AT&T Changes Competing Policy in 7 States in Wake of Ruling
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AT&T Changes Competing Policy in 7
States
AT&T Changes Competing Policy in 7
States
06/23/2004 11:10 AMAT&T said today it would stop competing for customers in seven states
after a court threw out regulations giving it cheap access to the
dominant local telephone networks.
FCC Ruling: States Cannot Regulate DSL
FCC Ruling: States Cannot Regulate DSL
04/04/2005 04:17 PMAs expected, the FCC has ruled that BellSouth and other telecom
companies can mandate that DSL subscribers also use its phone
services.
States battle FCC Internet phone ruling
States battle FCC Internet phone ruling
01/04/2005 08:25 PMMinnesota and California to appeal federal regulatory ruling that bars
them from taxing Net phone service providers.
States mull marriage laws after
Massachusetts ruling (USATODAY.com)
States mull marriage laws after
Massachusetts ruling (USATODAY.com)
01/23/2004 02:22 PMUSATODAY.com - For seven years, the Ohio Legislature ignored pleas to
pass a law banning gay marriage. But this week, lawmakers set aside
normal rules and hurriedly approved the nation's most sweeping measure
against same-sex marriage.
Paying tribute is all part of the
nuanced foreign policy of former great
states
Paying tribute is all part of the
nuanced foreign policy of former great
states
08/31/2004 10:30 PMharsh commentary on France's response .. French astonished .. The
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Talking Policy: An examination of public
dialogue in science and technology
policy
Talking Policy: An examination of public
dialogue in science and technology
policy
03/25/2005 12:12 PMRand Mar 25 2005 3:28PM GMT
Competing spam 'solutions'
Competing spam 'solutions'
01/25/2004 09:25 AMLegislation and technology are being turned against spam--but to what
effect? Knowledge@Wharton offers a status report.
WhenU.com Enjoined From Competing
Pop-Ups
WhenU.com Enjoined From Competing
Pop-Ups
01/06/2004 03:14 AMFrisky070802 writes "The NY Times reports that a preliminary
injunction has been issued against WhenU.com, a company that
distributes software that performs ...
WhenU.com Enjoined From Competing
Pop-Ups
WhenU.com Enjoined From Competing
Pop-Ups
01/06/2004 06:53 AMSlashdot Jan 6 2004 5:25AM ET
Other News: Competing Codecs
Other News: Competing Codecs
07/06/2004 09:54 AMA Reuters article looks at the Balkanization of digital music download
systems via competing compression formats.
Next-gen DVD riven by two competing
standards.
Next-gen DVD riven by two competing
standards.
11/13/2003 09:52 PMEE Times:
Next-gen DVD
riven by two competing standards. Red lasers are out, so it's blue
vs. blu now.
Competing With Microsoft By Ignoring
Them
Competing With Microsoft By Ignoring
Them
04/15/2004 09:02 PMOne thing that you always hear among new startup companies looking for
venture capital is figuring out how they're going to avoid competing
with Microsoft. Obviously, it's not true of all startups - some of
whom are in completely different areas. However, any software (and
many services) company always gets the question "well, how will you
deal with it when Microsoft enters your space?" Companies that don't
have a good answer don't get funded. Robert Cringely's latest column
is all about
the best
way to compete with Microsoft - and it's a bit counterintuitive,
but it makes a lot of sense. The companies that have successfully
competed with Microsoft have done so
by not worrying about
Microsoft. In other words, they've been focused on building
innovative products that their customers can use. Microsoft, for all
it's strong points, doesn't have the greatest track record at actually
innovating (I can already hear some of you scoffing). What they are
good at (and, you have to admit, they are good at it) is taking
innovative ideas that others have come up with, and then putting a
nice, user friendly interface on them and getting it out in the
market. So, as Cringely points out, when you decide to turn and face
Microsoft and compete directly with them, you're going to be in a lot
of trouble - because you've set the rules of the game on their terms,
and they've got a lot more money and experience to beat anyone else on
those terms. Instead, by pretty much ignoring Microsoft, and coming
up with new and innovative products companies can out-innovate them,
and not face real competition from them.
Competing Claims and Interaction Types
Competing Claims and Interaction Types
02/10/2004 02:49 AMContinuing his review of the W3C's Architecture of the World Wide Web
document, Kendall Clark looks further at the principles set out
governing interactions on the web.
