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- Closed spectrum means closed source
- Closed spectrum means closed sourceYawn... where's the anti-MS rant that zealots loved to feast on.Oh, well.Do you want to.......get on a plane when air traffic control doesn't have exclusive use of its frequencies (voice, radar, Nav aids)?...watch television when you have a crummy picture or no picture because the TV...
- Tags: Aerospace & Defense, TVs, spectrum mean
- Discussion threads 2008-06-13
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- Free national Wi-Fi? Pardon me not holding my breath.
- In today's Wall Street Journal, reporter Amy Schatz writes that a proposal to create a free, national wireless Internet service got a boost after Federal Communications Commission engineers "concluded that concerns are overblown about such service interfering with other carriers." Which is all well and good, except...
- Tags: FCC, Airwave, Wireless Internet, Federal Government, Wi-Fi, Wireless LANs, Wireless, Government, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2008-10-13
- The candidates on tech
- Wired has the obligatory candidates-on-tech piece today. They look at five key tech issues – broadband, H1B, green tech, net neutrality and spectrum – although TechPresident notes the list is not comprehensive and conceivably is biased towards Obama. Here's the breakdown. Broadband. McCain: D....
- Tags: Industry, Broadband, John McCain, Net Neutrality, Spectrum, Obama, H-1B, Telecommunications, Human Resources, Labor Relations, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-10-13
- News to know: Wimax; Tech economy; Microsoft's big brains; Apple
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Jason Hiner: Beyond mobile broadband, WiMAX is about blowing up the wireless business model Larry Dignan: Gartner's CIO pep talk: Make a difference or be automated (or...
- Tags: NVidia Corp., Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., WiMAX, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-10-13
- FCC: Free wireless spectrum won't harm T-Mobile
- Back in May, the FCC was to vote on rules for a national free wireless spectrum along the lines of a proposal by M2Z Networks. But rather than handing over 25MHz of spectrum to the Kleiner Perkins-based company, the FCC decided to auction the spectrum off to...
- Tags: FCC, T-Mobile, Spectrum, Federal Government, Wireless, Government, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-10-12
- Is OpenOffice good enough?
- Yes. OK, obviously there's more to this story than my tongue-in-cheek answer. This came up after one of our supercool, power user secretaries (who is an Office 2003/2007 wiz) ran a training session for the other secretaries in the district. The other secretaries are largely...
- Tags: Secretary, Training, OpenOffice, Open Source, Office Suites, Software, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-10-10
- Real Time Audio Analyzer (zip)
- Real Time Audio Analyzer is an audio analyzer with FFT and n-th octave frequency analyzers and oscilloscope. The octave analyzer can show the frequency spectrum at 12th, 6th, 3rd and full octave resolution. A standard license supports all resolutions. This version is the first release on CNET Download.com.
- Tags: Resolution, Timo Esser
- Software downloads 2008-10-10
- More on wikipedia abuse
- More on wikipedia abuseThanks!That's an interesting report - if the research stands up, the method used could form the basis for a more general approach. Thanks for pointing it out.RE: More on wikipedia abuseReaders might be interested in seeing a study on vandalism of US senator's WP articles here :...
- Tags: Wiki, Wikipedia
- Discussion threads 2008-10-04
- Welcome to the White Space
- The Wireless Innovation Alliance (brought to you by Google, Micosoft, Motorola, Public Knowledge, etc.) has produced an excellent video on the benefits of white spaces as part of the Google-led lobbying campaign. Among the arguments, according to the video: Unused spectrum has a large...
- Tags: Video, Wi-Fi, Corporate Communications, Wireless, Marketing, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-10-01
- Sustainability is big concern for mobile telcos says head of Orange Mobile
- I recently met with Olaf Swantee, the head of Orange Mobile, a large telco owned by France Telecom. Mr Swantee said sustainability and the availability of spectrum were two key challenges. Other highlights from the interview: -WiMAX is not...
- Tags: Orange PCS, Sustainability, Mobile, Telecommunications Company, Spectrum, Advertising & Promotion, Telecom & Utilities, Marketing, Tom Foremski
- Blog posts 2008-09-30
- BIOS settings demystified
- BIOS settings demystifiedVery good info - thanks!One thing I found which maybe everyone else already knew, and I don't know if it is common to all BIOS versions or just the ASUS KV8 that I have, but under the Advanced tab, there's a Legacy USB support option - having it...
