WiMax World September 27, 2007
Posted by ianmartinez in : General, What's New? , add a commentIt looks like WiMax World is in full swing in Chi-town and the key players are pulling out all the stops.
Motorola showed off its new 802.16e service to press, analysts, and VIPs on a swanky cruise on the Chicago River, according to RCR Wireless.
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Next-Gen Telecom, UK Edition September 26, 2007
Posted by ianmartinez in : Trends, Networking , add a commentFrom Cisco’s policy blog, good news on next-generation access in England.
Richard Allan says:
The difficulties remain but the call is now for all stakeholders collectively to work out how to address them. This is being led by Stephen Timms MP, a Minister well known for both his expertise in and passion for ICT, who is to organise a Summit on Next Generation Access.
It’s always good when a dormant debate erupts, if what you’re trying to do is push the envelope. Hopefully vendors and regulators there won’t find themselves at cross purposes.
Meanwhile, over O’Reilly, Raj Singh lambastes Vodafone UK’s decision to remove the User-Agent field from the mobile browser headers, calling it “walled garden” at its worst. It’s always interesting to me when the barriers to better, more accessible communications aren’t coming from regulators, they’re from the companies themselves.
We’ll see how both issues play out — while neither has direct implications for the U.S. market, they’re both worth watching in a global context.
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Monday Blog Roundup September 24, 2007
Posted by ianmartinez in : General , add a commentOver at Engadget, more signs that the Chinese consumer market is about to yank the entire tech industry into its gravitational pull.
YuuGuu’s multi-service fusion almost boggles the mind, not necessarily because it’s so innovative, but so exhaustive. What can’t you do with it? From TechCrunch.
Chris over at Mobile Diner revisits a crucial issue for commuters here in the DC/VA/MD area: Metro wireless service. This isn’t a DC-specific issue in the macro sense — all cities have or will have to address it sooner or later.
National Journal’s Tech Daily Dose goes into Edwards-mode, as the three-seed Democratic presidential candidate unveils his tech/Internet policy.
Catch VoIP guru Jeff Pulver’s latest live WebTV installment today at 2 PM.
Also, a nice video from Sir Tim Berners-Lee on One Web Day this past weekend.
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Grassroots Membership Worth a Visit
Posted by ianmartinez in : General , add a commentEditor’s Note: TIA President Grant Seiffert writes a weekly President’s Message to members in the Network, TIA’s newsletter. The following is from the September 17th weekly issue.
As an organization representing more than 500 companies, TIA has members all over the place. Often, when we think of companies in far-flung locations, we think of large multinationals with headquarters, factories and back offices in major cities and ports all over the globe. And those companies are a big part of what TIA does, and play a major role in the communications sector worldwide.
But an altogether different sort of company makes up the bulk of our members: businesses with headquarters or major manufacturing operations in the backyards of America. Places like Huntsville, Ala., New Holland, Pa., and Chelmsford, Mass. They’re businesses that make cutting-edge VoIP products, state-of-the-art copper cabling, and top-of-the-line wireless hardware. As president of TIA, I’ve made it a recent priority to make sure I’m catching up with these members, to see what their needs really are.
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Tech President? September 19, 2007
Posted by ianmartinez in : General, Trends, What's New?, Policy , add a commentAn article in this week’s BusinessWeek Online raises a question I hear more and more in meetings and conversations: Who will be the tech president? While most major candidates at least have tech and telecom platforms, there seems to be an opening for whichever candidates can enunciate a platform that sounds different, one that recognizes the growing importance of our sector to the U.S. economy.
What I find especially surprising is that while I’ve never really heard presidential-horse-race conversations going on in policy meetings, or in on-hours conversation between tech and telecom people, this time around it’s going on all over the place.
Who steps up and takes the tech throne? There’s probably a lot of support to be had.
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Monday Blog Roundup September 17, 2007
Posted by ianmartinez in : General , add a commentA University of Wisconsin Madison study at the intersection of patent issues and R&D, via Tech Daily Dose. It looks like most research is still following the traditional path to publication.
Remember that China’s not slowing down on the software and content side, either. Baidu moving into video ads, via TechCrunch and WSJ.
Australia’s (compulsory) elections now on Google.
Cisco’s policy blog revisits the pending Free Trade Agreements with Korea, Peru, Panama and Colombia. As I’ve said here before, these FTAs are no-lose for Americans.
A feel-good story about one transitioning economy in North Carolina over at the Broadband Hub.
Lastly, from the world of bizarre tech art, via Engadget.
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