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Too much TV? Enter HBO Max, the latest streaming wannabe

By TALI ARBEL AP Technology Writer Is a pandemic the perfect time to launch a new and relatively expensive streaming service? AT&T sure hopes so. The phone company is investing billions in HBO Max, its first big entertainment venture since it spent $85 billion for Time Warner in 2018. The good news for its timing: […]

VR treatments to help ease pain and reduce anxiety

Hoag Hospital, Newport Beach is one of the first hospitals in America to use virtual reality (VR) technology outside clinical trial settings. Dr. Robert Louis, Neurosurgeon and Director of the Skull Base and Pituitary Tumor Program at the Pickup Family Neurosciences Institute at Hoag Memorial Hospital, is at the forefront of research of VR applications […]

Texas court holds first US jury trial via videoconferencing

>By JAKE BLEIBERG Associated Press DALLAS (AP) — The potential jurors popped onto the screen one by one. They confirmed their names and told the judge how they were connecting to the court: on laptops, tablets and iPhones. There were some wireless issues and camera problems, but eventually 26 Texans in separate boxes raised their […]

Is 2020 the year of next generation television with high-speed internet?

US TV broadcasters and vendors as well as the FCC are now getting behind the latest US ‘Advanced Television Systems Committee’ (ATSC) standard, ATSC 3. This defines the way digital television can be transmitted over terrestrial, cable and satellite. The FCC is promising to remove any regulatory issues which might stymie developments. It views the resulting […]

Is a high-quality network experience attainable in a crisis?

In crises like pandemics, conflict, natural disasters, service providers are facing challenging conditions at a time when customers are very reliant on telecom and network services. When subscribers are pressured into new routines and ways of life, traffic volumes spike in locations and at times when it would otherwise be relatively quiet. The population turns […]

Video app TikTok names top Disney streaming exec as new CEO

>By TALI ARBEL AP Technology Writer TikTok, the popular short-video app that has also drawn national-security and privacy concerns, has a new high-profile CEO from Disney, Kevin Mayer. Mayer will also be chief operating officer of TikTok’s Chinese parent company, ByteDance, and report to its founder and CEO, Yiming Zhang, the company announced Monday. He […]

Exploiting the Edge: Research reveals $17 billion in market opportunity for service providers

Only 6% of enterprise decision-makers would turn to service providers for their Edge implementations. Organisations are looking at Edge as a pathway to reducing data management costs by up to 20%. New research from WWT, conducted with Analysys Mason, shows that telecoms service providers are struggling to gain mindshare among enterprises for Edge deployments. Despite […]

Faxes and email: Old technology slows COVID-19 response

By FRANK BAJAK AP Technology Writer On April 1, a researcher at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention emailed Nevada public health counterparts for lab reports on two travelers who had tested positive for the coronavirus. She asked Nevada to send those records via a secure network or a “password protected encrypted file” to […]

Amazon executive says he quit to protest employee firings

By JOSEPH PISANI AP Retail Writer NEW YORK (AP) — An Amazon executive said he quit his job at the online-retail giant to protest the firing of employees who spoke up about the conditions inside the company’s warehouses and its record on climate change. Tim Bray, a vice president at the company, wrote in a […]