DemoCasting

February 9, 2006

Alec’s and other’s posts from DEMO and some screencasts I’ve seen recently have me wondering – is there room for a podcast dedicated to demos of new technology? The format would feature a few per podcast, and the host site would feature a screencast that listeners could view on the web (or on their video […]

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DEMO Gods

February 9, 2006

Looks like Alec’s instincts were telling him something – Iotum has won an award at DEMO. Congratulations to them.

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FCC Commissioner thinks U.S. lacks a broadband strategy

February 8, 2006

FCC Commissioner Michael Copps: “We need a national broadband strategy [because] I don’t think we have one now, and to do it we need much more public and private sector partnerships”. “Think”? It would be good to know.

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Alec in Demo Mode

February 8, 2006

Alec Saunders of Iotum has a great series of posts from DEMO. Taken one at a time they’re informative enough, but taken together they’re a great insight into the stomach-tightening, adrenaline-pumping experience of demo-ing. He wraps it up here.

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Contra on Net Neutrality

February 8, 2006

Martin Geddes follows-up his recent contra net neutrality post with another. Gist: Indeed, this is all reminiscent of the arguments about socialised medicine in the UK. “We must spend more on the National Health Service to prevent a two-tier system emerging!” Yet lots of people who can afford it opt-out and but private medical care. […]

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Slate on RIM-NTP and Software Patents

February 8, 2006

Tim Wu has a piece on Slate that digs into the archaeology of the RIM-NTP litigation and looks at software patents generally. It’s certainly opinionated (it is Slate, after all), and often more than a little inflammatory, but it’s also quite funny (“The company RIM is itself a special kind of tech outsider, known in […]

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Update on U.S. Senate Commerce Committee Hearings on Net Neutrality

February 7, 2006

Jeff Pulver has a summary of the day’s events. Full testimony and video here.

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Net Neutrality Not An Optional Feature of Internet

February 7, 2006

Daniel Berninger has an almost ridiculously intelligent op-ed about net neutrality on Om’s blog today. There are many sharp observations – my favourite: “Beware of the monopolist that wants the “market” to decide.” Or “Network neutrality allows end users to choose winners and losers in an application meritocracy that threatens service providers long dependent on […]

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Two Approaches to Wi-Fi

February 6, 2006

Hot on the heels of FON’s recent financing, two stories out today symbolize for me the growing divide in wi-fi use between Europe and North America. First, alarm: clock writes about a new acquisition by Cloud, a UK wi-fi operator: In contrast to the US, where telcos are actively fighting free municipal hot-spots, free WiFi […]

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Mobile Broadband Internet Access Options

February 6, 2006

Steve Stroh has a great roundup of options if you’re in the U.S.

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No Speakeasy Deal for FON?

February 6, 2006

Glenn Fleishman deconstructs FON’s announcements after Speakeasy denies a relationship.

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Social Press Releases

February 5, 2006

Steve Rubel notes that PRNewswire has just tacked on an “Add to del.icio.us” feature to all of its press releases. Cool. Very smart. But he then makes one of the smartest comments about PR 2.0 I’ve read in ages: Consider this. Imagine for a moment that you could talk back to a press release. What […]

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