Stories for May. 23, 2005

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Over last few days, there has been an increase in the buzz about IPTV, and how Bells want to unseat cable operators from their perch. While it might happen, there seems to be more sound and fury than reality to it. The reasons are not technical […] Read more »

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Cities are hamstrung by nonexistent federal broadband policy 8 Mbps DSL in Maine Grand Rapids, MI prepares to launch wireless broadband system, more information here Dubuque, IA considers municipal cable and phone system via Baller Herbst Law Group Read more »

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Norwegian giant has spent $1 billion to buy two broadband operators – Sweden’s Bredbandsbolaget for $823 million (335,000 subscribers) and another $237 million on Danish broadband outfit Cybercity, which has about 90,000 customers. Looks like it is trying to become a major player in that region. […] Read more »

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MPAA has been dying to come-up with ways to sue Bit Torrent, its creator and others involved in pushing the p-2-p envelope. Unfortunately they have not had a chance. TechDirt’s Mike Masnick thinks that by developing a search engine for torrents, Bram Cohen and company could […] Read more »

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Apple and Intel sitting in a tree, K-I-S-S-I-N-G.
Well, sort of. Read more »

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Right now, if you need your VPN client to work, I’d recommend steering clear of Cisco’s recently-released 10.4 VPN client. When it works, it seems to work fine. When it’s not working, you have to uninstall and reinstall it to get it to work. However, if […] Read more »

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Peter Rojas interviews Jeffrey Citron, and talks about everything under the sun including why the hell they are not pushing a Palm OS softphone client through. Good interview! Read more »

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Motion Computing has always produced great Tablet PCs of the highest quality and the recent announcement of the newest model of the Motion line was met with excitement given the specifications of the Tablet.  The LE1600 is quite simply a sweet Tablet PC and the good […] Read more »

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Hey why just blame Microsoft for security problems, when you have Intel being exposed for its own short comings. On the very day Wall Street Journal reported that Apple was considering using Intel chips, here comes a warning, almost like god was at work. Colin Pervcial, […] Read more »

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I first mentioned the Toshiba Libretto U100 a while back when Toshiba announced they were bringing the ultra-portable back in celebration of the 20th anniversary of their first notebook.  The Libretto was the first ultra-portable that provided a full notebook computer in a tiny form factor.  […] Read more »

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Dave Winer: Both Apple and Google will soon be under assault, it seems certain, by larger competitors who have let their people blog. To think they can afford not to be present in the arena of the present (not just the future any more) is the […] Read more »

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Steve Jobs, speaking at the D: all things digital conference, said that the next version of iTunes will handle podcasts a la Doppler. Content providers will be able to register their content with the iTunes Music Store where users will be able to sign up to […] Read more »

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Techdirt: Hop On (which just dropped its dot com status) is offering a $39 WiFi phone. Of course, “offering” may be a bit confusing, because normally that means you can buy it — but it doesn’t seem to be possible to buy one yet. If you […] Read more »

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Washington Post takes a look at the slow rollout of broadband in the rural America. It is a story you may have read many times before, but Alicia Stahl, who lives on a farm in Hughesville puts it best: “It just drives you absolutely crazy… That’s […] Read more »

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Even in New York, Esme is finding it hard to find WiFi in New York, especially in "the area around East 12th Street and University Place (where a lot of NYU students hang out). You’d think there would be lots of Wi-Fi service here, apart from […] Read more »

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USA Today has a long piece on the cat-fight between cable and phone operators, which apparently is getting ugly. How ugly? USA Today: Dorothy Attwood, senior vice president of planning and policy for SBC on how cable companies are using their franchisee relationships to lock out […] Read more »

Stories for May. 22, 2005

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Spain one of the broadband laggards in Europe, will see faster adoption, mostly because of increased competition, and falling prices, according to a Forrester Research report. The Spanish broadband market grew quickly during the past two years — by 202% in 2003 and by 64% in […] Read more »

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Roadcasting is a system that allows anyone to have their own radio station, broadcasted among cars in an ad-hoc network. It plays the songs that people want to hear and it transforms car radio into an interactive medium. Source code here! via unmediated Read more »

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Current 1.5 is a piece of software from Near Time, that is combination blogging-rss reader plus note taker is not talked about as much amongst the web users, but it has consistently impressed me. I am still baffled by its user interface, but like the features […] Read more »

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FCC finally came down on VSPs and made e911 mandatory, giving them 120 days. The decision, at least to me was expected. For a while I have been saying if you are going to be like PSTN, then you have to meet the PSTN standards. Consumers […] Read more »

