ZDNet Dictionary Definition
- Pipe
- (1) Slang for "communications channel" (line, wire, fiber, etc.). See data pipe, fat pipe and thin pipe.
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- Water, leaks and big money
- It's going to cost a lot of money to fix America's leaky pipes. Not as much as it takes to occupy a country, in say, the Mideast, but a lot of money nonetheless. With inflation now hitting China and other Asian manufacturers, I suggest we fix these pipes...
- Tags: Pipe, America, Green Technology, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-04-09
- Bloom (exe)
- Rose is red, violets are blue..Miraculous flowers are real beauty but they need your care. Connect the pipes and water the plants to never make them feel thirsty! Visit a unique store: Earn the coins while playing and get nice ornamentings for your home, the yard and the lawn. Share...
- Tags: Pipe, Flower
- Software downloads 2007-12-03
- Water, water everywhere, but only 2% to drink
- GoingGreen, Davis CA: where'll we get the water? The panel: Dennis Merens, Director North America, Dow Venture Capital group. John Sylvia, Partner, Texas Pacific Group. A. Judson Hill, Managine Director, Halifax Group. ------ The moderator begins by reminding us that water...
- Tags: Pipe, China, America, Beverage, Pricing Strategy, Water, AJH, DM, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2007-09-11
- A speculation about parallelism
- If I tell you that: a1x1+ a2x2 + a3x3 = 0 b1x1+ b2x2 + b3x3 = 0 c1x1+ c2x2 + c3x3 = 0 Whats the order of execution you apply to understand the information? Right, there isnt one - the information is spread equally...
- Tags: Processors, pipe, computing
- Blog posts 2006-12-19
- Telecom moves to House vote
- The full House will soon be voting on a telecom reform bill that recently made it out of committee. The bill, writes PC World's Anush Yegyazarian is "a real boon for telecom firms that want to offer television services." That's putting it mildly. The bill, the Communications Opportunity, Promotion,...
- Tags: telecommunications, IP television, franchise, pipe
- Blog posts 2006-05-09
- Net neutrality about the future of TV?
- According to Jonathan Taplin, Net neutrality is about the future of TV--who ends up controlling the pipes. " Today its a battle of the most interesting content wins, but if Comcast decides who gets in the fast lane to the TV, they will once again be in control," Taplin said....
- Tags: Jonathan Taplin
- Blog posts 2006-05-03
- SBC chief: Vonage, other VoIP providers should pay to use our pipes
- In a new Business Week Online interview, SBC Telecommunications CEO Ed Whitacre sounds a bit more than forthright about what he sees as his company's right to demand carrier fees from Internet telephony providers.Whitacre, whose company will take the AT&T name when, as expected, final approval is granted for SBC...
- Tags: pipe, Ed Whitacre, Vonage Holdings Corp.
- Blog posts 2005-10-31
Additional Resources
- Earthlink finally pulls out of Wireless Philly, but all is not lost
- The final nail in the coffin of municipal Wi-Fi was hammered today as Earthlink pulled the plug on Philadelphia's wireless program, as the Wall Street Journal reports. "This was about a business model that simply didn't work," said Rolla Huff, chief executive of the Atlanta-based Internet services...
- Tags: EarthLink Inc., City, Network, Municipal Wi-Fi, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-05-13
- How artificial is the crude oil price? Have we passed peak oil?
- How artificial is the crude oil price? Have we passed peak oil?What's wrong with walking to workAlthough I accept that "nobody wants to sit in the dark" the notion that "nobody wants to walk to work" is ridiculous.It is the car addiction of countries like USA that has led...
- Tags: Self-Interest, Oil Prices, oil
- Discussion threads 2008-05-12
- Comcast considering bandwidth caps, surcharges
- Today's Press of Atlantic City had a tiny sidebar on a troubling trend of bandwith caps and surcharges coming down the proverbial pipe from Comcast: Comcast Corp., the nation's second-largest Internet service provider, is considering setting an official limit on the amount of data that subscribers can download per...
- Tags: Comcast Corp., Broadband Reports, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Tcp/Ip, Business Services, Internet, Networking, Jason D. O\'Grady
- Blog posts 2008-05-08
- Xubuntu 8.04 stellar on low-power machines
- Xubuntu 8.04 stellar on low-power machinesXubuntu 8.04 on low-power machinesI plan to load Xubuntu on two old machines -- so thanks for the info. I have had some success putting Puppy on some very old (98) machines. Why don't you try Puppy 3.01 or the latest beta (very...
