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Why Apple Spent $80M on LaLa Monday, December 7th, 2009
Apple confirmed they purchased music streaming site LaLa for around $80 million and I believe the reason for the acquisition may have to do with my recent experience with Sonos, a company which makes multi-room, WiFi home stereo equipment. After you see how liberating streaming wireless radio can be in a multi-room environment you understand what a huge market this is. At a point in the future I expect to talk about my experience with the entire Sonos product line but I am waiting for their newest component to arrive before I cover them in full
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Why Apple Spent $80M on LaLa
The controversy between newspapers and Google has been going on for quite a while and recently Rupert Murdoch has threatened to pull the content from his various companies such as Fox News and Wall Street Journal off Google and instead allow Bing to have potentially exclusive access for a fee. In my opinion if enough content leaves Google and goes to Bing it will have an impact on Google’s business model. Moreover, Google’s ability to index the world’s information for free is coming into question as a result of Murdoch’s ranting.
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Allow Free Markets to Solve the Newspaper Problem
In past releases, you have seen exclusive interview footage , digested Desktop Virtualistation content , and viewed our Data Centre Management theatre presentations and audio. Keeping up the pace, we are pleased to announce the latest content release from the successful IP Expo : the Server Virtualsation & Infrastructure Theatre content (Day 1). All the latest trends are covered here – From cutting OPEX through to maximising efficiencies of existing infrastructure. Anyone interested in Green IT, Consolidation or storage should indulge in this release, even if you were lucky enough to attend the popular Server Virtualisation and Infrastructure Theatre at IP Expo !! If you require a breather in between all of the presentations, then please take time out to fill this quick survey from our friends at the TDM Group, who are conducting some research into the perceptions of virtualisation
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IP Expo Seminar Content Release #6 – Server Virtualisation Theatre Day 1
In honor of the US thanksgiving holiday I will be blogging less than usual this week. I wish you all a wonderful week full of family, friends, good health, safety and security. Tags: thanksgiving , turkey Follow me: Facebook Profile Google Reader Profile Twitter Profile Related Entries Return Receipt Frustration – Nov 24, 2005 Happy Thanksgiving 2008 – Nov 26, 2008 TMC Pot Luck Lunch – Nov 25, 2008 Pakistan Blocks YouTube – Feb 24, 2008 TMC Thanksgiving Pot Luck Luncheon – Nov 20, 2007 Musings for March 7, 2007 – Mar 07, 2007 TrackBacks | Comments | Tag with del.icio.us | Communications and Technology Blog – Tehrani.com Home | Permalink: Happy Thanksgiving 2009 Copyright Communications and Technology Blog – Tehrani.com
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Happy Thanksgiving 2009
The pace of tech acquisitions is not slowing and one area worth watching is the testing market where Ixia has recently picked up Catapult Communications to further its wireless IP performance testing strategy – especially as the company positions itself to be a leader in the LTE space. In a meeting in Ixia headquarters in southern California the company explained to me that they continue to focus on a broad range of testing areas such as Ethernet, 40/100 Gb Ethernet, devices, fiber channel, storage area networks and virtualization. And don’t forget about some of the other areas the company plays in such as voice, video and data
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Ixia Acquires Catapult, Agilent N2X Data Line
No sooner did I write my latest post on how Google could be in danger of the feds investigating them due to antitrust concerns does this entry turn up explaining how Rupert Murdoch and other newspapers could stop Google from indexing their content and force Bing to pay them for the right to do so. Murdoch has been threatening more and more loudly to take his content away from Google and most of us with any web savvy at all thought this would be similar in effectiveness to putting your head in sand when you are afraid. But this Bing idea would shift the balance of power overnight.
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Suddenly Murdoch is a Real Threat to Google?
Recently I commented about how Verizon’s doubling of its early termination fee to $350 makes sense as the company needs to keep investing in ensuring its network is the best in the US. I may be the only person who appreciates having a fee go up as evidenced by the noise from journalists which is not subsiding. One of my favorite writers and video producers, David Pogue of The New York Times comments today that Verizon is gouging and has a plethora of ideas the company can implement to save consumers money.
