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Bad Idea Dept.: AT&T's Ed Whitacre to run General Motors

Ed Whitacre, who built SBC, one of the babies Bell, back into "The New AT&T" has been tapped by the Obama Administration's auto task force to be chairman of the "reinvented General Motors." Seriously. Think about that. AT&T is the template for...

Tags: Board, AT&T Corp., General Motors Corp., Whitacre, Whiteacre, Corporate Governance, Telecom & Utilities, Strategy, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Management, Mitch Ratcliffe

Blog posts 2009-06-09

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Bad Idea Dept.: AT&T's Ed Whitacre to run General Motors

Bad Idea Dept.: AT&T's Ed Whitacre to run General MotorsMaybe they will put the ice cream man in charge of Citigroup nexti knowlets put an oil guy in charge of Time Warnerwe can play all kinds of tricks BarryOh what fun!Court ReviewHmmm. You make some good points, but... GM already...

Tags: Government, Vertical industries, Investment, ATT/SBC, General Motors Corp., Ed Whitacre, Bad Idea Dept., ATT, AT&T Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-06-10

Can the Man Who Re-Assembled AT&T Change His Tune For GM?

Can the Man Who Re-Assembled AT&T Change His Tune For GM?King ObomaGood luck, Obama and his printing presses....RE: Can the Man Who Re-Assembled AT&T Change His Tune For GM?It's not like he just put together a corporate unbrella/holding company with many largely independent but coexisting brand names underneath with redundant...

Tags: Branding, Document management, General Motors Corp., AT&T Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-06-09

Can the Man Who Re-Assembled AT&T Change His Tune For GM?

Ed Whitacre. The quintessential amalgator of companies. He's going to save GM, as its new chairman? Don't get me wrong. He did a pretty amazing job with the hand he was played in telecommunications. He took the smallest of the Baby Bells,...

Tags: AT&T Corp., Southwestern Bell, General Motors Corp., Internet, Operational Planning, Telephony, Business Operations, Networking, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld

Blog posts 2009-06-09

Blockbuster eyes streaming to TVs

Blockbuster eyes streaming to TVsA waste of timeIt never ceases to amaze me. We have seen that music is pretty much dead in the water insofar as getting people to pay for it. DRM is also heading the way of the dodo in music content terms. Movies will follow the...

Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Digital media, Blockbuster Inc., music, digital-rights management, TV

Discussion threads 2008-04-11

A geek's trip to Capitol Hill on Network Management

I appeared before congressional and government staffers on Capitol Hill for a panel on Network Management sponsored by iGrowthGlobal.  This was my first time in Washington DC and while it was a little cold for my Californian bones, it was a beautiful city and seeing the capitol of the nation...

Tags: BitTorrent, Broadband Internet, Cable, Comcast Corp., Corporate Communications, DOCSIS, Geek, George Ou, Internet, Japan, Marketing, Network, Network Management, Networking, P2P, Peer To Peer (P2P), Personal Technology, Presentation, Richard Bennett, Telecommunications, Video, Wireless Network

Blog posts 2008-03-03

Save Internet freedom--from regulation

Save Internet freedom--from regulationIf only.....it were that simple.What the writer fails to acknowledge is the fact that ethics subverted by greed within some companies have done harm to people for the sake of expanding profit thereby inviting regulation on themselves by the representatives of the people whom they were abusing.Given...

Tags: Regulations, Telecom & Utilities, Rogers Cable, regulation, Save Internet freedom, telecommunications, Net Neutrality

Discussion threads 2007-12-12

AT&T censors Pearl Jam, sparking up net neutrality debate

What does Pearl Jam have to do with net neutrality? After AT&T censored a supposedly live webcast of a Pearl Jam concert, in which Eddie Vedder tossed off a couple of anti-Bush ad libs during a cover of Pink Floyd's "The Wall," the band complained bitterly not...

Tags: Censorship, Webcast, AT&T Corp., Net Neutrality, ZDNet Government

Blog posts 2007-09-07

A rational debate on Net Neutrality

A rational debate on Net NeutralityThere is no pending "net neutrality" legislationMarkey and Snowe-Dorgan amendments died with that 109th Congress.Since QoS is perfectly legal today, perhaps carriers could implement it quickly so as to prove to governing bodies that those customers that want QoS can have it and that it...

Tags: Net Neutrality, QoS, telecommunications company, carrier

Discussion threads 2007-06-04

A rational debate on Net Neutrality

The subject of Net Neutrality has become so politicized that it's almost impossible to have a rational debate on the subject.  Even the term "Net Neutrality" has become a political slogan that is often deliberately vague to hide its true meaning.  Is it even possible to have a rational debate...

