Carl Longino rounds up the news about the downfall of municipal wifi. He sees the problem as one of excessive expectations:
Muni WiFi is bound to fail when it’s being judged by unrealistic expectations — as so many muni networks are. Vendors and politicians have whipped up a frenzy around the networks, while a willing media […]
With Earthlink’s troubles it’s not surprising they’re pulling out of covering San Francisco with wi-fi:
Mayor Gavin Newsom’s high-profile effort to blanket San Francisco with a free wireless Internet network died Wednesday when provider EarthLink backed out of a proposed contract with the city.
The contract, which was three years in the making, had run into snags […]
Another sign municipal wi-fi is going the way of the dodo (unless you’re Google) Earthlink fired their executive vice president of municipal networks and won’t replace him.
“With Berryman Out, Is Earthlink’s San Francisco Municipal Wi-Fi Project Officially Done?”
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Milwaukee, don’t fret that Midwest Fiber Networks over-promised and under-delivered on city-wide wi-fi network. Chicago has given up on the dream of bathing their city in 8011.b/g goodness:
An ambitious plan to blanket the city with wireless broadband Internet will be shelved because it is too costly and too few residents would use it, Chicago officials […]
Watching tv on the internet is becoming more and more popular:
More consumers are accessing television and movies online. An estimated 81 million of the 129 million people who access the Internet via a broadband connection watched TV or movies online, according to a new study from Nielsen.
Count me as one of these millions. With shows […]
The love affair with Apple products isn’t a religion but some people seem to think it is:
“It’s not like it’s a computer, it’s not like it’s a phone, it’s like a living sculpture in my hands,” said Dale Larson, a mobile business consultant in San Francisco.
This guy needs to get to an actual museum. Or […]
French government officals are so addicted to their BlackBerrys they don’t want to give them up despite the risk U.S. intelligence is sucking up their e-mails:
Top French government officials are ignoring warnings to ditch their cherished BlackBerrys — smartphones with e-mail capacity — despite warnings their messages may be intercepted by US spy agencies, a […]
A thunderstorm passed through the area early this afternoon. All I got was a few sprinkles and some wind. The storm passed south. But it was powerful enough for lightning to knock out power for a few hours. Ok, I could live without electricity for a few hours. That’s why God invented books.
When power returned […]
Dig out your original Playstations they might be an audiophile’s dream.
“PlayStation 1: The Audiophile’s Dream?”
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The lunch break at this Online News Association gave me a chance to look at a neat product by Foneshow. Their technology lets cell phone users easily download and listen to audio content. Erik Schwarts, co-founder showed how simple it was to subscribe a podcast, click on a number in an SMS text message, and […]
Amazon.com will open a music store with their selling point being DRM-free songs:
The e-commerce giant announced Wednesday that it would offer songs from more than 12,000 record labels in the MP3 format, without the controversial digital rights management (DRM) software. Record labels are beginning to warming up to the concept of offering music downloads without […]
For further evidence the music industry loves shooting itself in the foot look at incoming new royalty fees about to be applied to internet radio stations. The little independent stations will obviously be hurt, but quite a few commercial stations will have to turn off the music because they won’t be able to afford the […]
Web 2.0 is suppose to empower readers and media consumers by turning them into content creators. With weblogs and YouTube readers and viewers become authors and directors. On a news site like Digg the collective mass becomes editors deciding what gets on the front page. Much of the time it’s interesting, informative, and entertaining. But […]
Fate might have been nice to me. Had TurboTax let me file my extension online last night I might be in computer purgatory:
The Internal Revenue Service said Wednesday it will not penalize TurboTax and ProSeries users whose 11th-hour electronic returns were delayed by Intuit’s (INTU) overloaded servers.
A record number of returns from both individual taxpayers […]
Newt Gingrich’s latest idea is a $20 billion prize, tax free, for the first manned team to go to Mars and back; an X Prize to the Red Planet.
Gingrich not running for President allows him to say any wild idea that pops into his head. His boldness and vision are a great contrast to […]
