http://odeo.com/channels/1543-Slashdot-Review-Produced-by-SDR-News AndrewMcCaskey no A Daily (M-F) Technology Podcast: Tech News Highlights from Slashdot, Digg and Reddit A Daily (M-F) Technology Podcast: Tech News Highlights from Slashdot, Digg and Reddit A Daily (M-F) Technology Podcast: Tech News Highlights from Slashdot, Digg and Reddit en 40 Tue, 15 Dec 2009 16:41:22 -0800 Tue, 15 Dec 2009 16:41:22 -0800 http://odeo.com/episodes/25544438-SDRNews-Facebook-at-Five-Percent Ads to Offset Google Phone Costs Facebook Takes Five Percent Honeypot Traps the Billionth Spam SDR News is a Daily (M-F) Technology Podcast with Tech News Highlights from Slashdot, Digg and Reddit Click Here to Sign Up for the SDR Newsletter Prefer a Direct Download ? (mp3) Download today’s show. SDR News Links If a news item has disappeared from the Del.icio.us list above, try the full list here. SEARCH ANY STORY YOU HEAR ON THE PODCAST More Info on Screencasts Online FaceBook at Five Percent by Andrew McCaskey FIve Percent of Internet Time The CommScore announcement that Facebook now consumes five percent of the time that Americans spend online is not surprising. The fact that Farmville turnips wither and die if they are not watered each day by a returning player is going to insure that there are sixty million people who return. Add in the hundreds of thousands of Baby Boomers who discover Facebook each day, and the multiplication of Fan Pages. And the amount of minutes mult... Ads to Offset Google Phone Costs Facebook Takes Five Percent Honeypot Traps the Billionth Spam SDR News is a Daily (M-F) Technology Podcast with Tech News Highlights from Slashdot, Digg and Reddit Click Here to Sign Up for the SDR Newsletter Prefer a Direct Download ? (mp3) Download today’s show. SDR News Links If a news item has disappeared from the Del.icio.us list above, try the full list here. SEARCH ANY STORY YOU HEAR ON THE PODCAST More Info on Screencasts Online FaceBook at Five Percent by Andrew McCaskey FIve Percent of Internet Time The CommScore announcement that Facebook now consumes five percent of the time that Americans spend online is not surprising. The fact that Farmville turnips wither and die if they are not watered each day by a returning player is going to insure that there are sixty million people who return. Add in the hundreds of thousands of Baby Boomers who discover Facebook each day, and the multiplication of Fan Pages. And the amount of minutes multiplies like.. well, rabbits in Farmville. All of that lurks somewhere between interesting and profound. If you are a casual observer of trends, the interesting part makes sense. And if you are a part of the traditional media, particularly television it could easily havea a profound impact on your business livelihood. Simply put, neither virtual farmers, baby boomers or just about anyone else are holding up their end of the bargain. Other than the rapidly aging out populations over 65 that never made the transition, television viewership continues to drop in favor of smaller screens. Five percent is not much. But as the maxim goes, 5% of something beats 100% of nothing every time. Contact Us Electronic Frontier Foundation Watch Today’s Video Episode Be sure to check out GoToMeeting. Why? Because you can hold meetings right over the Net — from anywhere. Plus, you can hold all the meetings you want for one flat rate. To get your free 30-day trial , visit www.gotomeeting.com/techpodcasts. Take 10% off any order at GoDaddy.com! Code SLASH Take $5 off any $30 order at GoDaddy.com! Code SDR530 .com Domains $6.95 at GoDaddy.com! Code SLASH3 More blogs about SlashdotReview and SDRNews… Ads to Offset Google Phone Costs Facebook Takes Five Percent Honeypot Traps the Billionth Spam SDR News is a Daily (M-F) Technology Podcast with Tech News Highlights from Slashdot, Digg and Reddit Click Here to Sign Up for the SDR Newsletter Prefer a Direct Download ? (mp3) Download today’s show. SDR News Links If a news item has disappeared from the Del.icio.us list above, try the full list here. SEARCH ANY STORY YOU HEAR ON THE PODCAST More Info on Screencasts Online FaceBook at Five Percent by Andrew McCaskey FIve Percent of Internet Time The CommScore announcement that Facebook now consumes five percent of the time that Americans spend online is not surprising. The fact that Farmville turnips wither and die if they are not watered each day by a returning player is going to insure that there are sixty million people who return. Add in the hundreds of thousands of Baby Boomers who discover Facebook each day, and the multiplication of Fan Pages. And the amount of minutes multiplies like.. well, rabbits in Farmville. All of that lurks somewhere between interesting and profound. If you are a casual observer of trends, the interesting part makes sense. And if you are a part of the traditional media, particularly