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tHAWT Episode #161: Was Pink Floyd right?

thindson — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 19:12:00 GMT

In this week's tHAWT we add one more memeber, so I suppose it goes from the three stooges to the four musketeers (maybe that is stretching it a little). Anyway we have Paul, Dave Mark and myself and as we said on last week's episode we are coving TV aspects this week, well not everythign about TV just what is in the weeks news. Hare are a string of articles that we used.

Busisiness Week Future of TV special report
CableLabs Stewardship and Fulfillment Interfaces Specifications announced
Streaming HD still limited
Cable Network DVR get court go ahead
Pirate Bay sold
Just too many TV channels
TV everywhere, Inovation or Control?

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tHAWT Episode #160: Michael Jackson's death impactful

thindson — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 17:21:00 GMT

In this week's episode Paul, Dave, and I participate in a real (not virtual) round table discussion for a change. Dave and Paul were both very chipper as they had plans for the afternoon: Mary's, the strawberry festival, and golf. I, on the other hand, had work waiting for me :-(. In news, the death of Michael Jackson has had a pretty significant impact for news reporting and also on networks. Also beware of the now circulating spam/virus emails that are taking advantage of people's curiosity. Other items discussed are listed below.

TV Everywhere
Femto launch for AT&T 2010
More apps required
Interview with Verizon CEO
ITU Statistics
Unlimited top level domains

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tHAWT Episode #159: Google voice coming: Rumor or real?

thindson — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 21:17:00 GMT

This episode features Mark and I. An interesting rumor is that Google voice is getting ready to be opened up to the masses. The rumor is made more credible by the nature of the "facts"--that Google is reserving a million telephone numbers with Level 3. I guess we will only have to wait and see on this one. Other links discussed are listed below.

IPv6 becoming more of a priority
Importance of social networking
More stats on video usage; news flash it's up
Brits raise money for broadband by taxing telephone lines
Do you think text messaging is overpriced?
Walt Mossberg reviews iPhone 3G S and OS 3.0
Clearwire expands WiMAX into Atlanta

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tHAWT Episode #158: Adiós analog

thindson — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 02:56:00 GMT

In this episode, Mark and I finally get to say goodbye to broadcast analog TV in the U.S. Despite all the delays, there will still be millions who are not ready. The links to these and other stories covered are below.

The confused grandma video
Article in USA Today on the DTV date
DTV in Information Week
NPR success due to local content and social media tools
Twitterholic tracks twitter popularity score
This caused a driveway moment for Mark
Will Sprint and Level 3 make a deal
Juniper launches a 100GE interface
The age of smart grids is upon us
TED talk on smart power outlets
Clamoring to get an app on the iPhone

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tHAWT Episode #157: How do you find a hidden fiber? Just dig.

thindson — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 16:23:00 GMT

In this episode your hosts are Paul Whalen and Mark Steinberg, and the links they covered were:

The Infotech top 100 (Business Week)
Palm Pre getting good press in WSJ too
Does the iPhone need Verizon?
Qi Lu and Bing and here is the Bing site
What cable, where?

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tHAWT Episode #156: Will you bing something?

thindson — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 03:04:00 GMT

Another week has gone by and it has gotten a little bit more difficult to get a few of us together, with business travel, vacation, and the birth of a new foal, so this week it is just me at the helm. Here are some of the links to the items I discussed this week:

The All Things Digital Conference
Jon Rubinstein and Roger McNamee Interview
The Palm Pre
Zucker Says Ad Market Has 'Bottomed Out'
Hulu eyes charging viewers not to see ads
DVRs are changing our social behavior too
Balmer's Bing
FCC Rural Broadband Strategy
Tweets coming to Verizon's FiOS
Obama Outlines Coordinated Cyber-Security Plan
Sling is now available on the iPhone
Sony Viao cross between HD TV and PC

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tHAWT Episode #155: A solo Mark

thindson — Sun, 24 May 2009 21:51:00 GMT

This week we have Mark flying solo. It probably has something to do with the Memorial Day Holiday weekend. Here are the links he used:

Interop Las Vegas 2009
The 14 Themes of Interop Las Vegas 2009
Telecom Revenue Will Fall 3.1% this year
Will Over-The-Top Kill the Video Star?
State of the Art - Panasonic and Verizon Make the Home Phone Smart
Palm's New Smartphone Goes on Sale on June 6
The Official Palm Pre Site
The Race to Provide Wi-Fi at 30,000 Feet

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tHAWT Episode #154: Verizon continues sell off

thindson — Sat, 16 May 2009 18:49:00 GMT

In this episode Dave and Paul kick off the discussion on the topic of Verizon's announcement about selling off more of their rural land lines, this time to Frontier. Later in the discussion Mark calls in on Skype. Unfortunately this seems to have affected the recording quality, our apologies for this. Other items covered in this episode include:

Deal with Frontier could improve FiOS numbers
More Telstra breakup?
Share your mobile broadband with your friends on the road with MiFi, maybe I could use this with my iPod :-)
By the way Sprint also announces the MiFi
Clearwire and Cisco hook up
Lack of LTE handset for 2010
Google suffers another failure. I know I suffered during this time, iGoogle was really slow
Interesting numbers on the broadband market share

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tHAWT Episode #153: Bouncing back or all over the place

thindson — Sat, 09 May 2009 17:10:00 GMT

In this episode of tHAWT we have Dave and Paul who both happened to be in Vermont at the same time so no skype this time. The links to topics covered are:

Are we bouncing back?
Sprint's loss widens
Kindle DX
Alcatel-Lucent results
DOCSIS 3.0 blanket coverage by 2013
DirecTV sale possible
Not in my backyard