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If you can’t beat them, might as well join them. After a stunning loss of credibility, not to mention dollars, Marconi has teamed up with Huawei. As you might remember, Marconi was left out of the British Telecom 21CN network business. The two companies have signed […] Read more »

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Steve Gillmor and I discuss our visit to Google, and what we thought of the event, Google’s new products and other random observations. I had not gone into the technology details and kept my post, a tad breezy, because I hoped that this podcast would make […] Read more »

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Quite some time ago I tried to use MindManager on the Sony U ultra-portable computer and had some trouble that I thought was due to the touch screen on the Sony U.  MindManager has been totally Tablet-enabled and I was eager to give it a go […] Read more »

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Cry wolf or cry Extreme. Wall Street is once again fanning the flames and talking up the possibility of Juniper picking up Extreme Networks. With Extreme’s market cap down to $560 million, this is now officially cheap enough. Read more »

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I have to admit I don’t write a lot about Palm PDAs which is more a function of not using them than thinking there is anything wrong with the Palm OS.  I used a Palm XV years ago and it was a solid performing PDA and […] Read more »

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Indian politicians, regardless of their party affiliation, want overseas companies to set up shop, and manufacture hardware and chips in their country. Never mind the fact that the infrastructure to support a chip fab is no there, the ports cannot handle the rigors of International trade […] Read more »

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I have mentioned The Vermont Slate in the past which is the work of Mark Payton of the Vermont Academy.  They have a comprehensive program that is putting Tablet PCs in the hands of their students and more importantly giving them the skill sets needed to […] Read more »

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Call it the fine art of corporate damage control. Now Motorola CEO Ed Zander is saying that carriers love the iTunes phone, and there was no pushback from the operators because the device cuts them out of mobile music revenue stream. “I don’t know where these […] Read more »

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Syracuse, more known for their fine university and equally fine basketball team had come to a conclusion – it is going to become a broadband destination, at least for those who want to use the city as a base for developing broadband applications. The city based […] Read more »

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Yet another incident of a major broadband provider suffering an outage. 2 million Cox customers had no broadband access on Friday. “We’re still investigating the root cause of the problem,” Bobby Amirshahi, a Cox spokesman, told Internetnews.com. We all know about the infamous Comcast outage from […] Read more »

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Glenn Fleishman says that the city of Brandon in Vermont is planning to build a village-wide Wi-Fi. City will put up the antennas, and a local company with fiber will be the wholesale ISP. TelJet has its own fiber across 18 Vermont towns, and will attempt […] Read more »

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When I first read about the Minox DM1 I asked myself if there is anything the little camera couldn’t do. I still can’t think of anything else I would want in a digital camera given everything Minox has crammed into the tiny gadget.  Take the 3.2 […] Read more »

Stories for May. 21, 2005

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German High Court has ruled that ISPs don’t have to give out their customer’s information as record labels wage a war on piracy and illegal file sharing. ISPs cannot be forced to reveal the identities of those involved in file sharing. However, this could be a […] Read more »

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I knew I was a bit of a trend setter, but had no idea that I would have an impact so soon. A few months after I moved to San Francisco, now comes the news that Scotland’s Curry King, Charan Gill is opening a new luxury […] Read more »

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Microsoft is running a OneNote PowerToy competition so if you are thinking about writing a cool add-on for the great note-taking program now would be a good time to do it. Microsoft is awarding five Toshiba Portege M 200 Tablet PCs to the entrants that submit […] Read more »

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If AOL-Time Warner merger was an absolute top for the bubble, then Time Warner’s decision to sell AOL is an absolute bottom for the “Internet Stocks?” I think so – but do you? via Read more »

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From the Houston Chronicle on May 19, on posted results of the TAKS test, a state-mandated standards test that gauges how well children have learned the course material in every subject: Some of the biggest declines were in math and science, subjects failed by roughly a […] Read more »

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Good buddy and co-host of techADDICTION Kevin Tofel was recently interviewed for a podcast in Philadelphia, Phillyfeed.  It’s a great interview and if you listen very carefully to the entire interview you will hear exactly how old I am.  Good job, Kevin! Read more »

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Forget Vonage, the first VoIP IPO is actually going to be CBeyond, an enterprise VoIP service provider targeting the small and medium sized businesses. Good time to sell out, for this one is not long for the world given the looming competition from incumbents and do-it-yourself […] Read more »

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