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SBC’s Aggressive Wi-Fi Plan

August 6, 2003

SBC unveiled FreedomLink, the telecom industry’s most ambitious wireless Internet initiative to date. Over three years, SBC will deploy 20,000 hotspots in 6,000 venues, including hotels, airports, convention centers in 13 states. Through a roaming deal with Wayport, subscribers can tap 650 more access points nationwide. Agreements with other Wi-Fi providers are expected. SBC will [...]

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Sony Wi-Fi TVs

August 5, 2003

A couple of new plasma televisions from Sony with built-in 802.11a. Besides being able to access the Internet or stream video from a PC over a wireless home network, the 50-inch KDE-P50HZ1 and the 42-inch KDE-P42HZ1 also come with a large remote control with a 6-by-3.5-inch LCD display that can also be used to surf [...]

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Death of the Webmaster

August 4, 2003

Blogging software and other personal publishing tools have unleashed the ability to communicate from the need for the technical mediation of the webmaster. Luigi Canali De Rossi provides a thought-provoking perspective. Link.
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Dan Gillmor on the Virtues of Voice over IP

August 3, 2003

Dan Gillmor’s column this weekend is a stirring appreciation of Internet telephony:
Previously, I had two phone lines into my house, each costing almost $20 a month for the dial tone plus local calls. One of those lines was split to also handle digital subscriber line (DSL) broadband data access. In addition, I paid a long-distance [...]

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Web Has Become Primary Media Hub for US Teens

August 2, 2003

Teens and young adults ages 13 to 24 now spend more time per week on the web (16.7 hours) than they do watching TV (13.6 hours), according to a new Harris Interactive and Teenage Research Unlimited poll. Web numbers don’t include e-mail, which makes the numbers even more impressive. Survey findings also showed that teens [...]

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More RIAA Backlash

August 1, 2003

Sen. Norm Coleman started an inquiry to check the RIAA’s tactics on attacking online music swappers. He believes the RIAA’s tactics may not be taking into consideration the damage they do to innocent people. Link.

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Digital TV Choices Proliferate

August 1, 2003

Today’s NYT Circuits section has an article about the proliferation of digital television choices for cable and satellite customers. They mention that Time Warner Cable will be starting to offer DVR cable boxes to New York City subscribers in September 2003. The time-shifting features of the new Scientific Atlanta Explorer 8000 set-tops are unusually powerful. [...]

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The Empire Strikes Back

July 31, 2003

I’ve been wondering when the consumer electronics and telecommunications companies and the politicians were going to wake up and see what a lightening rod the Recording Industry Association of America’s (RIAA) full frontal assault on consumers is becoming. Now, SBC – of all companies – has taken a brave stand against the RIAA. Is this [...]

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Why MythTV Matters

July 30, 2003

[Editor's Note: As part of my effort to archive writing from several previous blogs, I've included all of my posts from the HomeTech blog that appeared at Metro-Mesh.com (no longer active). This is the first of the posts from that blog which I maintained on that site through January of 2005 before migrating the content [...]

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