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I had allocated a small slice of my attention span to keeping tabs on the TechCrunch Disrupt startup battlefield earlier this week.  I was wowed by UJAM, and thought  they would surely come away with first place. The judges instead … Continue reading →

Congress announced on Monday that they will start the process of revising the Telecommunications Act of 1996. The key committee players (Sen. Jay Rockefeller, Sen. John Kerry, Rep. Henry Waxman, and Rep. John Boucher) will bring together “stakeholders” in a … Continue reading →

For the past few weeks I’ve been trying out a few of the collaborative recommendation sites that are  currently on the scene. My interest was initially piqued by an NYC startup or two, then I learned about Aardvark, now part … Continue reading →

Image via Wikipedia Martin Gardner died on Saturday. He was 95 years old.  It’s hard to give a sense of Gardner’s wide ranging interests and contributions to someone who’s not familiar with his writings. And he was a writer. According … Continue reading →

It looks like an end game in legacy copper communications is playing out. On Friday, Verizon received approval from the FCC to sell off its wireline operations in 14 states to Frontier Communications: Arizona, California, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Ohio, Oregon, South Carolina, Washington, Wisconsin and West Virginia. The affected subscribers are concentrated in rural, low density areas and small cities. The FCC attached a few weak, purely voluntary conditions on Frontier for this transfer of 4.8 million lines. Continue reading →

I’m waiting for the assigned Google scribe to start generating notes for the session on BigQuery and Prediction APIs. Am I in the wrong virtual room? In any case, a quick read of the documentation for Google’s machine-learning-in-the-cloud APIs makes … Continue reading →

According to tech research firm Gartner, Apple sold over eight million mobile handsets in 1Q 2010 for a 2.7% share of the market and ranks 7th on the leaderboard (hat tip to MacRumors.com). Nokia is in the first spot with … Continue reading →

I'm keeping one eye on my Wave box as I try to follow the Google IO conference while juggling a few other tasks. One significant product announcement that came out of yesterday's keynotes was the Chrome Web Store. Yes, it is very nice that Google is now creating a place for web developers to put up a shingle and sell under the Google banner. Google does make it very clear that these are ordinary web apps: Continue reading →

In short, let me just say it: we screwed up.

After the FCC lost its net neutrality case against Comcast, I put on hold a project to review a series of YouTube videos involving Chairman Genachowski. The rough plan was to gain some insight as to how the FCC would … Continue reading →