Archive for September, 2005
Friday, September 30th, 2005
Interesting. Nuance, a voice technology company I've followed for years, is suing Yahoo! over 13 Nuance engineers who were hired away to work on voice-based applications. Nuance claims they are stealing confidential information about a new service Nuance was building.
What's intriguing to me isn't the lawsuit, but the ...
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Friday, September 30th, 2005
Over at Prawfsblawg, Doug Lichtman raises a good point about the Google Print litigation. We might be comfortable with Google scanning libraries of books into a database, he says, because they have incentives to behave responsibly with respect to intellectual property, security, etc. Does that mean we're comfortable ...
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Friday, September 30th, 2005
Martin Geddes weighs in on IMS, the telcos' latest three-letter acronym for turning the Internet into the old phone network (see, e.g., QOS, ATM).
Look, guys, this is a different world. There's no Bellcore out there to bring everyone together. And it's the applications that get users interested ...
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Friday, September 30th, 2005
The European Union has joined a chorus of developing countries arguing that the US has too much control over the Internet. The fight directly concerns ICANN, the quasi-private group that oversees the Internet's domain name system under agreements with the US Department of Commerce. But it's really about ...
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Thursday, September 29th, 2005
eDonkey, a leading peer-to-peer file sharing service, just announced that it's shutting down in response to a cease-and-desist letter from the record industry. Post-Grokster, the company decided, the legal risk is just too great.
eDonkey may not be a household name in the US, but according to Cachelogic, which tracks ...
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Thursday, September 29th, 2005
In the four years since 9/11, the US has spent billions upon billions of dollars on homeland security and disaster preparedness. The vast majority of that money has gone to the traditional vendors and service providers. At the same time, the government has thrown road blocks in front ...
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Thursday, September 29th, 2005
I'm still not entirely sure what Google is up to with its various WiFi and netowkr infrastructure flirtations. Google probably isn't entirely sure itself -- like Intel, it benefits from any growth in the relevant market, so it doesn't have to figure out everything ahead of time.
Still, I'm beginning ...
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Thursday, September 29th, 2005
At the TPRC policy research conference last weekend, I listened to a presentation about digital mobile broadcast (DMB) service in South Korea. DMB means television on your mobile phone. It's up and running today in Korea, with plans to expand the system to include local as well as ...
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Thursday, September 29th, 2005
Looks like the FCC's attempt to clarify the legal environment for voice over IP is having exactly the opposite effect.
This is what happens when a regulator tries to take half-steps at a time when bold action is required. The reality is that the telecom industry is being tranformed before ...
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Tuesday, September 27th, 2005
After months of struggling with performance and stability issues on my new Powerbook, I finally decided to bite the bullet and do a clean reinstall OS X. Nothing else seemed to work, and even the folks at the Apple Store "Genius Bar" couldn't find anything in particular wrong with ...
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