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Yesterday, Netflix released bandwidth data measuring how well leading ISPs do at transmitting its HD videos to subscribers. All the usual suspects were listed, but it’s interesting, although not altogether surprising, that cable companies grabbed the top spots over the … Continue reading →

Ubiquisys, a startup backed by Google, lays claim to “the words’ first attocell—a personal femtocell.” Femtocells are small cellular base stations that connect to the Internet on one side, and wirelessly link to a 3G cell phone on the other … Continue reading →

I have completed a .1 release of my first Android app, hammered together with Google’s App Inventor toolkit. It’s a simple but trailblazing RSS displayer that pulls in bill status from the New York State Senate’s own open government platform, … Continue reading →

To everything there is a season. A time to propose Open Internet rules. A time to seek relief from these arbitrary and capricious rules in the courts, specifically the DC Court of Appeals. Let’s say it’s not a complete surprise … Continue reading →

OnSIP, the cloud-based PBX startup, has reviewed the native SIP capabilities of Gingerbread (Android 2.3). Within the fine print of Google’s Gingerbread announcement last month was a reference to Internet calling using an onboard SIP stack. So the crew at … Continue reading →

I finally found one. With all my relevant RSS feeds already nicely organized in my Google Reader, I naively thought it would be easy enough to view my feeds with an Android app. Wrong. For those who have tuned in … Continue reading →

A lot of people think he [Alfred Sloan] was the founder of GM. In reality, he was the founder of modern business procedure and practices—cost accounting, divisional P&L’s. … He was not the founder of GM. The founder was another … Continue reading →

I’ve read many, many tech white papers sprinkled with the conventional bizspeak phrase, return on investment. But at Hoboken Tech Meetup last night, I came across a new metric, social return on investment or, in acronymese, SROI while listening to … Continue reading →

Wikipedia I’ve yet to read Nick Carr’s latest, The Shallows, which takes a pessimistic view of the effects of writing and scanning  tweets, SMSs, IMs, etc. on our neural wiring. It’s on my reading list. Certainly his claim that our … Continue reading →

With a case of post-holiday ennui setting in, I decided to forgo a visit to Skirball and instead tuned into last night’s NYTM video stream from my couch. It was great entertainment and far more edifying than what’s transmitted over … Continue reading →