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tHAWT Episode #152: Keep abreast of Swine Flu with technology

thindson — Sun, 03 May 2009 00:51:00 GMT

This week we have Mark and Myself discussing the week's news and of course we couldn't ignore the frenzy about the potential pandemic, swine flu, or H1N1 as it is being referred to now, especially as we all travel so regularly this is something that we need to keep on top of. Fortunately, thanks to the world of telecommunications, there are many ways to keep abreast, which is how we tie this topic into our podcast. All the links covered in our podcast (plus a few more) are below:

Google expanding Flu tracking
The Google flu tacking in Mexico
Follow CDC on twitter
Learn from a TED talk on the 1918 pandemic
10 tips for swine flu planning (BC/DRP)
Comcast dropping analog for more content
ABC and Disney on Hulu
Telecom need to expand revenue per bit
TWC revenue results
Qwest revenue results
Verizon Wireless earnings up
Time Warner expected to spin off AOL
Microsoft working on iPhone competitor, Verizon interested
Future in location aware applications

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tHAWT Episode #151: CIPAV allergy

thindson — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 20:55:00 GMT

In this episode of tHAWT Mark and I look through our items that have been tagged on Delicious. One of the stories this week related to the fact that Wednesday was Earth Day, so we thought we would include a few links to green technology: this TMC aggregation site, a Green Tech Blog/Magazine, CNET's green electronics guide, and the green show from CNET TV.

Links to other topics we covered include:

AT&T first quarter results
AT&T beefing up 3G
TiVO by the second monitoring and reporting your viewing
Canoe getting closer to targeted commercials
Oracle (not IBM) buys Sun
Flash lite coming to TV sets
Beating the cap wrap
FBI uses spyware to catch cable cutting extortionist
Aneesh Chopra tapped for CTO and some reasons why he is a good pick

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tHAWT Episode #150: Convict us of disorganized crime

thindson — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 21:25:00 GMT

This week's episode of tHAWT is another one of our solo sessions, this time with me in the driver's seat. The first news item I covered was a follow-up on the continuing saga of TWC and its Internet caps, which it decided was not a good idea at this time. TWC did, however, decide to develop some metering software for its customers so they can actually see how much they are downloading, I think this is a much better first step. TWC was also in the news for telling the FCC to shut up about Net Neutrality. Other items include:

eBay selling off StumbleUpon
eBay planning on spinning off Skype as in IPO
Verizon getting into the app store game with apps for its Hub product
CNN obtains its very popular twitter account
CNN admits defeat to Ashton Kutcher on twitter
The Pirate Bay founders sent to jail, and are surprised about it too
AT&T suffers another fiber cut
Looks like Oz Govt is for real about its 43B broadband plan
A biometric authentication device that scans palms in milliseconds, just wave.
A smart and secure USB drive

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tHAWT Episode #149: Happy Easter/Passover

thindson — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 21:03:00 GMT

In this episode of tHAWT Dave, Mark, and I gather for the round table discussion. There were a lots of things tagged with thawt on delicious.com so we did a little bouncing around. Seeing that this week was also the first week of the baseball season Mark kicked off the discussion about the updated MLB.TV service, a very popular service that comes with some very neat features. The links we covered are:

Baseball MLB.TV doing very well
The cool new Sprint advertisement
The sabotage of AT&T cables
AT&T news on twitter (now the reward is up to $250,000)
Time Warner Cable download caps get a slight modification
Skype comes to iPhone and BlackBerries
Why Google should buy twitter
Australian Gvt now wants to DIY a national broadband network and it can be a joke it is on Reuters
The FBI investigates stolen minutes, but are they being a but heavy handed
Happy 40th to the RFC
Great place to get RFCs, the RFC editor
BTW here is an RFC that was written by a couple of people from Hill Associates, they both continue to be well published

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tHAWT Episode #148: Conficker quiet, but so was GhostNet for a long time

thindson — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 18:21:00 GMT

In this episode of tHAWT, Paul Whalen and Mark Steinberg discuss the week's news, and because this week was an April Fool's week there is always some skepticism about some of the stories that crop up. Something that was hyped up to be big this week was the Conficker worm, as there was some code in the .c variant that indicated some activity change on April 1. It turns out this didn't amount to much despite the amount of infected clients. However, the GhostNet spying network was not a hoax, and it confirms the need for continued security vigilance. To kick off the week's discussion, Paul and Mark discussed happenings at the CTIA trade show. I encourage you to check out Al Gore's speech. This and other links are covered below.

CTIA trade show in Las Vegas and Al Gore makes an appearance
Wi-Fi in SmartPhones makes them more popular
Skype comes to the iPhone and to my iPod touch
Qwest possibly selling their long distance network--what next?
Outgoing Sol Trujillo says Telstra won't be impacted more than a couple of billion
Not much action on April 1 from Conficker despite the hype from the press
Maps of Conficker infected clients
Unmasking the GhostNet on NPR not too far away from Eagle Eye
Bill floated to allow president to shut down networks in cyber emergency (or is it April Fool's bill)
Real April Fool's pranks

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tHAWT Episode #147: DTV still rates as news

thindson — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 21:16:00 GMT

This episode has Paul at the helm providing us with a solo tHAWT. Still in the news is the digital television transition, thanks to a detailed article in USA Today. Make sure you check the comments at the end. Paul also wandered through a variety of other topics as listed below.

DTV coupons are back
Local TV is a "new" weapon
Mobile networks may become a shared utility
Magpie, and add network for twitter
Pay by twitter
What do your mobile plans really cost you
fixmycellbill.com
Power cost of computers left on overnight
The end of sick days (no more lying over the phone) and this TED talk may also be worth watching in conjunction with it.

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