Next-generation DVD Driven By Two
Competing Standards
Next-generation DVD Driven By Two
Competing Standards
11/14/2003 11:28 AMOn the benefits of competing audio
formats...
On the benefits of competing audio
formats...
01/27/2004 06:28 PMThere's a fascinating clump of posts going around the place at the
moment about the various DRM-based digital audio solutions that you
can buy at the moment. The one that kicked stuff off initially was a
post on The Sobleizer (A
challenge for webloggers: handling organizational difficulties)
which included a chunk of stuff about why it's best for people who
are going to buy music files with DRM to buy them in Windows
Media format. Here's the main chunk of the argument:
When you hear DRM think "lockin." So, when you buy music
off of Napster or Apple's iTunes, you're locked into the DRM systems
that those applications decided on. Really you are choosing between
two competing lockin schemes.
But, not all lockin schemes are alike, I learned on Friday. First,
there are two major systems. The first is Apple's AAC/Fairtunes based
DRM. The second is Microsoft's WMA
Let's say it's 2006. You have 500 songs you've bought on iTunes for
your iPod. But, you are about to buy a car with a digital music player
built into it. Oh, but wait, Apple doesn't make a system that plays
its AAC format in a car stereo. So, now you can't buy a real digital
music player in your car.
(I should mention at this point that Scoble works for Microsoft, but I'll say
straightaway that I don't think that's particularly relevant to the
argument at hand. Nonetheless, cards on the table.)
So the argument at this point is if you choose lock-in with
Microsoft, then your music files will work on a wider variety of media
than if you choose lock-in with Apple. Therefore you should choose
lock-in with Microsoft. At which point BoingBoing's Cory Doctorow weighs in:
In this world where we have consumer choices to make,
Scoble argues that our best buy is to pick the lock-in company that
will have the largest number of licensees.
That's just about the worst choice you can make.
If I'm going to protect my investment in digital music, my best choice
is clearly to invest in buying music in a format that anyone can make
a player for. I should buy films, not kinetoscopes. I should buy VHS,
not Betamax. I should buy analog tape, not DAT.
Because Scoble's right. If you buy Apple Music or if you buy Microsoft
Music, you're screwed if you want to do something with that music that
Apple or Microsoft doesn't like.
Cory's argument then is the fairly commercially radical proposition
that we should buy only open music files, that companies should sell
open music files (there is a precedent here - Bleep sells DRM-free songs
from Warp Records), and even that companies like Microsoft should
be using their substantial legal power to fight the record companies
to be able to sell DRM-free songs online.
Now I'm not going to argue with that, although - to be fair - I
think the current climate makes it pretty unlikely to happen. The
various companies concerned are too neurotic about it, and frankly
Microsoft has too much to lose from the proposition that intellectual
property should be distributed without arcane DRM attached to it.
Instead I'm going to argue that even if we're only given the choice
between two DRM schemes, we should still not just automatically
go for the one that plays on the most devices. Because what does this
mean in the end? No more or less than yet another monopoly at the
operating system level - the musical infrastructure ends up belonging
to Microsoft.
The fact is we shouldn't think in those terms at this stage. We
should be trying to create miscegenated musical libraries that we
expect digital music manufacturers to support all of, not just some as
it suits them or as it suits whichever company ends up dominating the
market. We've been down this parth before - the company that owns the
monopoly has the least to gain from a rapid pace of innovation, the
least to gain from being standards compliant. We've seen it at the
level of operating systems, internet browsers and now we're seeing
attempts to own and define the one successful format in which music
files could sit for the next few decades. These things are too
important to be left in the hands of one company. We need to have
consumer choice at the level of which DRM (or lack of DRM) we're
comfortable with buying, we need variety so that different types of
audio file can be released via a variety of business models, we need
variety - fundamentally - because otherwise we all lose.