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Verizon’s Rising Fees Still Makes Sense
Wolfram Alpha crashed on to the scene some months back as a computational knowledge engine which is a hybrid of software and expert-populated database of theoretically limitless knowledge. A simple query requesting the population of Norwalk, CT where TMC is headquartered for example brings back a result of 83,456 people and states it is an estimate from 2007. At the time of its launch, the service was hailed as a Google killer but of course it seems we are all obsessed with the violent destruction of market leaders and as such when something which seemed better than Google turned up, many were ready to bet on it.
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Bing Partners with Wolfram Alpha
Want to gain more insight into the amazing IP Expo? We believe at IP leaders, that we can enhance your experience of the UK’s largest Infrastructure, Virtualisation, Cloud Computing and Wireless event, right here with our ground breaking content and exclusive footage. In this release, we provide you with real world examples and explanations in how to integrate cloud computing into your organisation, showcasing practical and smooth day to day running of your virtual infrastructure, and a glimpse into the future of the implementation of virtualisation and the political landscape
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IP Expo – Exclusive Interviews and Footage #1
If you missed Richard Scannell – Senior Vice President of Glasshouse Technologies at IP Expo then you are in for a treat, follow the link above to see Richard present on this video and slide combination from our friends at Haymarket . The evolution of the data centre can be simplified into a small number of major computing shifts – the invention of the mainframe and therefore the data centre, the client server revolution, the adoption of the internet and most recently, Virtual insanity… So, as we ponder the next technological shift and its impact on the data centre, we are also forced to consider not just what the data centre will become, but also, how many of us will even own one or anything that resides in one.
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IP Expo: See The Data Centre of the Future vs The Future of the Data Centre
This entry is part 1 of 1 in the series Collision Course: Business, Policy and Politics The IP Expo ‘09 keynotes and sessions offered insights not only to the current state of the industry, but also the drivers and challenges in the years to come, as Lord Carter ’s opening address illustrated. The “bedrock” of a series of lectures on trends in the IT industry is surely the future of infrastructure – whatever that happens to mean in the context – followed by a sufficiently robust service architecture and delivery mechanisms.
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Collision Course: Business, Policy and Politics
We are proud to release the next set of seminar content from the education programme at IP Expo 2009. With over 7,000 visitors over 2 days and a stellar cast of speakers and session titles it was no suprise that the theatres were bustling and none more so than the Desktop Virtualization theatre. With top level speakers from VMWare, EMC, Cisco and Microsoft we had all the major players discussing all the latest topics and content. The content release contains all of the Day 1 sessions within the Desktop Virtualization Theatre (View the full and up to date programme by downloading the Timetable in PDF format). Continue reading to view the presentations. Share this on del.icio.us Digg this! Share this on Reddit Buzz up! Stumble upon something good
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IP Expo Seminar Content Release #2 – Desktop Virtualization Theatre Day 1
I think you’ll agree, IP Expo was a fantastic show. In addition to housing the leading experts in Virtualisation, IP Networks, Cloud Computing and Wireless Networks, this year’s IP Expo offered over 160 educational seminars spread across 10 technology areas, as well as the Update ’09 Keynote Programme . This C-Level keynote programme provided an insight into the cutting edge, bleeding edge and reality of managing your business and the IT infrastructure to support it.
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IP Expo Seminar Content Release #1 – Keynote Selection
“ …there is a real danger of spending more on storage unless the designers take a holistic view of the infrastructure when considering network performance.” At least weeks IP Expo it was clear/confirmed that the virtualised approach to communications reaches into every corner of the network, from applications and operating systems to storage and files systems. A consequence is that a major challenge for the network professional is how to ensure optimum performance.
