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An interesting thing I picked up from the Innovation and Exchange portion of the conference was from the President and CEO of TM NET, Michael Lai of Malaysia, who described why Asia/Malaysia, then Europe, and finally the US will approach ubiquitous communications (including IPTV) in that order. Basically, Asia is ready now. They have 50% of the world’s mobile subscriber ...

Today’s New York Times editorial: “Net neutrality” is a concept that is still unfamiliar to most Americans, but it keeps the Internet democratic. Cable and telephone companies that provide Internet service are talking about creating a two-tiered Internet, in which Web sites that pay them large fees would get priority over everything else. Opponents of these plans are supporting Net-neutrality ...

Given that my IT department doesn’t support wi-fi in any way, shape or form, it’s illustrative and a tad frustrating to run across this CNet map of the municipal wireless and broadband projects in the works.  (Actually I was given a 14 ft. Cat 5 Ethernet cable, but that’s not my idea of being mobile.) The option I’m pursuing now ...

What if every time you decided to change the channel on your television, you had to wait while it loaded or created a buffer? We wouldn’t watch near as much television, would we? And, that’s kind of what it’s like with large files–video, audio, even pdf’s–that we send to each other and try to view on our computers. The promise ...