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- Cable: Natural born monopoly?
- Cable: Natural born monopoly?And if cable is a natural monopoly....... then why have Congress and the FCC been so intent on deregulating it?Answer: the cable industry's lobbying and campaign-finance clout.However, I'm inclined to think cable is not a natural monopoly. Combined with the existing, if nascent, competition, cable appears to...
- Tags: Network technology, DTV reception, cable, Natural Born, Natural born monopoly, DSL
- Discussion threads 2008-08-11
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- Support.com: We'll kill your crapware for free
- Support.com on Monday will roll out a free service designed to remove crapware from your PC. This public service has a bit of a motive: Support.com--essentially the Jiffy Lube of the PC industry--wants your future business. Here's how this will work: Folks call 1-800-PC-Support or log on...
- Tags: Software, PC, Support.com, Netbooks, Desktops, Tools & Techniques, Hardware, Management, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-12-05
- In greentech as in the real world: you get big, you get enemies
- The folks at Ausra are getting a higher and higher profile in the realm of solar energy. And with that comes enemies. Your CEO poses at a big opening with California's high profile governor, and next thing you know: opposition. The Ausra company headquarters...
- Tags: California, Plant, Ausra, Ausra Company Headquarter, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-12-03
- ICANN terminates EstDomains, Directi takes over 280k domains
- Following ICANN's notice of termination sent to cybercrime-friendly domain registrar EstDomains in October, on the 24th of November the termination became a reality and EstDomains is no more. Despite the public concerns of who will take the 280,000 domains, and that includes the cybercrime facilitating ones, Directi's ResellerClub is new...
- Tags: Registrar, ICANN, Domain, EstDomains, Directi, Security Community, Domain Names, Security, Internet, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-12-03
- Should you run your laptop on battery or charger power?
- An interesting article in Slate by Jacob Leibenluft the other day asks a simple question: Do you save more energy keeping your laptop plugged in during use, or should you use your charger only after the battery runs out of juice? It's a complicated...
- Tags: Battery, AC Power, Laptop Computer, Engineering, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2008-12-03
- Slicing up Sun
- Being employed by a large technology company and being a freelance technology writer has its pitfalls -- one of which is from a disclosure perspective, I'm not allowed to talk about strategy and forward-looking statements regarding the company I work for. The risk...
- Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., Storage, Open Source, Processors, Servers, Hardware, Semiconductors, Components, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-12-03
- Information Age landmark: One billionth mouse produced
- Information Age landmark: One billionth mouse producedTouchscreens will supplement the mouse, not replace itThe touchscreen's main downfall is that you have to switch the dimension of your hand from horizontal to vertical when you switch from typing to touching. Also the farther away the keyboard is from the monitor the...
- Tags: Mice, Keyboards, Monitors & displays, mouse, billionth mouse
- Discussion threads 2008-12-03
- Is Sprint watching you?
- I'm not quite sure how this fits into the company's overall marketing scheme, but Sprint's got a Big Brother-esque Flash "widget" on its site that tracks, among other things, the latest headlines on Newsvine, what terms the Internet is buzzing about, how much energy the world is using, how many...
- Tags: Sprint Communications, Internet, Marketing Research, Marketing, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2008-12-03
- Microsoft disparages open-source TCO with year-old case study
- Microsoft disparages open-source TCO with year-old case study1.48 Million?!Does the study actually list where this kind of money was saved? Because I honestly do not see it. There would have to be a HUGE difference in IT cost to account for that.RE: Microsoft disparages open-source TCO with year-old case studySounds...
- Tags: ROI/TCO, Microsoft Corp., TCO, open source
- Discussion threads 2008-12-03
- E pur se muove (and yet it moves)
- * Ryan Naraine is traveling. Guest editorial by Ivan Arce On January 15, 2008, the Vatican released a statement indicating that Pope Benedict XVI had canceled his visit to Italian La Sapienza University as a result of a series of protests...
- Tags: Information Security, Galileo Galilei, Security, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-12-02
- Welcome to MegaTom
- Tom Raftery, analyst at Greenmonk and another Irregular pinged me this morning to let me know about a new community: MegaTom. Born out of an idea from Gavin Starks and Simon Wardley, MegaTom seeks to act as the hub around which people can discuss the many green issues facing our...