Tags: Technology policy, News, Networking, Net Neutrality, Mobile/Wireless, Infrastructure

Blog posts 2007-06-04

A rational debate on Net Neutrality

The subject of Net Neutrality has become so politicized that it's almost impossible to have a rational debate on the subject. Even the term "Net Neutrality" has become a political slogan that is often deliberately vague to hide its true meaning. Is it even possible to have a rational debate...

Tags: Vint Cerf, Google Inc., Legislation, Tim Berners-Lee, QoS, Network, Prioritization, Customer, Net Neutrality, Service, Carrier, Ed Whitacre, Snowe-Dorgan, Internet, George Ou

Blog posts 2007-06-04

News to know: Yahoo buys Right Media; Mix07; S60 Summit; .ANI flaws

Notable headlines:Yahoo buys Right Media. Larry Dignan on the deal. Techmeme.Microsoft opens up on Web strategy at Mix07. Ryan Stewart: MIXing it up at the coming of age party for Rich Internet Applications.Dan Farber: FASTMedia Network takes on Google, Yahoo.Tom Foremski: FAST battles GOOG and YHOO for media markets, says...

Tags: General

Blog posts 2007-04-30

AT&T now makes nice to get FCC merger approval

AT&T now makes nice to get FCC merger approvalAT&T, the darkest phoenix.Mutha Bell is about to take its biggest step towards resurrecting their monopoly, and will get control of the Internet on top. And the government? They won't give a dead rat's ash about it, as long as...

Tags: INTERNET, Mergers & Acquisitions, Network technology, Broadband Internet, FCC, AT&T Corp., Mutha Bell, concession, BellSouth Corp., merger

Discussion threads 2006-12-28

AT&T now makes nice to get FCC merger approval

From Washington comes late word tonight that a compromise has apparently been hammered out that will clear the way for AT&T to acquire BellSouth for $85 billion.Thats the AT&T headed by "one-time," fierce net neutrality opponent Edward Whitacre, Jr. Youre lookin at him. The compromise is said to be...

Tags: FCC, AT&T Corp., SBC-AT&, T, Net Neutrality, General, Regulatory

Blog posts 2006-12-28

FCC Commish's reservations on voting in AT&T-BellSouth merger cheer net neutrality advocates

Turns out that FCC Commissioner Robert McDowell wont vote on the AT&T-BellSouth merger.I have to tell you I am surprised. In the last six years, we havent seen all that many Republicans buck the "free market" mantra enthusiastically championed by the GOP. And it is not common that regulators...

Tags: Mergers & Acquisitions, Federal government, McDowell, Net Neutrality, Gigi Sohn, FCC, merger

Blog posts 2006-12-19

CacheLogic bids to make P2P DRM-friendly

Cachelogic today finally released its VelociX™ Accelerated Media Delivery Platform. I say finally because I've had an interview with CTO and co-founder Andrew Parker left in my own cache for over a week, awaiting the breaking of the embargo. "Pure peer to peer (p2p) has some fundamental problems...

Tags: Andrew Parker, P2P, CacheLogic

Blog posts 2006-08-07

Hey did you hear what Ed Whitacre *just* said?

Hey did you hear what Ed Whitacre *just* said?It's just stunning...Eddie must be on crack... I can just imagine Ed standing before the FCC and spouting this dribble with Senators nodding approval... Why should the the BIG Bell/Pipefitters be any different from BIG Oil...? It's all Monopoly money to them...

Tags: Telecom & Utilities, bandwidth, Ed Whitacre

Discussion threads 2006-08-02

Hey did you hear what Ed Whitacre *just* said?

Just in case you think that AT&T and the other greedy broadband monopolists are starting to feel the urge of the common good and are starting to guilt-trip over a net that ain't neutral- I have news for you. Yesterday, AT&T CEO Ed Whitacre put the gauntlet...

Tags: network operator, Ed Whitacre, Internet

Blog posts 2006-08-02

EXCLUSIVE: AT&T CEO's political donations to net neutrality opponents

As AT&T continues its battles with net neutrality proponents on Capitol Hill this week, I thought it would be interesting to see where AT&T CEO Ed Whitacre has been spending his own money this campaign and election cycle.I went to Opensecrets.org, and checked under "Whitacre." I found several donations,...

Tags: Ed Whitacre

Blog posts 2006-06-26

Hey, Osama, be very afraid. Here comes the NSA AND Ed Whitacre's AT&T

Hey, Osama, be very afraid. Here comes the NSA AND Ed Whitacre's AT&TAnd when I receive that noticeI'll cancel my AT&T long distance and tell them why. " . . . and can hand them over to law enforcement on request." Hand my information over in response to...

Tags: AT&T Corp., Osama

Discussion threads 2006-06-22