Stories for Jul. 18, 2005

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Despite an anti-munibroadband legislation, SB 152, Denver wants to blanked its 52 square miles with WiFi. This could be another long drawn out battle. Read more »

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China, India, Japan and South Korea all have advanced plans for making IPv6 their national standard, and they’ve set aside substantial budgets to do it. US is well lukewarm on the idea, but some politicans are getting very concerned. Read more »

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Two plans – $15 for 500 minutes a month, or $25 unlimited. Norwood has 12,000 homes. Its small, but could be big trend in the near future. Russell Shaw has the details over at ZDNet.com. Read more »

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West Virginia First, a project to deploy fiber based broadband across the communities in the state has been launched. The initial phase of West Virginia First will focus on the Beckley-Bluefield and Wood County areas of the State.   Through the West Virginia First Project, a […] Read more »

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Infinera has signed CityNet as its third customer. Level 3, Freenet and Onfiber are other customers for Infinera’s DTNs. Read more »

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No not the song, but the new tool that is going to launch soon. SiliconBeat has the scoop on Tony Perkins’ meta-social network, GoingOn. “We haven’t played with it yet, but the idea of full interoperability with member profiles of other sites is interesting. The others […] Read more »

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“I forget it’s not part of OS X…” I’ve read the same sentiment about Quicksilver many many times, and it’s a testament to how great it really is. But to me, Quicksilver IS OS X. The things that Quicksilver (QS from here on out) enables users to do on OS X are the things that drop Windows users’ jaws. A while back I wrote Quicksilver Changes Everything as an introduction and tutorial of this incredible app. Today I aim to reintroduce QS and address the Spotlight argument. Soon to follow I’ll give a few more walk throughs of cool QS powers.

Quickly, QS is an Application Launcher. Whoop-dee-doo, right? Right! Because beyond the Launcher capabilities, it allows you to handle files, folders, manipulate just about any data on your system, interface with a multitude of OS X apps, and so on. Swiss Army Knife has got nothing on Quicksilver. Read more »

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Scott Thigpen has a blog called the Artsy Fartsy Weblog (I couldn’t wait to include that) and he has written a post about what the Toshiba M200 Tablet PC has done for his artwork.  He uses Alias Sketchbook Pro and finds that he can do the […] Read more »

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I haven’t taken many photos lately since the demise of my Canon camera.  I reverted back to my old 1.3 MP Sony camera but since it uses Memory Stick (yuck) I had no way to get the photos back to my Tablet. The USB cable with […] Read more »

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John Berthoud, president of National Taxpayers Union in his opinion piece for The Washington Times writes, “Wanted: More choices for consumers.” He feels that cable companies are evil for trying to stop phone companies from offering IPTV. Err… no! That would be local communities, which get […] Read more »

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If you happen to be one of those who cannot be away from Broadband/Internet for even a nano-second, there is some good news. RayStat, a Virginia based company has come-up with an antenna technology (called SpeedRay) that delivers broadband to your vehicles via satellite broadband connections. […] Read more »

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Its like same story, different newspaper. Every weekend I come across a newspaper story that gushes about the Verizon FIOS project, and how wonderful it will all be. The comments from Verizon spokespeople, the general content of the story, is so boiler plate, that you often […] Read more »

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Guardian reports that Ofcom, the UK telecom regulator is aiming for 100% broadband penetration by 2010, versus current total of 8.1m households – or nearly 30%. Nearly 7.5m British homes have slower dial-up connections. Read more »

Stories for Jul. 17, 2005

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Ben Schorr knows OneNote and who better to put an excellent FAQ together that covers all aspects of my preferred note-taking and information organizational tool.  The FAQ is a good source of information for those who don’t use OneNote and are wondering what benefits the program […] Read more »

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My kids spend 99% of their time on the computer chatting with their friends via IM.  I’ve watched them do this for several years now and it has often struck me as a complete waste of a whole computer just to run the IM client.  That […] Read more »

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The Register says. Price tag, about $1 billion, and it gets Cable & Wireless some much needed corporate/enterprise business. Read more »

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Trucking industry is becoming an early and rapid adapter of VoIP technologies or so says Fleet Owner magazine. Rocking T Inc. and Gainey Transportation Services (GTS) are two of the early adopters, looking to cut their phone bills. Read more »

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Forbes.com on recent developments in Broadband over powerline business “The problem is, the new momentum might be too little, too late. BPL may never become more than a niche technology limited to rural areas that can’t get Internet service over TV cables or DSL telephone lines.” […] Read more »

Stories for Jul. 16, 2005

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It has been a tiring and mind numbing battle. Lafayette’s citizens have been fighting the pressure from incumbent service providers like BellSouth, as they attempt to build their own fiber network, and thus take their broadband destiny in their own hand. Today, for the first time, […] Read more »

