Monday, November 3, 2003

It's your number, take it with you. Carriers brace for massive churn with the arrival of number portability later this month. [CNET News.com - Front Door] 7:03:09 PM

German antenna digital TV German Way to Go Digital: No Dawdling. Berlin is the world's first major city to switch from analog to entirely digital television broadcasting. By Mark Landler. [New York Times: Technology] 7:01:46 PM

Italian DSL vs Fiber In Milan, Working to Unfurl a High-Tech Blanket of Fiber. e.Biscom, a recent technology start-up, is hoping to deliver broadband Internet access in Italy. It has entrenched competition, however. By Eric Sylvers. [New York Times: Technology] 6:59:26 PM

	Saturday, November 1, 2003

It's The End Of The Web As We Know It And I Feel Fine I'm at the RVC SoftEdge Conference, where I'll be speaking tomorrow. RVC is the former venture arm of Reuters and this is its technology conference. The discussion here is wide ranging but generally around the evolution of information technology. During one of the breaks I was speaking with a senior scientist who is intimately familiar with the plumbing of the web and is currently in command of a key piece of that infrastructure. On assurance of anonymity, he described for me what he views as a nail in the coffin of email communications as we know it.... [VentureBlog] 7:13:17 PM

Ubiquity Breeds Utility VentureBlog, a random walk down Sand Hill Road In the late 1980s, Dartmouth College was the most wired campus on the planet, running 10Mb Ethernet into every dorm room. Today, Dartmouth is the most unwired campus on the planet, with 560 access points covering 200 acres. At a recent conference here, Larry Levine, the head of computing services, challenged attendees to find a single spot on campus and surrounding areas that did not have 802.11 coverage. Even the boathouse, adjacent sections of the Connecticut river, the ski lodge, and sections of the ski slope are covered! If you wanted to know where wired communications were headed in the late 1980s, all you had to do was go to the Dartmouth campus and look at their homegrown email application, Blitzmail. As any regular user of Blitzmail will tell you, it included a server-side address book and remote private and public folders before almost any other email application. Watching a regular user of Blitzmail, you could have predicted the rise of LDAP, IMAP, and most importantly Instant Messenger - Blitzmail was so fast and so ubiquitous, that people used it for IM-style back-and-forth conversations long before IM became popular in the larger environment. At the conference, I looked for similar insights regarding wireless networks on the Dartmouth Campus. A few observations:... 6:44:29 PM

Round one to Vonage; round two to the states? [CNET News.com - Front Door] Judge OKs MCI reorganization plan. MCI should emerge from Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection early next year, company executives said Friday after a federal judge approved the carrier's reorganization plan. [InfoWorld: Top News] Judge OKs MCI reorganization plan [IDG InfoWorld] 1:50:53 PM

	Wednesday, April 16, 2003

Cisco to ship Wi-Fi mobile phone in June. Device will work only within facilities [InfoWorld: Top News] 9:01:06 PM

	Monday, April 7, 2003

Disconnects on Wi-Fi and cell phones. He helped usher in a communications transformation by inventing the cell phone, but now Martin Coopersays that cellular carriers are making big mistakes in releasing Wi-Fi and other advanced data services across the nation. [CNET News.com] 5:48:21 AM

	Monday, March 31, 2003

SIP fuels communications interplay. Driven by voice and platform vendors, protocol promises to unite IM, video, voice [InfoWorld: Top News] Technology aims to sync users' communications. Multiple devices in mix [InfoWorld: Top News] 6:52:50 PM

	Saturday, March 29, 2003

Fast-forwarding digital cable. After spending billions on digital upgrades, cable giants have been disappointed by consumer response. McKinsey experts examine whether on-demand services will redeem the investment. [CNET News.com] 10:01:03 AM

	Thursday, March 20, 2003

Making a Statement, in Absentia. Among college students, the away message is a form of communication, entertainment, procrastination and social life rolled into one. [New York Times: Technology] [[ t e c h n o c u l t u r e ]] 4:33:43 AM

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