television it could easily havea a profound impact on your business livelihood. Simply put, neither virtual farmers, baby boomers or just about anyone else are holding up their end of the bargain. Other than the rapidly aging out populations over 65 that never made the transition, television viewership continues to drop in favor of smaller screens. Five percent is not much. But as the maxim goes, 5% of something beats 100% of nothing every time. Contact Us Electronic Frontier Foundation Watch Today’s Video Episode Be sure to check out GoToMeeting. Why? Because you can hold meetings right over the Net — from anywhere. Plus, you can hold all the meetings you want for one flat rate. To get your free 30-day trial , visit www.gotomeeting.com/techpodcasts. Take 10% off any order at GoDaddy.com! Code SLASH Take $5 off any $30 order at GoDaddy.com! Code SDR530 .com Domains $6.95 at GoDaddy.com! Code SLASH3 More blogs about SlashdotReview and SDRNews… tag:odeo.com,2009-12-15,25544438 Tue, 15 Dec 2009 16:41:22 -0800 no Slashdot Review - Produced by SDR News SDRNews, android, spam, Facebook, gPhone http://odeo.com/episodes/25532244-SDRNews-Slow-WiFi-and-the-WiMax-LTE-Saga Google Phone Confirmed in WSJ Computers Don’t Save Hospitals Money 42% of Cellphone User’s Don’t Switch Due to Fees SDR News is a Daily (M-F) Technology Podcast with Tech News Highlights from Slashdot, Digg and Reddit Click Here to Sign Up for the SDR Newsletter Prefer a Direct Download ? (mp3) Download today’s show. SDR News Links If a news item has disappeared from the Del.icio.us list above, try the full list here. SEARCH ANY STORY YOU HEAR ON THE PODCAST More Info on Screencasts Online Slow WiFi and the WiMax-LTE Saga by Andrew McCaskey “For a technology that’s all about being fast, 802.11n Wi-Fi sure took its sweet time to become a standard Until September 2009, it wasn’t, officially, even a standard. But that didn’t stop vendors from implementing it for several years beforehand – it took five drama-packed years for the standard to come to fruition. The delay was never over the technology. In fact, the technical tricks that ... Google Phone Confirmed in WSJ Computers Don’t Save Hospitals Money 42% of Cellphone User’s Don’t Switch Due to Fees SDR News is a Daily (M-F) Technology Podcast with Tech News Highlights from Slashdot, Digg and Reddit Click Here to Sign Up for the SDR Newsletter Prefer a Direct Download ? (mp3) Download today’s show. SDR News Links If a news item has disappeared from the Del.icio.us list above, try the full list here. SEARCH ANY STORY YOU HEAR ON THE PODCAST More Info on Screencasts Online Slow WiFi and the WiMax-LTE Saga by Andrew McCaskey “For a technology that’s all about being fast, 802.11n Wi-Fi sure took its sweet time to become a standard Until September 2009, it wasn’t, officially, even a standard. But that didn’t stop vendors from implementing it for several years beforehand – it took five drama-packed years for the standard to come to fruition. The delay was never over the technology. In fact, the technical tricks that give 802.11n its steady connection speeds of 100Mbps to 140Mbps have been well-known for years. major reason it took so long for 802.11n to be finalized was “the amount of money at stake and the number of vendors in the marketplace whose lives can be made easier or harder depending on the outcome. Wimax versus LTE – standards take time, adoption takes even longer. and with the amount of money in play here, it might take as long as another five years for the drama to play thorugh. Or like HD-DVD and Blu Ray they might just keep beating each other up until technology awards a hollow victory to one or the other and nobody makes a lot of money. Contact Us DIY Book Scanner Introduction and Motivation from Daniel Reetz on Vimeo. DIY Book Scanner Watch Today’s Video Episode Be sure to check out GoToMeeting. Why? Because you can hold meetings right over the Net — from anywhere. Plus, you can hold all the meetings you want for one flat rate. To get your free 30-day trial , visit www.gotomeeting.com/techpodcasts. Take 10% off any order at GoDaddy.com! Code SLASH Take $5 off any $30 order at GoDaddy.com! Code SDR530 .com Domains $6.95 at GoDaddy.com! Code SLASH3 More blogs about SlashdotReview and SDRNews… Google Phone Confirmed in WSJ Computers Don’t Save Hospitals Money 42% of Cellphone User’s Don’t Switch Due to Fees SDR News is a Daily (M-F) Technology Podcast with Tech News Highlights from Slashdot, Digg and Reddit Click Here to Sign Up for the SDR Newsletter Prefer a Direct Download ? (mp3) Download today’s show. SDR News Links If a news item has disappeared from the Del.icio.us list above, try the full list here. SEARCH ANY STORY YOU HEAR ON THE PODCAST More Info on Screencasts Online Slow WiFi and the WiMax-LTE Saga by Andrew McCaskey “For a technology that’s all about being fast, 802.11n