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












