802.11ac is Almost Here
802.11ac will start appearing in force in products this year. It is the latest and greatest Wi-Fi standard that will replace 802.11a, b, and g. It will receive final approval this year. Now, considering how long it has taken the working group, and how many man hours they have put into it that it would solve [...]
The Tethering / Hotspot Debate: No, You’re Not a Thief. But Somebody Else is a Highway Robber.
Interesting debate at ZDNet over wireless data plans: James Kendrick claims that unpaid tethering makes you a thief. Thankfully his fellow ZDNet-er Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols has the common sense to dispute this tethering thief nonsense. Yes, technically if your wireless contract includes an anti-hotspot clause and you turn this feature on, you are in violation. Of [...]
What Cloud Computing Means to Your Network
What Cloud Computing Means to Your Network As organizations seek to reduce costs, improve efficiency, and increase scalability, virtualization and cloud computing are becoming an integral part of their IT strategies. However, cloud computing also presents new challenges for testers and network/data center operators. Because applications and networks are no longer independent entities, these groups [...]
Alcatel-Lucent Is Damn Serious About Their Plans To Make Wireless Carriers Relevant
Ever since Apple unleashed iPhone and changed the people’s perspective on their mobile phones, wireless providers were grappling with a future where their networks are fast becoming dump pipes. Even though iPhone itself is a walled garden of some kind, it (along with other Android based devices) helped tear down the walls built up by [...]
NTP is the New SCO
NTP, the shell company whose only business is to extract ransom from real businesses does not sit on the $600 they extorted from RIM. They are now suing just about all the smartphone industry: Apple, Google, HTC, Microsoft, LG and Motorola. Is NTP the new SCO? Related posts: NTP Sues Apple, Google, Microsoft And Others [...]
Ungrateful iBozos, Stop the Whining. Get a (i)Life. Part# 2.
<sarcasm> What’s wrong with the iPhone? – asks Mashable. They even created this useful (?) infographic: Well, let’s see: Yellow dots or band – So what? Have you not heard of personalization? Why would you all want the same boring screen? Reception – That’s your $ saver, dummy. Besides, do you really want to fry [...]
Your Own (Almost) Ad-Hoc HotSpot
If you’re a frequent traveler, you’re likely better off buying a MiFi or using your late-model cell-phone’s HotSpot capability than paying those outrageous hotel surcharges. If you’re a frequent conference-goer, you’ve already learned they all fail to provide reliable connection(Web 2.0, LeWeb, Gnomedex, Microsoft PDC, Google I/O, just to name a few recent examples), so [...]
Ungrateful iBozos, Stop the Whining. Get a (i)Life.
<sarcasm> I’m sick of all this whining within the iFamily. These iBozos just don’t appreciate all the goodness they have. iPhone preorder systems failed. So what? You’ve just saved a boatload of money, be happy, get a life! Yet another At&T security breach. What’s the big deal? All your data is public anyway, has been [...]
The Chaos of BYOW (Bring Your Own Wi-Fi)
It all started as an innocent joke: Robert Scoble was sitting in the front row @ Apple’s WWDC conference while I was following the tweetstream from home. Little did we know out joke would soon turn serious, as Steve Job’s keynote demo crashed when his shiny new iPhone 4 could not get a network connection. [...]
FacePalm
The future is here according to Steve Jobs. Maybe he should tell Pixar to make “Back to the Future 4″ cause there sure were a lot of “time travellers” who tried video-calling five years ago. Video calling is fun. Once. Then you never use it again. I’m surprised Apple is pushing FaceTime the way they [...]
Sprint Wireless Launches HTC EVO Superphone – With Utter Web Failure
The HTC EVO Android phone is the ultimate weapon that’ supposed to turn Sprint’s weak business around. Yes, the phone is really incredible (not Incredible, that’s another model), but that does not change the fact that Spring is welcoming it with utter failure. Customers attempting to buy it get to stare at this message forever: [...]
Time for Device Independent Data Plans
The Apple iPad event is still on, and the Internet is crumbling… Twitter barely crawls, CoveritLive isn’t exactly live, the major sites providing blog coverage are barely accessible… this is iKill – the day Apple Killed The Net. But I want to talk about something more important: It’s a screenshot from Engadget’s coverage. Yes, reasonable [...]
Areas I’m most likely to invest in during 2010
I have always been fairly thematic in my investment approach. For me, the process starts with identifying big markets that are either 1) emerging (and will therefore be created over the next several years) or 2) undergoing some structural shift that will enable new entrants to grab market share from incumbents. I have seen Companies succeed in [...]
