Why should service providers be interested in IBMs work on nonintrusively freeing overloaded storage in portable devices?
Bloom: Telcos’ core asset is the network. This allows the service provider to take advantage of the ubiquity of the network and connect the camera to storage. This I view as a wireless service, which a camera user would use if he ran out of storage. X: What’s new about IBM’s work in “Selective Reduction of Video Data Using Variable Sampling Rates Based on Importance within the Image?” Bloom: The concept is when you take a video there’s lots of data. A good part of that data is not really of interest to the end user. So, you can identify what data is of interest to the user. Then when you transfer that information you only transmit the high quality. You might even make that programmable by the user. This could be with video conferencing or video on demand in cases with limited bandwidth or QoS. X: With the Internet, broadband growing and people becoming more concerned about personal security, I believe telecommuting will continue to grow in popularity. Are there any R&D efforts you can
