Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) has been on a media blitz of late. It is the “current buzz” within the video as well as networking space and why not with projected 36 million subscribers by year 2009 (says MRG). Only with all these deployments of video services, can they all make money? (more…)
It has been said that the Internet is becoming tomorrow’s Personal Computer (PC) operating system and in so doing allow individuals to maintain a variety of different means of accessing their virtual PC. Taking a stab at a support argument for the virtual PC while posing some questions about user data which will become a thorny issue well into the future. (more…)
One could easily say that the US Government is one of the most innovative nations in the world when it comes to fostering new technology and creating uses for it. The same organization that brought you a man landing on the moon, the Internet, and geo-satellites (there are many other examples) doesn’t have to prove to anyone what it can do to make truly amazing things happen. Unfortunately, the list of government funded innovations by its employees and government funded researchers are often over shadowed by policy makers who have to make the really tough choices - those that impact peoples lives. (more…)
We vacationed to Iowa recently to visit family, friends, and relatives. Leaving the confines of the big city and trading it all in for a week long stay out in the country. Our friends questioned us before we left, “Why are you vacationing in Iowa?” as if to say, “What does one do there?” The puzzled looks told us no matter what reason we could possibly give would not provide the basis for such an investment, so to satisfy their curiosity as accurately as possible we just reply, “The object of going to Iowa is to do as little as possible - in other words, nothing.” (more…)
As building super highways into neighborhoods mutates into extending them into individual homes, fiber, namely passive optical networking (PON), is becoming the technology of choice. However, the means of terminating PON as well as its proper transformation of signals carried over PON into the various forms of telecommunications wiring found within the home (coax, twisted pair, etc.) represents an expensive and time consuming obstacle for today’s network operator installations. Especially since most home wiring creates a traffic jam for the much higher capacity fiber hanging on the side of the home. (more…)
Google and even Yahoo are becoming increasingly blunt instruments in the search business to the point where finding a needle in a haystack is nearly impossible. The “pure” search engines of old which arguably did a much better job are becoming riddled and encumbered with business rules, processes, and the need for additional ads that taint results based on a multitude of complex variables - all of which have nothing to do with the relevant content found in the results but have everything to do with the order in which the results are displayed. (more…)
Finding technical talent is big business. Monster World Wide (MNST), best known for its Monster.com service has a market cap of $5.9 billion and yearly revenues of $1.1 billion. CareerBuilder, who was 1/5 the size of Monster in 2002, recently overtook Monster in quarterly revenue. There are also thousands of executive search firms, the top 10 of these search firms post yearly revenues (in 2006) between $63.7 million and $552.9 million. So, the top 2 Internet job sites along with the top 10 executive search firms represent $4.9 billion in yearly revenue - excluding the advertising money raked in by these websites. While revenues continue to sore, find out what is increasingly becoming a obstacle in this business. (more…)
If there is one thing that telephone companies have done successfully over their history it has been their ability to lobby. Take the most recent squabble over these local video franchises which provide a kind of right of passage to offer video services to communities. Over the past year telecom has flexed its political lobbying muscle and has definitely got the ball rolling. While not achieving the coveted national franchise, the next best thing was accomplished - a victory in state wide video franchises. The question is, what is next for telecom and video? (more…)
Having a maid can have a status symbol feel to it. In a job negotiation with a past employeer there was going to be a corporate apartment included in the agreement as well as a maid service because the apartment was going to be occasionally shared with out of town employees who were visiting the company’s headquarters. The maid service was pretty basic, once a month full cleaning. Having never had a maid before, this was a completely new experience for me. Especially that first time coming home to the prestinely cleaned apartment. But this thrill was short lived. (more…)
My first introduction of Kevin came in preschool. We were the oldest kids in the class, nearly a year older than the youngest and for the most part 6 or more months older than the balance of the class. We prided ourselves on building large castles out of cardboard brick blocks with walls taller than we were. Other kids in the class all wanted to come into our castle but every time someone squeezed through the doorway undoubtedly it lead to the crashing down of the blocks and one of the classmates getting hurt. (more…)
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