Re: Explanation please
No Backdoors, just the problem of being able to ask for one!
Posts by UncleJam
8 publicly visible posts • joined 18 Aug 2011
Ex-Googler Eric Schmidt's think tank warns China could win global tech race
A moment of brilliance? UPnP for Internet of Stuff lightbulbs
Wednesday 1st October 2014 10:52 GMT
Lack of protocols is not the problem, Vendor Tie-in is.
There have been protocols for years. Unfortunately every brand has wanted to tie customers into their own ecosystem and products. As an example just think how long UPnP/DLNA has been around? It's only now that many are switching to Smart TVs that the technology is coming to foreground but most brands have a different take on it and call it something different causing confusion to consumers. HDMI-CEC is another technology that comes to mind where implementations can be called something else and sometimes with restricted feature sets (think Anynet+, Aquous Link, Bravia Link, Kuro-Link, RIHD, SimpLink, Viera Link, EasyLink, etc. They're all supposed to be the same thing). I work for a company. We have a product called Dianemo (this is not a plug so no links) with which we aim to have 1 interface to control the lot. We already talk to devices that use current 'standards' as well as those that have their own protocols, and in the future It won't matter if the device is using Apple's Homekit, or using Alljoyn, or whatever the IEEE come up with for IoT we will aim to add the functionality to Dianemo. Our aim has always been to bring Home Automation to the aware. Making people aware of our product has been, and still is, the biggest problem.
Freeview's rumoured '£100m YouView killer' is real – and it's yet another digital TV thing
Friday 6th June 2014 08:22 GMT
Re: What YouView can't bring to this table....
You can fast forward through recordings if using the Humax-based YouView box. We do it all of the time and use the EPG to 'go back in time' when wanting to watch programs that you may have missed. I like the platform, It just needs a little more work.
Eric Schmidt: Ha ha, NO Google maps app for iPhone 5
HTC peeves punters with One X woes
Wednesday 2nd May 2012 06:50 GMT
Re: Just get an iPhone
On my third personal HTC phone (Hero, Desire, Sensation) and have not had a problem with any of them. Use iPhones for work . Nice interface but unpredictable for phone calls (Isn't that the main purpose of a phone?) . My Sensation, on the same network, is much better and the HTC Sense interface is much more intuitive.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
