But a series of FCC decisions over the last six years years have allowed the incumbent LECs to refuse to provide competitors unbundled access to …
Month: February 2010
FCC to Weigh Unbundling Fiber:Win for Cbeyond
The FCC has decided today is weighing a request that would force cable providers and carriers to lease FTTH (fiber-to-the-home) lines to competitive carriers and …
Buzz Off! (for now)
It’s most likely a case of cabin fever and general grumpiness from shoveling my way out of the instant tundra that befell New Jersey. I …
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Apple and Microsoft are Dating
Silicon Alley Insider has the dish on Apple replacing Google with Microsoft’s Bing on the iPhone. No one’s taking any of this very seriously. Still …
We’re planning to build and test ultra high-speed broadband networks in a small number of trial locations across the United States. We’ll deliver Internet speeds …
The Google ISP
Yesterday the Official Google Blog revealed plans for a 1 Gig fiber-to-the-home network. Their project sounds almost tentative and in the spirit of knowledge for …
Winter 2010, New Jersey
The scene at the feeder. It was busier earlier. I think the birds have finally decided it’s bad flying weather.
There’s a Scuba Diver in My Street View
Residents of Rugdeveien Street in Bergen, Norway had this reaction to Google Street View:
Globally, mobile data traffic will double every year through 2013, increasing 66x between 2008 and 2013. Mobile data traffic will grow at a CAGR of …
Skype Will Add Wideband Audio for iPhone
Skype is taking its time with a VoIP app that exploits the recently unlocked 3G data channel on the iPhone. But they have a pretty …
Kia's Super Bowl Ad
Who can resist sock puppets and robots? I also found myself enjoying this one from Kia:
Google's Super Bowl Ad
Incredibly effective and strangely moving. It brought a strong emotional connection to the mundane act of entering keywords. The ad is saying Google is more …
Unsurprisingly, millions of consumers turned to social networks including Twitter to discuss their favorite ads. According to social media monitoring service Trendrr, the four top …
Skype is Your Next Office Phone System
Will Skype be assumed into Avayatel? Or will it stand on its own in the Silver Lake portfolio and transform into an IPO butterfly? Bloomberg.com …
Google Video Killed the Web Experience
About a year ago, I was momentarily entranced by blended reality— a hybrid of Second Life-style virtual reality and, er, reality. Rather than building graphical …
AT&T's 3G Network Cracks Open
AT&T reversed course and decided to allow Sling Media’s iPhone app to run on its network. The app was previously viewed as a congestion hog, …
Stuff like MSN, the XBox, the Zune, and MS Mobile are failed attempts to expand into other markets, but basically irrelevant spawn of Flight Simulator. …
Indomitable Twitter
In a recent article, The Times’ media writer David Carr is convinced (as am I) that twitter will endure. He gives simple reasons why this …
Our outstanding Q2 results exceeded our expectations and we believe they provide a clear indication that we are entering the second phase of the economic …