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- Comcast sets 250GB ceiling
- Now, it's official. Comcast will impose a 250GB monthly cap on its Internet customers, as the SF Chronicle reports. Violators will get a notice and a warning. If you do it twice in a six-month period, they may terminate your account. What's more, Comcast...
- Tags: Comcast Corp., Corporate Communications, Broadband Internet, Network Technology, Telecommunications, Marketing, Networking, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-08-29
- Comcast's Web limits: Saving bandwidth or stifling innovation?
- Comcast's Web limits: Saving bandwidth or stifling innovation?Beef it upWhy Comcast should beef up their network:Imagine its 5:00 PM on a normal Friday evening, you get home hoping to relax in front of the TV to watch a movie or two. You turn on the TV only to discover that...
- Tags: Broadband Internet, Strategy, Web, Comcast Corp., bandwidth, network
- Discussion threads 2008-08-28
- Comcast's Web limits: Saving bandwidth or stifling innovation?
- The first computer I ever bought had a whopping six-gigabyte hard drive inside - far more storage capacity than anyone might have ever dreamed of using some ten years ago. Back then, no one was really downloading music or uploading digital photos, let alone streaming video or placing VoIP phone...
- Tags: Innovation, Web, Bandwidth, Comcast Corp., Internet, Storage, Telecommunications, Hardware, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-08-28
- Comcast takes broadband cap plunge; Other carriers likely to follow
- Comcast takes broadband cap plunge; Other carriers likely to followHmm, I wonder how long it will take the torrent abusers...... to reach that cap and get kicked? Not talking about the ones who get movies and software and games all illegally but the ones who serve this stuff up?...
- Tags: Broadband Internet, Network technology, Corporate communications, Comcast Corp., broadband cap, broadband, stat
- Discussion threads 2008-08-28
- The depressing future of the Internet
- A brief overview of how the Internet came about: some years ago, some military boffs thought it'd be awesome if computers could talk to each other, so the US could nuke the hell out of other countries without actually being near there. A smart professor from England then came up...
- Tags: Security, IPv6, Computer, Flaw, IPv6 Adoption, Internet, Zack Whittaker
- Blog posts 2008-08-28
- Comcast takes broadband cap plunge; Other carriers likely to follow
- Comcast will implement a 250 GB data monthly cap on customers starting Oct. 1. The move, reported first by DSL Reports, was confirmed by Comcast today Techmeme. On its site, Comcast posted its amended user policy: We've listened to feedback from our customers who asked that...
- Tags: Comcast Corp., Broadband, Customer, Carrier, Broadband Internet, Network Technology, Telecommunications, Networking, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-08-28
- Dell: Turnaround interuptus as share grab hurts net, margins
- Dell's second quarter earnings fell short of projections, but revenue was well ahead of targets. Translation: Dell is gaining share at the expense of its bottom line as price competition heats up. Dell reported fiscal second quarter earnings of 31 cents a share on revenue of $16.4...
- Tags: Revenue, Dell Computer Corp., Operational Accounting, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-08-28
- Dell's second quarter: Another milepost in the turnaround tale
- Dell reports its fiscal second quarter results on Thursday after market close and analysts are turning optimistic about the company's turnaround prospect amid better consumer notebook designs, emerging market revenue and solid server sales growth. Dell is expected to report fiscal second quarter earnings of 36 cents...
- Tags: Revenue, Dell Computer Corp., Miscioscia, Sales Strategy, Operational Accounting, Marketing Research, Financial Services, Sales, Finance, Marketing, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-08-28
- Smart grid player Trilliant closes $40 million in funding round
- Trilliant, a green tech company that's working with about 100 utilities on various smart grid deployments, has just closed a $40 million round of equity funding from a group of investors including affiliates of MissionPoint Capital Partners and zouk ventures. Trilliant CEO Bill Vogel characterizes the investment...
- Tags: Green Technology, Ontario, Trilliant, Vogel, Government, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-08-28
- Resurrecting E-voting
- Resurrecting E-votingDifficulty of subverting voting machinesIt seems to me that any system can be tampered with to render the vote dishonest. However, some configurations make such tampering very hard while others are much easier to subvert. You should talk about the relative difficulty and not whether or not...
