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This week, Nvidia and MotionDSP launched an interesting Cuda-based application called vReveal. This product finds all the video on your PC, and uses Nvidia’s pre-OpenCL Cuda platform to dramatically improve it. Cisco also bought the Flip video camera company this month for $590 million, making me wonder what the second shoe to drop would be (hint: think networked). Coincidently, I’ve had several folks argue compellingly this week… Read More

A week after damage to undersea fiber-optic cables severely crippled Internet access in much of the Middle East and India, repairs on the cables have finally begun. Work has commenced on two of the three cables that were severed last week, but finishing the repairs could take another week. Flag Telecom’s Europe-Asia cable and another known as SEA-ME-WE 4 were both cut last Wednesday off the coast of Egypt, while another Flag… Read More

The two companies have agreed to jointly develop technology that will allow users to record protected content from digital broadcast systems, under rules adopted by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission in its “broadcast flag” ruling. The ruling allows programmers to attach a code, called a broadcast flag, to digital broadcasts, specifying whether a particular show can be copied and broadcast over the Internet.… Read More