The Second It’s Possible, I’ll Cut the Cord
Like so many others, I’m fed up with Comcast/Xfinity and am constantly seeking developments that will allow me to cut-the-cord and do away with cable TV. Comcast in the Twin Cities of Minneapolis/St. Paul acquired…
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Why Is Apple’s Success Now So Bad?
I find it ironic when pundits, developers, partners and even customers cry out in seeming anguish when a company gains a successful foothold in any given marketplace — especially when those same people are the…
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Best Buy & Radio Shack: Who Failed w/Twitter Support?
Ever since companies like Comcast used Twitter (e.g., @ComcastCares, see BusinessWeek article) for timely response to customer inquiries or issues — before those issues blew up and hurt their brand or as ways to build…
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Would *you* pay the $20 cost to get 160mbps internet at home?
Read an article just now in the New York Times. It seems that there is a very interesting offering being delivered in Japan that makes it all the more apparent that the cable companies are…
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Broadband Providers: “Let’s cut ’em off at the pass!”
Even the most naive and casual observer can see that the threat from services like Hulu; both Apple’s TV and movie offerings within iTunes; Joost; and the accelerating number of media center software offerings (providing…
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TV is Toast: Mac Mini Media Center
My friends and family are sick of hearing me espouse the virtues of the Mac mini media center I built last weekend, but the experiences since have made me realize that TV as we know…
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We will tell YOU what to do with your Internet access!
With Comcast (my provider at home and office) throttling bandwidth and people up in arms and suing, I’ve been really torn about how I feel and something that happened today deepened my troubled thinking. As…
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CES: Hey Linksys…it’s 2008!
In a day of accelerating Macintosh market share (Windows is still over 90% of the market…though declining) and where Internet-centric applications, communications and participatory social media make your device choice less relevant, I’m taken aback…
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Schwarzenegger and Broadband: Is this leadership?
No question that California has a lot at stake with respect to broadband (major Internet players like eBay, Google, and others are there), movie and (much of the) television industry, infrastructure companies (like Cisco) but…
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Google’s Wireless Agenda
Often I write about Google Goodness, and then I go into the closet, slip on my tinfoil hat and my lead underwear (you should know that both protect against the surveillance gamma rays emanating from…
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