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While both Sony and Microsoft announced a series of solid gaming titles at E3 this week, the announcements that surprised the market were the ones covering their PlayStation TV and Cloud Gaming Services efforts. This made it look like Sony was taking focus off of Microsoft and shifting it to the real threat - which is fast becoming Amazon. Let me explain. Earlier this week, Google bought Skybox Imaging in a $500 million private transaction. Skybox brings rich capabilities to the data-focused Google, including a wealth of future upside business revenue. But there's a lot of ill-informed crazy talk as to what Skybox will and won't mean. I've been following Skybox and its cousin Planet Labs for a while, so I'd clear up the myths. The rise of the multiscreen phenomenon for video viewing started in earnest with Netflix and Hulu, but has been inexorably driven forward by pay-TV operators and broadcasters-their TV Everywhere initiatives have been popular and have succeeded in increased availability of digital video viewing across the board. It's no wonder that marketers and media companies are looking for ways to take a cross-platform approach to audience engagement-but so far the concern over cannibalizing existing media channels has persisted. It's well known that cybercrime has a price tag, even if the writing on said tag isn't immediately obvious. Between lost time and lost money outright, there are losses associated with cybercrime that come back to bite businesses-and therefore consumers-in ways that are often poorly understood. But a new study sponsored by McAfee and conducted by the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) put a clear face to the name, so to speak, and filled in that price tag legibly. Cybercrime worldwide combines to cost a grand total of around $445 billion per year. Google has been making great strides when it comes to email encryption, and it seems like the tech giant just won over a huge company: Comcast. According to recent reports, Comcast (which is currently the country's biggest internet service provider) has agreed to start scrambling emails in order to protect the communication from criminals. Hackers can target emails to find out about your gift card usage, vital statistics, travel plans and other sensitive information. This was announced on June 3 after Google made a public statement charging companies (including Comcast) with not doing everything possible to protect customers. Just as it publishes its May data for the ISP Speed Index, Netflix has agreed to comply with Verizon Communications' request to stop displaying messages blaming the telco for bandwidth congestion when video quality for a Netflix stream isn't up to snuff. Traffic signs are essential for heads-up information concerning highway maintenance, delays, or other safety notifications. As such, any false information can be harmful. About a decade or so ago, one theory popular among New Age telco pundits was the big dumb pipe. Networks really didn't need all the fancy bells and whistles and complexity of IMS or quality of service QoS). Just make the pipes big enough and all network problems would be magically solved. It hasn't worked out that way.
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