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September 2, 2008
The Wall Street Journal is reporting (in what sounds like a Verizon PR piece) that there is a broadband Internet price war going on in the United States. My question to you: do you see it? It seems like few...
January 18, 2008
A couple days ago I wrote about Apple TV Take 2 and how it might very well kill BluRay (in my world HD-DVD is all but dead due to recent announcements). Alex wrote in the comments that we won't...
September 20, 2007
The Consumerist has uncovered a previously secret number: the monthly data download limit on Comcast internet connections: Leaks: Comcast's Download Cap Is 200 GB, But Only In Areas With Subpar Networks Comcast even has a system ready to go where...
May 1, 2007
The mayor of Fort Wayne, Indiana, Graham Richard, kicked off the Killer App Expo with a keynote speech outlining how technology investments have improved the lives of Fort Wayne residents. Starting in 2000, Fort Wayne began investing in a fiber...
September 20, 2006
It's pretty amazing to realize that $700,000 can basically cut an entire country off from partipating in world markets, from accesing international news, and from communicating with people around the globe:Zimbabwe internet slows to crawl as debts unpaid - Yahoo!...
May 17, 2006
This is a list of web sites and products mentioned during Roald Marth's presentation at Dynatek's 14th Annual User Conference at VisTaTech Center in Livonia, MI:
May 4, 2006
I am not a huge fan of the Palm OS. I think its multitasking is pitiful, the GUI is not sexy, and in general it feels like its stuck in the late 90s. I have been waiting for a Windows Mobile or some other device to dethrone my Treo 650. There are two devices that caught my eye, the Audiovox/HTC PPC 6700 and the Treo 700w. While I could compare features and specs side by side, that’s boring. Instead I’ll talk about both devices being used in the real world.
May 2, 2006
The Macintosh rumor site MacOSRumors.com is reporting that the next version of Mac OS X will employ a BitTorrent driven iTunes. The story is probably buried under online advertising, so you’ll have to work to read it… You know, close the pop-up window, now close the hover window, and it’s next to the 10 Google ads. Hmmm, knowing them it’s probably under 3 more pop up advertisements.
This is just a rumor and Apple rumors are rarely correct, but this particular item is very interesting and near and dear to me. At Technology Evangelist we have dabbled in distributing high definition videos online via bit torrent and have even highlighted a key application called Democracy Player. Lets make the assumption that this rumor is true (just go with it for now) and that Apple will be releasing a torrent engine in the Mac OS X 10.5 version of iTunes. What does this mean and why?
April 21, 2006
For quite a while now we have been promoting the Belkin Pre-N WiFi Router (which has nothing to do with the actual 802.11n spec.) This was the only router that actually worked in my apartment building which is bombarded with 2.4GHz signals from all sides. It’s been about a year, and we’re trying to find a solution that we can deploy in much larger environments. Enter the Linksys WRT54GX4 SRX400 WiFi Router. Ahhhh, that just rolls off the tongue. I think I’ll just call it the SRX400 from now on.
April 1, 2006
What if you could get paid to share your broadband Internet connection? Sound too good to be true? It may be, but that hasn't stopped WiFiTastic from launching a new broadband sharing platform that pays you cash for turning your home or business broadband connection into a commercial WiFi hotspot.
March 15, 2006
I ran across an application recently that will change the world. I see massive media networks like NBC, CBC, BBC and others all stand by and watch as their business models are blown to bits. Everything we know about television, radio and media in general will be re-imagined. As Jeff Jarvis recently posted quoting Rupert Murdoch, "A new generation of media consumers has risen demanding content delivered when they want it, how they want it, and very much as they want it." I'm throwing my hat in the ring and screaming to the world "it’s time, the revolution is here!" So what is this hot app? What will change the world?? What could make such a huge dent in the traditional media universe??? It’s simple -- Democracy.
March 14, 2006
Up until now most video on the Internet has been postage stamped sized. A small 320x240 or 240x180 window at 15 frames per second. We had to do this because we simply had no good CODEC to compress with and no good way to distribute larger files. With the advent of h.264 we’re able to distribute full 1080p HD resolutions online. The problem is that these files are HUGE! One 25 minute show can be around 2GB. If there were 10,000 downloads of that show, it would be 20,000GB of information transferred. That’s a lot of information for one server to deal with. By using BitTorrent we’re able to distribute that load among everyone interested in the video, reduce the strain on the server, drastically reduce costs, and improve the user experience. In my mind this will end up being the standard way of delivering HD content online.
January 30, 2006
Building on yesterday's post on network neutrality / prioritized bandwidth, here are a five things bugging me about the business models proposed by telecommunications companies:
January 29, 2006
Under this scenario, a company like Yahoo could pay for prioritized bandwidth, causing their site's content to be delivered faster than Google's. Communications companies, including AT&T, Verizon, and BellSouth see prioritized bandwidth as a way to generate new revenue from content providers. This is a hot issue deserving attention from internet users because congress is updating the 1996 Telecommunications Act this year.
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