- Tags: Linux, Memory, Microsoft Windows XP, OPEN SOURCE, Xubuntu, Xubuntu 8.04, low-power machine
- Discussion threads 2008-05-04
- MobileTechRoundup show #132, AT&T/iPhone rumors, new REDFLY, Advantage, Kindle and more
- Listen here (MP3, 31.5 MB, 34:20 minutes) Subscribe to the show with this link RSS T-Mobile is finally starting to rollout their 3G network and there was much rejoicing to start off MobileTechRoundup show #132. We...
- Tags: MobileTechRoundup, Podcasts, Internet, Matthew Miller
- Blog posts 2008-05-04
- Reiser FS: The open source file system fallout
- Yesterday, the Open Source community took an emotional hit when veteran Linux programmer Hans Reiser was convicted of first degree murder in the suspicious disappearing of his wife, Nina. While I won't go into the details of the case, as this has been covered extensively in the press, I would...
- Tags: File System, ReiserFS, Zetabyte File System, Linux, Open Source, UNIX, Operating Systems, Software, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-04-29
- Texas oilman strikes blow for wind, predicts ever higher oil prices
- T. Boone Pickens has made a little money in the oil business. According to Forbes in 2007 Pickens was one of the 117th richest people in America, worth about $3 bills, in as in billions. That's only about one-fourth of what he reportedly intends to invest in wind...
- Tags: Oil, Texas, T. Boone Pickens, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-04-27
- Apple's PA Semi buyout: A defensive move?
- According to reports, Apple purchased embedded chip maker PA Semi this week and the rumors are flying: that Apple is back in chipset business; or that Apple is going back to the PowerPC for some future device (since PA Semi made PowerPC-based processor). However, some chip analysts say that it...
- Tags: Exponential Technology, Apple Inc., IBM PowerPC, Chip, PA Semi, Semiconductors, Network Technology, Processors, Hardware, Networking, Components, David Morgenstern
- Blog posts 2008-04-25
- Ubuntu's corporate ready 8.04 is released but is three a crowd in Linux market?
- Ubuntu's corporate ready 8.04 is released but is three a crowd in Linux market?Choice is the under-pin of capitalismSo the choice stops any one of these companies getting too Microsoftish.As far as support goes, if somebody cannot readily hop between an apt or rpm based system then they shouldn't be...
- Tags: Operating systems, Directory services, UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, Mac Server, Ubuntu, Linux, Xandros, server, Astrum Inc., Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2008-04-24
- Time and talent are the open source speed limits
- The launch of an open source movie studio dovetailed with a recent conversation I had with a West Texas entrepreneur. (Image courtesy Star Wreck Studios.) Stephen Lee is convinced there is a ton of time and talent which isn't getting a shot, which is why he's backing...
- Tags: Talent, Movie, Workforce Management, Open Source, Human Resources, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-04-23
- Sixth straight quarterly loss for AMD
- Sixth straight quarterly loss for AMDReport DateUmmm, the report date in the link states "19th April 2007". Either this isn't the correct link, or we have some insight into AMD's problems...Truth, things do not look good for AMDand all the good wishes amount to very little.Two wordsCore 2Right when it...
- Tags: Processors, AMD CPU, quarterly loss, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Intel Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-04-18
- AT
- ATSpam, Bots, Adware, Spyware....If all this was eliminated, think it would make a difference?Hmmm, a couple of things wrong with thisWill there be more video content? Sure, but also keep in mind that video compression gets better everyday, better systems for caching content, and indeed the ability to send...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Spyware, Internet-failure, Internet, computer
- Discussion threads 2008-04-18
- Poll of the Day - Should Apple decouple the OS from their hardware?
- Poll of the Day - Should Apple decouple the OS from their hardware?Poll calculations need to be fixedAt the time I write this there are 15 votes.... 53% Yes, 53% No. Huh?There's lots of beauty in vertical integrationIt's the tight integration of hardware and software which makes the Mac...
- Tags: Operating systems, Open Architecture, Lifeboat, Apple Inc., operating system, hardware, OSX
- Discussion threads 2008-04-17
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