Published in October 30th, 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 planning on giving us all free coffee to go along with that too, because we [...]
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Published in October 29th, 2004
My TNW column today focuses on the controversy surrounding implantable RFID chips. It’s not the privacy crisis everyone thinks it is.
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Published in October 27th, 2004
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.
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Published in October 26th, 2004
Will political spam have an impact on the election? I doubt it, but there’s a company called MailFrontier that says it could.
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Published in October 26th, 2004
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 cat. I love science.
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Published in October 26th, 2004
The FCC has approved the merger, subject to some divestiture requirements. Here’s a Computerworld story on it.
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Published in October 26th, 2004
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 VoIP, though, Kerry’s response seems more regulatory in tone whereas Bush seems more free market. [...]
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Published in October 25th, 2004
“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 Communications Commission. That could come as early as Tuesday.” Here’s the story.
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Published in October 23rd, 2004
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 women.” I don’t know what to make of this, except to say that when government [...]
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Published in October 22nd, 2004
Read all about it here.
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Published in October 20th, 2004
Here’s my column on VoIP from last week.
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Published in October 20th, 2004
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 he thinks the next country to really worry about in the war on terror is [...]
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Published in October 11th, 2004
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 tank (to show that the DSLAM can withstand all sorts of weather, including floods). And [...]
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Published in October 11th, 2004
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 identity-enhancing features of style (“I am like that” or “I am not like that”) and [...]
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Published in October 11th, 2004
Here’s my column from last Friday on why the California stem cell initiative is flawed.
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Published in October 6th, 2004
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 Edwards, she said, seem like they “couldn’t handle the job” and that Kerry “flip-flops too [...]
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Published in October 6th, 2004
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 obsession with “The American People” see Rob Reid’s post on the Lead21 blog.
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Published in October 4th, 2004
The California PUC is supposed to help consumers get better telecom services, but instead it appears to be holding back investment. Here’s an excerpt from a recent column I wrote about it: As a result of the PUC’s action, Verizon has halted its California installation of the new packet-switched system that, when connected with fiber [...]
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Published in October 3rd, 2004
Published in October 1st, 2004
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. Kerry looked and sounded presidential. At the same time, when Bush started talking about spreading [...]
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