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French Web Precursor Minitel to Shut Down
France Telecom is shutting down Minitel - the precursor to the web - a service which provides information services to the carrier's customers. In less than a year, the service will be shuttered despite recently having about 10 million subscribers.Like...
How YouTube Takes Consumer Time from TV
In the past I have discussed how TV disruption may happen more slowly than you think because of the tens of billions of dollars in affiliate fees changing hands. But this doesn't mean there aren't brilliant innovators out there using...
RockMelt Ties Social Networking to Browsing
The unfairness of it all – was all I could think when I had to access the Opinion section of the Wall Street Journal via the web after getting accustomed to finding it on an iPad app. Those poor people...
The Splinternet Grows. HTML5 to Slow it Down
The only thing we need now is an open HTML5 store which handles the billing for developers who want the widest audience possible as their creative work is monetized. In January of 2008 I used a term Splinternet to describe...
Tango Networks Deploys Carrier FMC
If you want to know how carriers choose equipment providers to partner with look no further than the mating habits of the Sumatran Rhinoceros. Before you ask me if I am willing to share some of my medication with you,...
HTML 5 Plus H.264 not as Open as you Think
If you stream any video on your site, this news could drastically increase your future costs. Here is an excellent article from Christopher Blizzard on HTML 5 video and H.264 which delves into the potential problems we could see on...
Tech Lubricates Theft, Can it do so For Law Enforcement?
The Internet is an incredible lubricator and margin compression resulting from immediate and widespread information dissemination is destroying industries on a level never before experienced. Examples include the newspaper business which has seen classified ad revenue jump to Monster and...
The Downward Spiral of Snail Mail
As snail mail volume drops off due to the growth of email and perhaps fax, the post office has responded by increasing the postage rates of companies which mail catalogs and magazines. And this in turn continues to help kill...
TV Evolves With Yahoo, Samsung, Neulion
Some of the latest television news of interest is that Yahoo widgets will appear on Samsung TV sets. This is a big development as it shows the companies in the web and TV camps are coming closer together. As you...
iPhone Tip #1 Battery Life
To maximize your Apple iPhone's battery you need to be proactive. A few tips to ensure the battery lasts as long as possible are to disable the wireless networks you do not need. For example bluetooth and WiFi are naturals...
Yahoo Problems Getting Solved?
Painfully slow decision making and bad management are complaints I have heard about Yahoo from ex-employees and consultants that used to work with/for the leading web destination. BusinessWekk has an article on the matter which discusses how Yahoo is losing...
Netflix Outage
One of the scariest things that can happen to a site that relies on the internet for its success is a website outage. Nothing is worse for a company which relies on the internet for sales. Ouch. Netflix had an...
Speaking at VPF Winter 2007 Today
I am speaking today by the way. I forgot to mention it. Here is the session you can see me at later today –4:00 PM in fact. Keynote Panel Web, Media and Telecom Market Panelists include Bhupender...
Newspapers are Dying
Here is an excellent story explaining that newspapers are slowly dying. There is even a prediction of the exact year they will die. Someday soon all news will be summarized into 3 sentence blog entries. ;) Blogged via wireless handheld...
