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Life or death struggle in the Senate

Life or death struggle in the SenateAnother example of one size not fitting allWhile there are numerous issues with the Waxman-Markey bill, something Harry wrote highlights the ignorance many people approach policy in the United States. I have been to Eurpoe and love their public transportation systems and which...

Tags: Taxes, U.S. Senate, population density, Rural American

Discussion threads 2009-07-06

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Blockbuster initiating rentals via SD cards at store kiosks

AmusingEvery second American has a rear-end the size of a flying saucer and people are worried about the "convenience" of not leaving their house?You've got to be kidding.I am not going to goto the Video store...and get some crap ladden movie on SD that I can not play on...

Tags: Consumer electronics, TV & Home Theater, IMHO, movie, DVD, SD card, kiosk, Blockbuster Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-11-11

Antitrust: Time to break apart the phone companies -- again?

Actually,those 'guaranteed revenue' companiesAre not so rare. Food companies, oil and gas companies, phone companies, electric companies, water utilities.... the list goes on and on if I had enough time to think of them all.That is why we need to break up any company that gets more than a 10%...

Tags: Corporate law, Telecom & Utilities, Network technology, Food & Beverage, 360Networks Corp., phone company, phone, antitrust

Discussion threads 2009-10-21

The really inconvenient truth: real price of our energy

I've blogged before about the need for a new energy calculus. Not just market and whosesale costs to the user of the energy. Economics and business have a notoriously short-sighted, narrow-minded set of considerations. Haven't we just re-learned that ancient lesson from the hedge funder corruption and...

Tags: Coal, Inconvenient Truth, Energy, Food & Beverage, Mortgages, Manufacturing, Finance, Capital Structures, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-10-17

SmartSynch touts progress in Texas

What's this, smart grid technology that is actually being used for bonafide business purposes and not just in a pilot? SmartSynch, which provides both smart meter technology and smart grid IP communications technology, is reporting that Texas-New Mexico Power TNMP is about halfway through the deployment of...

Tags: SmartSynch Inc., TNMP, Network Technology, Cloud Computing, Telecom & Utilities, Networking, Utility Computing, It Management, It service Management, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2009-09-25

Windmills stir up opposition

Let's do some mathHarry:How much energy is recoverable, year in, year out, for vertical turbine blades?What percentage of the US' domestic energy usage does that amount to?This is very basic arithmetic.Likewise, when you factor in the energy costs needed to make the lithium ion batteries of the Prius, and assume...

Tags: Telecom & Utilities, wind energy

Discussion threads 2009-09-13

iPhone users strangling the AT&T network

Network BandwidthIn all fairness, I doubt that any carrier in the US would have been ready to handle the massive amount of data streaming across it's 3G network that iPhone users have generated. If a carrier like Verizon were to offer the iPhone, a lot of people would jump...

Tags: Smart phones, AT&T Corp., Apple iPhone, network, iPhone Users

Discussion threads 2009-09-03

Hollywood studios offer 'download to own' DivX movies online; Film Fresh the new iTunes?

For the first time ever, movie titles from Lionsgate, Paramount, Sony and Warner Bros. will be available for download online in the DivX format. DivX, Inc. and movie site Film Fresh on Wednesday announced that Film Fresh will offer titles such as The...

Tags: Hollywood Studios, DivXNetworks, Movie, Apple iTunes, RB, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2009-08-26

Amazon ate my homework, or why DRM stinks for education

Amazon ate my homework, or why DRM stinks for educationHave the kindles linked to the grade not the student.The way to get around this (not the Amazon eating homework, but the reuse DRM issue) is to have the Kindles for a specific grade. All ninth graders have the same Kindles...

Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Digital media, Internet Connectivity, digital-rights management, Amazon.com Inc., homework, education

Discussion threads 2009-07-21

$20/gallon gasoline: heaven or hell?

Gasoline prices rank with beer prices and taxes as economic issues nearly every American reacts to. Now one writer has engineered a book designed to play to everybody's gasoline paranoia. Nobody we know controls the price of gasoline, but we are sure somebody can or does or should....

