IP Everything
IP/SBC notes 50 million lines connections into homes. 20+m wireless. 7m high speed Internet. SBC believes the world is moving to all IP. Moving to all IP backbone which will allow anytime, anywhere access to communications and entertainment services on any device. IP based offerings in Voice, Video and Data. Project Lightspeed Network. IP video […]
Politics
Politics is the process by which groups make decisions. A key part of the political system — and one of the many great freedoms we have in America — is the ability to vote. We often don’t think about it, perhaps, and some people don’t take the opportunity, but voting is very powerful because it […]
IBM Happenings: March 2007
The month of March at IBM was filled with a slew of announcements in hardware, software, services, acquisitions, and strategic alliances. In the public sector, IBM will develop a data management system that will provide detailed information about student performance and progress for New York City’s public schools. The announcements made by the company during […]
Royalty Free Music
I have to admit to my confidence that it would happen — more than $1 Billion in sales of digital music in 2005, which was triple the year before. Revenues in 2006 doubled to about $2 billion. People are willing to pay for music if it is offered to them in a contemporary way — […]
Home Automation (update)
Thanks for all the feedback on the BusinessWeek magazine and video pieces. Seems to be a lot of interest in home automation. I will continue working on the series of stories that I promised. I just realized that BW has archived the video version of the story. It is still available and I have updated […]