Monthly Archives: June 30, 2010
Kikin: Hole Filling Is Not a Business Model
Kikin is a NYC startup that, as their web copy says, “brings you more relevant posts, tweets, videos, and other cool stuff from popular sites,” by automatically displaying interesting links on your browser page. Its proposition is that you trust your … Continue reading
Non-innovative ISPs
A article in Wired by Ryan Singel does a nice job of explaining why the cable ISPs need regulation. As this blog has also been saying, reclassification of their services as telecommunications, the current FCC strategy, undoes a bad course … Continue reading
And now there's a database
I had been meaning to set up a database containing all the startup companies that I’ve been following in this blog. Finally, with enough entries and notes in my spreadsheets, and some spare time that opened up this week and … Continue reading
T-Mobile continues to seek an alternative to subsidizing its two largest competitors, but today, AT&T and Verizon continue to supply the majority of T-Mobile’s backhaul services.
Is Google Voice Net Neutral?
Not according to, er, AT&T. “Intellectual contradiction” and “noisome trumpeter” and other mean words were lobbed at Google by AT&T in a letter to the FCC in September 2009. You get a little dizzy reading this contrivance especially when AT&T … Continue reading
Googling the World Cup
Searching on “world cup” returns the latest scores. Thanks Google.
Twilio’s OpenVBX: Open Source Attendant
I downloaded OpenVBX, Twilio’s bendable, programmable cloud-based unified communications platform, tried out a few call control flows, and then drifted off into a reverie about telecom start-ups before the dot.com crash. When the CLECs and ASPs first came on the … Continue reading
FCC Notice of Inquiry on Broadband Reclassification
Let the games begin and ex parte filings flow! The FCC formally opened its proceedings yesterday on the classification of broadband Internet. The agency released a 64 page, footnote-chocked Notice of Inquiry, Framework for Broadband Internet Service, to set this round … Continue reading
Pinker vs. Carr, Theory vs. Reality
Steve Pinker: PowerPoints make you productive (Wikipedia) Harvard cognitive scientist Steven Pinker took up the mantle for twitter-reading, YouTube-watching, blog-scanning, email-reading multi-taskers in an Op-Ed in last Friday’s New York Times. In what amounts to a direct critique of Nicholas … Continue reading
