Wireless Wonderland: Unlicensed Wireless Broadband in North America. Patrick Leary is chief evangelist for Alvarion, a service provider dealing in point-to-multipoint broadband wireless access. Steve Stroh is editor of Focus on Broadband Wireless Internet Access. Their talk at WTF 2004 incorporated insights on wireless broadband access, empowering rural communities, and competing wireless methods. What follows… Continue reading Wireless Wonderland: Unlicensed Wireless Broadband in North America
Author: Vince Kimball
The End of the Oil Age
The End of the Oil Age. Kenneth Deffeyes is professor emeritus of geosciences at Princeton University. The author of Hubbert's Peak: The Impending World Oil Shortage offered his insights on the upcoming and ongoing oil crisis and some possible ways to respond to it. What follows is a partial transcript of his talk at WTF… Continue reading The End of the Oil Age
Like, umm an information superhighway?
Like, umm an information superhighway?. “That's what broadband technology is. It means we'll open the highways of knowledge — new highways of knowledge.” — President George W. Bush, March 26, 2004 You'd think he would at least give Al Gore credit for the metaphor. Bush's call in the speech for universal broadband by 2007 has… Continue reading Like, umm an information superhighway?
How hard is it…
How hard is it…. for your customers to help you design better products? Especially when your product is a tool? My Entourage for Mac OSX just crashed. I read a ton of email and usually leave the notes that need answering open until I get to them. Alas, when Entourage crashes, it forgets which mails you… Continue reading How hard is it…
Why not just shut down the whole damn Eastern seaboard?
Why not just shut down the whole damn Eastern seaboard?. I'm sorry, but this and this are just crap. Voters in Boston and New York City should remember the elected officials who brought the conventions and traffic disasters to town when they go to the polls this November. [Q Daily News]
cable offeri
Cable operators face a la carte pressuresThe US cable TV industry is like a restaurant with certain levels of prix fixe dining. In other words, you can't pick and choose between cable offerings, especially at the basic level. You may want ESPN at your house and not want Nickelodeon, love the Nature Channel but loathe MTV… Continue reading cable offeri
sweeps all before it
Dollar stores redefine the retail competition matrixAs Wal-Mart seemingly sweeps all before it, driving supermarkets, department stores, drug stores, toy stores, and others out of business, it is itself under pressure from an increasingly significant new segment. This is yet another illustration of the competition matrix at work. Wal-Mart, the master of the matrix is… Continue reading sweeps all before it
“They Were Everywhere”
“They Were Everywhere”. My parents just got back from two weeks in Belgium and environs. When we talked on the phone tonight, the very first thing they both described was not the beauty of the land, how expensive things were (Euro against the dollar), or even the chocolate. No, the one thing they wanted to talk… Continue reading “They Were Everywhere”
Don't Wait
Don't Wait. Michael Harrison, an English poet, was once asked how to become a good writer. He replied, “If you want to be a good writer, write. You don't wait for inspiration.” Don Box, co-author of SOAP, gives similar advice in the above link: Read fewer specifications, write more applications, write less code by using… Continue reading Don't Wait
US-Visit Spares No One
US-Visit Spares No One. The program that requires foreigners to be fingerprinted and photographed before entering the United States will now include millions of travelers from America's closest allies — including Britian, Japan and Australia. [Wired News]