Gregory Scoblete

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Distribution Nuggets

Here’s your rapid-fire look at what’s happening in the world of distributors:   Volutone held a CEDIA accredited business class and installation boot camp late last month. The class is worth 0.75 CEU credits from CEDIA and will be held in six other locations this year.   Petra added the Spot Satellite Messenger and the Sherwood 1.1 Profile Blu-ray Disc... More

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Canon Wants Employees Reproducing

Canon wants their workers to leave early (5:30) so they can make babies: In a country where 12-hour workdays are common, the electronics giant has taken to letting its employees leave early twice a week for a rather unusual reason: to encourage them to have more babies. Japan is in the midst of an unprecedented recession, so corporations are being asked to work toward fixing another... More

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How Secure is DECT (Part II)

Two weeks ago, the DECT Forum issued a statement saying that the technology was secure, despite a demonstration by hackers to the opposite effect.  Now, Heise Online is reporting that the notebook card used by said hackers is suddenly in high demand:  At the CCC-25C3 Congress in late December 2008 it was announced that notebooks running Linux could be converted into... More

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Kodak: Film Not Dead

Interesting article by Matthew Daneman in the Rochester Democrat about Kodak’s film business: All Kodak’s film capture products are in decline, "but all are profitable," Proegler said. "The only problem we have is we’re getting smaller." Much of that profitability came as Kodak did its massive, four-year restructuring that largely wrapped up in 2007, taking out... More

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Is Comcast Squeezing Skype?

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is investigating Comcast over allegations that its network management practices are degrading the quality of third-party VoIP providers (such as Skype or Vonage) while leaving Comcast’s own voice service untouched. This is the scenario that advocates of “network neutrality” have warned about . For its part, a Comcast... More