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Big media tests the TVoIP waters with free premium content
2008-05-29 22:20:00 Here’s an undeniable fact broadcasters and pay TV operators are going to have to face - sooner rather than later: Downloaded and streaming content will continue displace an increasing number of the eyeballs they once kept easily in their domain. The main reason is simple, provides a direct channel from the producer / distributor ... More About: Media , Free , Big Media , Content , Tests
Android Show Cased
2008-05-29 20:42:00 At the Google I/O developers conference Android was part of the keynote presentation. Members in attendance indicate it stole the show. – GoogleIOGoogle wanted to talk about software engineering on the open web at its developer event on Wednesday, but the demo of its Android operating system for next-generation mobile phones ended up drawing the most ... More About: Show
Ubuntu Ibex to Be the Wireless One?
2008-05-29 18:47:00 Generally we would cover this in our sister publication Tightwad Technica. But the changes on the wireless front for the Ibex release of Ubuntu deserves a mention here. Mark Shuttleworth breaks it here – During the 8.10 cycle we will be venturing into interesting new territory, and we’ll need the rugged adventurousness of a mountain ... More About: Wireless , Open Source , Wifi
In Plain Sight
2008-05-29 18:14:00 Blogging even this blog, in a sense is a second source effort. My partner and I attempt to gather the relevant bits, and piece together a whole cloth. “We do the filtering and highlighting so you don’t have to on the tech scene.” But this happens on a larger scale on the net. Hence the ... More About: Plain , Sight
The big dumb pipe will generate $190 billion by 2012
2008-05-29 00:27:00 Those 2 wild and crazy guys in the US broadband duopoly keep telling us they can’t make a living selling us big dumb pipe at a fair price. As a result we endure paying for a phone line we may not need to get DSL, and have valuable bandwidth filled with TV channels few ... More About: Dumb , Pipe , Billion
Buuuuutttt, Your Honors!
2008-05-29 00:26:00 In what is a far reaching non-action by The Supreme Court; they have decided to not hear a case steeming from a class action against T-Mobile and AT&T and rendered by the CA SC. – The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday dashed a bid by T-Mobile and AT&T to stave off a class-action lawsuit challenging the ... More About: Litigation
Femtocell Again
2008-05-28 23:56:00 Folks we have covered this before. Let me say its an interesting technology. But as soon as you tell a customer that some of their bandwidth could possibly be used by their neighbor for cell calls the jig is up. Then of course there are the legal implications that are pending in both the House ... More About: Wireless
RurrRooh!
2008-05-28 22:14:00 You know there are just some days it does not pay to be a CEO! This is one of those days, if you happen to be General Instrument a maker of settop boxes. – The set-top box, a necessary appendage for millions of cable television customers for decades, is moving toward extinction. A leading television manufacturer, Sony ... More About: Big Media
Just Give it Away!
2008-05-28 22:01:00 Art Earl, director of strategic development at the tech firm Hypres in Elmsford, N.Y., offered an outside-the-box idea in an FCC proceeding in which everything is on the table for discussion. My idea is for the government to deregulate the 700 MHz band and just give it away for a few years for small businesses to ... More About: Give
New Akamai report shows 5MB+ US broadband in a horrible state
2008-05-28 21:12:00 When it comes to determining who has how much in real terms, not marketing terms, content delivery provider Akamai is in a position to know. A new report that is expected to be revised quarterly shows that a paltry 20% of US connections accessing their servers has a =>5MBPS connection. This is very bad ... More About: Broadband , Report , State
Amazon to do video on demand, and soon!
2008-05-28 20:37:00 According to Cnet, Amazon will be entering the pay per view business with a TVoIP video streaming service. The assault on closed content delivery networks continues…. In an interview with Walt Mossberg at D6, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos said, “We are working on a new version of video on demand, a for pay streaming service ... More About: Video , Video on Demand , Demand , On Demand
AT&T Starts Prorated ETFs.
2008-05-28 01:55:00 AT&T with new contracts is prorating the ETF’s. From DSL Reports – Back in April I noted that AT&T will now be pro-rating their early termination fees. Just as a reminder: that new policy started yesterday. Instead of paying the previous $175 penalty no matter when you cancel, new and renewing AT&T customers will now see ... More About: Wireless
How Green Is Thy Valley, Verizon?
2008-05-28 01:45:00 Excuse me Verizon but I thought you had a green initiative going on? So what’s a Hummer doing in your fleet line up? Photo by Connumerist. More About: Green , Valley
Long Range WiFi
2008-05-28 01:37:00 There is a Dutch outfit that has relaunched a long range WiFi system they they have branded Max-Fi. At 2km the throughput is still get 2Mbps. Not bad for what is nothing more than 802.11 with attenuated modulation. According to the Mfr the deploy cost is much lower than WiMax. More details here. More About: Wifi , Wimax , Long , Range , Long Range
New study shows the wireless walled garden is obsolete
2008-05-28 01:30:00 New research shows that younger people like to use use their mobile device as a second window into their online lives and personal computer. It’s not just the young. Go to any office park eatery at noon and you’ll see lots of smart phones and crackberries getting a workout from middle aged as well as ... More About: Wireless , Open Source , Garden , Study , Wimax
WiFi ?Allergy???
