Team PILOT Hacking for the Digital Dash
Back in March, PILOT participated in its first automotive app development hackathon hosted by General Motors in Tampa. Subsequently, September was a busy month for Team PILOT as we attended and developed apps at two more hackathons: A SmartDeviceLink (SDL) hackathon in conjunction with the first-ever SDL consortium-hosted conference at Mobile World Congress Americas in San [...]
Innovation Challenge One Year Later: History Go
The Innovation Challenge calls on all creative thinkers, entrepreneurs and intrapreneurs to submit ideas for accelerating broadcast innovation by answering the challenge question. This year’s question is “What is an unconventional way broadcasters and other local media could serve communities?” SUBMIT YOUR IDEA Last October Texas A&M students Jordan Sales and Elise Hackney [...]
dotRadio Domain Store Now Open
The dotRadio store is now open, and radio broadcasters can now apply for a top level ".radio" domain. Radio broadcasters will receive priority access to the domains until October 31, when the launch period ends. After that, applications will be judged on a first come first served basis. You can apply for your ".radio" domain [...]
Next Gen TV
The NAB Show in April of this year featured Next Gen TV in numerous ways, including a showcase on the main concourse, a pavilion in North Hall, a live broadcast from Black Mountain, and of course our demonstrations of the prototype PILOT home gateway. The amazing collection of technologies that are embedded in the new [...]
The Innovation Cycle
Innovation begins with an idea. However, having an idea and putting it into action is not as simple as one might think. There is a natural progression of growth for ideas, and it’s outlined by what what is referred to as the Innovation Cycle. There are three steps in the Innovation Cycle: Ideation, validation, incubation [...]
Hot off the presses: 11th edition NAB Engineering Handbook now available!
On behalf of the NAB, I am pleased to announce the availability of the 11th edition of the NAB Engineering Handbook. Broadcast consultant Gary Cavell served as editor-in-chief with associate editors Tom Osenkowsky (consultant), David Layer (NAB), Skip Pizzi (NAB), and Bill Hayes (Iowa Public TV). Get your copy now New topics in the 11th [...]