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A bit of Edmund Tyrone’s monologue from Long Day’s Journey into Night: “…When I was on the Squarehead square rigger, bound for Buenos Aires. Full moon in the Trades. The old hooker driving fourteen knots. I lay on the bowsprit, … Continue reading →

That's not an Onion headline. But after perusing a few key sections of the officially released National Broadband Plan I learned that the FCC recommendations involve either more study or vague posturings on important policy debates that have been raging since dawn of time: broadening the universal service fund (USF) to include VoIP carriers (see weakly worded Recommendation 8.10), wholesale access and pricing (see tepid Recommendation 4.7), openness of mobile devices (no recommendations that I can find), and the overall question of whether we have a competitive broadband market (for what it's worth, Recommendation 4.2). Continue reading →

When we look at the very other end of the graph—the countries that have the highest speeds and the lowest prices—in each of these cases, there is an incumbent telephone company, and usually a cable company, but there is also … Continue reading →

I haven’t really considered VoiceXML in a good long time. I remember the early excitement (pre- dot com bust) when a few start-up companies were helping to bring computer telephony into the web age— Voxeo, General Magic (extinct), VoiceGenie (now … Continue reading →

Zemanta calls itself a blogging assistant and promises to make the web writing process fun.  I have to confess that the Zemanta marketing copy was catnip for this writer : “.. creative tools to help you get the most out … Continue reading →

With NYC just a NJ Transit ride away (in fact, I can see the tip of the Manhattan skyline from my backyard), it makes sense to cover aspects of the Silicon Alley start-up scene. I hope to have some posts … Continue reading →

It consolidates 40 customized packet-processor cores (900 MHz to 1.2 GHz) into a single piece of silicon. This massive amount of parallel processing reduces any requirements for external service blades inside the router. All processing is performed on the chip.

Startling statement: Cisco is in the business of selling routers. So it’s not surprising that its announcement today, which was billed as news that will change the Internet forever, involves said piece of hardware. Analysts were expecting an update to … Continue reading →

About two weeks ago I became one of the small group of users who are currently trialing the new Google look. I was vaguely aware of a shift in the left margin, which I decided at first was a glitch in my browser. Then my search results jumped to life when I came across a box of automatically scrolling tweets. Deep thought: will timeliness trump PageRank-ness? Continue reading →