Wi-Fi sure took its sweet time to become a standard Until September 2009, it wasn’t, officially, even a standard. But that didn’t stop vendors from implementing it for several years beforehand – it took five drama-packed years for the standard to come to fruition. The delay was never over the technology. In fact, the technical tricks that give 802.11n its steady connection speeds of 100Mbps to 140Mbps have been well-known for years. major reason it took so long for 802.11n to be finalized was “the amount of money at stake and the number of vendors in the marketplace whose lives can be made easier or harder depending on the outcome. Wimax versus LTE – standards take time, adoption takes even longer. and with the amount of money in play here, it might take as long as another five years for the drama to play thorugh. Or like HD-DVD and Blu Ray they might just keep beating each other up until technology awards a hollow victory to one or the other and nobody makes a lot of money. Contact Us DIY Book Scanner Introduction and Motivation from Daniel Reetz on Vimeo. DIY Book Scanner Watch Today’s Video Episode Be sure to check out GoToMeeting. Why? Because you can hold meetings right over the Net — from anywhere. Plus, you can hold all the meetings you want for one flat rate. To get your free 30-day trial , visit www.gotomeeting.com/techpodcasts. Take 10% off any order at GoDaddy.com! Code SLASH Take $5 off any $30 order at GoDaddy.com! Code SDR530 .com Domains $6.95 at GoDaddy.com! Code SLASH3 More blogs about SlashdotReview and SDRNews… tag:odeo.com,2009-12-13,25532244 Sun, 13 Dec 2009 21:14:31 -0800 no Slashdot Review - Produced by SDR News SDRNews, twitter, google, wireless, wordpress http://odeo.com/episodes/25521046-SDRNews-The-Perils-of-Careless-Redaction Hackers Find EC2 Home WiMax Gets Second Chance Posterous Makes Business Blogs Easy SDR News is a Daily (M-F) Technology Podcast with Tech News Highlights from Slashdot, Digg and Reddit Click Here to Sign Up for the SDR Newsletter Prefer a Direct Download ? (mp3) Download today’s show. SDR News Links If a news item has disappeared from the Del.icio.us list above, try the full list here. SEARCH ANY STORY YOU HEAR ON THE PODCAST More Info on Screencasts Online Perils of Careless Redaction by Andrew McCaskey Heroes, Not Villains There was all sorts of uproar in the mainstream media concerning the publishing of the TSA procedures manual, with redaction removed. It was as if a great hacker-based scandal had erupted, pushing the security of the US air transport system closer to the brink, just at the time when millions were contemplating their Christmas season travels. Not only was it dramatic, it was the sort of fear-mongering that was sure to set the airwaves of telephone call in u... Hackers Find EC2 Home WiMax Gets Second Chance Posterous Makes Business Blogs Easy SDR News is a Daily (M-F) Technology Podcast with Tech News Highlights from Slashdot, Digg and Reddit Click Here to Sign Up for the SDR Newsletter Prefer a Direct Download ? (mp3) Download today’s show. SDR News Links If a news item has disappeared from the Del.icio.us list above, try the full list here. SEARCH ANY STORY YOU HEAR ON THE PODCAST More Info on Screencasts Online Perils of Careless Redaction by Andrew McCaskey Heroes, Not Villains There was all sorts of uproar in the mainstream media concerning the publishing of the TSA procedures manual, with redaction removed. It was as if a great hacker-based scandal had erupted, pushing the security of the US air transport system closer to the brink, just at the time when millions were contemplating their Christmas season travels. Not only was it dramatic, it was the sort of fear-mongering that was sure to set the airwaves of telephone call in urgency in motion. The facts of the matter seem to point to a clumsy request for quotation that was put in place by the TSA, with the material put forth as an example of procedures that prospective bidders would have to comply with. The TSA itself “redacted” the more sensitive information by turning the text background black around the sensitive areas. It’s just the sort of technique that might be effective in say, preventing a fifth grade class from seeing the answers in a “fill in the blank” quiz, but giving them some idea of what the test might look like. The various al-Quaeda tech teams around the world probably had more than a few chuckles. Note that by the time that the students were in the seventh or eighth grade, the redaction would be worthless. So, if the bad guys have the information anyway, why not expose some incompetence in the agency procedures that permitted the incident to happen in the first place ? Embarrassing, yes – but the hackers did not tell any bad guys what they didn’t already know. {sharethis} Contact Us TED Talk Sixth Sense Pranav Mistry Watch Today’s Video Episode Be sure to