The 2008 election and online video have had a lot of special moments together: The CNN-YouTube primary debates. Obama Girl. Will.i.am‘s “Yes We Can.” Saturday Night Live’s “Fey-lin” skits. And even though those examples might… Read More »
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Barack Obama’s now-famous text-message announcement of his VP pick reveals something about the candidate that should really worry the Republicans. What it reveals is not that he’s a smart technologist. If he was, he would have known that sending 10 million SMS messages at the… Read More »
Scoring a win after a tough week, FCC chairman Kevin Martin on Wednesday pushed through a bunch of rules designed to make it easier for telephone companies to offer video services. The 3-2 party line vote was expected, as was the vociferous opposition from… Read More »
What you read is not what you blog? I get that feeling after reading Cory Doctorow’s comment over on Boing Boing about Bruce Sterling’s Wired column this month He takes an amazing, science-fictional view of how an internetworked world is likely to upend the creaking,… Read More »
“Enter Name” gets WiFI, has to be most generic headline in the news business. Wi-Fi Networking News points out that this is becoming quite a trend. Though the depth of the articles has increased, and focus has shifted from single brand or location. Read More »
Jeff Pulver things that a petition filed by BellSouth with the Federal Communications Commission could become a big nightmare for ISPs and independent VoIP providers, according a report. Pulver points out that with this petition, independents who don’t own their own telecom infrastructure could not… Read More »
Chris Holland points to a really cool application , Earthlink Scam Blocker. It is one away to prevent all the scams. Read More »
Digital Chosunilbo reports that LG and Intel are teaming up to push the international mobile Internet standard based on the Korean mobile internet service standard WiBro and plans to improve the efficiency of equipment development using technology from both companies. Read More »
British Telecom is pretty serious about its IPTV efforts and has been talking with content creators like BBC to get the service to its broadband customers. Read More »
Sometimes I just wonder if even AOL knows what the f*ck is going on. Now they are backing out of broadband market is the Red States. Crazy? I don’t get it, but then who knows after all their brains are AWOL. Read More »
Cablevision added 79,982 more cable modem service users and signed up 74,142 new Internet phone users in the third quarter 2004. Their $99 a month triple play package is becoming seriously popular. Watch out Verizon! Read More »
Robert Thomas is moving offices. From the executive chambers of Juniper Networks to the cramped digs at Sequoia Capital-funded start-up Infoblox. In case you don’t know, Thomas was the chief executive officer of security appliance maker NetScreen Technologies, which Juniper bought for about $4… Read More »