- Tags: BIOS, BIOS Settings
- Discussion threads 2008-09-30
- Final Silverlight 2.0 for Windows and Mac now looking like October
- Final Silverlight 2.0 for Windows and Mac now looking like OctoberSilverlight quite easy to use...I have tried out and bought the Expression Suite to try out Silverlight for Vista desktop and web applications. I will probably buy the 2.0 version of Expression suite to use the Silverlight 2.0 stuff.Adobe...
- Tags: Vector Graphic, Apple Macintosh, Microsoft Windows, graphics, Microsoft Silverlight, Web, Silverlight 2.0, pixel
- Discussion threads 2008-09-29
- Reports: AMD changes naming scheme for 45nm chips
- According to industry sources via Tom's Hardware, AMD has decided to modify the naming scheme for their 45-nanometer desktop processors. While AMD is keeping the Phenom X3 phenom x3 and Phenom X4 branding, model numbers have changed from four digits to five digits in length, causing some...
- Tags: Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Chip, Semiconductors, Network Technology, Hardware, Networking, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2008-09-26
- In tight times, FCC pushes forward with emergency network
- With the greatest credit crunch since the 1930s in full swing, this is perhaps not the greatest time to sell your house. Or your airwaves. But the FCC is not dissuaded. The agency is pushing ahead with an attempt to get private investors to foot the bill on a public...
- Tags: FCC, Network, Chairman, Emergency Network, Federal Government, Government, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-09-25
- Page accuses broadcasters of 'rigging' poor white-space tests
- Speaking on Capitol Hill yesterday, Google cofounder Larry Page accused broadcasters – if not the FCC – of "rigging" tests that found white-space devices interfere with TV broadcasts, the Washington Post reports. "The test was rigged deliberately," Page said during his...
- Tags: Larry Page, Broadcaster, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Federal Government, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Government, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-09-25
- Karma Player (zip)
- An audio player, Karma Player is the result of hard part-time work. Its friendly graphic user interference, which makes it easy to use, in combination with the powerful sound core gives you one of the best players. It recognizes up to 30 audio formats and growing. You get nice graphic,...
- Tags: Player, Cristian-Doru Pop, Media Players, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology
- Software downloads 2008-09-25
- Hunt for Palin 'hacker': Journalism or mob mentality?
- Hunt for Palin 'hacker': Journalism or mob mentality?So what are you advocating, anarchy?So, are you advocating anarchy where there are absolutely no constraints on moral, ethical, fair and legal behaviour?I am so sick of people who say that it's OK for a person to do something illegal, let alone it...
- Tags: Blogging, SECURITY, Koman, blogger, mentality, Palin
- Discussion threads 2008-09-23
- Can Google out-cool Apple?
- Can Google out-cool Apple? No, but the Mountain View search giant might be able to out-geek the Cupertino center of cool. Today T-Mobile announced the first cellphone that will run Google's Android OS. Android-based cellphones are considered by many to be the first real competitor to Apple's...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Google Inc., Apple Inc., Engineering, Cellular Phones, Text Messaging/SMS/MMS, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Online Communications, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Blog posts 2008-09-23
- Hurricane Ike and some class acts
- Although the Citrix analyst bash was interesting, informative and a wonderful opportunity to re-connect with old friends both at Citrix and in the analyst community at large, getting back to my office became quite a challenge. Continental Airlines, in preparation for Hurricane Ike, canceled our flights and did little to...
- Tags: Analyst, Citrix Systems Inc., Pharmacy, Compay, Public Relations, C/C++, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Programming Languages, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-09-14
- Yammer wins TechCrunch50; enterprises lose
- Yammer wins TechCrunch50; enterprises loseTwitter away your business....So, enterprise Tweets are the salvation of e-biz? Me thinks not. Heck, most IT managers are so busy fighting fires, adding tweeting to their list of application nightmares just might be the last bullet in the magazine.By whatever merit it was judged, there...
- Tags: E-mail, Instant messaging, TechCrunch50
- Discussion threads 2008-09-12
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