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Wednesday, May 07, 2003
| Apples and Oranges? |
| Comcast CEO Brian Roberts, explaining why his company may not cut cable modem prices to match Verizon's recent DSL price reduction, says, "We don't think that cable modems and DSL are necessarily comparable."
Funny, when the question is whether cable companies should be required to provide open access or "network neutrality" for their cable modem systems, companies like Comcast point to competition from DSL. They say they have no market power because customers can choose between the two technologies, and telephone companies are required to allow competitors access to their networks.
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| Spam changing email |
| Back in December, I predicted in a Slate article that a large percentage of email users would adopt whitelist, or "challenge-response" software, to combat spam. Looks like it's happening even faster than I expected, if this Earthlink announcement is any indication.
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| LinkedIn is a new business networking service from Reid Hoffman, formerly of PayPal. Looks pretty slick.
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| Overwhelming force |
| If it's true that AOL has 400 people working on Weblog software, it's a very bad sign for AOL. Most of the popular Weblog tools were written by a handful of people. The basic functionality just isn't that complex. Throwing hundreds of programmers at a problem is what big companies do when they lose the innovation gene. (From Scripting News)
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| Camera phone update |
| I'll say it again. Cameras in cellphones will be ubiquitous in every major market within a few years. According to the New York Times, NTT DoCoMo has sold 10 million camera phones in Japan, and they now represent 60% of its handset sales.
So the next question is, how to exploit all those cameras? Wireless photo blogging is one obvious opportunity, along with realtime news coverage, but I'm sure there are other big possibilities.
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