Where your living room meets your PC
I recently got a new notebook (a Lenovo Thinkpad X-Series) and it’s great (my old Acer Travelmate dual core is still chugging along and refuses to die although the screen is beginning to fade – so the time had come to update personal technology). The first thing I noticed was that it comes with an […]
Digital content protection
A customer case study – Digital content protection for VOD on a TCP unicast network One of our most interesting projects recently was a digital content protection and secure content distribution software development projects in the field of IPTV and video on demand. We were called in at a critical stage in project delivery to […]
Triple play in South Africa
Safika-controlled Goal Technology Solutions (GTS) and Dimension Data’s Internet Solutions, have designs on delivering affordable TV services to SA households. Neither will need a pay-TV licence from the Independent Communications Authority of SA (Icasa) as the service, which is delivered on demand, is not technically defined as broadcasting. operators could soon face competition from ISPs […]
Linux flies on the Airbus 380
Last year, we had a family event in Washington DC and flew on a Continental 777 from Tel Aviv to Newark. The personalized VOD system was outstanding, and we didn’t have the tiresome loop of the same old 5 or 6 movies on the long intercontinental hauls. The only quirky thing I noticed at the […]