check out GoToMeeting. Why? Because you can hold meetings right over the Net — from anywhere. Plus, you can hold all the meetings you want for one flat rate. To get your free 30-day trial , visit www.gotomeeting.com/techpodcasts. Take 10% off any order at GoDaddy.com! Code SLASH Take $5 off any $30 order at GoDaddy.com! Code SDR530 .com Domains $6.95 at GoDaddy.com! Code SLASH3 More blogs about SlashdotReview and SDRNews… Hackers Find EC2 Home WiMax Gets Second Chance Posterous Makes Business Blogs Easy SDR News is a Daily (M-F) Technology Podcast with Tech News Highlights from Slashdot, Digg and Reddit Click Here to Sign Up for the SDR Newsletter Prefer a Direct Download ? (mp3) Download today’s show. SDR News Links If a news item has disappeared from the Del.icio.us list above, try the full list here. SEARCH ANY STORY YOU HEAR ON THE PODCAST More Info on Screencasts Online Perils of Careless Redaction by Andrew McCaskey Heroes, Not Villains There was all sorts of uproar in the mainstream media concerning the publishing of the TSA procedures manual, with redaction removed. It was as if a great hacker-based scandal had erupted, pushing the security of the US air transport system closer to the brink, just at the time when millions were contemplating their Christmas season travels. Not only was it dramatic, it was the sort of fear-mongering that was sure to set the airwaves of telephone call in urgency in motion. The facts of the matter seem to point to a clumsy request for quotation that was put in place by the TSA, with the material put forth as an example of procedures that prospective bidders would have to comply with. The TSA itself “redacted” the more sensitive information by turning the text background black around the sensitive areas. It’s just the sort of technique that might be effective in say, preventing a fifth grade class from seeing the answers in a “fill in the blank” quiz, but giving them some idea of what the test might look like. The various al-Quaeda tech teams around the world probably had more than a few chuckles. Note that by the time that the students were in the seventh or eighth grade, the redaction would be worthless. So, if the bad guys have the information anyway, why not expose some incompetence in the agency procedures that permitted the incident to happen in the first place ? Embarrassing, yes – but the hackers did not tell any bad guys what they didn’t already know. {sharethis} Contact Us TED Talk Sixth Sense Pranav Mistry Watch Today’s Video Episode Be sure to check out GoToMeeting. Why? Because you can hold meetings right over the Net — from anywhere. Plus, you can hold all the meetings you want for one flat rate. To get your free 30-day trial , visit www.gotomeeting.com/techpodcasts. Take 10% off any order at GoDaddy.com! Code SLASH Take $5 off any $30 order at GoDaddy.com! Code SDR530 .com Domains $6.95 at GoDaddy.com! Code SLASH3 More blogs about SlashdotReview and SDRNews… tag:odeo.com,2009-12-10,25521046 Thu, 10 Dec 2009 20:58:12 -0800 no Slashdot Review - Produced by SDR News SDRNews, Amazon, wimax, EC2, Posterous http://odeo.com/episodes/25511577-SDRNews-Social-Media-and-Holiday-Shopping Boxee and D-Link for Boxee Box Dragon Dictation on iPhone US No Longer Spam King SDR News is a Daily (M-F) Technology Podcast with Tech News Highlights from Slashdot, Digg and Reddit Click Here to Sign Up for the SDR Newsletter Prefer a Direct Download ? (mp3) Download today’s show. SDR News Links If a news item has disappeared from the Del.icio.us list above, try the full list here. SEARCH ANY STORY YOU HEAR ON THE PODCAST More Info on Screencasts Online Social Media and Holiday Shopping by Andrew McCaskey No Surprise Here The latest comScore report shows that online spending is up over 3% from 2008 for the period from Black Friday through Cyber Monday through the first week of December. And, a lot of that increase is attributed to Social Media. If there is any surprise, it’s that it is so small an increase. And it can only be expected to increase in the weeks to come . The reason ? The changing demographics of Facebook. The fastest growing segment of Facebook is the ov... Boxee and D-Link for Boxee Box Dragon Dictation on iPhone US No Longer Spam King SDR News is a Daily (M-F) Technology Podcast with Tech News Highlights from Slashdot, Digg and Reddit Click Here to Sign Up for the SDR Newsletter Prefer a Direct Download ? (mp3) Download today’s show. SDR News Links If a news item has disappeared from the Del.icio.us list above, try the full list here. SEARCH ANY STORY YOU HEAR ON THE PODCAST More Info on Screencasts Online Social Media and Holiday Shopping by Andrew McCaskey No Surprise Here The latest comScore report shows that online spending is up over 3% from 2008 for the period from Black Friday through Cyber Monday through the first week of December. And, a lot of