Broadband steams ahead in the US

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US broadband steams ahead

US broadband steams ahead 12/24/2004 12:39 PM
The number of broadband connections in the US has jumped by 38% in a year, according to official figures.

Broadband changes ahead

Broadband changes ahead 07/18/2004 12:52 AM
News.bbc.co.uk - Fri Jul 16, 07:52 am GMT

Broadband leaps ahead of AOL

Broadband leaps ahead of AOL 05/13/2004 03:20 PM
For the first time, broadband customers surpass the number of people who subscribe to America Online, a sign of the growing influence of high-speed Net services.

1,000 exchanges get go-ahead for
broadband

1,000 exchanges get go-ahead for
broadband 07/01/2004 08:29 AM
Green light gets the thumbs-up

Broadband divide ahead

Broadband divide ahead 07/20/2004 01:33 AM
News.bbc.co.uk - Sun Jul 18, 12:44 pm GMT

Dial-up fades away as broadband pulls
ahead

Dial-up fades away as broadband pulls
ahead 06/03/2004 12:07 PM
ZDNet UK Jun 3 2004 4:05PM GMT

FCC moves ahead with power-line
broadband rules

FCC moves ahead with power-line
broadband rules 02/13/2004 05:19 PM
The Federal Communications Commission has voted to move forward with a process to measure interference caused by broadband over power-line service.

IRC-gallery steams on

IRC-gallery steams on 06/06/2005 12:11 AM
Enter-blogi kertoo, että yli 30% suomalaisista 15-17 -vuotiaista on rekisteröitynyt IRC-galleriaan. Mitähän tapahtuisi, jos IRC-galleria alkaisi tarjota blogeja jäsenilleen?

The Enter magazine blog says that over 30% of Finnish 15-17 -year old teenagers have an account with the IRC gallery. I wonder what would happen if IRC-gallery started to offer blogs to their members?

T-Mobile steams in with WiMAX, Wi-Fi
train

T-Mobile steams in with WiMAX, Wi-Fi
train 04/15/2005 12:14 PM
Analysis The rail deal

Battleship Chess Steams onto the Scene

Battleship Chess Steams onto the Scene 05/31/2004 01:55 PM
Announcing ApeZone's Battleship Chess, a Windows 95/98/2000/Me/XP naval strategy game. [PRWEB May 12, 2004]

Delayed GNER Wi-Fi train trial steams
out

Delayed GNER Wi-Fi train trial steams
out 12/02/2003 10:00 AM
19-day trial run for First Class passengers

Microsoft steams over open source Bill

Microsoft steams over open source Bill 12/15/2003 08:02 PM
Australian IT Dec 15 2003 7:14PM ET

Microsoft steams as open source Bill
passes

Microsoft steams as open source Bill
passes 12/15/2003 12:57 PM
WHEN the ACT's 17-member Legislative Assembly last week passed an obscurely-named Bill it fundamentally changed the landscape of government software purchasing in Australia. Joining a number of jurisdictions worldwide — including several Brazilian cities — Australia's capital passed Democrats-sponsored legislation designed to give open source software a leg up. With the Democrats warning the ACT is just the beginning, opponents of open source and Linux, such as Microsoft, are starting to sweat.

Navy steams forward on XML
standardization (Government Computer
News)

Navy steams forward on XML
standardization (Government Computer
News) 07/19/2002 03:49 PM

ForeThought.net Launches Mach Broadband
- Cable-Crushing Broadband Internet
Service

ForeThought.net Launches Mach Broadband
- Cable-Crushing Broadband Internet
Service 03/14/2005 05:59 PM
foreThought.net, a Denver-based telephone and Internet company, today announced the launch of "Mach", its new ADSL 2+ broadband Internet access service. [PRWEB Mar 11, 2005]

IPWireless Mobile Broadband Technology
to Power Sentechs MyWireless, the First
Nationwide Broadband Wireles

IPWireless Mobile Broadband Technology
to Power Sentechs MyWireless, the First
Nationwide Broadband Wireles 12/10/2003 04:16 PM
ECTA Portal Dec 10 2003 1:56PM ET

Cisco Powers Hong Kong Broadband
Network's 100Mbps and 1Gbps Residential
Broadband Services

Cisco Powers Hong Kong Broadband
Network's 100Mbps and 1Gbps Residential
Broadband Services 02/01/2005 09:50 PM
Investors Business Daily Feb 2 2005 1:50AM GMT