Tags: China, NPR, Gasoline, Christopher Steiner, Globalization, Telecom & Utilities, Strategy, Management, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-07-16

The $0.99 Netbook has arrived, on Sprint

The $0.99 Netbook has arrived, on SprintIt's like the "smart" phoneIt seems "smart" and reasonably priced until you add up the service fees.Cost and the need.There needs to be another choice added to these kinds of posts. If you already pay for data with a smartphone, then the cost...

Tags: Netbooks, nettops & MIDs, netbook, Sprint Communications

Discussion threads 2009-07-06

News to know: Best hardware; Malware; Netbooks; Social CRM

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage. Paul Greenberg: Time to Put A Stake in The Ground on Social CRM Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Hardware 2.0 'Very Best Kit...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Malware, Apple Inc., Matthew Miller, Photograph, Netbook, CRM, Microsoft Windows 7, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Smart Phones, Hardware, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-07-06

Rural energy grant deadline approaches: Aids renewable energy technology investments

I'm not sure how many farmers and ranchers read these posts, but certainly I can claim some rural business owners among my readers. So, if you are in a rural area of the United States AND you are a small business with fewer than 15 employees, you have until July...

Tags: Turbine, Renewable Energy, Telecom & Utilities, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2009-07-03

Political gaming around the Waxman-Markey bill

Nearly every energy and greentech and auto and battery and utility company in America has a stake in the proposed Waxman-Markey bill. So does every taxpayer and the future of any potential agreement with China on global warming could hang in the balance, and...the list of possible effects of...

Tags: Game, Bill, Dems, Regulations, Government, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-06-30

Private sector necessary to achieve infrastructure growth, U.S. CTO says

Private sector necessary to achieve infrastructure growth, U.S. CTO saysCap & TradeYes, and the Cap & Trade errr. Tax & Trade will destroy the economy as well.Good luck...Private investors just got slaughtered over ChryslerAnd you think anyone of them would be dumb enough to get involved w/ government any more?RE:...

Tags: Vertical industries, infrastructure growth, government

Discussion threads 2009-06-11

(Riding the PUMA)

Riding the PUMAStupidThis is the worst idea Gm has every came up with!! What if an 18 wheeler passes you? Who every asked for a product like this?RE: Riding the PUMAIt looks like tons of fun and quick way to get turned into road pizza when...

Tags: Puma, General Motors Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-04-10

(Gallery: $2,000 Tata Nano to go on sale)

(Gallery: $2,000 Tata Nano to go on sale)Can't wait to see it on Top Gear. :) [nt][nt]RE: (Gallery: $2,000 Tata Nano to go on sale)I say get US automakers to produce similar cars and have a middle slow lane on all our highways so that people can drive...

Tags: Benefits, Tata, Nano, Gallery, car

Discussion threads 2009-03-23

Is Linux only for the poor?

Last week, I followed a conversation on an OpenSuse Education newsletter to which I subscribe. I didn't have time to join in, but it did get me thinking about open source in education more broadly. Regular readers will know that my school district has made serious strides in...

Tags: Computer, Linux, Open Source, UNIX, Operating Systems, Productivity, Software, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2009-03-22

AT

ATiPhone 3G transcieveris a piece of junk. It has been problematic since the day they released the unit, and have never been able to resolve issues with it since they've patched it several times already.It has nothing to do with AT&Ts network. I carry a cheap Samsung 3G phone and...

Tags: Cellular phones, Wireless and Mobility, 3G, AT&T Corp., Apple iPhone, Verizon Communications Inc., phone

Discussion threads 2009-03-10

$3b approved for rural broadband

$3b approved for rural broadbandPhone service?Isn't USF for phone service, not broadband? not sureWAIT??????Isn't the Universal Service Fund supposed to help pay this?The USF has 4 programs including 1 for High Cost, that consumers in all regions of the nation have access to telecommunications services at rates that are affordable...

Tags: Broadband Internet, Network technology, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, USF, broadband, rural broadband

Discussion threads 2009-01-23