December 2008
49 posts
Just finished at the dentist - what a way to spend Christmas vacation…
interviewing telcos - Sprint and Verizon today, AT&T, BT and FT in the New Year - about their IMS strategies - v interesting stuff
finishing up a piece on disruptive competitors (to wireline telcos) - last piece of content before the Christmas break.
Eyes →
A former colleague who was legally blind and had only limited peripheral vision used to start his presentations with a slide showing a huge close-up on his retina as an illustration of his - what to…
it’s been entertaining watching Google and others respond to the shoddy article in the WSJ yesterday re net neutrality. Noone comes out well
interviewing a candidate for our telecom regulation analyst team
just finished a comment on Microsoft dumping CSF (was collaborating with a colleague, hence the time lag since the news came out)
Nice chart from the Times →
I have to say, much as I disagree with the New York Times’ editorial stance, they’ve got some awfully nifty charts, both in the paper (I believe - I don’t read it) and on their site.
The latest…
Senate Appointees are as bad as VPs →
This article reminds me of the analysis I did a while back on VPs who subsequently run for president. Sounds like the track record for mid-term appointees to the Senate is similar to that for VPs…
listening to Rob Lloyd’s presentation at C-Scape - like the focus on strategy again, like yesterday, Glad to see the plethora of panels gone
Why NORAD tracks Santa →
I never knew this - just assumed it was a gimmick to give a war-related organization a slightly warmer and fuzzier side… Amazing how these things get started:
Why We Track Santa
For…
Apathy and laggards in telecom →
The Dilbert comic strip for today was a perfect trigger for me to revisit something I’ve been thinking about for a while, and that’s the impact of apathy and laggards on the adoption of new…
How fast does broadband really need to be? →
There was yet another article recently on the topic of why we all need faster broadband - this time on the GigaOM site. What’s funny is that the same arguments have been made for faster broadband…
Conspiracy theories →
Conspiracy theories are funny things. So many of them just seem so ridiculous and then every once in a while one turns out to be true, or at least not so far from the truth as it seemed. With many…
Dick Lynch of Verizon just said at Cisco C-Scape that VZW will be launching femtocells shortly. So official confirmation though no date
Oh - net neutrality came up in the end - opponents “more interested in free for all than allowing proper network management techniques”
Dick Lynch @ C-Scape - nicely avoids the whole net neutrality bit but raises important issue about how to reduce future costs of internet
and all from the comfort of my desk in my own home thanks to the option to attend the event in San Jose virtually
Finding the Cisco event really invigorating - because it’s hardly talking about products at all - but rather vision and strategy - too rare
Briefing from Microsoft earlier about shutting down CSF - at least a handful of carriers are deep into this and so can’t easily get out
Briefing from AT&T earlier in the day about a bunch of things that by their own admission had already been announced. A briefing quota?
CNN needs to practice its German →
Someone at CNN needs to practice their German, or at least learn how to use an online translation tool. Right now on CNN’s website there is a set of three links that look like this:
trying to decide whether to keep the heat off in my cold home office (and keep myself alert) or turn on the heat and risk cozy drowsiness…
getting ready to go and narrate our Church’s nativity play (apparently the Bible has an English accent)
Blackberry Storm - it’s not (quite) that bad →
There’s been a lot of hullaballoo about the BlackBerry Storm over the last couple of weeks. David Pogue, normally so mild mannered, used his print column to lambast the device from several…
Why Scott Cleland’s analysis is flawed →
Scott Cleland of Precursor has posted a very interesting analysis of Google’s usage of bandwidth and the associated costs. He claims that Google is underpaying for its bandwidth by a factor of…
Why Scott Cleland’s analysis of Google’s bandwidth costs and usage is flawed - http://tinyurl.com/5rgjd7
AT&T cutting 12,000 jobs and lowering capex next year - despite recent indications they weren’t seeing a slowdown - what’s next?
Someone built an ark (for real) →
Someone - a creationist in the Netherlands, apparently - has built a life-size ark to biblical specifications.
The rest of the story is here with lots more pictures. I’ve posted the…
Kid friendly version of YouTube →
I recently discovered a kid-friendly version of YouTube. Basically it just feeds all the kid friendly videos from YouTube into a separate site, where you know you’re not going to come across any…