Archive for November, 2004
Friday, November 19th, 2004
SBC is planning to file a new tariff for a service called "TipTop," which for the first time would cause unaffiliate ISPs and VOIP providers to pay per-minute access charges on their traffic. Jeff Pulver and Om Malik have good blog posts speculating on the implications and SBC's overall ...
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Friday, November 19th, 2004
This message board post from someone in Tivo product marketing clarifies what Tivo is and isn't doing. It reinforces what I said earlier -- Tivo showing banner ads when you fast-forward isn't the end of the world.
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Wednesday, November 17th, 2004
According to Matt Haughey's PVRblog, Tivo is updating its software to display advertisements while you fast-forward through programs. That's right, you'll see ads even while you fast-forward to skip the ads. People seem to think this is an abomination.
What's the big deal? Television has ads. There's nothing ...
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Tuesday, November 16th, 2004
Susan Crawford's provocative blog post about the broadcast flag brief recently filed by the FCC and Justice Department just got
Slashdotted.
The issue is whether the FCC has legal authority to mandate that manufacturers of digital television receivers incorporate "broadcast flag" technology to limit copying of digital content. As Susan points ...
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Tuesday, November 16th, 2004
I'm at a "Global Innovation Outlook" event organized by IBM in New York. Lots of great folks here, and -- halleluja! -- open WiFi in the auditorium at Rockefeller University. It's too early to pass judgment on the program, but IBM is asking the right questions in exploring ...
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Monday, November 15th, 2004
Jeff Jarvis reports that the FCC imposed a $1.2 million fine on Fox for the show "Married by America" after receiving complaints from just 23 individuals. And all but three of the complaints were automated "me too" copies.
Jeff points out that this isn't just a problem with the FCC:
Note, ...
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Friday, November 12th, 2004
So here I am, sitting on a train, checking email, surfing the web, listening to a couple hundred songs, and blogging... all through my phone.
I've had a Treo for more than a year, but this experience still gives me chills. Ten years ago there was, for all intents and ...
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Friday, November 12th, 2004
My brother Adam and some collaborators have put together 19 theses on the future of the Democratic Party. They plan to launch them in a provocative way on Monday.
For those of you know don't know, Adam is the former president of the Sierra Club and a grassroots activist ...
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Wednesday, November 10th, 2004
Ending one of the worst-kept secrets in Washington, the FCC today declared most voice over IP services as inherently interstate, precluding states from regulating them like traditional telephone companies.
This will remove some of the roadblocks and uncertainty for VOIP providers, especially newer players like Vonage. But it's important to ...
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Tuesday, November 9th, 2004
An update on Skype's P2P voice over IP service, courtesy of Jeff Clavier:
* 13M+ users registered
* 1M+ simultaneous users reached for the first time a couple of weeks ago
* 2,384,686,217 minutes served, as I type this - i.e almost 2.4 billion minutes. Just to put things in perspective: Vonage has ...
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