Two myths seem to be prevalent about the global broadband infrastructure: Because everyone's gaga about wireless client services these days, there is an assumption that even multi-gigabit backhaul will go...

Continue reading "A Fragile Economic Anchor"

Posted by Loring Wirbel on Jan 31, 2008 10:44 AM in Communications

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Even as George Bush in his State of the Union speech gave Congress until Friday (Feb. 1) to pass the type of Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act update he wanted (Congress...

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Posted by Loring Wirbel on Jan 30, 2008 10:34 AM in Communications

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Hats off to Johna Till Johnson for her excellent column in this week's Network World print edition, comparing Rose Wilder Lane's 1940s fight with the U.S. Post Office to the...

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Posted by Loring Wirbel on Jan 29, 2008 02:57 PM in Communications

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It’s still early days for the next big step in Ethernet networking, the leap to 40 and 100G standards. But the newly approved IEEE P802.3ba task force is on the...

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Posted by Rick Merritt on Jan 28, 2008 05:55 PM in Computing

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Michael Megalli, a partner at Group 1066 (www.group1066.com) believes Motorola Inc. has done an awful job managing product introduction in what is arguably one of the fastest-growing segments of the...

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Posted by Bolaji Ojo on Jan 28, 2008 12:16 PM in OJO-Mojo Tech Report

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To the Editor: I am a subscriber to EE Times, a consultant with an international practice in satellite telecommunications, and an amateur radio operator for 51 years (ticket when I...

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Posted on Jan 25, 2008 05:08 PM in Crosstalk

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Some German government officials are reportedly ditching their Nokia cell phones in protest over the Finnish company’s decision to close a plant in one of Germany’s industrial cities. Here's the...

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Posted by Bolaji Ojo on Jan 22, 2008 12:55 PM in OJO-Mojo Tech Report

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The Federal Reserve Open Market Committee today cut its fund rate three-quarter of a percentage point to 3.5 percent in response to worsening conditions in financial markets worldwide. "The Committee...

Continue reading "Rate cut won't clean up economic mess"

Posted by Bolaji Ojo on Jan 22, 2008 09:55 AM in OJO-Mojo Tech Report

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I’ve got news for Messrs. Paul Otellini and Hector Ruiz. Your companies, Intel Corp. and Advanced Micro Devices Inc., respectively, will be impacted by the weakening U.S. economy. If Intel...

Continue reading "Intel, AMD and the bullwhip effect"

Posted by Bolaji Ojo on Jan 21, 2008 10:09 AM in OJO-Mojo Tech Report

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It’s hard to argue against an economic aid package in today’s muddled environment. It’s not hard, though, if your name is John McCain....

Continue reading "McCain, $150B, unpleasant truth"

Posted by Bolaji Ojo on Jan 19, 2008 10:07 PM in OJO-Mojo Tech Report

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Last fall, I chided Sprint Nextel for being too quick to dump WiMax, when broadband wireless might be the only differentiator left for the company. On Jan. 18, Sprint Nextel...

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Posted by Loring Wirbel on Jan 18, 2008 04:12 PM in Communications

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Digital movies and TV shows are stuck in a set of single-vendor jails. This week’s news from Apple is a good example of the problem....

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Posted by Rick Merritt on Jan 17, 2008 08:28 PM in Consumer

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Steve Jobs knows what his company has done right. Going by events on the equity market lately, he must be wondering what Apple Inc. is now doing wrong. Three weeks...

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Posted by Bolaji Ojo on Jan 17, 2008 03:14 PM in OJO-Mojo Tech Report

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Sometimes we get so tied up in the minutae of cable-TV multisystem operator (MSO) vs. telco lobbying in the IPTV space, we lose sight of the practical impacts of...

Posted by Loring Wirbel on Jan 17, 2008 12:01 PM in Communications

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Most Apple watchers failed to note a pretty stunning shift in the Steve Jobs keynote at MacWorld today. The cellphone is now a software platform, just like the PC....

