Wireless Video standards war

A bunch of references from GigaOM - it looks as if UltraWideBand 480Mbit USB is in trouble, and the alternatives are a dedicated Wireless HD video standard and Wifi based video streaming. UWB has some nice characteristics, but perhaps the ubiquity of WiFi wins again.... (There have been many cases over the years of technologies losing to Ethernet and IP based networks in the end).

http://gigaom.com/2008/10/31/ultra-wideband-near-death-as-wiquest-shuts-down/

http://gigaom.com/2008/04/09/wireless-hd-is-the-new-front-in-a-standards-war/

http://gigaom.com/2008/08/15/vcs-hope-to-see-wi-fi-everywhere/

I just want to be able to stream video from my iPhone to my TV set without any wires, don't care what the technology is, and I'm thinking of getting a WiFi enabled TV with Netflix embedded in it around the end of this year.

MIT Medialab's Sixth Sense

This is exactly the kind of user interface development that I've been looking forward to as part of my Millicomputing meme. I hope it inspires some products soon...

iPhone 3.0 hardware interface implications

An insightful posting by Daniel Eran on the iPhone 3.0 hardware interface controller, and its significance.

All I would like to add is that I really hope wideband/wireless USB is a feature of the next iPhone hardware. 480Mbits/s without any wires, and with wireless video output, so your pocket can drive your projector sunglasses, TV, meeting room projector or computer screen without even leaving your pocket.

Intel licenses Atom to TSMC

Intel licenses low power Atom CPU design to TSMC. This is another step along the road of bringing the Intel x64 architecture down into low power embedded devices to compete with ARM.

TI OMAP4 is based on ARM Cortex A9

Nice summary on GigaOM about the new chip just launched by TI.

This continues along the direction I outlined two years ago, high def video and graphics processing, very long battery life, high speed networking and lots of CPU capacity in a multicore chip, sampling soon, and in products in 2010.

Extended iPhone cookbook XML parser

Erica Sadun published a tree based XML parser for the iPhone that works quite well. I needed to extend it to parse attributes and I posted my code back to Erica's google code forum. This works quite efficiently, my app parses complex XML for 100 movies in less than a second as it picks out the instant format ones.

Parsing API Results - XML vs. JSON

There is an option to get JSON format or XML format back from the API. I'm investigating ways to parse JSON to see if its easier than XML (simply add output=json to the URL call).

My open source google code efforts are on hold for now since I have much more demand for new features in my app than people asking for source code. Let me know if you want code and I will assist on a case by case basis. Later on I will post cleaned up code to the google code project.