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VOIP subscriber numbers: Vonage - 1 mln, Time Warner - 614K, CableVision - 250K: In an article on Vonage reaching 1 mln subscribers, PC Magazine quotes Time Warner having 614K subscribers and CableVision having 250K subscribers. 1.2 mln people pay for SkypeOut.; Tags: 614K, 250K; Blog posts 2005-09-08

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Tech, telecom join up to beat back trolls: Seeing as how patent reform has died on the vine, several tech and telecom companies are taking matters into their own hands, the Wall Street Journal reports. Scared by the NTP v Research in Motion case, in which the BlackBerry maker came perilously close to folding...; Tags: Patent, Troll, NTP, Telephony, Telecommunications, Networking, Richard Koman; Blog posts 2008-06-30
WWDC keynote highlights: iPhone 2.0, MobileMe: Steve Jobs has taken the stage at WWDC and here's what we know so far: The next version of Mac OS X is indeed called "Snow Leopard" In the first 95 days of the SDK being available, over 250k people have downloaded it. iPhone 2...; Tags: Apple iPhone, 3G, Desktops, Cellular Phones, Corporate Communications, Wireless, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, Marketing, Jason D. O\'Grady; Blog posts 2008-06-09
Hardware 2.0 WWDC "blogging the blogs" coverage: Unfortunately a series of prior commitments meant that I couldn't make it to WWDC 08. Since I can't be there, I've decided to do the second best thing and cover WWDC from the angle of "blogging the blogs." So, here I am sitting in front of three...; Tags: Apple iPhone, Blog, Blogging, Hardware, App, Steve, 3G, Games, Cellular Phones, Wireless, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes; Blog posts 2008-06-09
Jail time for anti-copyright pirate?: Jail time for anti-copyright pirate?Why not a death penalty?Only 5 years in prison and only $250k in fines. That's so lame...Can't complainIf you're going to play the civil disobedience game, expect to pay full price for the privilege.Jail time is what thieves deserve ...Why should we feel sorry for a...; Tags: illegal copy, Jail Time, piracy; Discussion threads 2008-05-23

Web safety pork: House offers $25m to Hollywood-linked group: The House has passed a bill that would direct $25 million to a single nonprofit organization that provides information about online child safety, the National Journal reports. (Via News.com). HR 4134, sponsored by Rep. Linda Sanchez (D-CA) pictured would pay i-Safe, based in Carlsbad, CA, $5 million a year....; Tags: Web, Group, House, i-Safe, Safety Education, Internet, Channel Management, Marketing, Richard Koman; Blog posts 2007-11-20
"Terminal" isn't a four letter word: "Terminal" isn't a four letter wordonce againA solution for all problems: private-PC-connected-to-public-network + workplace-terminal-connected-to-private-network + KVMManagement wants the fantasy.It's really the same as most businesses--management wants to be told, "We checked into it and have the situation under control. There is no problem. Anything you hear to the contrary is...; Tags: Strategy, information technology, IT FAILED, Murph; Discussion threads 2007-10-29
JetBlue cancellations strands thousands in New York: JetBlue cancellations strands thousands in New YorkKind of goes back to an earlier questionhave computers really made our lives better? Now with virus's, crackers, trojan horses and bad programming, it seems that incompetence is acceptable and below standard service the norm.Pretty sad really. Ironically the best service I get is...; Tags: Tools & Techniques, Product marketing, Development tools, software, JetBlue Airways Corp.; Discussion threads 2007-06-29
Sony's nightmare scenario: Sony's nightmare scenarioi'm getting ps3 over xboxJust waiting til that PS3 Home comes out. And some more cool games.http://www.engadget.com/2007/03/07/playstation-home-revealed/I've never used xbox or xbox live since cool games on xbox come out eventually on PC (halo, gears of war)I couldn't agree moreI made the argument that Sony cannot sustain...; Tags: HD DVD, DVD, Consumer electronics, supplier, John C, Sony Corp., BluRay, HD-DVD; Discussion threads 2007-06-12