that increase is attributed to Social Media. If there is any surprise, it’s that it is so small an increase. And it can only be expected to increase in the weeks to come . The reason ? The changing demographics of Facebook. The fastest growing segment of Facebook is the over thirty-five population. And I would expect that the fastest growing group within that is the rapidly approaching retirement Baby Boomers who not only have the disposable income, but have spent the past year getting newly acquainted with friends and distant family members on Facebook. It’s far more engaging than email, and, once you hide the Mafia Wars, Vampire Games, Farmville and similar annoyances you find that it’s worthwhile to follow a few of your favorite vendor fan pages. Tie in a little bad weather to make the trip to the mall a bit more trouble, and the grandkids – who’s new photos just arrived are in an even better position than they would have been in years gone by. The only surprise is that it’s only a 3% growth. Contact Us First Look at JooJoo Watch Today’s Video Episode Be sure to check out GoToMeeting. Why? Because you can hold meetings right over the Net — from anywhere. Plus, you can hold all the meetings you want for one flat rate. To get your free 30-day trial , visit www.gotomeeting.com/techpodcasts. Take 10% off any order at GoDaddy.com! Code SLASH Take $5 off any $30 order at GoDaddy.com! Code SDR530 .com Domains $6.95 at GoDaddy.com! Code SLASH3 More blogs about SlashdotReview and SDRNews… Boxee and D-Link for Boxee Box Dragon Dictation on iPhone US No Longer Spam King SDR News is a Daily (M-F) Technology Podcast with Tech News Highlights from Slashdot, Digg and Reddit Click Here to Sign Up for the SDR Newsletter Prefer a Direct Download ? (mp3) Download today’s show. SDR News Links If a news item has disappeared from the Del.icio.us list above, try the full list here. SEARCH ANY STORY YOU HEAR ON THE PODCAST More Info on Screencasts Online Social Media and Holiday Shopping by Andrew McCaskey No Surprise Here The latest comScore report shows that online spending is up over 3% from 2008 for the period from Black Friday through Cyber Monday through the first week of December. And, a lot of that increase is attributed to Social Media. If there is any surprise, it’s that it is so small an increase. And it can only be expected to increase in the weeks to come . The reason ? The changing demographics of Facebook. The fastest growing segment of Facebook is the over thirty-five population. And I would expect that the fastest growing group within that is the rapidly approaching retirement Baby Boomers who not only have the disposable income, but have spent the past year getting newly acquainted with friends and distant family members on Facebook. It’s far more engaging than email, and, once you hide the Mafia Wars, Vampire Games, Farmville and similar annoyances you find that it’s worthwhile to follow a few of your favorite vendor fan pages. Tie in a little bad weather to make the trip to the mall a bit more trouble, and the grandkids – who’s new photos just arrived are in an even better position than they would have been in years gone by. The only surprise is that it’s only a 3% growth. Contact Us First Look at JooJoo Watch Today’s Video Episode Be sure to check out GoToMeeting. Why? Because you can hold meetings right over the Net — from anywhere. Plus, you can hold all the meetings you want for one flat rate. To get your free 30-day trial , visit www.gotomeeting.com/techpodcasts. Take 10% off any order at GoDaddy.com! Code SLASH Take $5 off any $30 order at GoDaddy.com! Code SDR530 .com Domains $6.95 at GoDaddy.com! Code SLASH3 More blogs about SlashdotReview and SDRNews… tag:odeo.com,2009-12-08,25511577 Tue, 08 Dec 2009 21:18:35 -0800 no Slashdot Review - Produced by SDR News iphone, SDRNews, spam, speech, dragon, nuance, boxee http://odeo.com/episodes/25501517-SDRNews-Production-Schedule-Changes FCC Rethinks CableCard Too Many Android Models Chrome Extensions Launch SDR News is a Daily (M-F) Technology Podcast with Tech News Highlights from Slashdot, Digg and Reddit Click Here to Sign Up for the SDR Newsletter Prefer a Direct Download ? (mp3) Download today’s show. SDR News Links If a news item has disappeared from the Del.icio.us list above, try the full list here. SEARCH ANY STORY YOU HEAR ON THE PODCAST More Info on Screencasts Online Production Schedule Change by Andrew McCaskey Some changes in the production schedule for SDRNews are going to take the program to three days a week for the next few weeks, as well as some holiday scheduling. Part of the plan is preparation for the coverage of the Consumer Electronics Show, and part of the plan is a change in the business model. I’ll be sharing parts of the upgrades and information on the Facebook Fan page for SDRNews, and looking forward to your comments there. On