Prostitution on the Web?
Posted on March 13, 2008 - Filed Under Commentary | Leave a Comment
Is anybody surprised that you can do that on the Internet? The porn industry has thrived on the new media and in fact is responsible for many of its early innovations. With streaming media and broadband connections becoming common place, those who will pay and those that are willing are bound to get together, by credit card or cash.
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Read More..>>3-7-08 Technology Week in Review
Posted on March 7, 2008 - Filed Under Commentary, Industry News | Leave a Comment
Siemans, Skype, Clearwire, and Tata – Apple opens the iPhone
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Read More..>>2-29-08 Technology Week in Review
Posted on February 29, 2008 - Filed Under Commentary, Industry News, Net Neutrality | Leave a Comment
Comcast, what are you doing? You just lost pretty much any credibility you ever may have had, at least with the public. These dirty little tactics may work well in D.C., but taking them to a public open meeting on a college campus will win you no friends. You should definitely consider firing your PR guy.
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Read More..>>Internet Not Perfect
Posted on February 27, 2008 - Filed Under Blogs, Commentary | Leave a Comment
Some strange things have been happening to the Internet lately…All this just goes to show that the Internet is not perfect, and is vulnerable to things that happen, malicious or not. But what isn’t?
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Read More..>>2-22-2008 Technology Week in Review
Posted on February 22, 2008 - Filed Under Commentary, Industry News | Leave a Comment
Largest 802.11n deployment planned by Duke University, Star Wars 2008, Broadband Balloons, and T-Mobile goes VoIP. News and Commentary on the weeks more interesting stories.
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Read More..>>Bill Gates on Yahoo
Posted on February 21, 2008 - Filed Under Articles, Commentary, Industry News | Leave a Comment
It has been said that the two companies have significant cultural differences, Yahoo being very collaborative with a Linux based open source philosophy. Microsoft has never been accused of being a champion of open source technologies. The engineers that thrive in that kind of innovative environment are even now considering bolting.
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Read More..>>Mid East Cable Cuts Sabotage? No Way!
Posted on February 20, 2008 - Filed Under Commentary, Industry News | Leave a Comment
The International Telecommunications Union (ITU) is looking into sabotage as a possible cause of the five submarine cable cuts that affected the Mid East and south Asian Internet and phone services in late January and early February.
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Read More..>>2-15-2008 Communications Week in Review
Posted on February 15, 2008 - Filed Under Commentary, Industry News | Leave a Comment
Some of this weeks top stories: Microsoft leaps into the low end cell phone market, as the Mobile World Congress kicks off in Barcelona. Vonage gains some market share while VoIP Inc. sues for patent infringement and the WiMax forum comes clean about its FDD plans. Also, an awful lot about Comcast in the news this week.
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Read More..>>Net Neutrality Act Reintroduced in Congress
Posted on February 14, 2008 - Filed Under Commentary, Industry News, Net Neutrality | Leave a Comment
Without a net neutrality law in place, publicly traded service providers will always straddle the fence between their customers and shareholders. More often than not, they will opt for the bottom line, leaving consumers rights by the wayside. It is exactly the absence of such legislation that has allowed the cell phone industry to wall in their gardens, offering dumbed down browsers that only access the content that the provider wants you to see (and pay them for). Left to their own devices, ISPs could be headed down the same road. If it starts with BitTorrent, where does it stop?
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Read More..>>2-1-08 The Week in Review
Posted on February 1, 2008 - Filed Under Commentary, VoIP News | 1 Comment
Commercial Block C of the 700MHz auction has met the minimum reserve, ensuring open access for all…cables in the Mediterranean were cut, causing a massive slowdown of Internet and telecommunication services from Egypt to India…Sprint is reviving talks with Clearwire…Continental cuts a deal with LiveTV LLC to offer in flight WiFi Internet access and Satellite TV starting in 2009…8X8 Announces Profitable Quarter…
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