Archive for June, 2006
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Thursday, June 22nd, 2006The most powerful factory-built Mustang ever, is what the article says. This sentence is almost at the bottom of an article about changes at Ford for the 2007 year models. 500 Horsepower and if memory serves me correctly, over 450 lbs of torque. In fact I wrote about this last April in anticipation and my [...]
Can Mesh WiFi Solve The Net Neutrality Issue?
Thursday, June 22nd, 2006This author takes a completely different approach to both the issues of net neutrality and muni WiFi. He does make a lot of good points about the whole “mesh” network problem and the problem with trying to implement a small scale residential technology in a metro setting. There in really lies the real issue, eh?
Techdirt: [...]
Tread carefully with municipal wireless
Thursday, June 22nd, 2006This article takes a look at several Muni WiFi projects around the USA and, at the end includes several good quotes. This is one article you really need to read in context, however, you have to get to the end for the “rest of the story” as Paul Harvey would say.
MercuryNews.com | 06/22/2006 | [...]
Verizon Sues Vonage over VOIP
Tuesday, June 20th, 2006People that use Vonage for their primary telephone service should pay close attention to this article and the ensuing lawsuit. Verizon holds a large number of VoIP patents and Vonage holds zero, yet uses many patented technologies to provide their VoIP telephone service.
Verizon is asking for an injunction against Vonage, which could shut down [...]
Net Neutrality Proponents Flagrantly Lie About Craigslist Blockage
Monday, June 19th, 2006The only infraction the net neutrality proponents could cite, in pushing their net neutrality bill, was Craigslist. Today, ZDNet has published an article showing this tactic for what it was and just how far some people will go to push an agenda.
As I have written many time, net neutrality was a power play by a [...]
links for 2006-06-17
Saturday, June 17th, 2006
Army to switch from green to blue uniforms
can they do that?
links for 2006-06-14
Wednesday, June 14th, 2006
Startling Galactic Highway Found in Milky Way
yeah, and somebody just pulled out to pass
(tags: space science)
Hawking Says Humans Must Colonize Space
i have to respect stephen hawking’s opinion.
(tags: space science)
eBay Rolls Out AdContext to Build Out Third Party Ties
ebay vs. google … this i gotta see
(tags: business google ebay)
Wrigley Field Dugouts Go Wireless
this is the kind [...]
Swedes hit hard by WiMAX waves
Tuesday, June 13th, 2006I’ve been waiting for this article to show up somewhere and the Swedes have fulfilled according to this Engadget article. I don’t have any inside knowledge, but knew that sooner or later, someone would suffer from some of these wireless signals that are propagated around the globe. I would be there are studies on this [...]
MobilePro Pulls Out of Sacramento Wi-Fi
Tuesday, June 13th, 2006Sacramento’s request for MobilePro to provide faster wireless Internet service for free, only supported by ads has caused a parting of ways. The article speaks volumes on this and other endeavors of this kind and points out the difficulty in such a project. The complete article is worth the read, so head over and then [...]
Cable monopolies under attack
Tuesday, June 13th, 2006The television neutrality interference of the government several decades ago caused these monopolies in the first place. Doesn’t it make you stop and wonder about this new round of people pressing for government intervention?
Chron.com | Cable monopolies under attack:
WASHINGTON - Monopolies in many cable TV markets could end under House-passed legislation that supporters said would [...]