- Tags: Carbon Dioxide, Tom, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-12-02
- 2009 Infiniti FX50S
- Photo gallery: 2009 Infiniti FX50SWhether the Infiniti FX's bulbous curves can be considered beautiful is debatable, but one thing we know for certain is that--in FX50S trim--it certainly is imposing. With muscular front fenders, a large dark chrome grill, and a pair of the most aggressive headlights we've ever...
- Tags: AVM, Infiniti FX50S, camera
- Product reviews 2008-12-01
- Security Lessons and Your Personal Firewall
- Security Lessons and Your Personal FirewallHow dry can an article get!With all respect to the author, I couldn't get past the second paragraph before wilting away from extreme dehydration. Dull is a harsh description but very accurate. Reading this article was like sucking on a dry sponge. I didn't have...
- Tags: Firewalls, cloud computing, Security Lessons, personal firewall, firewall, security
- Discussion threads 2008-12-01
- Why C wins: the cold realities of abstraction
- Why C wins: the cold realities of abstractionPoints of inflectionMy guess is that if we had a valid means of quantifying "abstractiveness" versus effectiveness we'd find a curve with clear points of inflection - and C on one of those.POSIX itself surprised it was not named SOSIX is an abstraction....
- Tags: C/C++, Programming languages, Machine Language, C, abstraction
- Discussion threads 2008-11-29
- Mumbai attack coverage demonstrates (good and bad) maturation point of social media
- Mumbai attack coverage demonstrates good and bad maturation point of social mediatoo much BS, I ignore itOn one hand is too much contradiction in the news that I even stopped paying attention to.On the other hand hundreads of people were dying in Iraq every day last year and the media...
- Tags: Blogging, social media, attack coverage, maturation, perpetrator, Wikipedia
- Discussion threads 2008-11-28
- Hapax CEO recognises importance of shared infrastructure moving forward
- I had an enjoyable conversation with Mark Redgrave recently, ahead of his company's unveiling of their 'meaning platform,' Amplify. Mark is CEO of London-based Hapax, a company that has been applying patented technology to natural language processing NLP since 2000. According to the Press...
- Tags: Natural Language Processing, Advertisement, Brand, Ontology, Amplify, Branding, Marketing, Paul Miller
- Blog posts 2008-11-28
- Mumbai Attacks : Knowledge is Power
- There is a huge difference between verified information, speculation, incorrect information and disinformation. The net is buzzing about the communication enabled by Twitter, Flickr, youtube, wikipedia and bloggers from Mumbai, with CNN stating "It was the day social media appeared to come of...
- Tags: Event, Knowledge, Twitter, Attack, Wiki, Security, Online Communications, Oliver Marks
- Blog posts 2008-11-28
- Logitech diNovo Keyboard Mac Edition
- The Logitech diNovo Mac Edition keyboard offers Mac users a viable alternative to Apple's brand of peripherals. Like many of the other keyboards in the Logitech stable, the diNovo Mac Edition uses Logitech's PerfectStroke system to ensure precision and comfort across the keys. Aesthetically, this one looks similar...
- Tags: Keyboards, Logitech, keyboard, diNovo Mac Edition, Apple Inc.
- Product reviews 2008-11-26
- Apple forced to drop deceptive television ad in UK
- Apple forced to drop deceptive television ad in UKGood.Some corporations need a thorough cleaning to get rid of nonsense such as this.HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAI love that video... I wonder how fast the iPhone could be on Verizon? AT&T is known to all of us in the real world as the absolutely...
- Tags: advertisement, Apple Inc., deceptive television ad, television ad, TV
- Discussion threads 2008-11-26
- Thanking open source developers
- Thanking open source developersThank youYou are right, all of us somewhere or the other use open source products and I, personally have always marveled at the simplicity of Open Source...and i take this as my opportunity to thank those who have brought Open Source to life and everyone who's OPEN...
- Tags: open source, open-source developer
- Discussion threads 2008-11-26
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