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The Net as Critical Infrastructure

June 9, 2003

There has been con­sid­er­able dis­cus­sion over the last few days about Wired Magazine’s deci­sion to pub­lish a story detail­ing the inner work­ings of the Slam­mer worm. As more and more traf­fic moves over the Inter­net, the net­work is increas­ingly becom­ing a key ele­ment of the over­all global telecom­mu­ni­ca­tion infra­struc­ture, espe­cially now that com­pa­nies are start­ing to move […]

Verizon and Wi-Fi

May 15, 2003

There’s been much dis­cus­sion over the past year related to the via­bil­ity of new wire­less oper­a­tors try­ing to imple­ment national net­works for Wi-Fi. The issue is one of cost and return on invest­ment. As we learned dur­ing the dot­com boom, it is easy to build new infra­struc­tures but it is much harder to build new […]

Software Trumps Hardware

May 13, 2003

One of the chal­lenges fac­ing the wire­less world is the con­stant change in for­mats and the fact that most wire­less devices have to include spe­cial­ized hard­ware in order to sup­port those for­mat. As a result, uptake on new wire­less for­mat can often be slow in the mobile phone indus­try as it rep­re­sents a typ­i­cal chicken or egg […]

Disruptive Technology

April 22, 2003

Bright­hand reports about a new piece of soft­ware that allows to make calls using a Pocket PC and a Wi-Fi card. This is an inter­est­ing devel­op­ment that could turn Wi-Fi into a very dis­rup­tive tech­nol­ogy for the mobile phone indus­try and may explain why com­pa­nies like T-mobile are plac­ing bets on the phe­nom­e­non, cov­er­ing them­selves in case other revenues […]

Impressive customer service

March 24, 2003

I just received a call on my cell phone from T-mobile and was extremely impressed with their cus­tomer ser­vice. Over the past few weeks, I’ve noticed that the level of ser­vice has degraded (mean­ing that my sig­nal is not as clear as it used to be). I’ve never com­plained about this to them but they called […]

Cisco acquires Linksys

March 20, 2003

Today’s announce­ment about Cisco’s acqui­si­tion of Linksys is one that leaves me scratch­ing my head a lit­tle. What is the logic behind this? Could this rep­re­sent a change in Cisco’s strat­egy? Or is it a real­iza­tion in the part of the net­work­ing equip­ment ven­dor that its future may not be enhanced by mov­ing into the now heav­ily depressed […]

Danger Dooming Itself

March 19, 2003

I was excited to hear that Dan­ger would soon open a devel­oper site. The license agree­ment seemed OK except for the fol­low­ing: 8. Prod­uct WARRANTY Invalid. Devel­oper Acknowl­edges and agrees that the down­load of any soft­ware (includ­ing licensed tech­nol­ogy) onto or tam­per­ing with any t-mobile side­kick or other dan­ger hip­top device shall inval­i­date the lim­ited product […]

Internet in France 2002: An overview

August 19, 2002

Last week, I was in France for a short vaca­tion. Dur­ing that time, I got a chance to talk to peo­ple locally and get a bet­ter idea as to what was going on within the Inter­net mar­ket in France. Here are a few obser­va­tions based on my under­stand­ing of what is going on. Strong Growth France had been a leader in terms of […]

A Number Game

January 18, 2002

Imag­ine an indus­try where cus­tomers are leav­ing more quickly than they are join­ing. If you were part of that indus­try, would you: try to increase your level of cus­tomer sat­is­fac­tion ? or fight any pro­vi­sion that would increase com­pe­ti­tion in your indus­try? If you are the wire­less phone indus­try, you will go for the lat­ter. The issue […]

The Convergence Game

November 18, 2001

This week, Microsoft launched the Xbox, a new gam­ing sys­tem that takes the Red­mond giant into another mar­ket. Today, Nin­tendo is unveil­ing the Game­Cube, their new entry in a bat­tle they have fought with Sony for many years. With these new gam­ing sta­tions enter­ing the mar­ket, a new war is start­ing and in the end, it is a war […]