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Have Mobile Carriers Become Too Dominant?

March 15, 2005

The Motorola-iTunes mess (Motorola was set to unveil its new handset with an integrated Apple iPod music player at CeBit but was forced to cancel due to the fact that its mobile carrier partner evidently was not ready or got cold feet) has gotten Om Malik to thinking some more about whether the mobile carriers [...]

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New York Times on the Future of Free Online Access to Newspaper Content

March 14, 2005

There is quite a lot of discussion around the web this morning of Katherine Seelye’s article in The New York Times (which, ironically, will disappear behind NYT’s firewall sometime soon) about the future of free online access to newspapers. I agree with Techdirt that making people pay for online access is a really dumb idea. [...]

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Millipede Prototype Shown at CeBIT

March 13, 2005

IBM has for the first time shown a prototype of its Millipede nanomechanical data storage device at the CeBIT trade show in Hannover, Germany. Using nanotechnology, scientists at IBM Zurich Reserach Laboratory have achieved data storage densities of more than one terabit per square inch, equivalent to storing the content of 25 DVDs on an [...]

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Chicago to Explore City-Wide Wi-Fi Network

March 9, 2005

There is a possibility that Chicago may build a city-wide municipal wireless network, reports
Chicago Indymedia. Yesterday, a joint session of the Chicago City Council’s Finance and Economic and Capital & Technology Development Committees passed a resolution to conduct a study on deployment of a city-wide high-speed wireless network based on Wi-Fi. Chicago CIO Chris O’Brien [...]

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Telco Core Competence

March 9, 2005

With his usual brilliance, Martin Geddes identifies the true core competence of the typical incumbent telco. Discussing the role of network effects in the growth of media businesses like satellite radio, he notes that the relevant network effects may be external to the product itself and may not be obvious:
Every successful media company is based [...]

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Peerio and P2P Internet Telephony Hit the Mainstream

March 8, 2005

When Business Week starts covering it, you can bet it has hit the mainstream.
So, after a series of interesting deals with Asian manufacturers and a lot of discussion in the telco blogosphere, Olga Kharif writes in a fact-filled article about Popular Telephony and Peerio in this week’s Business Week that “Popular Telephony may well possess [...]

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“Welcome to the Open Source Economy” Release 0.1

March 7, 2005

In keeping with the principle “Release Early and Release Often,” I have placed a draft of the PowerPoint version of “Welcome to the Open Source Economy,” my discussion of the application of open source principles beyond software development, on the site. The ideas continue to evolve, but I think that this document starts to capture [...]

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Some Advice for Sir Howard

March 7, 2005

Well, things have gotten desperate at Sony, because yesterday the company announced that its board of directors voted to elect the British executive Sir Howard Stringer (currently CEO of Sony Corporation of America) as its new chief executive and chairman of the board. The final decision will come after a shareholder vote in June. Stringer [...]

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Intel Unveils Proposed 802.11s Mesh Networking Standard

March 6, 2005

I have long believed that mesh networking will eventually be one of the key components in the future converged networks that will shake up the telecommunications world. One of the challenges has been that there are a number of different approaches and technologies that have been slowly pushed into the marketplace. One of the keys [...]

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Notebook Evolution

March 3, 2005

I was reading somewhere about some of Intel’s future architecture plans for notebook computing, and their was a pointer to this article about Intel’s Extended Mobile Architecture (EMA). EMA entails adding a secondary screen on the outside of the notebook so that while the notebook computer is in the sleep state, users can monitor their [...]

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