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Joi Ito and Linked In’s Reid Hoffman, in many ways have become leading indicators of what’s hot, and general predictors of where the investment dollars are going to flow. (Just talking about the hotness, not the profitness here….) Ito, was one of the earliest investors in […] Read more »

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This morning I had posted a little something about return of Sabeer Bhatia and his big claim of starting a grid-computing based drug discovery company he was cooking up. I actually started thinking about this and followed up with a google search. Now, I am not […] Read more »

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Analog Telephone Adapter (ATA) has been a common sight when it comes to VoIP services. The do-hickey that connects to your broadband connection on one end and an old fashioned phone handset on the other, has been the only constant in the fast changing voice over […] Read more »

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Sabeer Bhatia, has been looking for lightening to strike twice. Ever since he sold Hotmail to Microsoft for $400 million, the second (and third and fourth) act have been less than lackluster. Some like Arzoo have been outright flops. But he still keeps trying, just like […] Read more »

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Engadget is talking about Microsoft developing something called OPM which is some sort of a video squeeze play. (Not sure what it means, since I don’t bother with Windows!) But the question is that my initials OPM are exactly the same… Can I go for some […] Read more »

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Tablet PC owners are always looking for a good game to play on their machines, especially those that can be played entirely with the pen in slate mode.  There aren’t that many that play really well but Increment Software is trying to change that.  They have […] Read more »

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The citizens of Lafayette, Louisiana vote today to approve the funds needed to build a city-wide fiber optic network for high-speed internet connectivity.  The city won a legal challenge by the two private sector companies that serve Lafayette earlier and if the voters choose to approve […] Read more »

Stories for Jul. 15, 2005

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In case you were wondering why the posting was lite, well I was down in the Valley catching up with sources, friends, and of course the stars of Silicon Valley. One of them – Marc Andreessen, the man behind Netscape. Ironic, because only yesterday, I was […] Read more »

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Sony Ericsson’s president Miles Flint told Reuters price pressure in the market remained relentless and that the group’s strategy was to keep differentiating its products from competitors and adding applications. Nokia already does that, and SE is realizing that apps and interface are the only way […] Read more »

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Check out the Side by Side comparison of an old Powerbook Duo 230 and a new 12″ Powerbook G4 here. hat tip I had a duo 230 my freshman year of college. Ah, memories… Not really. Wow, didn’t do much on it back then. Wish I […] Read more »

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The Stalwart says that had it not been for 12% more shares outstanding, Apple would have much better earnings growth. “Net income grew 532% while diluted EPS *only* 482%,” he says. In addition, he points out that while iPod unit shipments are rising, the iPod revenue/unit […] Read more »

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In the small yet capable category the MobiBLUE DAH-1500 MP3 player firmly fits.  The tiny audio player is just under one cubic inch in size yet packs 512 MB of memory and an FM tuner inside.  Anything But iPod has a nice review of the little […] Read more »

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Shawn Erdenberg is a student at Purdue University who recently purchased a Toshiba Tecra M4 Tablet PC.  He has written a very thorough review of the M4 and anyone interested in the device should certainly give it a read.  His review gives an in-depth look at […] Read more »

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The New York Times has an article about using a Junxion Box with a Verizon EVDO modem card to share the high-speed wireless connection over WiFi.  The Junxion Box is a simple and driver-free way to plug the modem card in, connect to Verizon’s BroadbandAccess network, […] Read more »

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You heard me correctly, networking at 500 miles per hour.  Eric Mack and Michael Sampson cracked open their Toshiba Tecra M4 Tablet PCs on a flight last month and using a crossover network cable were able to create a little LAN while cruising through the clear […] Read more »

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Given my apathy for Motorola interface, I refuse to use any of their phones, But when reader, Jonathan Hirshon, Principal at Horizon Communications, sent in this tip, I could not resist sharing it with all of you. Hopefully you benefit from his insights. iSync is great […] Read more »

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Oh boy, Broadbandits are falling like flies. Bernie Ebbers is going to the big house for 25 years, and now news that Robin Szeliga, former CFO of Qwest has pled guilty. Rocky Mountain News says she could face up to 10 years in prison. Joe Nacchio […] Read more »

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Light Reading says a snafu in Cisco routers cause a big Internet outage in China. China Netcom’s 200,000 customers were offline for a bit. Is this the opening Huawei has been looking for? Read more »

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Wall Street Journal says HP to do some restructuring. Analysts expect about 25,000 to be given a pink ticket. Many will send Carly an email: Wish you were here. (Insert, Scott McNealy one-liner here, except, these days Sun is the joke!) Seriously, these painful steps just […] Read more »

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Networking Pipeline says two security holes in Cisco CallManager software means at best there could be a “denial-of-service style crash, at worst, a situation where the attacker could redirect calls at will or even eavesdrop on conversations.” ISS press release and Cisco advisory! Read more »

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