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- The summer that Muni Wi-Fi died
- Speaking of Tim Wu, the good professor has written an intriguing piece for Slate subtitled Why Municipal Wireless Networks Have Been Such a Flop. Wu says it's not that public wireless is a bad idea. Rather, cities have screwed up by refusing to treat Internet like a...
- Tags: City, Municipal Wi-Fi, Sewer, Wu, Wireless LANs, Wi-Fi, Internet, Wireless, ZDNet Government
- Blog posts 2007-10-02
- More on Windows Stealth Updates
- For more thoughts on Windows Stealth Updates, view this screenshot gallery. by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, screenshots, microsoft, windows, stealth, updates, wu, Operating Systems, Software
- Image galleries 2007-09-19
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- VC Supports Next, Greener Generation of Biotech
- Using, not losing, all the carbon. Courtesy Zeachem and Mohr Davidow. Click on diagram for full view. We've had several blogs here recently reflecting the building political anxiety around the current generation of biofuels, esp. those based on using food products. You...
- Tags: Food, Biofuel, Biodiesel, Clean Technology, Zeahcem, OPX, Genomatica, Biotechnology, Food & Beverage, Manufacturing, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-04-29
- XP SP3 not generally available yet, after all
- Microsoft has decided not to release Windows XP Service Pack SP 3 to Windows Update and the Microsoft Download Center as planned on April 29. The reason? A last-minute compatibility issue with a Microsoft application -- Microsoft Dynamics Retail Management System RMS. Here's the latest from a...
- Tags: Microsoft Dynamics, Microsoft Windows Update, Microsoft Windows Vista, Customer, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Vista SP1, Retail Management System, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating Systems, Software, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-04-29
- Is Balkanization of the Internet inevitable?
- The openness of the Internet could fall to nationalism. That's just one of the side effects from nationalism and its impact on global trade, according to the Wall Street Journal. The Journal in its Monday edition zoomed out to look at the rise of nationalism. After all,...
- Tags: Web, Russia, Internet, Government, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-04-28
- Windows updates galore: The latest on SPs, FPs and UEs
- The Windows client team has been pushing out service packs SPs, a new feature pack FP and Ultimate Extra add-ons for Vista over the past few days -- to varying degrees of customer satisfaction. On April 23, Microsoft began rolling out via its Automatic Update mechanism SP1...
- Tags: Microsoft Developer Network, Microsoft Windows Update, Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Vista SP1, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating Systems, Software, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-04-23
- It's official: XP SP3 has RTM'd
- It's official: XP SP3 has RTM'dRTM does not mean availability...What does RTM translate to nowadays anyway? Looking at the Vista RTM it's taken 4 months for SP1 availability, and that's required a multitude of pre-requisites, a whole list of itmes that won't work, and numerous installation woes reported. It's STILl...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2, XP SP3, Microsoft Windows XP, RTM'd, Microsoft Windows Vista
- Discussion threads 2008-04-21
- Microsoft to recommence pushing Vista SP1 prerequisite
- After a number of users reported endless-reboot problems in February after installing one of the prerequisites for Windows Service Pack SP 1, Microsoft pulled automatic distribution of it. As of April 8, however, Microsoft will resume pushing out that prerequisite. On the Microsoft Update blog, Microsoft officials...
- Tags: Update, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Vista SP1, Microsoft Update, Microsoft Windows, Blogging, Team Management, Operating Systems, Software, Internet, Management, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-04-07
- Vista SP1 reboot bug fixed
- Remember that issue where trying to install Vista SP1 would result in a hard-to-break reboot cycle? Well, the Microsoft Update blog says the problem was caused by "a few unknown and rare events" during the installation of one of the prerequisites to installing SP1: KB937287, the Servicing Stack Update SSU....
