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More Google Antitrust Talk

Back in January of this year I mentioned the possibility of antitrust moves towards Google from the Obama administration. I even mentioned Eric Schmidt bodying up with Obama to protect the search leader. A new article in the New York... Full Story

Posted on May 18, 2009 10:58 AM

Motorola Teams Up with Vocera

One of the more interesting trade show demos I have seen lately came from Motorola who was demonstrating their latest mobile voice and data solutions, such as their TEAM VoWLAN Solution (mobile access to toll-quality, PBX-based telephony, enterprise-grade Push-to-Talk, text... Full Story

Posted on May 8, 2009 9:55 AM

Nokia Says WiMAX is Wireless BetaMax

BetaMax is an interesting technology for Nokia to compare WiMAX to because both technologies end in the last three letters but does it go farther? After all, many will tell you BetaMax was superior to VHS in picture quality, tape... Full Story

Posted on April 5, 2009 8:30 PM

Despite Economy, Communications Doing Surprisingly Well

I have just completed a whirlwind tour of the Channel Partners show in Las Vegas, Comptel in Dallas and I have had many meetings in the Dallas area and what I have found from the 50+ people I have met... Full Story

Posted on March 4, 2009 5:18 PM

Obama Increases Taxes on Venture Capital

In what has to be the most irresponsible move one can imagine, the Obama budget has disclosed a raise in taxes on people in higher incomes - specifically those making $250 thousand or more. Although the increases are not taking... Full Story

Posted on February 26, 2009 9:24 PM

Freedom to Connect

I recently had a chance to sit down with David Isenberg and discuss his Freedom to Connect (F2C) conference which takes place March 30 & 31, 2009 in Washington DC. He reminded me the price for the conference goes up... Full Story

Posted on February 24, 2009 9:29 AM

Bailed Out CEOs Get Pay Limits

We interrupt this regularly scheduled expo for important financial news. I should mention I abhor corporate CEOs and executives who enrich themselves without increasing shareholder value. What I hate even more is the following... A CEO or executive who has... Full Story

Posted on February 4, 2009 11:44 AM

Is Eric Schmidt Protecting a Google Monopoly?

Photo courtesy of NY Times Eric Schmidt seems to be everywhere but most often attached to the hip of President Obama. I have a simple question to ask. Many of us know Google is more or less a monopoly... Full Story

Posted on January 28, 2009 4:14 PM

President Obama, Forget the Shovels, Fix the Patent System Mess

Although it is too early to know for sure, the RPX Defensive Patent Aggregation Service has just signed Epson and added it to other big names like Cisco and IBM. As you may recall this organization is like a mega... Full Story

Posted on January 26, 2009 8:33 PM

(Tech) Change is Here

If you had to rank the technological savvy of the White House you would probably put them at a three out of ten at best. If you ever read my post about the White House email controversy you might rank... Full Story

Posted on January 22, 2009 4:55 PM

Keating Against Obama on Broadband

Tom Keating is furious at the Obama broadband plan which will put $40 billion of US resources in the direction of the companies who provide broadband to consumers. I say great idea and bring it on. Tom really disagrees. Check... Full Story

Posted on January 16, 2009 11:04 AM

Julius Genachowski to Head FCC?

TMCnet's Michael Dinan reports Julius Genachowski will head up the FCC as part of the incoming Obama administration. Genachowski is a former Harvard law classmate of Obama, chief counsel to former FCC Chairman Reed Hundt, a VC and led the... Full Story

Posted on January 12, 2009 5:02 PM

Please Obama Tell Us You Won't Raise Taxes

We have an economy where many consumers don't want to spend. Today on the way back from lunch I ran into and spoke with a  friend who works at one of the major shipping companies in the US and he... Full Story

Posted on December 18, 2008 2:49 PM

Google Scraps Net Neutrality Push?

Om Malik has some interesting analysis of Google and its stance on Net Neutrality. The genesis of the story is a Wall Street Journal article discussing Google and how it is looking to peer its caching devices directly with network... Full Story

Posted on December 15, 2008 8:15 AM

IP Communications/VoIP and Tech To Do Well Under Obama

While many in the country - including most likely George W. Bush are counting the days until there is a change in leadership, those in communications and tech are likely wondering what the future will bring. According to some experts... Full Story

Posted on November 18, 2008 10:54 PM

Cable Content Blog

Be sure to check out one of TMC's latest blogs -- Cable Content Connection written by Dave Rodriguez -- TMC VP of conferences and publications. One of Dave's entries which caught my eye was titled McCain gets better rating then... Full Story

Posted on September 5, 2008 2:29 PM

How Social Networking is Transforming Politics

Social networking does well when it plays on people's passions. If you agree, then you will further agree that politics is one of those areas that makes people extremely passionate. Having said that, I should further point out the similarities... Full Story

Posted on August 19, 2008 7:49 AM

McCain To Support Technology

It has been pretty shocking to me to see that the Bush Administration did not embrace technology in a more grand fashion. After all, Vice President Al Gore was so enthusiastic about the Internet he even claimed to invent it.So... Full Story

Posted on August 14, 2008 2:32 PM

Facebook Benefits Obama Most

As candidates embrace more and more web 2.0 concepts, they begin to outpace many companies in their use of new age tools. Recently in fact the McCain campaign emailed a series of videos which let his supporters choose which video... Full Story

Posted on August 2, 2008 10:55 AM

McCain's Brilliant Use of Video and Web 2.0

Genius. That is what I have to say about this page put up by the John McCain team to show McCain supporters the unbelievable media bias towards Barack Obama. The McCain team spent hours putting together video clips of newscasters... Full Story

Posted on July 22, 2008 11:51 AM

How Business Can Learn From Obama

I came across an article which shows how a small company can use the methods Obama utilized in the election to help them compete with big players in the market. Some of the examples include how a small hardware store... Full Story

Posted on June 6, 2008 5:16 PM

White House E-mail Controversy

I just came across this summary of the White House missing e-mail fiasco and I am pretty blown away at just how out of touch Washington is with technology. I knew that this administration was tech-phobic when Dick Cheney was... Full Story

Posted on March 5, 2008 10:49 AM