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Ultimately, wires will be involved with your wireless devices. Bloomberg reports Time-Warner wants to provide some of them:
Time Warner Cable Inc., the biggest pay-television provider in New York City, is pitching phone companies including AT&T and Verizon Wireless on a service that uses its underground cables to carry mobile calls and Web downloads — easing the congestion spurred by data-hungry users of smartphones like the iPhone.
The service, known in the industry as wireless backhaul, has become Time Warner Cable’s fastest-growing business after revenue tripled last year, said Craig Collins, senior vice president of business services. Across the cable industry, sales from wireless carriers may reach about $3.6 billion in 2012, according to researcher GeoResults Inc.
The story goes on to say, without quoting any statistics, that iPhones use twice the capacity of other smartphone (I wonder how an iPhone compares to my Android) and that backhaul may ease congestion from one cell tower to another, but won’t help between a tower and the phones in our pockets.
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This is an interesting parallelism:
1990 – Time Inc. acquires Warner Communications for $14.1 Billion.
2000 – AOL purchases Time Warner for $165 Billion in stock. The merger would finally complete on Jan 11 2001 when the Federal Trade Commission approves the merger.
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No Comments »It’s over. The AOL-Time Warner divorce will be final on December 9.
At the time of the marriage, I was a loyal AOL customer. I cut my online teeth with Bulletin Boards, so I already knew basic nettiquette when I joined AOL (so I did not pick up some of the habits that made “AOLer” into an online insult). When AOL made the internet available to its users and announced their unlimited-use pricing scheme, BBS’s quickly died out. AOL was not the cheapest game in town, but it provided good value for the money, included newsgroup access, and fought spammers relentlessly.
I wasn’t excited about the merger at the time it happened; the underlying concept, that somehow a cable/entertainment company and an online service could benefit each other, seemed off-key.
Reading the story linked above, I finally realized why (I’m slow, but I eventually get there).
The merger was founded on the idea that computers could become some sort of hybrid computer/television entertainment center. It’s not going to happen.
They both have screens. That’s the beginning and the end of the similarity.
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It was something that people talked about for months, but on August 6, 2008, CEO Jeff Bewkes confirms the rumor. AOL will be split off into it’s own company by the next year (which came to fruition on May 28th, 2009)
Other Items in Tech History, the Trash-80 is announced, SQL Server 2008 is released. Ebay and Craigslist experience outages while the first Olympic events are streamed through NBC. We also saw Bill Gates and Steve Jobs together on a 5 year deal which gave Microsoft 1oo,000 non-voting shares of Apple.
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No Comments »Bloomberg reports that the ill-fated merger of Time Warner and AOL may finally get unraveled. Read the full story here.
At the time of the merger, I was still using AOL. I had three reasons:
- I spent a lot of time in dial-up country in those days;
- I always felt like AOL, though not the cheapest, gave me good value for my money; and
- I supported their crusade against spam and spammers (they were in the forefront of pursuing spammers in court).
The New York Times looks at the efforts of U. S. ISPs to institute tiered pricing plans. Read the full story here; it appears to be an excellent, unbiased analysis.
An excerpt:
Cable executives say the issue is not competition but cost. People who watch or download a lot of movies and TV shows use hundreds of times more Internet capacity than those who simply read e-mail and browse the Web. It is only fair, they argue, that heavy users should pay more.
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MacWorld and CES have been in competition on this week for many years. With that, we have had a lot of great announcements come out of thise week. G4, Mac Mini, the Lisa computer and a lot more on the Apple side, where CES announced everything from new computers from Commodore (did you know there was a 264 and 364 computer?), Atari, IBM, Gateway and many other companies.
We also saw Jobs and Woz reunite again at the MacWorld Expo, Time Inc and Warner communications merge to Time-Warner, then AOL buy it to form AOL Time-Warner. There is a whole lot of History this week, so check out the Podcast and get your fix on information.
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No Comments »Some of the events that happen this week:
Sony BMG gets the OK to merge
Protection from the y2k bug
Apple introduces the buttonless mouse
ATI releases the Radeon chip
Disneyland Opens
Amazon Opens it’s doors
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Most of us know what AOL stands for. Up until a year or so ago, we all got AOL disks mailed to us. AOL was the #1 ISP in the nation for a long time. Now it’s struggling to keep up with the times. Recently they purchased Bebo, a social networking site. Is AOL going in the right direction? What should they do to become a top name again?It all started around 1981 with a revolutionary way to download games and music on the Atari 2600: for a $65 fee (Modem and setup fee) and $1 an hour usage. William (Bill) von Meister was the man that had this prolific vision. Because of his ideas, he made Isaac Azimov proclaim that this was “the beginning of the Information Age”. Bill started many companies and ideas on communications, but the one company – called Control Video Corporation – was probably the most poignant and the basis that brought AOL to life.
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College Filtering of ISP – Ars Technica
Open Minded Mac Buyers – Toms Hardware
Buyback option – CNN
MySpace fixes Voyeur bug – Wired
HBO to Go – Cnet
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Mobile Phones cause Sleep Problems? – BBC
Yahoo Layoffs Comming – Cnet
Crunchies – Dan Farber
Javascript Worm – ArsTechnica
Outsource the Inbox – fourhourworkweek
Saas to improve Government – ZDNet
Rock Star Coder – Computerworld
Vishing – ArsTechnica
Microsoft to Give Money – Yahoo
Pownce on it – TechCrunch
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