- Tags: Update, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows Vista SP1, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Ed Bott
- Blog posts 2008-04-07
- Microsoft delivers yet another updated XP SP3 RC 2 test build
- Microsoft delivers yet another updated XP SP3 RC 2 test buildBuild 5508Mary, it's only a WU release, though as always you have to enable WU first, and the stub to do that is what's on the download center unchanged from before. Details:http://forums.microsoft.com/TechNet/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=3061999&SiteID=17Does this include XP 64Try to forgive my complete...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows XP, XP SP3, XP 64
- Discussion threads 2008-03-25
- Vista SP1 collateral damage not as bad as I had expected
- Vista SP1 collateral damage not as bad as I had expectedRE: Vista SP1 collateral damage not as bad as I had expectedThat was by far the most painless SP install I've been through. It took about 25 minutes, 1 reboot, and no issues.2 installs - 2 tweakson my laptop...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows Vista SP1, Microsoft Windows Vista, SP1, SP1 RC
- Discussion threads 2008-03-20
- You
- YouRE: YouEd,My personal experiences with Vista SP1 is that the driver support for devices isn't that good, because i have been getting 'BlueScreen' problems after getting my vista sp1 update. by chance do you face any such issues?Regards,Balaji BaskarCloudy Vista SP1Installing SP1 has really made a difference in how Vista...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Web browsers, Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows Vista
- Discussion threads 2008-03-19
- Vista SP1 available for download; Retail availability a mystery
- Vista SP1 available for download; Retail availability a mysteryI really don't understand the confustion here...It all makes sense to me.RE: Vista SP1 available for download; Retail availability a mysteryHi. When the Italian Standalone SP1 will be available? I've used WU too, but no updates appears :(xazacSpeculatingRetailers may not wish to...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows Vista SP1, SP1, Retail availability
- Discussion threads 2008-03-18
- Comcast 'on trial' at FCC hearing Monday
- The great debate over Comcast's throttling of BitTorrent and perhaps other P2P apps leaves cyberspace and enters the real world as a full panel of the Federal Communications Commission heads to Harvard for a public hearing on the issue. The FCC recently released the agenda PDF...
- Tags: FCC, Professor, CNET Networks Inc., Comcast Corp., Federal Government, Government, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-02-22
- New+majority+loses+nerve+on+net+neutrality
- New+majority+loses+nerve+on+net+neutralityI think this should be handled through ICANNThey say.. if you try to impose restriction on websites that you do not host, we terminate your name associations and IP blocks.Problem solved.In its current form.. net neutraility does more harm than good. Any restrictions other than the ones blocking monopolies...
- Tags: Web site development, INTERNET, Net Neutrality, Web site, e-mail
- Discussion threads 2008-02-13
- Here%27s+the+FCC%27s+Madison+River+port-blockingconsent+decree
- Here%27s+the+FCC%27s+Madison+River+port-blockingconsent+decreePort blocking in HawaiiThis is happening in Hawaii now, as the two major ISP's, Hawaiian Telecom and Time Warner Road Runner have decided to block those using voip over their networks. I am part of a company called Liberty International and one of the products we market is VOIP service....
- Tags: Telephony, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, Internet service providers (ISPs), Hawaiian Telecom, VoIP, VoIP service
- Discussion threads 2008-02-05
- Microsoft to push Office 2003 SP3 to users in February
- Microsoft to push Office 2003 SP3 to users in FebruaryHopefully customers who aren't keen on having updates pushed to them......wouldn't have chosen "automatically install updates for me" in MU/WU/WSUS!Improvements?"take advantage of the improvements and new security tools available in SP3."Just what pray tell are these improvements? Microsoft's usual take on...
- Tags: SP3, Microsoft Office 2003, Office 2003 SP3, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-01-28
- BitGravity LiveBroadcast to stream DEMO 08
- This week I'll be at the Demo 2008 Conference checking out the more than 70 products showcased, and you can watch a live video feed of the proceedings courtesy of BitGravity. The startup content delivery service is launching LiveBroadcast, a flash-based streaming service. According to...
- Tags: Computer Associates International Inc., Startup Content Delivery Service, Dan Farber
- Blog posts 2008-01-28
- Network Neutrality Summit at University of San Francisco
- I will be speaking at the Network Neutrality Summit this morning at the University of San Francisco. They will be streaming this event LIVE at ustream.tv. Fireworks start at 9:00AM which is the panel I will be on with: Richard Clarke - AT&T Lawrence Spiwak, Phoenix Center...
- Tags: Network, Internet, Networking, George Ou
- Blog posts 2008-01-26
- AT
- ATGood questions but a couple of points ...Regarding:"Funny thing is, says law prof Tim Wu, AT&T spent six years lobbying for the Digital Millenium Copyright Act, which freed them from the responsibility for monitoring,"The DMCA didn't really "free them for monitoring", it gave them an excuse to. Further ...Most...
- Tags: Network technology, Web, Comcast Corp., intellectual property, AT&T Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-01-18
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