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It may be ancient history, but it’s interesting to remember that the original aim of telephone industry digital subscriber line (DSL) developers was to counter cable operators by offering video progr... More >
The cable guys should be worried. As nice a job as they are doing in telephone services and broadband, video is still their main source of revenue and the service that defines them. Just as they took... More >
A few years ago, there was a significant interest in municipal Wi-Fi projects. As the name implies, these were municipal clouds intended to provide connectivity to help bridge the digital divide, ass... More >
The one constant in IT, as it is in life, is change. Over the past few years, wireless local-area networks (WLANs) have migrated from ad hoc parallel networks of convenience to highly secure and miss... More >
Yesterday, Palm released update 1.1 for its new webOS platform . The new functionality, according to Philippe Winthrop – an analyst with Strategy Analytics who posts on the Enterprise Mobility Mat... More >
Earlier this week, I posted a blog on some of the challenges that Julius Genachowski will face as chairman of the FCC. One of the issues brought up in the post – via a piece posted at USA Today – is... More >
Peer-to-peer (P2P) networks are the bane of network providers because they carry a disproportionate amount viruses and other nasty code and tend to use bandwidth with reckless abandon. To date... More >
It’s important to consider this Washington Post interview with Julius Genachowski in the context of the difference between his laying out idealistic goals at the inception of his chairmanship on one... More >
The emergence of a new technology always is greeted with great enthusiasm by marketing departments, who use their dollar sign-colored glasses to see all the benefits while minimizing or skipping ques... More >
Entertainment video understandably has the highest profile of the new services that threaten to clog the arteries of the Internet like so many electronic Philly cheese steaks. It isn’t the only type ... More >
President Obama last month invoked the words of Martin Luther King Jr. in relation to the Iranian situation: "The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice." The comment and Oba... More >
Everybody knows that the amount of video on the Internet is going to grow precipitously during the next few years. Strategy Analytics knows precisely how quickly , or at least they say that do. Marti... More >
The New York Times gave a good deal of valuable real estate on its Op-Ed page yesterday to blogger Robert Cringely, who writes about the ongoing battle between Microsoft and Google. This battle, of ... More >
One thing to keep in mind during the long days of a bad economy is that the needs don’t vanish. They are just put off until the financial ship rights itself. It’s also important to remember th... More >
It’s interesting – though not surprising – that increasingly popular netbooks are in position to become a major flash point in the coming operating system battle between Google and Microsoft. ... More >
Reading stories about the proliferation of home area networks (HANs), Cisco’s moves to bring video conferencing more fully into people’s dens and living rooms and related things raises two interestin... More >
I wrote a post last week that noted that planning for the stimulus package is hitting its crescendo. Ars Technica fills out some of the details of the timeline. The story says that the sche... More >
Everybody knows that it’s cruel and dangerous to leave a pet in a parked car in the summer. Apple, apparently, wants people to treat their iPhone 3G S like Fido, Spot and Sammy. Apple has a po... More >
The key to a successful service deployment is to stay away from wishful thinking and pie-in-the-sky expectations and deal with cold, hard reality. What can go wrong will go wrong. If the infrastructu... More >
We are at the beginning of the next phase of the broadband stimulus process, which is a good time to remember just what the money is intended to do. Vice President Joe Biden was set to visit Seneca H... More >
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