliant with 3G.4G/LTE Flash Networks. Allot Communications. 4G/LTE and WiMax networks and provide full cell awareness.

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