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We Can?t Get Competition But We Can Fine Like Rabbits
2008-05-12 19:44:00 Value City and Toy’s r Us have been fined $216k and $248K respectively for failure to place stickers on analog TV sets that they won’t operate next February. You have to sell a heck of a lot of TV’s to overcome the loss of revenue from these kind of foopahs. Clearly the stores were not ... More About: Competition , Rabbits , Fine
Google and IBM team up in the cloud
2008-05-11 22:44:00 In a joint public statement the search giant and big iron giant announced they are teaming up to offer a broad range of hosted apps and services. The partnership should extend Google ’s reach into the enterpriser market and IBM’s reach into the small/ medium business / consumer markets. Over the next year, IBM and Google ... More About: Team , Cloud , The Cloud , Cloud Computing
We Get a Chance to Preview the DTV Disaster
2008-05-10 18:28:00 In a pilot test in Wilimington NC the primary TV stations in that market will turn off their analog signals for an agreed upon period of time. It will be interesting to know how quickly the telephone boards at the stations will light up. This is to occur on Sept. 8th. From the FCC presser ... More About: Preview , Disaster , Chance
IT Like High School?
2008-05-09 20:00:00 At least the author of this piece thinks so here. To be quite honest, I have thought many in the IT business have infantile minds so maybe HS is a valid observation. Be that as it may, Ballmer having been rebuffed by Yahoo is now gunning for FaceBook? — Which seems exactly the way to ... More About: Microsoft , School , High School , High
Ans: What is Associated with 17000?
2008-05-09 19:10:00 Ques: What is the number of free AT&T hotspots? Yep. Nationwide. This includes Starbucks and Barnes & Noble as well. Now the ‘free’ Is targeted at iPhone users. But with a little tech jockeying anyone with a WiFi enabled laptop can too. LifeHacker provides a mini-HOWTO here. This is actually good news for the consumer. ... More About: Wireless , Verizon , Wifi , Wimax
In search of Web 3.0 in a Third Pipe
2008-05-09 15:39:00 While we are still in the process of defining what is Web 2.0, pundits are beginning to postulate what will constitute Web 3.0. A thorough study of the complete article sited below brings us to the unavoidable conclusion that all scenarios postulated require abundant ever expanding bandwidth at low cost. In May 2006, Tim Berners-Lee, ... More About: Search , Pipe
Cablevison agressively implementing Wifi mesh
2008-05-08 21:48:00 Cablevision intends to blanket their New York / Connecticut footprint with Wifi and soon. Could this be resopnse to competitive pressure from the threat of a full deployed Wimax network in the same area? Could be. It’s amazing what even a threat of competition can do in the marketplace. The WiFi mesh network is two ... More About: Mesh
iProvo muni fiber net privatized. A case study against government run netwo
2008-05-08 16:05:00 iProvo, once touted as a proof of concept for government run networks has gone private. The technically excellent FTTP never managed to grow and was hemorrhaging customers at the end. The Salt Lake Tribune reports that one of Utah’s two struggling municipal fiber networks, iProvo, is going to be sold to Broadweave Networks for $40.6 ... More About: Government , Study , Fiber , Muni , Editorial
Tech pundits chime in on ?what is cloud computing??
2008-05-08 14:33:00 Cloud Computing is one of our favorite subjects here at the Third Pipe. If you were to ask any of our contributors to define it, you’ll get a different answer. To me it’s the web itself, but a more timely definition would be anything that extends beyond the delivery of static content. The new ... More About: Tech , Chime , Cloud , Cloud Computing
Xohm morphs into Clearwire: it?s a deal!
2008-05-07 20:39:00 A strange brew of investors and partners will constitute the first nationwide Wimax network in the US. While lack of funds was never referred to by either Sprint or Clearwire as a reason for delays. it’s an obvious factor. The new cash infusion from investors should insure a proper and hopefully a faster build ... More About: Deal , Xohm
Why Open Source Flourishes in the Tier 3 Economies
2008-05-07 01:56:00 CNet has an interesting blurb comparing Microsoft licensing cost as a relative cost to per capital income. In the end folks in Brazil pay 19x and homes 15x the relative costs of an American for the same software. Even doing a straight cash comparison the Brazilian pays a 20% uplift to buy the same software. ... More About: Open Source , Open , Source , Open-Source , Tier
The on again, off again Sprint - Clearwire deal is on again.
2008-05-07 00:00:00 The Wall Street Journal is reporting that the two companies have agree to merge thier wireless units with the help of investments from a few outsiders with Wimax interests. Sprint has agreed to merge its wireless broadband unit with Clearwire , a Kirkland, Wash.,firm founded by cellphone pioneer Craig McCaw. The new company has raised a ... More About: Content , Deal
Tim O?Reilly talks up web 2.0 publishing
2008-05-06 14:44:00 It’s no secret that the web has been displacing giant chinks of print and broadcast media. In a world where anyone can publish and publications are interactive the old media’s system of telling us what to think just doesn’t work any more. Web based media is dynamic, multi-media, interactive and most importantly decentralized. In this presentation ... More About: Publishing , Reilly , Content
Open Solaris takes up residence in Amazon?s cloud
2008-05-06 02:06:00 The speculation about a Sun / Amazon partnership is no more. Sun has announced that it will make Open Solaris available on Amazon’s EC2 cloud computing service. Suns OpenSolaris OS will be available on the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) customers for free. It is in beta for now. Sun will provide premium technical support ... More About: Cloud Computing
Qwest joins the dark side for wireless
2008-05-06 01:41:00 In another move towards making fewer viable competitors in the wireless space, Qwest has chosen Verizon as their new wireless partner. This leaves open the question: Will the Q eventually try to merge with Darth V to create a telco super villain? U.S. phone company Qwest Communications International Inc and Verizon Wireless said ... More About: Dark , The Dark