Broadband National, Inc. Teams with NCC
to Offer VoIP and Broadband Solutions

Broadband National, Inc. Teams with NCC
to Offer VoIP and Broadband Solutions 06/17/2005 03:16 PM
Broadband National Inc. a has teamed with National Communications Contracting, Inc. to offer high speed solutions to NCC customers inquiring about the telecommunication products and services the company offers. NCC will leverage Broadband National’s IBIS (Integrated Broadband Information System) to deploy broadband and VoIP solutions to small, medium and enterprise level customers. Broadband National’s proprietary platform enables end users to instantly compare broadband solutions offered by more than 40 different suppliers, including SBC Internet Services, Comcast, Covad, XO Communications, ITC DeltaCom, SpeakEasy, and Nuvox. [PRWEB Jun 16, 2005]

Time Broadband cuts prices for Internet
broadband service

Time Broadband cuts prices for Internet
broadband service 02/12/2004 02:02 PM
Utusan Online Feb 12 2004 6:43PM GMT

Nethercomm Corporation Comments on
Forbes Article where Broadband-in-Gas
Stands out among Traditional Broadband
Technologies by Delivering Connectivity
of 100+Mbps

Nethercomm Corporation Comments on
Forbes Article where Broadband-in-Gas
Stands out among Traditional Broadband
Technologies by Delivering Connectivity
of 100+Mbps 06/05/2005 11:18 PM
Nethercomm Corporation Addresses Forbes Article "Seven Ways to get Traditional Broadband Services", which highlights Broadband-in-Gas, a Compelling Broadband Technology Enabling “Previously Unobtainable Levels of Connectivity of 100+Mbps” [PRWEB May 27, 2005]

Wireless broadband has developed into a
truly versatile broadband communications
medium while the national local loops
experience ongoing access problems

Wireless broadband has developed into a
truly versatile broadband communications
medium while the national local loops
experience ongoing access problems 07/08/2004 03:39 AM
Research and Markets are delighted to announce the addition of 2004 Global Wireless Broadband Report to their offering [PRWEB Jul 8, 2004]

Innovative Broadband Broker Saves
Businesses, Non Profits, Schools and
Government Offices Thousands of Dollars
on T1,DSL,and Broadband. Complimentary
Consultations Available - Act Now!

Innovative Broadband Broker Saves
Businesses, Non Profits, Schools and
Government Offices Thousands of Dollars
on T1,DSL,and Broadband. Complimentary
Consultations Available - Act Now! 08/10/2004 03:50 AM
1st-T1-DSL-Broadband.com offers customers *The world's only real-time T1 price tool *Low Price Guarantee - We will not be undersold *Free unbiased price research will save you money [PRWEB Aug 10, 2004]

Broadband Envy: Fixing American
Broadband

Broadband Envy: Fixing American
Broadband 09/02/2004 10:01 AM

The Not Really Free, Not Really
Broadband, Free Broadband Scam

The Not Really Free, Not Really
Broadband, Free Broadband Scam 08/06/2004 04:41 PM
Aaron writes in to point us to a story at Broadband Reports about a scam claiming to offer "free" broadband, when the truth is anything but that. The company in question is really just offering one of those silly web "accelerator" tools that speed up some dialup web surfing by caching images and using some compression. It's not really broadband at all, though if you're stuck on dialup, apparently it helps. It's also not free at all, since it's a typical pyramid scam, where you need to get others to sign up first. Since they know otherwise intelligent people will know it's a scam, the site doesn't make outrageous claims on their home page, but leaves those only for those who come via a referral code (which is all part of the scam) at which point they start making outlandish claims anyone with a bit of broadband knowledge would know were false.

Don't Get Ahead of Yourself

Don't Get Ahead of Yourself 03/14/2005 06:07 PM

Here are two things that cut so many good ideas off at the knees. These two factors are the two biggest things that stop good ideas from getting implemented and make programmers pause when they should forge ahead.

1. The Urge to Generalize
Say you come up with an idea for a little transaction management system — a tracking app that follows a sales transaction from inception to closure. It works well for your company, but — you think — if I unleash this on the world, then it has to be able to handle other things, right?

I have to abstract the simple "Transaction Name" field away to be able to handle "Buyers" and "Sellers" in case someone wants to use it for third party brokerage, right? And what exactly constitutes a transaction? I need to have an object oriented "Attributes" sub-system to be able to handle any information they want to store, right? Etc. Etc.

