Monthly Archives: November 30, 2011

Best Bits From the FCC Report on AT&T Merger

So much to choose from! I’ve gotten through the first half of the FCC’s analysis of the AT&T-T-Mobile merger. To my utter lack of surprise, all the things you or I might have intuited about this deal have been found … Continue reading

More Audio from The Singularity Summit

I finally got around to putting together another track of audio from The Singularity Summit. Continue reading

Unleash App Inventor’s Small Biz Potential

A few weeks ago I received a review copy of Ralph Roberts’ “Google App Inventor” from the ebook publisher Packt Publishing. I took a quick look at it, was favorably impressed by the sections I read, and was left with … Continue reading

Cisco Flames HP’s Non-Compete

In the mostly bland world of corporate blogging, we almost did a spit take with our espresso this morning while scanning Cisco’s “The Platform.” Mark Chandler, General Counsel, authored a post in which he challenged Hewlett Packard to allow its … Continue reading

NYU ITP Winter Show

NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications Program exists at that oft-referred-to intersection of art and technology. At their semi-annual shows, the public gets to see how students have made imaginative use of wires, pulleys, solenoids, robots, Kinect boxes, video projectors, and the occasional … Continue reading

US vs. AT&T: Pre-Trial Paper Wars

They argued over lists and schedules and experts witnesses and limitations placed on adverse witnesses and written versus oral testimony and perhaps the number of coffee breaks–’cause this trial will require plenty of that. I am referring to the pre-trial … Continue reading

BridesView Unveiled

How quickly they grow up. First an idea is conceived at a long Startup Weekend, then the next thing you know the little tike is winning awards–1st place at an Ultra Light Startup pitchathon–and before you can say Round A, … Continue reading

Steve Blank and the Startup Quest

You mean you never heard of Billy Durant, the real founder of General Motors? Durant was an early 20th century entrepreneur, whose series of pivots, board firings, and general insane greatness reminds me of another more recent incarnation of this … Continue reading

Broadband for the 33%: FCC Implements Low Cost Service Program

An underpinning of the National Broadband Plan is Universal Service Fund reform and greater broadband adoption. The Plan calls for the creation of a Connect America Fund to distribute USF monies to ISPs that cover underserved and low income areas. … Continue reading

Senate To Vote On Anti-Net Neutrality Resolution

The US Senate is expected to vote on Joint Resolution 6 this week. You mean you’ve forgotten about this? SJ 6 is a one sentence piece of legislation that succinctly expresses Senators’ (read Republicans’) desire to stomp on the FCC’s … Continue reading

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