700 MHz: Verizon begins the process of redefining ?open?
2008-05-05 21:28:00 Not to say we told you so, but we did. At the close of the 700MHz auction we predicted Verizon , the winner of the “open access” C block, wold begin to redefine what is meant by the word “open”. Immediately after the auction, certain members of Congress friendly to to the Verzion / AT&T ... More About: Open , Net Neutrality , Process
Big, Green and Pissed
2008-05-05 17:42:00 Comcast, never the sauvest of companies in the customer service department has come up with a new scheme to tick off customers. Fat green utility cans sitting in your front yard. You know those suckers that look about the size of a dorm refrigerator. “I came home to find Comcast had put a green utility ... More About: Green , Comcast , Pissed
Sun follows Amazon into the cloud
2008-05-05 03:22:00 To be fair Sun’s Scott McNealy has been talking up the cloud computing concept since the early days of the internet. Unfortunately, Sun never really did much to convert the lofty idea into a service for the masses like Amazon has. Recently Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz hinted that a deal between Sun and Amazon ... More About: Cloud , The Cloud , Cloud Computing
Runaway
2008-05-05 02:29:00 Yes, like the 1984 flick ‘Runaway ’ starring Tom Selleck. The plot for that film was that small industrial ‘bots were running around killing people. Selleck’s character was assigned to a police unit that exterminated such wayward bots. Well folks the plot is coming true. At least the ‘bot piece is. It may have seemed like ... More About: Wifi
Told Ya! And Hmmm?
2008-05-04 22:59:00 Well now, straight from Fox News — Microsoft walks out on the Yahoo bid. We’ve been saying here that Microsoft has been out of their element on this deal. I say that for this reason. According to a Wired article MS was willing to go as hight as $37/share. More than I would have expected. ... More About: Told
FCC Gone to the Birds
2008-05-04 18:32:00 Like so much goes on in Washington the DC Court of Appeals has ruled on American Bird Conservancy, Inc. v. FCC. Upholding part, vacating part. The main complaint is the FCC has not followed procedure in regards to the Species Protection Act and the National Environmental Policy Act [NEPA]. All of this is administrative BS ... More About: Birds
Is Yahoo Worth $50B?
2008-05-03 19:30:00 It appears that Microsoft has upped its ante for Yahoo above $31/share. The report, provided by AP does not indicate what the $$ amount is. But if Microsoft has upped it to $34-35 the deal will be done. The big stock holder will see to that. They smell profit in the water. Sadly the AP ... More About: Worth , Yahoo!
Sprint Slapped
2008-05-03 19:04:00 Some not so great news for Sprint . Their bond debt rating has dropped to Bbb. Now RCR calls this junk status. Oddly most analysts would not consider that rating quite junk but close. But it is still a problem for Sprint. This drop in the rating raises the costs for internal programs like Xohm. It also ...
Keeping the net free and open also applies to software
2008-05-03 03:59:00 There’s more to keeping the web free and open than encouraging fierce competition between access providers and equally impartial treatment of traffic. Free and open also extends to software technologies that enable and extend our use of the net. When it comes to software, we like free. Free insures quick adoption by those who have ... More About: Software , Open , Net Neutrality
Amazon challenges New York online sales tax in court
2008-05-02 15:35:00 New York ’s lawmakers recently passed a law requiring Amazon to collect sales tax on orders delivered to the state. New Yorkers are obligated by law to pay the state sales tax on their online purchases by voluntarily remitting the funds to the state. It’s not surprising volutary compliance is low, especially in one of ... More About: Regulation , New York , Sales
BPL in Dallas is dead
2008-05-02 15:02:00 The great broadband over power line experiment in Dallas has ended. No reason for of why the Current / DirectTV partnership is shutting down was stated, but the powerful Ham Radio lobby probably had more than a little to do with it. It’s no secret that the anti-competitive Cable / Telco duopoly interests are ... More About: Dead
McCain-Feingold is Technologically Dead
2008-05-01 20:48:00 The best laid plans of the Pols have yet again been placed asunder. That bipartisan effort to ‘cure’ campaign finance, BCRA, will be totally destroyed by this. BCRA puts a gag order 30 days before an election. It was generally targeted at 527 groups and other financially well healed political groups. SaysMe is where ... More About: Regulation , Content , Dead , Courts , Feingold
Abobe takes a baby step towards open source Flash
2008-05-01 20:23:00 Adobe may be close to discovering the fact that going open source is the only way to insure long term wide spread adoption of Flash . At least the Open Screen Project takes a step in that direction. The Open Screen Project, supported by Adobe and several “industry leaders” and announced today, is supposed to foster ... More About: Baby , Open Source , Source
$15 for TV on your mobile? Why?
2008-05-01 19:56:00 If you’re willing to buy a new handset and pony up $15 a month you can view limited programming on your mobile phone. Initially I was sure this was one of those ideas that would die a quick and uneventful death until I mentioned it to my 10 year old in passing. Her response:”can ... More About: Mobile , Wireless
Disorder in the Court; RIAA Freaked
More articles from this author:2008-05-01 03:48:00 The RIAA is perplexed. To a certain extent so am I. But a judge has ruled that just because a file is in a Kaazaa directory does not meet the definition of ‘distribution’. The confusing part? This very same judge ruled otherwise in a similar RIAA case against a different party. In most cases, ... More About: Content , Court , Riaa , Litigation 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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