2008-05-27 21:17:00 it looks like they need to get a heavier gauge of aluminum for the tin-foil hats down in Santa Fe. Yes folks there is a group of people in that town that are filing a complaint against the deployment of WiFi i public places. They are considering a ADA attack. – A group in Santa Fe ... More About: Wifi
Worldwide average DSL speeds increase, no thanks the US.
2008-05-27 18:03:00 While fiber is the future proof network that more countries are adopting, world DSL speeds and prices are up. DSL is the last mile of choice for the US Telcos and other less developed places. The improved DSL speed, however is largely due to improvements south of the equator. The big change came as a ... More About: Worldwide , Average
Does Microsoft Understand the ?Net?
2008-05-27 17:57:00 My career in IT started pre-Internet so I have seen much of the history unfold with a near 50 yard line seats. But I have to ask does Microsoft really ‘get’ the Internet. This discourse pops up from time to time on the tech blogs. But now I have detected three events that tend to ... More About: Understand
What This Country Needs is a Good $10 Phone!
2008-05-27 17:55:00 Yep an update to a ‘Chicken in every pot’, especially considering that chicken wraps are $3.99 at any Taco Bueno. But Hop-On, who we know nothing about is touting a good no frills $10 phone. Not Reman, new. From their presser – IRVINE, Calif., May 23,2008 — Hop-On, Inc. (Pink Sheets: HPNN) today announces that its ... More About: Phone , Country , Good
The forgotten net traffic problem: Spam
2008-05-27 13:25:00 So much of the discussion has been focused on file sharing that one of the biggest and still growing problems confronted by every netizen and enterprise is Spam . The unsolicited commercial message continues to run rampant clogging the systems and dogging the productivity of those who have to moderate it. While the RIAA and ... More About: Traffic , Net Neutrality , Problem , Forgotten
So That We Not Forget
2008-05-24 18:42:00 The life we lead in this country was not born without sacrifice. For all Veterans a hearty thanks; this is Your Weekend. Thank You. Thanks to Harlan Reynolds, Instapundit for the picture.
NYT Gets One Right
2008-05-24 18:33:00 Rarely do I agree with the editorial positions taken by the NYT. But this article is so ’spot on’ that I feel like I ought to hire the writer. Yes its about cable rates and iterates what we here at ThirdPipe have been railing against since the beginning — rottern service, incompetent personnel, clueless ...
Wireless Broadband for US?
2008-05-24 05:04:00 RCR. It appears that the FCC may auction off an AWS III frequency — 2155-2180 MHz. Its only 25mhz of bandwidth but it maybe enough to make things interesting. – Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin Martin scheduled a vote on rules for another major spectrum auction, one that would encompass 25 megahertz in the 2155-2180 ... More About: Wireless , Broadband
The drumbeat for government funding of broadband continues
2008-05-24 00:37:00 A piece by Ken Gross was just published on PC World. To his credit, he does call for faster depreciation of infrastructure and recognizes that DSL does not constitute world class service. Then he mentions the failure of deregulation in terms of the telcos. The final deregulation of the telcos was not deregulation, rather ... More About: Government , Broadband , Funding
Comcast CTO talks up network management schemes
2008-05-23 00:07:00 Tony Werner, Comcast CTO says that his company will begin to manage heavy users during peak hours rather that protocols in this video interview with Cable Digitial News. Obviously, if implemented, this will make a few who are most likely paying for higher level service tiers very unhappy. While efforts to more equitably manage existing ... More About: Management , Network , Network Management
Google?s Larry Paige talks up White Spaces to Congress
2008-05-22 23:02:00 If approved, the use of low power access points on soon to be vacated TV channels could make for huge changes in the competitive landscape for broadband users. That’s why Google and a few others like HP, Dell and Intel are interested in promoting the use of White Spaces for access and it’s ... More About: Congress , Regulation , Larry
AT&T completes 3G build out. Yawn!
2008-05-22 18:02:00 AT&T is finally catching up with Verizon and Sprint for higher speed wireless data. The service is neither faster nor cheaper and breaks no new ground. I suppose that it will open the door for Mr. Jobs to sell a new handset to his personality cult making the two “A” companies quite a few dollars ... More About: Wireless , Build
Further Indications of Cellular Saturation
2008-05-21 22:15:00 RCR is reporting that cell phone sales have dropped sharply in the first quarter. Considering the sate of the economy right now, frivolous upgrades like to an iPhone or Blackberry curve has to be expected. Why spend the dollars when the handset you have is working fine and you are satisfied with the carrier? ... More About: Cellular
Lost Cause
2008-05-21 21:01:00 We reported the ongoing efforts by the FCC to have analog sets properly labeled as part of the DTV transition. Best Buy and few others having been hit by some pretty hefty fines. Well now the other shoe has fallen. Best Buy is using the ‘no controlling authority” defense as the basis of getting out ... More About: Lost
Microsoft opens search engine wars with cash back?
More articles from this author:2008-05-21 16:25:00 The spin from the Windows Live group in Redmond is that this is getting cash back for purchases initiated through search. The devil’s in the details. I believe this will end as more of an assault of shopping engines than search engines. Google pretty much started that assault with Froogle, that’s now consolidated into ... More About: Microsoft , Wars , Search , Search Engine 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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