Astonishingly Bad Best Buy Experience
So I live in Colorado and have a data center in Northern Virginia. I need to upgrade a Dell server to 8 GB of memory in a hurry – overnight shipping won’t do. Dell provides me with the exact Kingston […]
Extra, Extra! Future Wireless Technology Promises Amazing Mobile Speeds!
This morning, the Denver Post picks up a Washington Post story and headlines – WiMax technology promises faster wireless service. Why is this important? The news about the Clearwire/Sprint/Intel/Google/Comcast/Time Warner/Bright House deal started its life last week in the Wall […]
The Brick and Byte Play
In comparison shopping land, we like to throw some big numbers around. Stuff like the market for online transactions reached $175 billion in 2007 and is expected to reach $335 billion by 2012. The shopping comparison game is simple – […]
Ways to Limit Free Speech on the Web by Promoting Free Speech
Paul Kapustka formerly of GigaOm now with his own cutting blog, Sidecut Reports, has an excellent post up regarding some fake “news” created as a PR effort by internet providers to suggest that there is a grass roots movement against […]
Network Solutions Wants to Make Sure that Nothing Unfortunate Happens to Your Domain
Network Solutions has hit on an ingenious business strategy. If you ask them if a domain name is available and it is, they’ll hold it for 4 days so you can only purchase it from them. No need for any […]
All Along It Really Has Been All About the Eyeballs
When I moved from working in the internet B2B space to the internet B2C space in the summer of 2006, I quickly grasped what I had only partially comprehended previously – that the “free” consumer internet economy is entirely based […]
Smokin’ Third Pipe
GigaOm reports today that Stelera Wireless is offering high speed rural broadband services over the AWS-1 spectrum it picked up at auction in 2006. Rural Texas Gets Superfast Wireless Broadband – GigaOM Stelera currently owns all the AWS-1 rural licenses […]
Stick a Fork in the 700 MHz C Block Bidding
It looks like the bidding for the national C Block is complete and the regional bidders have won. Round 34 is complete and no new bids were entered for any of the crucial regions encompassing the 50 states since round […]
700 MHz Auction Drama
Saul Hansell of the NY Times Bits Technology Blog offers an insightful take on the current status of the 700 MHz auction – Spectrum Auction Teeters on the Brink of Success – Bits – Technology – New York Times Blog. […]
73 Bids Sail Out
FCC auction #73 for the 700 MHz Spectrum to be vacated by the broadcasters in 2009 opened today. The days two opening rounds of bids netted 2.4 billion of an estimated 10 billion bound for the US Treasury. Notably, there […]