Comcast already playing dirty with retrans. http://is.gd/jXNMB # Kindle lets you loan books. Big step towards resale parity with the dead tree version. http://is.gd/jXPBv # Are you paying hundreds of thousands for cable TV? Yep. http://is.gd/jXRHw # Customer service FTL. RT @FrontierCorp: Enjoying being back at work after (almost) 2… Continue reading
Making a cool $1M from suing spammers. http://gaw.kr/g9M2cZ # Surprise: wireless carriers are already low-margin dumb pipes. http://bit.ly/eqXLS2 # Powered by Twitter Tools
CNN can't figure out why online live TV isn't happening. Hint: it's the greed, stupid. http://bit.ly/hczBiC # Over-the-air is the new black. http://bit.ly/eXWvt9 # Smartphones mean smart shoppers. http://bit.ly/fCzcUm # Even with a solid case for net neutrality, it still isn't a substitute for competition. http://tcrn.ch/ifBHJ6 # The Comcast v… Continue reading
A number of crazy things could happen if we move to metered broadband. http://bit.ly/exbqJg # Mobile data demand being driven by high-end cameras in phones. http://reut.rs/fBqUFs # E-mail, meet the Fourth Amendment. You really should have been introduced sooner. http://gizmo.do/h22UNT # FBI may have paid contractors to place backdoors in… Continue reading
I just read today that Tremonton and Perry could see upwards of $1M to fund UTOPIA expansion. It would be as part of an earmark from Sen. Orrin Hatch to expand distance learning and telemedicine programs. In such small towns, those grants would probably finish Tremonton (about 95% done) and… Continue reading
Comcast tries to pretend they aren't the bad guys in the Level 3 dispute. http://tcrn.ch/f3lS4I # Google's position on copyright slides toward the evil side. http://bit.ly/h99HMn # DirecTV starts offing little-watched channels. Remember how a la carte would kill channels with low ratings? http://bit.ly/fbiMja # Unable to figure out the… Continue reading
Comcast is apparently a bit of a slow learner. After getting publicly smacked about for tinkering with bitTorrent, they’ve really stepped in it now by messing with Netflix. The audience is much bigger than the guys running protocol analyzers on their connections; you’ve gone and upset regular folks too. (How… Continue reading
Studio sues lawyer from offering cheap legal help to victims of bogus P2P lawsuit. http://is.gd/hW2Kz # Comcast and NBC want zero conditions on their megamerger. http://is.gd/hW2Na # Did Ma Bell cheat us out of a fiber future? http://is.gd/hW3NP # A group is trying to raise $150K to provide broadband in… Continue reading
When the Salt Lake Tribune published their story as to what’s going on with Prime Time Communications, they noted that they were unable to reach anyone for comment. Yours truly, however, scored a 40-minute phone interview with Bryon Wentzlaff, one of their VPs. From the sounds of things, it’s just… Continue reading
Looks like I’m a little late to the reporting party, but better late than never: Prime Time is getting booted from UTOPIA. Apparently the company filed bankruptcy for the MSTAR subsidiary on September 3 after having pulled $2.2M out of itmonths earlier. (Yeah, I’m not sure where the money came… Continue reading