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It is hard to teach old dog new tricks! And Intel is living proof of that. Wi-Fi and Wi-Max are open standards, which have been embraced by one and all. Which makes them a tough nut to crack from an economic standpoint. I call it being in the clutches of Moore’s Claw. (Read More…)

Forbes.com has a stock pick for all VoIP groupies.
bq. Telecom giant SBC Communications (nyse: SBC - news - people ) recently announced it was going to provide broadband voice beginning in 2004. Smith’s voice Web telephony pick? Santa Clara, Calif.-based 8X8 (nasdaq: EGHT - news - people ) and its Packet8 voice broadband technology. Unlike [...]

Thanksgiving Day might be over, but there is one group of individuals who we have a lot to thanks for. The lone coders - who put-in hours, days and months and develop a piece of software that we so desperately need but cannot, find anywhere. This is a new category and the reason why I [...]

The New York Times has a fantastic article on problems facing consumers trying to switch carriers. One reporter’s misadventures in carrier switching despite all the FCC promises.
bq. Since the government decided to force the industry to allow number switching, carriers have spent more than $1 billion to automate the process. Sprint had been adding a [...]

Thanksgiving Day might be over, but there is one group of individuals who we have a lot to thanks for. The lone coders - who put-in hours, days and months and develop a piece of software that we so desperately need but cannot, find anywhere. How to synchronize your Pocket PC with an Apple? Or [...]

SuperComputing for the masses trend continues. A more recent and lesser known player in this space is OctigaBay Systems, which is using AMD Optereon to lower the prices of supercomputers.
bq. By standardizing on Linux and AMD Opteron TM 64-bit x86 processors, the OctigaBay 12K delivers the economic and performance benefits of commercial silicon. Furthermore, standards [...]