During some of the most difficult weeks of a pandemic, apartment building owners and operators are increasingly dependent on technology tools that enable self touring, to help ensure occupancy stays as high as possible.
All bets are off for the future of energy in the United States and, indeed, the world, as the price of natural gas plummets to ever-lower values -- thanks to the development of technology that can access gas and liquids trapped in hitherto inaccessible shale rocks. In 2011, shale gas accounted for a quarter of U.S. natural gas production. But this seemingly bright future may depend on a court decision (expected in June 2012) and, of course, on the outcome of the November…
22 APRIL 2016 7:39 AM The first Serviced Apartment Summit in the Americas revealed the reason for investing in this sector, which may involve lower risk for lenders. NEW YORK—Hotel or serviced apartment? That is a question investors might begin to consider more frequently as serviced apartments expand in the United States. Operators and investors discussed the reasons for investing in one product or the other…
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Share: 27 February 2017 Consumers’ increasing desire for anywhere, anytime high-bandwidth access to the internet will inevitably increase the role of wireless technologies in internet access. Fiber is the preferred technology to deliver broadband access close to homes but it is prohibitively expensive over the last few meters — a role best filled by wireless technologies. Technicolor is leveraging its position as the leading supplier of…
Greg Smith - July 25, 2016 - 1 Comment Nobody loves door-to-door salesmen. Unless, that is, they’re offering fiber. Then, they’re more popular than the ice cream truck. If you’re a cable operator, that’s a big problem. Your competitors—both telcos and new entrants like Google—make fiber sound better than chocolate. They’re rolling it out to the node, sometimes all the way to the home. Your subscribers don’t care how it works. They just know it’s fast. Here’s the thing: consumers may say they…
The PBS series NOVA, “Rise of the Drones,” recently aired a segment detailing the capabilities of a powerful aerial surveillance system known as ARGUS-IS, which is basically a super-high, 1.8 gigapixel resolution camera that can be mounted on a drone. As demonstrated in this clip, the system is capable of high-resolution monitoring and recording of an entire city. (The clip was written about in DefenseTech and…
Creating a bustling, vibrant senior living community requires spaces that are a good fit for the wide range of events, activities and health care services that best-in-class operators are offering. To achieve this, innovative senior housing operators increasingly are opting for common spaces and resident rooms that can easily be adapted for various uses or levels of care, essentially with the flip of a switch. The…
The 16:9 PODCAST IS SPONSORED BY SCREENFEED – DIGITAL SIGNAGE CONTENT Advertising is hard - and a lot of companies, from startups to majors, have found out the expensive way that creating and running a screen network that's funded through booked ad spots is no walk in the park. There are lots of programmatic advertising options out there to make access to brand advertising easier for network operators, but a start-up called Screenverse is going down a different path - basically saying to…
Nicole Gelinas joins Brian Anderson to discuss how cities with bike-sharing programs deal with theft and vandalism and how tech-based rental services like Airbnb are shaking up the housing market—and prompting new regulations. Bike-sharing operators are pulling back their services as urban riders confront an old problem: nuisance crime. From Paris to Baltimore, vandalism of bikes is widespread. In San Francisco and Portland, protests against gentrification…