CES, we have some really exciting news : The TP... FCC Rethinks CableCard Too Many Android Models Chrome Extensions Launch SDR News is a Daily (M-F) Technology Podcast with Tech News Highlights from Slashdot, Digg and Reddit Click Here to Sign Up for the SDR Newsletter Prefer a Direct Download ? (mp3) Download today’s show. SDR News Links If a news item has disappeared from the Del.icio.us list above, try the full list here. SEARCH ANY STORY YOU HEAR ON THE PODCAST More Info on Screencasts Online Production Schedule Change by Andrew McCaskey Some changes in the production schedule for SDRNews are going to take the program to three days a week for the next few weeks, as well as some holiday scheduling. Part of the plan is preparation for the coverage of the Consumer Electronics Show, and part of the plan is a change in the business model. I’ll be sharing parts of the upgrades and information on the Facebook Fan page for SDRNews, and looking forward to your comments there. On CES, we have some really exciting news : The TPN field team has been invited to produce a portion of our CES coverage live from the NBC-Universal booth on two days during the CES Show. As more details become available, we will be certain to share. Also, the Geek News Central 24 hour podcast is coming up this weekend December 12, and we’ll have some more CES related announcements at that time as well. Contact Us Twoddler: Twittering Toddlers from Bart Swennen on Vimeo. Twoddler Watch Today’s Video Episode Be sure to check out GoToMeeting. Why? Because you can hold meetings right over the Net — from anywhere. Plus, you can hold all the meetings you want for one flat rate. To get your free 30-day trial , visit www.gotomeeting.com/techpodcasts. Take 10% off any order at GoDaddy.com! Code SLASH Take $5 off any $30 order at GoDaddy.com! Code SDR530 .com Domains $6.95 at GoDaddy.com! Code SLASH3 More blogs about SlashdotReview and SDRNews… FCC Rethinks CableCard Too Many Android Models Chrome Extensions Launch SDR News is a Daily (M-F) Technology Podcast with Tech News Highlights from Slashdot, Digg and Reddit Click Here to Sign Up for the SDR Newsletter Prefer a Direct Download ? (mp3) Download today’s show. SDR News Links If a news item has disappeared from the Del.icio.us list above, try the full list here. SEARCH ANY STORY YOU HEAR ON THE PODCAST More Info on Screencasts Online Production Schedule Change by Andrew McCaskey Some changes in the production schedule for SDRNews are going to take the program to three days a week for the next few weeks, as well as some holiday scheduling. Part of the plan is preparation for the coverage of the Consumer Electronics Show, and part of the plan is a change in the business model. I’ll be sharing parts of the upgrades and information on the Facebook Fan page for SDRNews, and looking forward to your comments there. On CES, we have some really exciting news : The TPN field team has been invited to produce a portion of our CES coverage live from the NBC-Universal booth on two days during the CES Show. As more details become available, we will be certain to share. Also, the Geek News Central 24 hour podcast is coming up this weekend December 12, and we’ll have some more CES related announcements at that time as well. Contact Us Twoddler: Twittering Toddlers from Bart Swennen on Vimeo. Twoddler Watch Today’s Video Episode Be sure to check out GoToMeeting. Why? Because you can hold meetings right over the Net — from anywhere. Plus, you can hold all the meetings you want for one flat rate. To get your free 30-day trial , visit www.gotomeeting.com/techpodcasts. Take 10% off any order at GoDaddy.com! Code SLASH Take $5 off any $30 order at GoDaddy.com! Code SDR530 .com Domains $6.95 at GoDaddy.com! Code SLASH3 More blogs about SlashdotReview and SDRNews… tag:odeo.com,2009-12-06,25501517 Sun, 06 Dec 2009 20:39:08 -0800 no Slashdot Review - Produced by SDR News SDRNews, android, google, comcast, fcc, Chrome http://odeo.com/episodes/25488820-SDRNews-FCC-Gets-Ahead-of-the-Telco-VoIP-Transition-Plan FCC Plans VoIP Telephone Transition Google Offers DNS Services Bandwidth Hogs: The Unicorns of the Internet SDR News is a Daily (M-F) Technology Podcast with Tech News Highlights from Slashdot, Digg and Reddit Click Here to Sign Up for the SDR Newsletter Prefer a Direct Download ? (mp3) Download today’s show. SDR News Links If a news item has disappeared from the Del.icio.us list above, try the full list here. SEARCH ANY STORY YOU HEAR ON THE PODCAST More Info on Screencasts Online Telco Transition by Andrew McCaskey Sooner Than We Think It’s pretty easy to ignore the oncoming tide in telephony – but the fact that the FCC has asked for comments on the transition from switched telephone service to a totally VoIP based system indicates that we could have a transition on our hands within fifteen or twenty years