Tag Archives: Software
Carrier IQ and STBs
The furore around Carrier IQ’s diagnostic and usage logging on mobile phones is a salutory lesson for the TV operator industry about logging too much information and not informing the viewer sufficiently. What! I hear you say, usage is tracked on my STB? Of course it is tracked particularly on IPTV and OTT services, as [...]
Shocked and Appalled…
… to find that RealNetworks actually has over a 1000 employees… What are they doing that a startup with 50 people couldn’t do? RealNetworks NSDQ: RNWK, which has been undergoing an aggressive restructuring under CEO Bob Kimball, is cutting 130 jobs, or 10 percent of its workforce. This is the third round of layoffs since [...]
Customers doing the unexpected?
BSkyB have seemingly suffered from a customer imposed failure, where a certain percentage of boxes are suffering a severe code failure after a new code download. What was the certain percentage? Those customers of a low spec PVR that have undertaken a home disk upgrade. This was low spec as it is one of the [...]