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Is poverty the cause of low broadband penetration?

In his DSL Prime newsletter, Dave Burstein takes a view that FCC Chair Kevin Martin's focus on improving broadband penetration by focusing on rural areas is not necessarily the quickest way to get there."There are not enough unservable rural homes to be the major explanation," Dave wisely writes. "Martin’s...

Tags: trends, Predictions and Observations

Blog posts 2007-06-25

Cisco's Chambers: collaboration via mobile devices will drive faster business processes

John Chambers, CEO of Cisco Systems, is now onstage, keynoting at NXTComm.Main takeaway: collaboration will speed up enterprise innovation initiatives that had been held back by "command and control" protocols.Chambers said that a collaboration/teamwork approach, enabled by ubiquitous broadband, acquisitions (such as webex, which was specifically cited by Chambers) and video on any device has...

Tags: trends, Predictions and Observations, Mobile, General, Cisco

Blog posts 2007-06-19

Why ABC's time-shifting of Charlie Gibson Webcast is a seminal development

We learn from a report in Broadcasting & Cable magazine that ABC is moving its World News Webcast from 3 p.m. to 12:30 p.m Eastern Time.Interesting backstory on the move.  As B&C's John Eggerton notes, the Charlie Gibson-anchored newscast was originally launched in Januaryk 2006 as a preview of that...

Tags: trends, Streaming media, Predictions and Observations

Blog posts 2007-05-22

Massive Hollywood talent strike could be boon for digital content creators, sites

As explained in the Wall Street Journal today by prominent entertainment lawyer Kevin Morris, there could be a strike called for by the Screen Actors Guild, the Writers Guild of America and the Directors Guild of America.Before I get to the point of this post, please don't think most who...

Tags: Predictions and Observations, Streaming media, trends

Blog posts 2007-05-16

When it comes to most tech, The Long Tail is a myth

In Chris Andersons massively over-hyped book The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business is Selling Less of More (2006) he maintains that products that are in low demand or have low sales volume can collectively make up a market share that rivals or exceeds...

Tags: Predictions and Observations, trends, General

Blog posts 2007-04-23

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Ice, Swine, and Sun

Ice, Swine, and SunRudy you can't polish a turd!You bang on about how Sun is the only tech company that has any solutions that work. Your blog description reads "A free-ranging daily blog on issues related to Unix - including Linux, BSD, and Solaris". That is misleading..no it's a lie...

Tags: Blogging, Operating systems, blog, Sun Microsystems Inc., Linux, SWINE, Unix

Discussion threads 2009-03-07