Broadband Archive

  • Why Vonage sucks

    Why Vonage sucks

    Posted on September 7, 2006 | 1 Comment
    This is a rant that evidentially some of the internet already knows about, but I had to share my first-hand experience of why Vonage sucks. I’m a sales person by trade. My company re-sells internet ad inventory on big sites who may want a little [...]

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  • Google and Earthlink doing San Francisco’s WiFi

    Google and Earthlink doing San Francisco’s WiFi

    Posted on April 6, 2006 | No Comments
    The city of San Francisco is going to be covered by a city-wide public WiFi network powered by Google and Earthlink. Google’s portion will be a free WiFi network working at 300 kbps and for $20/mo you’ll be able to upgrade to service running [...]

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  • Sony PSP – the REAL new mobile computing platform?

    Sony PSP – the REAL new mobile computing platform?

    Posted on March 17, 2006 | No Comments
    According to IDG News Services Sony has unveiled plans to release a bunch of cool new add-ons for the PSP AND drop the price to $199. Sony plans to offer a GPS add-on, camera add-on, Flash support and VoIP telephony. You can already [...]

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  • My Reply to CNET’s story “Reality check for the much-hyped Origami PC”

    My Reply to CNET’s story “Reality check for the much-hyped Origami PC”

    Posted on March 9, 2006 | 1 Comment
    As you’ve probably seen Microsoft officially released details of their Origami Project today. CNET posted a story relating to this entitled Reality check for the much-hyped Origami PC. I tried to stay quiet but couldn’t – this is my response to their story: I [...]

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  • Microsoft Origami – The Next Big Thing?

    Microsoft Origami – The Next Big Thing?

    Posted on March 8, 2006 | 1 Comment
    A while back I posted a note about Microsoft building an “iPod Killer” device. I said then that it MS got it right they could have a strong device that could indeed give iPod a run for it’s money – in fact if could [...]

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  • Why we may never see an Apple DVR

    Why we may never see an Apple DVR

    Posted on March 3, 2006 | No Comments
    As I’ve already made it painfully evident, I love TiVo and DVR technology. Also, I’ve recently become a consumer of Apple products. Logic (and maybe a little wishful thinking) lead me and others to believe that Apple would be bringing a Mac-mini based [...]

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  • Nintendo unveils TV, Web browser features for DS

    Nintendo unveils TV, Web browser features for DS

    Posted on February 17, 2006 | No Comments
    TOKYO (Reuters) – Japanese fans of Nintendo Co. Ltd.’s dual-screen DS portable game machine may soon be able to surf the Web and watch high-definition television programs on their devices in addition to playing games. Taking another step in its strategy to develop features that will [...]

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  • Microsoft releases IE7 beta to public

    Microsoft releases IE7 beta to public

    Posted on February 2, 2006 | 2 Comments
    On Tuesday Microsoft released a beta version of Internet Explorer 7 to the general public. After playing with it for a couple of days I have a few early observations:

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  • AT&T wants double-payment for internet

    AT&T wants double-payment for internet

    Posted on February 1, 2006 | No Comments
    FT posted an article where Ed Whitacre, AT&T’s Chairman and CEO states that content providers need to pay for “access to their internet cloud”. At an annual conference of his inventors he stated,

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