The examples that people cite about competing formats no longer
hold true for music. It's not like VHS and Betamax - we're not talking
about hardware with different sized slots that you can only fit one
kind of music delivery system into. No - with music we mostly have
applications on our desktop that can play dozens of different formats
- whether we notice it or not. Just the other day, RealOne announced
that it could now play Apple-encoded AAC files, and the rumour is that
HP's deal with Apple required that the iPod should have its ability to
play WMP files restored. These things can play more than one
type of file and we should be doing our damnedest to make sure that
continues to be the case. It should be obvious to car audio
manufacturers that they should be able to play AAC tracks - that there
are hundreds of thousands of people across America (and soon Europe)
who are going to want to be able to do more things with their bought
songs. And it should be obvious to all of us that we want a
world in which new formats can be integrated into our listening
without any particular effort, or at least without us having to rebuy
all our old tracks to work on non-mutually functioning players.
So in the meantime, buy, steal or rip whichever tracks suit you
best in whatever format you want and make it your mission to put
pressure on all the players (both business players and audio players)
concerned to support as many of them as possible as soon as possible.
And don't listen to anyone who says that having one organisation
controlling the musical infrastructure will result in greater
choice. That's never been the case in the past, and I very much doubt
it will be so in the future either.
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Competing standards may shake up e-mail
Competing standards may shake up e-mail
03/06/2004 02:04 AMMicrosoft, Sendmail, and Yahoo are pushing anti-spam protocols
Goldman, Morgan Stanley competing for
Google IPO
Goldman, Morgan Stanley competing for
Google IPO
10/29/2003 12:11 AMGoldman Sachs Group Inc., Morgan Stanley and eight other investment
banks are in the running to underwrite a $2 billion initial public
offering by Google Inc ...
Competing voice standards via for
developers' attention
Competing voice standards via for
developers' attention
04/21/2004 03:42 AMSpeech technology is now pushing deeper than ever into the enterprise
and carrier space. VoiceXML proponents tout their W3C standard and the
warm reception the open standards approach has met from the industry.
Meanwhile, a group of companies led by Microsoft is pushing a separate
specification called Speech Application Language Tag (SALT) that some
say may end up stifling voice advances.
Microsoft to Create Competing BitTorrent
Technology
Microsoft to Create Competing BitTorrent
Technology
06/17/2005 03:58 PMThere Goes the Neighborhood. Nice code name: avalanche. Says it all
don’t you think? here’s what Infoworld had to say: Researchers
at Microsoft’s Cambridge, England, labs are developing a file-sharing
technology that they say could make it easier to distribute big files
such as films, television programs and software applications to
end-users over the Internet. Code-named Avalanche, the technology is
similar to existing peer-to-peer (P-to-P) file swapping systems such
as BitTorrent’s, in the sense that…
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Objectively Comparing Competing Search
Engines?
Objectively Comparing Competing Search
Engines?
03/29/2005 05:27 PMCongress offers competing ideas on
fighting ID theft
Congress offers competing ideas on
fighting ID theft
06/17/2005 04:55 PMSenators at a hearing this week offered a number of competing ideas to
fight identity theft, including a proposal to license data brokers and
a national law to notify potential victims of a data breach.
Microsoft to Avoid Competing with Oracle
--Testimony (Reuters)
Microsoft to Avoid Competing with Oracle
--Testimony (Reuters)
06/24/2004 09:39 PMReuters - Competing in the enterprise
software market would be bad strategy for Microsoft Corp.
(MSFT.O), a Microsoft executive testified on Thursday in the
antitrust trial over Oracle Corp.'s (ORCL.O) $7.7 billion
hostile takeover bid for rival PeopleSoft Inc. (PSFT.O)
Avoid competing Terminal window title
commands
Avoid competing Terminal window title
commands
11/16/2003 01:48 PMNote to self: if you're trying to set a terminal's name via File ->
Set Title..., then by all means, please be sure that your /etc/bashrc
file does NOT contain code similar to the following:
PROMPT_COMMAND='echo -ne "\0...
Competing Measures Add to Complexity of
State Ballot (Los Angeles Times)
Competing Measures Add to Complexity of
State Ballot (Los Angeles Times)
09/13/2004 04:59 AMLos Angeles Times - SACRAMENTO — Californians face one of the
longest and most complicated ballots in the nine decades since the
state invoked direct democracy — putting Gov. Arnold
Schwarzenegger on the defensive to protect his political fortune and
leaving voters to sort out a patchwork of ideas.
