Let's talk infrastructure. Is there any doubt that the nation's citizens and small businesses would benefit greatly from a basic free wireless internet service? According to The Wall Street Journal, outgoing Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin Martin has little doubt in his mind. In fact, he's pushing for action this month on a plan to offer free, pornography-free wireless Internet service to all …
Commercials Are Strong. Even DVRs Can’t Take Them Down.
From an ad man's perspective, DVRs are the bane of TV's existence. According to The New York Times, 27% of American households now own one of these hideous devices and use it to fast forward through commercials. Can you imagine? Here's the thing with a DVR though...you have to watch the screen to know when/where to skip commercials. And a new report in The Journal of Marketing oddly claims that ad messages still …
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FCC Intent On Closing The Digital Divide
The FCC, at Chairman Kevin Martin's urging is paving the way for a nationwide network that will offer free wireless connectivity, according to The Wall Street Journal. Wireless companies and some lawmakers have raised concerns about the plan, because the proposed auction rules appear to favor M2Z Networks Inc., a Kleiner Perkins-backed start-up that originally floated the free-Internet plan two years ago. M2Z …
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Software Developers Are Hooked On Iterations
TechCrunchIT has a thought piece by Marc Benioff, chairman and CEO of salesforce.com, wherein he makes clear his vision for Web 3.0. Web 3.0 is about replacing existing software platforms with a new generation of platforms as a service. To put Web 3.0 into perspective, we need to look at all of the major waves in the history of the Web. Web 1.0: Anyone Can Transact Web 2.0: Anyone Can Participate Web 3.0: Anyone Can …
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IT Meltdown Wreaks Havoc in San Francisco
The Guardian is reporting that Levi Strauss announced a 98% drop in second quarter profitability and a 19% decline in US sales. The culprit, other than tight-fisted consumers, appears to be the company's IT operation. A software disaster stopped all product deliveries in the US for seven days earlier this year. David Bergen, Levi's chief information officer, who came on board eight years ago to reconcile the …
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In the Long Time Coming Department
According to Internetnews.com, Google and Yahoo spiders will begin to crawl sites built with Adobe's Flash. "Improving how we crawl dynamic content will ultimately enhance the search experience for our users," said Bill Coughran, senior vice president of engineering at Google. Google will be going live with the new SWF indexing technology this week, while Yahoo plans to release it at an undetermined point in the …
The First Step Is Admitting You Have A Problem
Agency Spy points to the "fascist regime" north of the border that would dare to limit Crackberry addictions among its workforce. According to Newswire.ca, Frank Palmer, chairman and CEO of DDB Canada, has issued a new company-wide policy that discourages staff from using their PDAs and other mobile devices, like BlackBerries and cellular phones, during both client and internal meetings. Inspired by the penalty …
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One Little Password For One Gigantic Interweb
According to Wired, Yahoo's adoption of OpenID is a huge victory for the OpenID foundation. Until now, despite support from larger sites like AOL and Plaxo, OpenID has remained largely a tool of the geek-elite, but Yahoo’s announcement is set to change that since it provides even those Yahoo users who’ve never heard of OpenID a simple way to use it. And that in turn gives startup sites an even greater incentive to …
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