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Amazon adds Perisitent Storage to cloud computing service
2008-04-14 18:34:00 Competition is good! With new entrants like Google entering the the cloud computing services area, incumbent Amazon will have to keep responding with more innovation to stay in the game. The new Persistent Storage service works something like an unformatted hard drive with the EC 2 cloud computing platform. People can sign up for an ... More About: Service , Computing , Cloud
Is there a future open wireless web?
2008-04-13 21:07:00 Mike Liebhold of the Institute for the Future addressed the O’Reilly Emerging Telephony Conference a little over a year ago about the roadblocks to and promise of an open wireless web. In view of recent developments, this 17 minute presentation is right on topic. While progress has been made, the roadblocks he clearly identified ... More About: Wireless , Open
Upon the Shoals of Avarice
2008-04-12 18:12:00 Who is this I speak of? Verizon of course. The concern? Survival. Yes I know, Verizon is looked upon as one of the best run of the Telcos in the US if not the Planet. Well let me paint you a different picture – Verizon has a looming contract dispute due in August with both ... More About: Telecom
Network Congestion according to Steve Gibson
2008-04-12 04:33:00 We’re big fans of Steve Gibson ’s weekly security net cast. It’s good to see one of the most popular tech shows on the net take on Third Pipe subject matter. In the program Steve discussed the issues of net neutrality, congestion and more. Our own expert, Dr. Dog, has already chimed in on the subject ... More About: Network , Congestion
AT&T and Time Warner shareholder alert: Sell!
2008-04-11 23:23:00 Management at Time Warner and AT&T have either been smoking something or are confident existing government policy will kill any broadband competition in their geographic markets. The funny thing about government regs is that industry and the buying public always find a work around. One example: when CAFE standards pretty much outlawed large cars, ... More About: Alert , Sell , Shareholder
Verizon Upset? Could be.
2008-04-11 19:29:00 This is the second time that VZ has ran off to the courts with their ball [FIOS] complaining. Again, must be something in the water. Any how this is what they are complaining about – New York (NY) - Verizon is a bit miffed at Time Warner ’s new television ads and has filed a lawsuit ... More About: Upset
A Queen of Hearts Kind of World
2008-04-11 18:49:00 You being a nice guy have a portion of your WiFi network open for occasional guests. But alas some of your neighbors are cheap and are slurping off your bandwidth. What to do? Well of course you could close it down or turn on WEP. But what’s the fun in that? Why not play some ... More About: World , Wifi , Queen , Hearts , Overseas
Comcast?s new 50MBPS ?wideband?: great if your neighbors don?t subscribe
2008-04-11 14:31:00 One of the least discussed properties of DOCSIS or cable broadband is that the more popular it is in you neighborhood, the less you can expect from it. With DOCSIS 3, this property is magnified. In comparison to a direct fiber connection it will only deliver consistently good performance if the take rate is ... More About: Great , Wideband , Subscribe , Comcast , Neighbors
Yahoo to Buy AOL? Google to Provide Assist at the Key?
2008-04-11 03:23:00 Like a basketball game near the half and the home team down by 20, Yahoo to go into a 4 point stall using AOL for a cover on merger write offs. The rumor details here. But I hate to say it — does this make sense? From a strictly financial view I say no. ... More About: Google , Microsoft , Yahoo! , Assist
Mark Cuban almost gets one right: Cable could deliver a bunch more bandwidt
2008-04-11 03:19:00 Mark Cuban chimed in with a great idea on his blog about re-allocating cable operater band width by going all digital - just like broadcast TV. In fact, the cable ops were exempted form making the transition and will be on the only source of analog signals after the DTV transition next year. Most of ... More About: Mark Cuban , Mark , Cable
Memo to VP of Logistics, Update your Resume
2008-04-11 02:59:00 As you may or may not know, the FCC is currently on the lookout for firms not telling customers that the device being sold to them is an analog only set an d will not work after Feb, ‘09. So the FCC snags — Sears, WalMart, Best Buy, et. al. for not doing so. ... More About: Regulation , Resume , Update , Memo , Logistics
Sprint Does it Again?
2008-04-11 02:42:00 Read this first. So lets recap, This Sprint customer is told their contract will expire in ‘07. They iterate that they will not renew due to a more. Somebody ups it anyway. Now we have covered this before. Your defense as a consumer starts before you signed anything – 1) If you can get a ... More About: Wireless
Blackberry Doomed?
2008-04-10 17:53:00 Aaah Blackberry , the device I despise. (at least you know where I stand.) Its a meeting killer unless companies instill social protocols to prevent it. (Which is another social issue that should not be, but I digress….) But if you read this APC article the author intones that maybe RIM is headed for the ... More About: Doomed
20MBPS: available to very few Americans, and 2.4 million Austrailians
2008-04-10 15:33:00 We Americans have a problem called a duopoly that is backed by a government in denial. The Aussies on the other hand are in a panic much of the world is moving to a 100MBPS standard. To them the move to ADSL2 is a temporary fix. ABOUT 80,000 more homes and businesses in South Australia ... More About: Million
Estonia becomes the world?s first 100% Wifi connected nation
2008-04-09 22:36:00 While muni wifi languishes in larger American cities, and US rural coverage is spotty at best, former Soviet state Estonia now has Wifi service reaching any location within its boundaries. Quite a feat from a country that was in total financial and technological melt down a couple of decades ago. This has been accomplished the ... More About: World , Nation , The World
Rural Indiana will soon have a fiber network
2008-04-09 22:10:00 A small family owned telco plans to invest more than $3100 per customer to deliver fiber broadband service. Are they crazy? I think not. Rural areas tend to have higher take rates for services like satellite tv and internet - often at inflated prices. When deployed the customer base should grow spurred by new ... More About: Indiana , Fiber , Network
You Could Hear a Pindrop in the Hearing Room
2008-04-09 19:40:00 In a case of misappropriation of 800/888 numbers Sprint gets slammed by the FCC to the tune of a cool $1M. That’s just the fine. There is another hearing to be scheduled on compensatory damages. They also have to relinquish those numbers to the original user. In this Order, we grant in part a ... More About: Hear , Room , Hearing
Sound Familiar?