Why Java will be GPL'd: Why Java will be GPL'dGawd, anything but the GPL.I can't think of anything that will turn professional developers off faster.How 'bout Humble Pie?;)What about FreeBSD license?I wish FreeBSD http://www.FreeBSD.Org/ can redistribute JDK with it's OS without having the user to download it manually.Thank you,Abdullah[u]http://www.WeArab.Net/]Arab[/u]Powered by [u]http://www.FreeBSD.Org/]FreeBSD Free Unix server OS[/u]Why...; Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Programming languages, UNIX, Operating systems, GPL, Java, Sun Microsystems Inc., LGPL, GCC, FreeBSD, BSD; Discussion threads 2006-11-08
Web 2.0 amateur entrepreneurs: failure to succeed: Web 2.0 amateur entrepreneurs: failure to succeedRight on DonnaMy thoughts exactly. Kiko was a great product/tool. If the founders knew more about starting a business and overcoming obstacles, and if they had proper motivation, they could have stuck it out much longer and probably sold for much more...; Tags: Entrepreneurship, Web 2.0, Web; Discussion threads 2006-08-28
$250K oops: Check behind those spam filters: $250K oops: Check behind those spam filtersInstead of having such strong filters...They could simply send/receive encrypted files so they know exactly who they are from and who they are intended to go to. One theory these days is to turn up spam filters so strong that an email from my...; Tags: Spam, SECURITY, EmailXT, e-mail, spam filter; Discussion threads 2006-06-09
$250K oops: Check behind those spam filters: Thought you could escape spam with smart email filters? Think again. A Georgia school district has learned the hard way that it doesn't pay to rely on those filters completely. A Cobb County School District spam filter may have cost the district $250K when it blocked email about lower...; Tags: spam; Blog posts 2006-06-08
Spam filter swallows contractor's email, district winds up paying$250K more: Spam filter swallows contractor's email, district winds up paying$250K moreeSchool News linkThe link to eSchool News is broken. It should be:http://www.eschoolnews.com/news/showStoryts.cfm?ArticleID=6342; Tags: Spam, paying$250K, eSchool News, spam filter, e-mail; Discussion threads 2006-06-08
Spam filter swallows contractor's email, district winds up paying$250K more: In another example of overreliance on email, a Cobb County School District spam filter thwarted the district's chance to save $250,000 a year in telephone service by filtering communications with a bidder, reports eSchoolNews. The district's spam filter sucked up legitimate email from a telephone vendor, which...; Tags: e-mail; Blog posts 2006-06-05
Is Microsoft losing ground to Linux?: Is Microsoft losing ground to Linux?Correction249k Euros = more than $318k (not $250k as the article suggests); Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Linux, Microsoft Corp.; Discussion threads 2006-05-19
Sun and Eclipse part 3: Who's eclipsing whom?: This is the last of a three-part series on the possibilities of Sun joining the Eclipse Foundation. See parts one and two for background information. In this part I'll discuss the two remaining "conditions" that Sun had for joining, analyze reactions to this possibility, talk...; Tags: Eclipse, compiler; Blog posts 2006-05-07
Three schools, two in NC, win $250K packages for tech visions: Who figured North Carolina for the hotbed of education technology vision? Two of three schools winning a competition for edtech vision hail from the Tarheel state. The three schools each get hardward, software and services worth $250,000 as part of a competition sponsored by Dell, Microsoft and Intel, part...; Tags: teacher; Blog posts 2006-03-24
EVDO from Moscone: Thanks to Podshow I'm cruising on EVDO at the Jobs keynote. Doc Searls is boosting me via WiFi from my Powerbook. 5.7Billion in sales 8 million videos Commander in Chief on slide SNL upRadio plug-in $49WidgetsTiger 10.4.4 updateiLife '06 ...; Tags: Podcasts, EVDO; Blog posts 2006-01-10
Inmates discover new behind-the-bars revenue scheme: Inmates discover new behind-the-bars revenue schemeIRS: most inept agency...on earthNo wonder we are running a huge federal budget deficit !Nuf said.IRS - PRISON INMATES RECEIVING REFUNDS!Someone said the IRS was ineffective, or some words to that effect. I just received a $446 refund from my 2004 Tax Return,...; Tags: Government, Taxes, Vertical industries, Litigation, Internal Revenue Service; Discussion threads 2006-01-04