Two years ago I started writing this blog in the hope that someone, anyone really, would read it. Motorola generously funded the effort even though corporate blogging was hardly a common practice. We plodded along for a while, and slowly readership grew. Then the feedback started to roll in. I began having increasingly interesting conversations [...]
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There’s a lot of hubbub on the Net today around a new Wall Street Journal article analyzing who benefits from President-elect Barack Obama’s plan to create universal broadband access. Among the winners listed are equipment makers like Motorola. Without going into much detail, the article states that operators would face massive network upgrades if the [...]
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There are a lot of good things to being connected all the time, but there’s no doubt that having networked devices also adds a layer of complexity to everything. If my Wi-Fi music player isn’t working, is that because there’s something wrong with the player, or something wrong with the broadband connection? And if the [...]
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There are a thousand ways to analyze the CE market, but I thought I’d examine just a few as a way to sum up the trends going into 2009. First, what are companies showing sneak peaks of in the lead-up to CES? I’m seeing lots of green tech, lots of HDTV (displays, cables, camcorders), and [...]
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There used to be a joke in my family that my father, who was addicted to the computer, was not allowed to power up his PC on Christmas. This was long before widespread use of the Internet, and before any of the rest of us were computer-addicted. Now during a typical holiday season, all five [...]
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