Month: October 2004

Yes, that’s right, Gavin Newsom wants to put government in control of all San Franciscan’s wireless service. On Thursday, he said “We will not stop until every San Franciscan has access to free wireless Internet service.” I wonder if he’s

Fahrenheit 911 is considered a propaganda film by people on both the left and right, but it still had a huge impact on a number of people. Celsius41.11 is the right’s answer to Moore’s movie.

Just when you thought you only had a choice between getting an Aibo cat or a real one that makes you sneeze, along comes science to the rescue. Allerca is a company that’s working to create the world’s first hypoallergenic

The FCC has approved the merger, subject to some divestiture requirements. Here’s a Computerworld story on it.

CompTIA interviewed both Presidential candidates on tech issues and the record is here. They don’t seem all that different from each other (mainly b/c Kerry is so vague it’s hard to tell what his positions are on some issues). On

“Justice Department antitrust regulators cleared the way Monday for Cingular Wireless LLC’s $41 billion acquisition of AT&T Wireless Services Inc., a crucial step toward creating the nation’s largest wireless telephone company. The merger still must be approved by the Federal

I had to read the Reuters story twice just to make sure that the “man tax” was for real. Sure enough, “A group of Swedish parliamentarians has proposed levying a “man tax” to cover the social cost of violence against

I’m at the Telecosm conference in Tahoe — a great group of people who are really interested in ideas. This morning Steve Forbes spoke on the cancers of capitalism which include trial lawyers, protectionism, and trade barriers. He also said

I’m at the Telecom 04 conference in Vegas this week. It’s a huge conference with tons of exhibits and technologies on display. A cool one I saw this morning was a DSLAM — DSL access multiplexer — in a fish

PRI hosted an event last Friday where author Virginia Postrel spoke about her new book The Substance of Style. The main thesis is that style is more important to the marketplace than most people realize. The value comes from the

It’s always somewhat precarious to make predictions about political outcomes, but tonight I got some very interesting information. My mother, a liberal who believes in government-sponsored universal health care, says that she thinks Bush will (and should) win. Kerry and

Dick Cheney did a great job last night reminding viewers that the adults are currently in office. John Edwards, on the other hand, was nervous and kept saying “The American People” over and over. For a hilarious take on Edward’s

Nothing all that exciting happened in the debates last night as far as I’m concerned. It was, however, a warning for Bush that he needs to take his opponent a little more seriously. Bush seemed unprepared and petulant last night.