could make the digital television switchover look like a walk in the park. It might also be a lot easier than we think, as we look at the gradual installation ... FCC Plans VoIP Telephone Transition Google Offers DNS Services Bandwidth Hogs: The Unicorns of the Internet SDR News is a Daily (M-F) Technology Podcast with Tech News Highlights from Slashdot, Digg and Reddit Click Here to Sign Up for the SDR Newsletter Prefer a Direct Download ? (mp3) Download today’s show. SDR News Links If a news item has disappeared from the Del.icio.us list above, try the full list here. SEARCH ANY STORY YOU HEAR ON THE PODCAST More Info on Screencasts Online Telco Transition by Andrew McCaskey Sooner Than We Think It’s pretty easy to ignore the oncoming tide in telephony – but the fact that the FCC has asked for comments on the transition from switched telephone service to a totally VoIP based system indicates that we could have a transition on our hands within fifteen or twenty years could make the digital television switchover look like a walk in the park. It might also be a lot easier than we think, as we look at the gradual installation of at least some level of IP based infrastructure that’s being added under our nose. All that you need do is take a walk through your closest WalMart, Home Depot, Radio Shack or similar retail outlet – and you will see an amazing amount of material that as recently as ten years ago were found only in metro areas. Not ten years ago, any business trip to the Bay Area included a pilgrimage to Fry’s to see the latest wonder, and take it back on the flight home. No more. It’s as available as other consumer technology – and slowly and surely it’s getting installed (more or less) in homes and offices over the country. And with the penetration of some sort of broadband beyond dial-up there’s an ongoing growth of skills if not formal knowledge that was formerly in professional territory. Like any transition, this one will be gradual – almost on generational bounds. But there’s no doubt that the age of analog comm systems, just like the era of steam in years past are running on borrowed time. {sharethis} Contact Us Notify.me Watch Today’s Video Episode Be sure to check out GoToMeeting. Why? Because you can hold meetings right over the Net — from anywhere. Plus, you can hold all the meetings you want for one flat rate. To get your free 30-day trial , visit www.gotomeeting.com/techpodcasts. Take 10% off any order at GoDaddy.com! Code SLASH Take $5 off any $30 order at GoDaddy.com! Code SDR530 .com Domains $6.95 at GoDaddy.com! Code SLASH3 More blogs about SlashdotReview and SDRNews… FCC Plans VoIP Telephone Transition Google Offers DNS Services Bandwidth Hogs: The Unicorns of the Internet SDR News is a Daily (M-F) Technology Podcast with Tech News Highlights from Slashdot, Digg and Reddit Click Here to Sign Up for the SDR Newsletter Prefer a Direct Download ? (mp3) Download today’s show. SDR News Links If a news item has disappeared from the Del.icio.us list above, try the full list here. SEARCH ANY STORY YOU HEAR ON THE PODCAST More Info on Screencasts Online Telco Transition by Andrew McCaskey Sooner Than We Think It’s pretty easy to ignore the oncoming tide in telephony – but the fact that the FCC has asked for comments on the transition from switched telephone service to a totally VoIP based system indicates that we could have a transition on our hands within fifteen or twenty years could make the digital television switchover look like a walk in the park. It might also be a lot easier than we think, as we look at the gradual installation of at least some level of IP based infrastructure that’s being added under our nose. All that you need do is take a walk through your closest WalMart, Home Depot, Radio Shack or similar retail outlet – and you will see an amazing amount of material that as recently as ten years ago were found only in metro areas. Not ten years ago, any business trip to the Bay Area included a pilgrimage to Fry’s to see the latest wonder, and take it back on the flight home. No more. It’s as available as other consumer technology – and slowly and surely it’s getting installed (more or less) in homes and offices over the country. And with the penetration of some sort of broadband beyond dial-up there’s an ongoing growth of skills if not formal knowledge that was formerly in professional territory. Like any transition, this one will be gradual – almost on generational bounds. But there’s no doubt that the age of analog comm systems, just like the era of steam in years past are running on borrowed time. {sharethis} Contact Us Notify.me Watch Today’s Video Episode Be sure to check out GoToMeeting. Why? Because you can hold meetings right over the Net — from anywhere. Plus, you can hold all the meetings you want for one flat rate. To get your free 30-day trial , visit