Linux a national security risk,
competing RTOS vendor claims
Linux a national security risk,
competing RTOS vendor claims
04/09/2004 04:07 PMWar! Google to Take on PayPal: plans to
Offer Competing Online Payment System
War! Google to Take on PayPal: plans to
Offer Competing Online Payment System
06/22/2005 02:06 AMAll I can say is wow…makes sense. Caught this from Reuters:
“Google Inc. this year plans to offer an electronic-payment
service that could help the Internet-search company diversify its
revenue and may heighten competition with eBay Inc.’s PayPal unit, the
Wall Street Journal reported on Friday. “Exact details of the
search company’s planned service are not known, the report said, but
quoted people familiar with the matter as saying it could have
similarities with PayPal,…
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PayPal: plans to Offer Competing Online Payment System'
Would I wake?
Would I wake?
03/15/2003 12:32 AMCame home this afternoon from school, did the computer thing like
always...and then around 5 I went to sleep. And...
Wake Me Up When It's Over
Wake Me Up When It's Over
06/17/2004 12:33 AMSupernova is, as expected,
coming together nicely. Of course, nice is a relative
word.
There are always multiple fire drills in the weeks prior to an event,
which I've been completely focused on recently. The good news is
that registrations are going great, and we've got some fantastic
sessions in
store for the event.
If you're in the Bay Area, please consider joining us next week (June
24-25) for what promises to be an extroardinary gathering of
innovators, thinkers, implementers, investors, and other thought
leaders of the technology world.
Check out our
Community
Connection
for the conference weblog, wiki, and other interactive tools.
Supernova always generates a virtual event in parallel with the
physical conference; this year, we've kicked the cyber-component up a
notch.
And don't forget to sign up for
Joi's Pre-Conference Dinner on Wednesday June
23. It's open to anyone who RSVPs,whether you're attending
Supernova or not.
Back to the salt mines....
McKeesport Teens Seek Support In Order
to Fulfill Dream of Competing in FIRST
National Robotics Competition
McKeesport Teens Seek Support In Order
to Fulfill Dream of Competing in FIRST
National Robotics Competition
03/25/2005 06:34 AMLocal Students Win Regional Robotics Competition But Lack Funds to
Move On to the Championship [PRWEB Mar 25, 2005]
Wake up !!! (alarm tip)
Wake up !!! (alarm tip)
04/28/2004 04:42 AMWake-On-LAN for the PocketPC
Wake-On-LAN for the PocketPC
09/22/2004 09:13 PMIn the Wake of Grokster...
In the Wake of Grokster...
08/27/2004 01:58 PM...the Justice Department is conducting criminal investigations of
file-sharing networks. This development illustrates a point I made in
a previous posting (a Lessig point) about the relationship of
substitution between law and technology. The Grokster decision last
week, if it holds up, will facilitate circumvention of copyright law
by file...
Better Tracking In Mad Cow Wake?
Better Tracking In Mad Cow Wake?
01/01/2004 01:29 PMCBS News Jan 1 2004 11:09AM ET
Wireless wake-up call
Wireless wake-up call
03/14/2005 06:27 PMCisco/Airespace deal boosts thin access point/WLAN switch topology and
makes enterprise WLANs more enticing.
Computer Wake-up Type
Computer Wake-up Type
08/23/2004 12:51 PMWake Up Space Cadets
Wake Up Space Cadets
01/17/2004 10:44 PM
Bush's talk on moonbase and manned mission to Mars is just what a
dopehead might say
dreamily while blowing smokes. The total bill is likely to
reach 1 trillion
dollars. Where is the money? There is no money and,
even if there was,
NASA is not going to see much of it. Instead, NASA will be
asked to sacrifice
its other programs to chase this pair of smoke rings.
Meanwhile, our children
will be forced to cast aside the growing burden of social security,
leaving us old
and poor. Bush opened this can of hoopla because
he is afraid
of ending up like his father in the upcoming election. Wake
up I say.
U.S. to wake up to broadband in a few
years
U.S. to wake up to broadband in a few
years
04/12/2005 04:24 PMBlog:
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You know it's going to be a bad day when
you wake up and Denmark is on Ebay!
You know it's going to be a bad day when
you wake up and Denmark is on Ebay!
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A Camaro That Leaves A Wake
A Camaro That Leaves A Wake
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