Archive for February 2008
Printing Headaches Resolved: IP Address Switch-A-Roo
Posted by: kegill on: 20 February 2008
In our home network, we have an Apple Extreme network configured like this:
Brother Laser printer – upstairs, ethernet to router
Windows XP machine – upstairs, ethernet to router
Hub – downstairs, ethernet to router
Airport Express – downstairs, ethernet via hub
Tivo (was ReplayTV ’til its ethernet card died last week) – downstairs, ethernet via hub
MacMini – upstairs, Airport
Powerbook [...]
Blogger Wins Journalism Award
Posted by: kegill on: 20 February 2008
Josh Marshall of Talking Points Memo and TPMCafe has been honored with a George Polk award for legal reporting and his work on the Justice Department firings of US Attorneys. This is an acknowledgment of the importance of the news/political blogosphere and a step towards recognition that the substance of an investigation is more important [...]
Blu-Ray Officially Wins
Posted by: kegill on: 19 February 2008
After years of battling in the media format wars, Toshiba officially pulls the plug on HD DVD players. Production will end in March, InfoWeek reports. The sole survivor: Sony’s Blu-Ray. Vindication for losing the Beta/VHS battle?
Publishers Experiment With Online Editions
Posted by: kegill on: 10 February 2008
For the next month, HarperCollins (owned by News Corp., the world’s largest media conglomerate) is providing some books online, for free. You’ll have to read the books online (no downloading or printing). (tip)
This pilot will be used to track sales: “We will know very soon if we sense any kind of cannibalization,” chief executive [...]
XML: 10 Years Old
Posted by: kegill on: 10 February 2008
Tributes today to XML’s 10th birthday. In 1998, I hadn’t heard of it yet, but by 1999 I was in the midst of it thanks to my (now I see how close he lived to the lunatic fringe!) friend Daniel Koger. In 1999, Daniel felt XML was going to transform business like I thought (in [...]
Another Cable Cut?
Posted by: kegill on: 6 February 2008
The Khaleej Times reports that there are now five Middle East undersea cable that have been cut. The first, only now reported, was the Flag Telcom FALCON cable on 23 January, one week before the latest round. (tip)
Here they are:
SeaMeWe-4 (South East Asia-Middle East-Western Europe-4) near Penang, Malaysia (nd)
FLAG near the Dubai coast (1 Feb)
FLAG [...]
Anatomy Of An Undersea Cable
Posted by: kegill on: 5 February 2008
The BBC has an excellent graphic of the undersea cables that provide telecom and internet connectivity around the world. A ship has begun repairs on one cable cut last week. No new word on whether the fourth cable was cut or simply hosed due to a power issue (the semi-official line).
The IHT reports that “[u]ndersea [...]
FCC Approves Sale of Nationwide Spectrum to AT&T
Posted by: kegill on: 5 February 2008
From Yahoo! News: AT&T has a green light to buy 60 percent of the 12MHz spectrum, part of the 700MHz spectrum band that “carries wireless signals three to four times farther than some higher spectrum bands.” In October, the announced terms of sale were US$2.5 billion. The purchase “covers 196 million of the 303 million [...]
Undersea Vulnerability
Posted by: kegill on: 4 February 2008
- In: Convergence| Society| Web/Tech
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There are now four undersea cables out-of-service in the same general area of the Middle East (outage exceptions: Israel and Iraq) — all disabled in a three-day period last week. (tip) The cable bundle is only an inch in diameter (about the size of the average adult human thumb) — a mere speck on the [...]
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