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2007 Predictions

January 1, 2007

This year marks the 10th anniver­sary edi­tion of the TNL.net pre­dic­tions for the year ahead. In past years, I’ve been bat­ting above 50 per­cent in terms of pre­dic­tions, except when it comes to nam­ing what will hap­pen with spe­cific com­pa­nies. The trends are gen­er­ally cor­rect (or in some case, early) and I always look at this […]

Could Apple Solidify GSM in the US?

September 26, 2006

ThinkSe­cret reports that the much-rumored-about iPhone from Apple is com­ing and will be avail­able exclu­sively through Cin­gu­lar. If true, it would mean that Apple has decided to take a posi­tion on what phone stack it is will­ing to sup­port and has come out on the side of GSM. Under­stand­ing the mobile land­scape In a lot of ways, the […]

Life After Net Neutrality

June 8, 2006

For the past few months, in the United States, a fight has been brew­ing over how the pipes that con­trol the Inter­net would be ruled. On one side, activists and large Inter­net com­pa­nies felt that access to the Inter­net should be neu­tral and that all sites should be accessed in the same fash­ion. On the other […]

Portals and Video — An Overview

January 6, 2006

So the big news com­ing out of the 2006 Con­sumer Elec­tronic Show (CES) is that all the por­tals are now try­ing to go into the video space. Microsoft, AOL, and Yahoo have already made their announce­ments (as has Apple, which is not pre­sent­ing at CES and is reserv­ing its sparks for next week’s Mac World) […]

2006 Predictions

December 28, 2005

Since 1997, It’s been a long run­ning game here at TNL.net cen­tral to make wild pre­dic­tions about the upcom­ing year that have turned out to be only some­what off (and, as always, I promise to revisit them around the end of next year to assess how far off base I was) so here goes this year’s edi­tion. Broadband […]

Standard Power Chargers Would Be Nice

July 19, 2005

Rus­sell Beatie has a fas­ci­nat­ing pic­ture show­ing his wide array of devices recharg­ing, which trig­gered in me some­thing that has been dis­turb­ing me for a long time: why is it that every mobile device out there seems to have a dif­fer­ent power plug? There is no com­pet­i­tive advan­tage in offer­ing a dif­fer­ent charger and yet it seems that every vendor […]

The Mac Mini platform

January 14, 2005

So it took me some time to fig­ure out what the Mac mini is about. Not so much what it is but what it’s impact in the long run may be and why and how it mat­ters. Size mat­ters My first thought, when I read the specs, was about the size of the device. My Shuttle […]

2005 Predictions

January 3, 2005

Another year, another round of pre­dic­tions. As is now becom­ing cus­tom­ary on TNL.net, it’s time to project out the future year. As always, I’ll revisit those pre­dic­tions at the end of the year. Voice Over IP VoIP expe­ri­enced tremen­dous growth in 2004 but it was just the begin­ning. This year, much more will hap­pen in that space. Cable […]

Number Portability FAQ

November 24, 2003

Today is a great day in the USA. Wire­less Num­ber Porta­bil­ity has arrived! I wrote about this last year and am glad that we have finally arrived to the point where num­ber porta­bil­ity is now doable. So what is num­ber porta­bil­ity? Well, effec­tive today, you can change mobile phone provider with­out hav­ing to worry about chang­ing your […]

Back from the Black-out

August 18, 2003

Some peo­ple will say that the black-out was no big deal and for most, it wasn’t but it belied a num­ber of crit­i­cal issues. Today, less than 24 hours after our elec­tric­ity was restored (for the record, 28th street between Lex­ing­ton and 3rd Avenue got its elec­tric­ity back on Fri­day at 9:45pm), I am think­ing about some […]