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RIP George Carlin

When I was around 12, I was exposed to George Carlin comedy for the first time. I was always fascinated by this man. He thought of things which were so obvious but only after he told you they were obvious....

Posted on June 23, 2008 9:03 AM

Tech Trade War?

In this corner weighing in at many billions of euros we have the EU... In the other corner -- backed by an anemic dollar and a slightly stronger yen we have the tag-team duo of the US and Japan... Let's...

Posted on May 28, 2008 3:59 PM

Mobile Banking Heating Up

According to IBM, 21 percent of consumers age 18-34 use their cell phone for mobile banking transactions, compared to about 10 percent of the general population. Like so many new technologies, it is your kids -- or for some of...

Posted on April 21, 2008 8:40 PM

Facebook Security Breach

As more and more people use Facebook, it is worth noting that more hackers are looking for ways to get at this information. This article discusses the latest in successful attempts to to crack a social networking site. In this...

Posted on March 25, 2008 6:24 AM

Bill Gates on Innovation

While short on too many specifics, Bill Gates believes there will be tremendous innovation in technology going forward. Gates was specific in the area of TV where he predicted that the TV and computer will merge. As this happens, we...

Posted on March 14, 2008 6:51 AM

NEC, Microsoft, HP Labs and Comcast News

I was traveling yesterday and I didn't get a chance to communicate with my blog readers in the detail I would normally like to give. This morning I decided to share all the news that caught my eye from last...

Posted on March 7, 2008 8:35 AM

Bain and Huawei Resubmit Bid

Bain and Huawei are changing their bid for 3COM in a manner that does not change the financial elements of the deal but it minimizes Huawei's access to certain Ethernet technologies. Last week, the parties pulled their application with the...

Posted on February 29, 2008 3:34 PM

Bill Gates: Scrap Your Keyboard

Having been covering the speech space for well over a decade I am blown away to hear that Bill Gates thinks that in five years there will be more web searches done by speech technology than keyboards. This is a...

Posted on February 24, 2008 10:21 AM

Virgin Biofuel Flight

Virgin Atlantic conducted the first flight utilizing biofuel today in the hopes that it can be show that biofuels emit less carbon dioxide than regular fuels. While some say this test flight is just part of a publicity stunt used...

Posted on February 24, 2008 8:07 AM

Bluetooth on WiFi Steroids

Imagine a world where your bluetooth devices could take some instant steroids which bulk up your file transfer speeds allowing you to transfer at 100 Mbps or more. Ultrawideband was supposed to be the "steroids" allowing such functionality but...

Posted on February 10, 2008 5:26 PM

OnStar Shut Down

For those cars with analog cellular cell phone OnStar connections you have until February 18, 2008 before your service will stop working. Some who have complained to GM about this problem have received a $500 gift certificate towards the purchase...

Posted on December 24, 2007 7:05 PM

In-Flight Internet Access Update

I think I want internet access when I fly. I really do. Yes, the plane is usually a quiet time to reflect and write compelling content… Still, I can now feel comfortable flying during the business day from the west...

Posted on December 24, 2007 6:17 PM

NY Times vs. Blogs: A Surprise Winner

I find the competition between blogs and news outlets fascinating as here at TMC we have dozens of reporters and a number of bloggers as well. Today I was reading Workbench by Rogers Cadenhead and I learned of the following...

Posted on December 21, 2007 1:21 PM

Nortel Sues Vonage

Vonage just can’t catch a break these days and seems to be the target of more lawsuits related to patent infringements than just about any other company out there. The latest patent fight is with Nortel, a company who says...

Posted on December 17, 2007 10:37 AM

The End of Car Theft

Although this has nothing to do with IP communications, I thought it worth mentioning the end of car theft is likely right around the corner. Why? GM’s OnStar the satellite linked service which helps passengers get to restaurants can also...

Posted on October 9, 2007 7:17 AM

Good Bye Foleo

On May 31st, 2007 I mentioned the Palm Foleo was doomed. Specifically I wrote the following:   It seems doomed to me but perhaps Palm can morph it to be something useful down the line. But then again, I can't...

Posted on September 5, 2007 11:26 AM

Dvorak on Google and AP Content.

John Dvorak is so correct about how the syndicated news outlets and the newspapers who support them totally screwed up by virtually forcing Google to carry syndicated content on their site.   Here are some of John’s Lucid comments which...

Posted on September 4, 2007 5:25 PM

SunRocket Bankrupt

I am not really so surprised by the SunRocket bankruptcy news. The company was an innovator and had some great ideas early on but for the last few years they were extremely quiet. There was little press outreach and there...

Posted on July 17, 2007 9:57 AM

Google Getting Reckless

I thought Eric Schmidt’s comments about Viacom being a company built for lawsuits a bit reckless. Upon further investigation however, he may be correct and this sort of comment is as true as it is offensive. Still a company with...

Posted on July 15, 2007 8:55 PM

Google Licenses AP news

One would surmise from this news that Google will launch a news portal that keeps users on its site. Or perhaps the fact that they are Licensing AP content means they will stop sending visitors to other sites when they...

Posted on August 4, 2006 9:11 AM

Sharing The WiFi Love

I live in a fairly secluded area and never bothered to encrypt my WiFi AP. I am just too far from anyone else to need to go through the hassle… Or so I thought. My Internet performance has been so...

Posted on December 13, 2005 10:32 PM