Continue reading "Steve Jobs’ soft coup"

Posted by Rick Merritt on Jan 15, 2008 10:24 PM in Computing

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So much ink has been spent on the National Security Agency's warrantless surveillance program, we often forget about the older, smaller domestic monitoring allowed under the 1994 Communications Assistance...

Posted by Loring Wirbel on Jan 12, 2008 11:50 AM in Communications

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I had a chance to meet Phil McKinney, chief technologist of Hewlett-Packard’s personal systems group on the show floor of CES. Here are some quick outtakes from our talk:...

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Posted by Rick Merritt on Jan 10, 2008 01:47 PM in Computing

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I have an iPod nano for my music collection. Now I want a Tata Nano for grocery shopping, trips to the movie theatre and other around town errands. The Tata...

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Posted by Bolaji Ojo on Jan 10, 2008 11:33 AM in OJO-Mojo Tech Report

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The biggest investment and research companies in the United States say the national economy has entered a recession that they believe will end by the third quarter. Goldman Sachs, Merrill...

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Posted by Bolaji Ojo on Jan 10, 2008 11:22 AM in OJO-Mojo Tech Report

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Well, if we had to start a potentially recessionary year off with some bad news, the story of Frontline Wireless shutting its doors was a sobering saga. Frontline, founded...

Continue reading "Public-Private 700-MHz: DOA?"

Posted by Loring Wirbel on Jan 10, 2008 10:29 AM in Communications

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What a difference a year makes! “Last year we had a folder of papers and promises, and today we have working products,” said Bob Myers, display technologist from Hewlett-Packard speaking...

Continue reading "Will TVs turn on DisplayPort?"

Posted by Rick Merritt on Jan 8, 2008 05:22 PM in Computing

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In a bad sign for the industry, Gartner Inc. has cut its silicon wafer forecast for 2008....

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Posted by Mark LaPedus on Jan 7, 2008 09:27 PM in Semiconductors

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I expect Silicon Image will finally debut today at CES a version of its High Definition Multimedia Interface for mobile devices such as digital cameras, portable media players and cellphones....

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Posted by Rick Merritt on Jan 7, 2008 09:46 AM in Computing

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At long last Bluetooth is gaining traction as a wireless link for MP3 players. The audio spec for this narrowband wireless link has been bogged down for years, attracting competitors...

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Posted by Rick Merritt on Jan 7, 2008 09:31 AM in Computing

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Live from Vegas: My head is spinning from the “Death March” of pre-CES press conferences today. Among others things they confirm my suspicions that wireless video is not ready for...

Continue reading "Wireless free for all"

Posted by Rick Merritt on Jan 6, 2008 08:31 PM in Computing

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What's the most global, digital, knowledge-driven, innovative, interconnected, competitive industry in the world? If you said consumer electronics, you get it. And if you are a stakeholder in this industry...

Continue reading "A Global Revolution"

Posted by Richard Wallace on Jan 6, 2008 05:24 PM in Going Global

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Bug Labs is exhibiting at the 2008 Consumer Electronics Show week of Jan.7 and is inviting engineers to the Innovations Pods area located in the Sands Convention Center to build...

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Posted by Nic Mokhoff on Jan 5, 2008 12:47 PM in Consumer

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Last year the newly christened Apple Inc. cast a huge shadow over the vast CES crowd when Steve Jobs launched the Apple TV and iPhone, perhaps the two most interesting...

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Posted by Rick Merritt on Jan 5, 2008 11:53 AM in Computing

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Do you hear that sound? Everybody and his mother is coming to CES claiming they have the answer to sending high def video around the digital living room over wireless....

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Posted by Rick Merritt on Jan 3, 2008 10:32 AM in Computing

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I'm not going to this week's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, and can't get excited about it either. In theory, this is the year when many high-tech communication fashion...

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Posted by Loring Wirbel on Jan 2, 2008 11:16 AM in Communications

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