2008-04-09 17:23:00 Lets play a game shall we? Here are the rules. I won’t tell you the name of the company, you have to guess. Other than that there are no rules – The information they gave me about receiving a message before reaching the cap was misleading Finding out how far I was in my billing cycle ... More About: Sound
Free? and Flawed?
2008-04-09 16:00:00 There is an outfit called Joyent that is offering free python cloud computing for developers. All they ask is — “… Joyent only asks that you provide Joyent unlimited access to your customer information and clickstream data. …”. Sounds like a great deal for the developer doesn’t it? We don’t think so – To enter ... More About: Free , Cloud Computing
A Pindrop on Identity Theft, Compliments of Sprint
2008-04-09 15:33:00 In what has to be the lamest excuse for a security system, Sprint has it. I hope that their legal team has the $$ backing for a possible legal suit. But this is crazy – I’m a former Sprint rep, I worked with this “3 questions” system numerous times. I was shocked at the number of ... More About: Identity Theft , Theft , Identity , Compliments
The Importance of Google Apps Engine
2008-04-09 04:41:00 The announcement of GAE has quite a stir the last 24hrs. The dev community is all agga about it. That’s ok. But the folks who might be even more enthused are the Venture Capitalists and Biz Managers. – For starters, more Web applications mean more pages running Google -brokered ads. App Engine also runs on ... More About: Google Apps
AT&T breaks with tradition and hires outsider CTO
2008-04-09 04:28:00 If AT&T ever has to face real broadband competition, they are in trouble. Their infrastructure will not support world class IP services and their current business model does not allow for for a quick transition to a fat pipe. I think their recent hire of an outsider for their CTO slot is telling. This position ... More About: Tradition , Breaks
Itunes passes Walmart in music sales, but with Walmart?s help
2008-04-09 03:52:00 A few days ago I was a little surprised to learn that I tunes had passed Walmart in gross music sales. It seems that Walmart is currently offering less downloadable product: The have stopped selling anythign with DRM: Over the last few months, the meme has taken hold that the big record labels had ... More About: Music , Itunes , Sales , Content , Music Sales
If you have AT&T DSL and a 2Wire modem / router read on?
2008-04-09 03:34:00 Rumor has it there is a simple exploit in the wild that could deliver your personal data to people who do not mean you well. Since it’s your data, not AT&T or 2Wire’s it’s your problem: “2Wire manufactures DSL modems and routers for AT&T and other major carriers. Their devices suffer from a DNS redirection vulnerability ... More About: Security , Read , Modem , Router
Render Unto Ceasar, That Which Has Never Been Connected?
2008-04-09 01:33:00 Well a new high in low! Verizon has billed a customer for service that has not even been installed. They want $79 as a disconnect fee! 6:16 PM (seconds ago) Verizon Won’t Install Your DSL, But Wants $79 To “Disconnect” It [Bad Install] from Consumerist by Meg Marco If you can’t free up any time from 9-5 on ... More About: Connected
Google enters utility cloud computing business
2008-04-08 23:32:00 Google may be getting ready to take on Amazon’s online computing and storage services with it’s new App Engine. The lucky developers that were invited to be involved in the initial phase will have the chance to build apps that can be hosted and scaled infinitely on Google’s infrastructure. The App Engine will run in ... More About: Google , Business , Computing , Utility , Cloud
TVoIP, Ante Up!
2008-04-08 16:23:00 Well TVoIP has a new partner, CBS. They are now releasing many original series in a high quality format available right over the net. The quality if better than what Hulu provides. So the bar has been raised on TVoIP content. For example the entire 3 years of Star Trek classic is online here. ... More About: Big Media , Content
Enough is Enough!
2008-04-08 16:06:00 We here at ThirdPipe are big Google boosters. They provide services we doubt would even exist without them being around. One of their most popular features is Google Maps. They have Street View as a component of that service. There is a problem though. Street View could be a source of infringement. Google has ... More About: Big Media , Content , Courts
You?re Only as Good as Your Last Act
2008-04-08 15:32:00 We here at ThirdPipe usually write of the tech side of the transport biz. But it is useful from time to time to understand what is flowing thru those pipes — ie. the content and those providing it. Well this time its CBS, the stalwart legacy content provider. The network of Edward R. Murrow ... More About: Editorial , Content , Good
To Protect and Serve?
More articles from this author:2008-04-08 06:05:00 Well you know, generally we expect Police to be on the outside of the case nabbing the bad guy for the RIAA to sue. Not this time. The Police were the ones making the copies of digital content. – Canberra (Australia) - During an internal audit of Australia’s police department, hundreds of officer were found ... More About: Content , Overseas , Serve 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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