- Tags: SECURITY, Resurrecting E-voting, risk, e-voting
- Discussion threads 2008-08-28
- Tweetrush for enterprise?
- Much has already been said about Tweetrush, the service that allows you to get statistics on your personal Twitter usage. I particularly liked Bernie Goldbach's commentary where, among other things, he says: Tweetrush is Sweet Infoporn. I like stats. I like comparing like to like....
- Tags: Analytics, Twitter, Tweetrush, Financial Planning, Finance, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-08-27
- Clean-tech gets political while China moves into first place
- Clean-tech is getting more and more political. With so much money and government subsidy, or not, at stake, it was inevitable. A leading greentech venture capitalist spoke at the Democratic Convention. And the governor of Montana spoke about declaring energy independence for America, and added we Americans...
- Tags: China, Medal, Clean Technology, Montana, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-08-27
- Global cell phone market to grow 11% in 2008
- Gartner expects cell phone market growth to slow to 11% from 16% in 2007, and in US dollar terms growth would slow to 9% from 11%. Handset vendors sold 304.7 mln mobile phones globally in Q2 2008, with strong demand in emerging markets lifting sales 11.8% from Q2 2007. The...
- Tags: Phone, Emerging Market, Cell Phone, Sales Strategy, Cellular Phones, Telecom & Utilities, Marketing Research, Financial Services, Sales, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Marketing, AM
- Blog posts 2008-08-27
- Comcast VoIP's service is no great bargain- and I'm talkin' more than just the high price
- Comcast VoIP's service is no great bargain- and I'm talkin' more than just the high pricewe just for 4 CDV linesWe have comcast internet and our own VoIP Asterisk server. We do some major volume we put around 20,000 minutes per line a month. I haven't found any all you...
- Tags: Telephony, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, call quality, VoIP, Comcast Corp., fax, Comcast Voip
- Discussion threads 2008-08-27
- Databases leverage MapReduce technology to radically juice data scale, performance, analytics
- With better data reach and inclusion, come better results. So BI allows leaders can establish the trends early that will determine their future success or failures. In a fast-paced, global, hyper competitive business landscape these insights are the currency of success for the future. The better you do BI, the...
- Tags: Performance, Analytics, Data, MapReduce, Curt, Pricing, Business Intelligence, Tools & Techniques, Financial Planning, Databases, Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Data Management, Management, Finance, Dana Gardner
- Blog posts 2008-08-27
- MobileTechRoundup show #144, Palm thoughts, Acer Aspire One is gone
- James, Kevin, and I had a chance to get back together over Skype and record MobileTechRoundup show #144 and talked a bit about the devices I planned to take to my work trip to Singapore. Kevin tells why he took back the Acer Aspire One and why he may end...
- Tags: MobileTechRoundup, Palm Inc., Acer Inc., Kevin, Podcasts, Internet, Matthew Miller
- Blog posts 2008-08-27
- IDC: 2Q Server units up; Price war looms; IBM keeps market share lead
- IBM maintained its server market share lead over HP as worldwide factory revenue was up 6.4 percent to $13.9 billion in the second quarter, but vendors saw "strong pricing pressure in the marketplace," according to research firm IDC. In it quarterly report on server sales, IDC found:...
- Tags: Revenue, International Data Corp., IBM Corp., Operational Accounting, Servers, Finance, Hardware, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-08-27
- Dems: Broadband policy crucial but so-far nonexistent
- John McCain can't get online without his wife's help, but the storyline is that doesn't matter because as former chair of the Commerce Committee, McCain is intimately familiar with tech policy issues. At panels at the Demo Convention today, Democrats assailed that argument, saying that, ""On McCain's...
- Tags: Broadband, John McCain, Government, Broadband Internet, Network Technology, Telecommunications, Networking, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-08-26
- Microsoft to target Windows XP Pro users with Genuine 'nagware' notifications
- Microsoft to target Windows XP Pro users with Genuine 'nagware' notificationsI don't know what difference it will makePeople who love Windows will still love Windows. People who hate Windows will still hate Windows. People who pirate Windows will still pirate Windows.RE: Microsoft to target Windows XP Pro users with Genuine...
- Tags: Operating systems, Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows XP Professional, Windows XP Pro user, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Genuine Advantage, Microsoft Windows Vista
- Discussion threads 2008-08-26
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