Archive for April, 2003
Wednesday, April 30th, 2003
I've been told to pay more attention to the Trusted Computing Group, which is pushing hardware-based digital IDs and security. Microsoft (with Palladium), and Intel (with the forthcoming LaGrande) are major players in the group, along with HP, IBM, and AMD.
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Wednesday, April 30th, 2003
According to InStat, "2003 will be the year when IP station shipments
first exceed traditional PBX stations." The enterprise VOIP marke grew 60% last year.
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Wednesday, April 30th, 2003
More Manhattan WiFi maps from the Public Internet Project.
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Wednesday, April 30th, 2003
Cellular News: "Wireless telephone subscribers in the USA now spend, on average, more minutes talking on their cellphones than they do on traditional landline phones, according to the Yankee Group's latest quarterly Wireless/Mobile North American Carrier Tracker."
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Tuesday, April 29th, 2003
John Patrick: "There was a long list of reasons ten years ago for why the Web would never turn into something serious -- certainly not into something that could be used for secure business transactions. The same list of shortcomings is being attributed to WiFi today."
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Tuesday, April 29th, 2003
Can you say killer app? I already have. But the equipment rollout from companies like Cisco, Telesym, NEC, and Vocera is happening even faster than I expected.
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Tuesday, April 29th, 2003
The Wall Street Journal yesterday had an article about how the expected recovery in the telecom sector hasn't materialized. The evidence? Capital spending by large incumbents like SBC and AT&T is continuing to go down. This is a misleading way to evaluate the market. It's the ...
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Monday, April 28th, 2003
Spam is nothing new, but for a variety of reasons it has gotten significantly worse over the past two years. That has provoked several responses, including startups (CloudMark, MailFrontier, MailBlocks), proposed legislation, new technical approaches such as Bayesian filtering, and the alliance announced today between AOL, Microsoft and Yahoo. ...
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Monday, April 28th, 2003
By all accounts, the O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference was once again a tremendous event. (And once again, I couldn't make it!) I'm filtering through the blog coverage, though of course that's no substitute for being there.
As a conference organizer myself, I'm delighted to see events like ETech be ...
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Monday, April 28th, 2003
The court decision last week throwing out the music industry's lawsuit against Grokster and Streamcast/Morpheus marks the transition to the next phase of the digital content battle. It's not the end. Certain content owners will continue to use every means at their disposal to slow the development of ...
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