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Virtualisation and Network Performance – The Danger of Simply Adding More Storage
Join Aruba on stand 352 at IP Expo In a time of economic restraint, IT organisations are under pressure to do more, with less. Budgets are flat – or falling – and companies are forced to look carefully at their network infrastructure and ask if it provides too much at too greater cost? Budget pressure, the need to cut expenditure and be more efficient has resulted in many organisations reassessing traditional approaches to networking
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The Economic Imperative – How Wi-Fi Can Save the IT Budget
Highlighted Seminar Session – When Data Centre Cabling Becomes Art Presented by CommScope 13:50 PM – 14:20 PM – Datacentre Management Theatre Register Free Now A quick look behind the racks where users connect back to the servers and the odds are you’ll discover a veritable spaghetti of cables – almost certainly UTP (Unshielded Twisted Pair) copper as specified in the EIA/TIA 568 standard. As demand for throughput continues to rise, however, the data centre is under pressure to deliver not just 10 Mbps but 100 Mbps to the desktop and not just 100 Mbps between servers, but 1 Gbps and beyond. Although the spaghetti has become slightly less intense with the advent of blade systems in parts of the data centre, the overall cabling challenges – including the bandwidth issues – remain.
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The Art of Data Centre Cabling & when Data Centre Cabling Becomes Art
While patent filings may be down, appeals are up. Law.com offers an explanation : According to the NLJ, patent challenges at the Patent and Trademark Office are up 70 percent this fiscal year, which began last October. The reason for the increase, say some IP lawyers, are stingier approval rates of patents at the PTO. This fiscal year only 44 percent of patents have been approved, compared to 66 percent five years ago.
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Patent Appeals on the Rise and Charging By the Page
802.11n is the most significant change since the 802.11 standard emerged, with across the board changes, including the physical and MAC layers, modulation and antennas. Enabling the standard is an Herculean task, with proposals from the volunteer group meetings eliciting thousands of comments, each resolved either by a written response declining it or text explaining its inclusion. Along with the logistics, there are the usual politics and manoeuvrings, but the Alliance began certifying draft 11n products in summer 2008, lessening the risk for developers
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An 802.11n reality check – hype, hand “Mr Wi-fiâ€
The Seventh Circuit’s Judge Posner has weighed in on the newspaper crisis at his Becker-Posner Blog suggesting that a fix to the news revenue issue might be to change copyright laws to prevent linking to or summarizing news content ( click here to read the post): Expanding copyright law to bar online access to copyrighted materials without the copyright holder’s consent, or to bar linking to or paraphrasing copyrighted materials without the copyright holder’s consent, might be necessary to keep free riding on content financed by online newspapers from so impairing the incentive to create costly news-gathering operations that news services like Reuters and the Associated Press would become the only professional, nongovernmental sources of news and opinion. I see the problem and the danger to society in losing newspapers and their reporters, but it seems unworkable to prevent linking.
Latin Hooters Tuesday, March 3rd, 2009Last week I wrote about Florida’s love of boats. This week, it’s hooters Hooters. I’m sure it’s the same all over the U.S.A., but Hooters (the restaurants) are all over Florida. Just last week I went to Daytona for a car show , and Hooters was there selling wings, soda, and fun. Before I had even handed over my two dollars for a warm can of Diet Coke, an “I Love Hooters” sticker had been slapped on my chest. It reminded me of my favorite South Park episode in which Butters falls in love with his “RAISINS” waitress because she showers him with affection at the restaurant – at least until he ran out of tip money… Florida is also the place where WingHouse spanked Hooters in a trade dress infringement case, so a Hooters post is definitely at home on Florida IP Trends. As an IP attorney, I have a disease that has altered my brain into constantly scanning for trademarks – infringing or otherwise. While most people scan signs and billboards for information (such as STOP, YIELD, etc.), I’m looking for the registered trademark symbol. It’s ridiculous. If I see a somewhat-descriptive mark with the “circle R” symbol, I’ll turn to my wife and say “Must be on the Supplemental ” to which she replies, “You’re a dork.” Point taken, but 9 times out of ten when I get back home and search the USPTO TESS database, I’m right.
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Gary Kim, Editor-in-Chief of IP Business magazine interviews Stephan Beckert, Director of Research at TeleGeography on the telecom wholesale voice and VoIP market. …
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Voice Peering Forum: Interview with Stephan Beckert of TeleGeography on trends i