Pretty quickly, you've decided that it's just too much work to do all this stuff you just made up and imposed on yourself, so forget it.

I think programmers equate "The software doesn't handle that" with "I can't make it do that because I suck." We never want to say no or have to admit that our software wasn't designed to do everything. If our image editing program can't also balance our checkbook, then we have somehow failed and it's not worth releasing.

(In terms of content management, I've talked about the The Urge to Generalize here. For some reason, I discussed it in positive terms...)

2. The Fear of Expansion
So you get past the first hurdle with your little transaction management system, and you're coding happily away. But then your mind starts to look down the road....

You think, well, I should put something in here so the user can indicate that an invoice was sent for payment. I mean, people don't want to do double-entry, right? But then why can't this system just generate the invoice....and track receipt of the payment...and display aggregate customer sales figures...etc.

Before you know it you (1) have mentally evolved your simple app into an accounting system, and (2) scared the crap out of yourself because there are apps like Peachtree and Quickbooks that do this better, and (3) thrown in the towel.

Why do we look at every app as always getting bigger? I appreciate ambition, but the problem with this is at the end of every development road is a bigger app that you're going to run into and encroach at some point. Why can't we stop three-quarters of the way down this road and just be happy with that? Do one thing and do it well. (Josh Clark has been very good at this, judging from the comments on this entry.)

These two things have killed millions of good ideas before they even got out of the starting gate. As programmers, we think too much, sometimes. Your app (1) doesn't need to handle every possible scenario, (2) encompass every aspect of functionaity, and (3) continue evolving into a successfully bigger and bigger app.

If this little essay makes sense to you, read this one from Joel Spolsky. Same concept from a little different angle:

These are the people I call Architecture Astronauts. It's very hard to get them to write code or design programs, because they won't stop thinking about Architecture. They're astronauts because they are above the oxygen level, I don't know how they're breathing. They tend to work for really big companies that can afford to have lots of unproductive people with really advanced degrees that don't contribute to the bottom line.

The Functionality Astronauts are just as dangeous as the Architecture Astronauts.

What's Ahead for C++?

What's Ahead for C++? 08/17/2004 01:14 PM
These days, Microsoft's C# gets the lion's share of the attention (and ink). But Microsoft is continuing to work on Visual C++.

Run from Sun ahead of Q2 - analyst

Run from Sun ahead of Q2 - analyst 01/03/2005 05:38 PM
Down on investor optimism

Ahead Nero 6

Ahead Nero 6 11/06/2003 01:55 AM
vnunet.com Nov 6 2003 0:55AM ET

Dark Age Ahead

Dark Age Ahead 05/03/2004 04:06 AM
Alright, so it's a descent into schilling, but there can be no more exciting news to greet a sunny Monday morning than that of a new book by Jane Jacobs. Not content with blowing out the back of my intellectual...

Faster XML ahead?

Faster XML ahead? 03/23/2005 07:46 AM
The W3C is closer to tackling sluggish XML performance, but not everyone agrees with the group's approach.

Danger ahead?

Danger ahead? 07/06/2004 08:41 AM
CNET Asia Jul 6 2004 1:10PM GMT

Trouble ahead

Trouble ahead 07/30/2004 01:53 AM
USA Today Jul 30 2004 6:02AM GMT

"getting ahead of a story"

"getting ahead of a story" 05/20/2004 02:30 AM

Ahead of the Game

Ahead of the Game 08/31/2004 09:05 PM
Consumer Goods Technology Sep 1 2004 1:45AM GMT

Moving ahead with the best of the old

Moving ahead with the best of the old 04/11/2005 06:17 AM
Computer Weekly Apr 11 2005 9:39AM GMT

What's next? A look ahead to 2004

What's next? A look ahead to 2004 12/28/2003 05:27 AM
Boston Globe Dec 28 2003 4:08AM ET

The Fool's Look Ahead

The Fool's Look Ahead 09/17/2004 10:40 AM
The Motley Fool's Rick Munarriz takes a look at the business week that approaches.

Comair changes ahead

Comair changes ahead 12/29/2004 09:47 AM
USA Today Dec 29 2004 1:53PM GMT

Looking Ahead, Looking Small

Looking Ahead, Looking Small 05/15/2004 11:37 AM

I'm at the Foresight Institute's annual Senior Associates gathering. It's off the record, so no blogging will result.

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