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- DIRECTV, what about "Make the products work" and "Keep the customers happy" do you not understand?
- Well, I was going to write my post-mortem of the iPhone launch and go into an entire diatribe on crappy customer service and the perils of early adoption, but then I found myself with a much better target than AT&T Wireless and Apple -- the idiots...
- Tags: Customer Service, DirecTV, HR-20, HR-21, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-07-14
- Top online video destinations for US users ages 2-11
- Brand/Channel Unique Viewer % Audience, 000 Disney Records 49.6 179 EverythingGirl.com 48.0 161 MyePets 47.6 161 JETIX 46.9 159 Playhouse Disney 43.9 340 PBS Kids 43.1 281 LEGO 40.9 137 NickJr 39.6 718 ...
- Tags: Online Video, Video, NB
- Blog posts 2008-07-12
- Thoughts on Bill Gates
- Thoughts on Bill GatesGood lawyeringOne thing that is often forgotten is the fact that, when Gates purchased and licensed dos to IBM, the contract was the "killer app".It required IBM to pay for DOS on every machine whether they used it or not, while allowing MS to license DOS...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., Apple Inc., Bill Gates
- Discussion threads 2008-06-27
- News to know: Jobs speaks; Microsoft; Healthline; Enterprise 2.0; HTC
- Notable headlines: WWDC kick-off: Larry Dignan: Jobs' Apple as a platform mantra to accelerate PGP rolls out Whole Disk Encryption for Mac Matthew Miller: SlingPlayer Mobile on the iPhone will be demoed at Apple's WWDC this week News.com live...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Job, High Tech Computer Corp., Larry Dignan, Apple Inc., Enterprise 2.0, Microsoft Corp., Web Site Development, Microsoft Windows, Web Technology, Sales Strategy, Digital Video, Desktops, Internet, Operating Systems, Software, Sales, Personal Technology, Hardware
- Blog posts 2008-06-09
- Risking Another Frontline Disaster
- Risking Another Frontline DisasterNatural monopolySounds like a natural monopoly. Regulate it as such.RE: Risking Another Frontline DisasterSeems like another non-elected regulator and two elected pols are gaming the system for their "constituents" benefit, at the expense of "the people." Also seems like the WSJ believes everything must revolve around profit...
- Tags: H-1B program, H-1B visa holder, H-1B, H-1B visa
- Discussion threads 2008-06-06
- Risking Another Frontline Disaster
- The Wall Street Journal says in an editorial that FCC chair Kevin Martin is about to screw things up again on the public wireless Internet front. The first time around Martin tried to rig the D block auction to hand 700MHz spectrum over to Frontline Wireless, formed by former commissioner...
- Tags: FCC, Auction, Journal, M2Z, Federal Government, Government, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-06-06
- SQL Anywhere Developer Edition (download_sqlany_10_developer_cnet)
- SQL Anywhere provides data management and exchange technologies designed for database-powered applications that operate in frontline environments without onsite IT support. It offers enterprise-caliber features in a database that is easily embedded and widely deployed in server, desktop, remote office and mobile applications. SQL Anywheres data exchange technologies extend information...
- Tags: Sybase SQL Anywhere, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
- Software downloads 2008-06-05
- Jobs or air pollution--is this a false dicotomy?
- It looks like battles over the environment and global warming are likely to be central to the American political system for months, perhaps years, to come. Right now the punditocracy and the lobbyists on both sides are tossing rockets over a bill about global warming. The bill is...
- Tags: Job, Turbine, Pollution, Clean Technology, Global Warming, Bubble, Second,it, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-06-02
- VMware, Sun's Ray team partner on VDI
- I was so enmeshed in the XenDesktop happenings at Citrix Synergy last week that I paid little notice to virtualization market leader VMware, which made some significant VDI-related announcements of it own. As Citrix's XenDesktop team announced deals with thin client makers HP and Wyse, VMware announced...
- Tags: Team, Sun Microsystems Inc., Thin Client, Virtual Desktop, VMware Inc., Sun Ray, Thin Clients, Hardware, Paula Rooney
- Blog posts 2008-05-29
- Conference for media reform
- Free Press hosts the National Conference for Media Reform, June 6-8 in Minneapolis. From the press release: We're at an important point in the history of the media -- a point where the decentralized Internet and the centralized media are finally meeting head on," said...
