Month: October 2003

Additional Info About T-Mobile and 1X. Just to clarify and add a couple points to the short Seattle Times blurb. T-Mobile sounds really open about playing with a wide variety of 802.1X clients, not just the one offered by Microsoft. Users of Meetinghouse's Aegis and Funk's Odyssey clients can also use T-Mobile's more secure network… Continue reading Additional Info About T-Mobile and 1X

British Pathe: “You can preview items from the entire 3500 hour British Pathe Film Archive which covers news, sport, social history and entertainment from 1896 to 1970.” [Scripting News]

Economy Worries Californians, but It's Not That Bad. California's economy, by many measures, has done better than the rest of the nation's in the last few years. By Andrew Pollack and David Leonhardt. [New York Times: NYT HomePage]

Why Mozilla matters. The browser is dead. It's gone to meet its maker, shuffled off its mortal coil, and joined the bleedin' choir invisible. Macromedia knows this. Microsoft knows this. The makers of countless variations on the theme of the next-generation rich Internet client know this. Everyone knows this except the folks who build and… Continue reading Why Mozilla matters

News.Com: Dell's site gets a makeover. Dell hopes to get to the point more quickly with a new version of its Web site, set to be unveiled over the weekend. The new Dell Web site is designed to offer a cleaner, more streamlined view of products such as PCs and servers and easier access to… Continue reading Dell's site gets a makeover

Bridging PHP and .NET with XML-RPC. A couple of months ago, I mentioned that we are developing rich Windows clients running on .NET. We are still using PHP on the web server, and using XML-RPC for communication between .NET and PHP. We could have tried to use SOAP, but at that time there were too… Continue reading Bridging PHP and .NET with XML-RPC

A negative assessment of the FCC's broadband efforts. BusinessWeek: “Based on this latest court ruling, it seems more likely that little of substance from [FCC Chairman] Powell's controversial three-year crusade to change the face of telecom in the U.S. will survive.” [Werblog]

Ah, now it makes sense!. Jeff Taylor of Reason Magazine: “To recap, the law says your cable modem is a phone, except when you use it as a phone. Then it is not a phone.” (via Arnold Kling)  [Werblog]