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• A remedy for Apple's nay-sayers
• 111 days ago
• Despite announcing record results for the latest fiscal quarter, Apple stock took a nose-dive this week. Many think that financial analysts (many of them not particularly subject-matter experts) overemphasized the "slowing" iPod franchise.
  
  I think that if the iPod is a symbol of Apple "jumping the shark," then it can also be a symbol of how Apple can confound expectations and put those ...

• Mainstream portable computing, circa 2011 - today
• 117 days ago
• The computer industry pundits are all a-twitter about Apple's new MacBook Air laptop computer. It's a brilliant design. I tend to buy a new laptop ~every 3 years, so I'm not running out to buy one, but perhaps variants on this form-factor will proliferate across the Mac line by the time I'm in the market again.
  
  People are complaining about lack of Ethernet and FireWire connections, l ...

• Another Test of Checks & Balances
• 146 days ago
• As expected, the FCC relaxed media ownership rules, and issued 42 permanent waivers allowing media companies to own newspapers, radio or TV stations in the twenty largest markets.
  
  Congress - and not just the Democrats - is challenging the move, and it is likely to end up in Federal Court, as did the last attempt to relax ownership rules, in 2003.
  
  Add Media Ownership to the lo ...

• FCC report announced, and it's a whopper
• 152 days ago
• The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) releases a major report on video competition approximately once a year. The latest was announced at the end of November, although is not yet posted on the FCC Web site. The FCC press release and summary is available here.
  
  One of the five FCC commissioners, Jonathan Adelstein (** see below), said: "I have been deeply concerned about increas ...

• Top PC tech innovations?
• 153 days ago
• Tech Republic (CNET) posted a list of "Top 20 PC Technology Innovations." I agree with six of the twenty (below these 6 is my own list)
  7) Hayes Smartmodem (1981) - The gateway to the Internet in the pre-broadband era - although the real secret sauce was the Hayes command set
  4) NCSA Mosaic (1993) - The first Web browser that ushered in the graphical World Wide Web.
  11) MP3 (1991) ...