- Tags: Media, Conference, Free Press, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-05-27
- Google's Page pitches for white spaces in DC
- Google's Page pitches for white spaces in DCGrand Jury?Google is doing something wrong?huh?what ya talking about?Just another hypocrite/lobbyist[i]For us, that translates into more revenues for us. If you have 10 percent more connectivity in the U.S. that's 10 percent more revenue for us and that's a big number. The more...
- Tags: TVs, TV & Home Theater, Federal government, VHF TV channel, white space, digital television, Google Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-05-22
- When all the technology in the world won't help
- When all the technology in the world won't helpSmall Town BudgetsThe facts are most small town school systems will continue to teach non-technically. I'm a product of one small public high school two-hours from DC that couldn't afford a Calculus teacher. Solution? They gave us a telephone...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, computer, geometry
- Discussion threads 2008-04-10
- Adobe releases the Adobe Media Player
- We announced the release of the Adobe Media Player AMP today which is both a push to provide content to end users as well as create a platform for monetizing and tracking online video. AMP is built on Adobe AIR so it allows you to take video content offline and...
- Tags: Adobe Systems Inc., Media Player, Adobe Media Player, Beet.tv, Media Players, Digital Music, Digital Media, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Ryan Stewart
- Blog posts 2008-04-09
- Secure coding: the invisible elephant
- The last couple of weeks, I've been trying to vaguely connect the dots between social computing, cloud computing and traditional process based systems. There are multiple legs to the story but one that had pretty much escaped my attention was the security angle. I will not claim any special expertise...
- Tags: Software, Google Inc., Database, Cloud Computing, Information Technology, Computer Science, Microsoft Corp., Computer, Ms Davidson, Tools & Techniques, Security, Management, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-04-08
- Cyren Call denies it demanded D block payment
- Cyren Call – the corporation formed to advise the Public Safety Spectrum Trust Corp. -- angrily denied accusations that it or PSST demanded spectrum lease payments. Voices in some quarters have been saying that the alleged demands doomed the efforts of Frontline Wireless to compete for the D block and...
- Tags: Payment, Spectrum, PSST, Operational Accounting, Finance, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-04-04
- 2nd-generation Intel Classmates reviewed
- 2nd-generation Intel Classmates reviewedAlternative OSThis laptop looks good and rugged for its intended audience. However I feel Intel should allow the user to choose the installed OS such as linux, bsd etcIt will also serve as a good thin client to run software from a central serverhttp://www.aikotech.com/thinserver.htmhttp://www.nomachine.comCRE 2nd-generation Intel Classmates...
- Tags: CAD, Intel Corp., One Laptop Per Child project, Intel Classmate
- Discussion threads 2008-04-02
- Hull City Council Leverages Spatial Assets to Boost Responsiveness and Transform Disaster Management
- Hull City Council wanted to maximize use of location-based asset information for users within council departments and the general public and comply with the "Transformational Government - Enabled by Technology" initiative to build services around the needs of citizens while releasing resources for "Frontline" services. The challenge was to accelerate...
- Tags: Asset, Oracle Spatial, Oracle Corp., Disaster Management, Asset Management, Disaster Recovery, Operational Planning, Business Operations, Data Management
- Case studies 2008-04-01
- Sluggish economy may spur more, but smaller, SOA projects
- Sluggish economy may spur more, but smaller, SOA projectsFrontline VRT Windows or Bust Out with MySQL a la Web 2.0Accurately VPN has been changed to something new for the field. Web focus is a great long term coupler with online My SQL. As seen here on ZDNet.So the economy doesWhat...
- Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Web services, Middleware, Web FOCUS, SOA PROJECTS, SOA
- Discussion threads 2008-03-28
- Auction over, FCC ponders public safety D block
- Bidding has closed on the great 700 MHz auction and the FCC has raised $20 billion from the spectrum given so long ago to the great television networks of the past. That's $4.75 billion for the prized C block, but no word yet on who the ultimate winner is. Pretty...
- Tags: FCC, Auction, D, Federal Government, Government, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-03-20
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