БогородицаWhen networking devices in your home there are increasingly more choices available to you. One of the latest technologies that is growing in popularity intelligently uses your home’s electrical power grid as a means to provide networking to any available electrical socket or wall outlet in your home. Home electrical wires can support 100+ MBps speeds and have the “potential” to network equipment just by plugging it in – no other wires, devices, or configurations are necessary. While several standards are being adopted by Consumer Electronics (CE) that will permit this to happen in the future, today a small plug in device is required.
Cable should be forced to stick with packaged programming.
After years of successful lobbying against the potential for FCC to mandate an a la carte video offering, wasting countless tax payer dollars and untold millions of cable subscriber fees the business of cable television is supposedly scrambling to recover … Continue reading
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Potential Sighting – North of Waverly, IA
CB was picking mushrooms with dog, noticed a number of deer in the area but most unusual was the fact that the deer (while they could easily see him) were not looking at him but rather in another direction (thought they might be waiting on a straggler but it never came). Continue reading
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Bremer Count Fair Should Seek “Quality” not “Quantity”
As the Bremer County Fair nears 140 years of age, an effort is underway to seek potential relocation the fair from its cozy, sheltered location in the center of Waverly (the county seat) to a featureless flat ground provided by a farmland just west of the city. The primary motivator for the desired relocation is to permit the fair to grow even bigger.
Although I’m a big fan of the county’s fair, I’m disappointed in their interest to abandon its current location and wanted to express my concerns about what the fair would be giving up in seeking its relocation to the outskirts of town. Continue reading
Loosing one’s home in a different way
Do you remember when going home to the house you grew up in was like no big deal? Whether you were coming home from school or coming home from college it is like “home” was always there. Inviting, comfortable, relaxing… Continue reading
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Shake-out possible in cable’s chip sector
Today’s cable chip sector is a mess. You have a collection of chip companies all competing for a sizable but otherwise relatively small market. The three main cable equipment suppliers (Cisco, Motorola, and Arris) drive a high percentage (probably something like 90%) of the cable capex spending. How this trickels down to Intel, Texas Instrument, Microtune, Anadigics, Marvel, MaxLinear, and Maxim
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CSG Systems – One of the few remaining service bureaus
CSGS recent announcement of it winning the remaining portion of billing services from Charter Communications (CHTR)
Currently CHTR splits its billing services for its 5.5mm subscribers 60/40 between Convergys (CVG) ICOMS (Integrated Communications Operations Management System) solution and CSGS. CHTR is consolidating solely under CSGS for all billing services starting 2010. CHTR is listed as CSGS’s 4th largest customer representing around 10% of its revenue and signing the remaining half of CHTR billing needs is believed should generate as much as a 8-10% increase in CSGS revenue in the coming year. Continue reading
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The 2008 Flood is Over
The flood of 2008 was a memorable event. If you pretty much follow the Cedar River down through Iowa (which starts in the central NE part of the state, down through SE part and on into the Mississippi river), you will see many cities seeing 500 year flood damage including some of the biggest cities: Iowa City, Cedar Rapids, Waterloo/Cedar Falls, etc. In all, the state had somewhere around 50,000+ homes affected. Continue reading
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Who’s Hiring and Who’s Not: Results of a completed survey
With all the pull backs in hiring, it is getting hard to find companies with any openings. So, out of curiosity, I made a list of 33 companies I’ve been asked recently about and ranked them by their perspective job openings versus their number of current employees. The chart below is the top ranked companies in my list. For those of you concerned about “American Jobs”, I added a column that describes the of job openings for this company that are on American soil as opposed to overseas. These companies look to be expanding or at least investing in new product development. Continue reading
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Who Would Steal a Garbage Can?
After last week’s snow storm came and went, I found my garage door frozen shut. So, rather than digging it out, I elected to place this week’s empty garbage can (a newer Rubbermaid dark green can with wheels) outside the door and wait for either some warm weather or the weekend before I return the can to its normal resting spot. However in spite of this weekend’s warm weather I was unable to return the garbage can to my garage“ not because I couldn’t now get the door open but rather because it is now missing. Someone decided it was better to walk across my back yard and steal my garbage can rather than go buy their own. Continue reading
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