Generally speaking, when someone talks about jamming things into one’s skin, disgust follows along with various “brain doctors”. But hold back those feelings of uneasiness when witnessing someone jamming network cables into the arms. Why you ask? Japanese researchers have figured out a way to turn the human dermis into a living transmission highway, allowing plug-n-play installation of your typical network cable. Weird? You bet. You may be surprised at...
Spend any measurable amount of time in the tech realm and you’ll quickly find out that in terms of ISP’s, Cablevision rarely get’s “I love you” reviews. Usually expletives and other nasty phrases are being hurled forth. So consider it a welcome surprise to learn that that a cable company who has generally favored old business models (read: eschewing anything remotely interesting to techies) is now moving forward with a new...
Google may be the talk of the town with their proposed 1Gbps super-network, grabbing headlines for it’s crazy fast speeds and reported “competitive cost”, but the FCC would like to remind you that they aren’t just sitting idle while Google steps forward and does their job, making them look like the fat lazy kid in gym class. No sir. In an effort to better the overall lives of US citizens, FCC chairman Julius Genachowski announced (Warning: PDF)...
Car guys brag about their cars. Bodybuilders brag about their muscles. And internet junkies/geeks brag about their internet connection. What’s your fastest tested speed? While I’d love to compete in this competition, my AT&T provided 3Mbps service has other plans for my time. Most notably sitting and twiddling my thumbs while I wait for it. If I had a faster connection, say 17Tbps fast, I could do anything and everything I wanted to. While I...
Ever concern yourself with such trivial things as how the media/content industry is changing to adapt to the digital age and fit around what end users really want? Comcast apparently gives two sh*ts about you and what you want. I’ll let the man, Comcast COO Steve Burk, dig his own grave: An entire generation is growing up, if we don’t figure out how to change that behavior so it respects copyright and subscription revenue on the part of distributors,...