www.gotomeeting.com/techpodcasts. Take 10% off any order at GoDaddy.com! Code SLASH Take $5 off any $30 order at GoDaddy.com! Code SDR530 .com Domains $6.95 at GoDaddy.com! Code SLASH3 More blogs about SlashdotReview and SDRNews… tag:odeo.com,2009-12-03,25488820 Thu, 03 Dec 2009 15:49:16 -0800 no Slashdot Review - Produced by SDR News SDRNews, VoIP, fcc, dns http://odeo.com/episodes/25483363-SDRNews-Ethanol-Keeps-Going-and-Going Square: An iPhone Payment Device Farmville is Bigger Than Twitter How FCC Might Stop NBC-Comcast Merger SDR News is a Daily (M-F) Technology Podcast with Tech News Highlights from Slashdot, Digg and Reddit Click Here to Sign Up for the SDR Newsletter Prefer a Direct Download ? (mp3) Download today’s show. SDR News Links If a news item has disappeared from the Del.icio.us list above, try the full list here. SEARCH ANY STORY YOU HEAR ON THE PODCAST More Info on Screencasts Online Ethanol Keeps Going and Going by Andrew McCaskey Ethanol Keeps Going and Going.. The New York Times noted that ” the EPA will likely approve an increase to 15% ethanol next summer, perhaps for use only in cars of the 2001 model year and later. This raises the possibility that gasoline retailers might need to carry different ethanol blends in different pumps, and that drivers with older cars might have to be careful about which blend they buy. The E.P.A. was responding to a petition from ethanol ma... Square: An iPhone Payment Device Farmville is Bigger Than Twitter How FCC Might Stop NBC-Comcast Merger SDR News is a Daily (M-F) Technology Podcast with Tech News Highlights from Slashdot, Digg and Reddit Click Here to Sign Up for the SDR Newsletter Prefer a Direct Download ? (mp3) Download today’s show. SDR News Links If a news item has disappeared from the Del.icio.us list above, try the full list here. SEARCH ANY STORY YOU HEAR ON THE PODCAST More Info on Screencasts Online Ethanol Keeps Going and Going by Andrew McCaskey Ethanol Keeps Going and Going.. The New York Times noted that ” the EPA will likely approve an increase to 15% ethanol next summer, perhaps for use only in cars of the 2001 model year and later. This raises the possibility that gasoline retailers might need to carry different ethanol blends in different pumps, and that drivers with older cars might have to be careful about which blend they buy. The E.P.A. was responding to a petition from ethanol manufacturers, who have complained that unless a higher blending level is approved, within two years they will not have a big enough market to absorb their production. Congress ordered increased use of ethanol in energy bills that passed in 2005 and 2007 . Adjusted for its lower energy content, E85, as the higher blend is known, is more expensive than gasoline, and motorists thus have little reason to use it.” Plus the fact that it takes more energy to produce it than it delivers- is there anything that can put this into it’s well deserved grave ? Or will it be like the monster in the grade B flick that keeps popping out of the grave ? Contact Us Jack Dorsey’s Square in Action Watch Today’s Video Episode Be sure to check out GoToMeeting. Why? Because you can hold meetings right over the Net — from anywhere. Plus, you can hold all the meetings you want for one flat rate. To get your free 30-day trial , visit www.gotomeeting.com/techpodcasts. Take 10% off any order at GoDaddy.com! Code SLASH Take $5 off any $30 order at GoDaddy.com! Code SDR530 .com Domains $6.95 at GoDaddy.com! Code SLASH3 More blogs about SlashdotReview and SDRNews… Square: An iPhone Payment Device Farmville is Bigger Than Twitter How FCC Might Stop NBC-Comcast Merger SDR News is a Daily (M-F) Technology Podcast with Tech News Highlights from Slashdot, Digg and Reddit Click Here to Sign Up for the SDR Newsletter Prefer a Direct Download ? (mp3) Download today’s show. SDR News Links If a news item has disappeared from the Del.icio.us list above, try the full list here. SEARCH ANY STORY YOU HEAR ON THE PODCAST More Info on Screencasts Online Ethanol Keeps Going and Going by Andrew McCaskey Ethanol Keeps Going and Going.. The New York Times noted that ” the EPA will likely approve an increase to 15% ethanol next summer, perhaps for use only in cars of the 2001 model year and later. This raises the possibility that gasoline retailers might need to carry different ethanol blends in different pumps, and that drivers with older cars might have to be careful about which blend they buy. The E.P.A. was responding to a petition from ethanol manufacturers, who have complained that unless a higher blending level is approved, within two years they will not have a big enough market to absorb their production. Congress ordered increased use of ethanol in energy bills that passed in 2005 and 2007 . Adjusted for its lower energy content, E85, as the higher blend is known, is more expensive than gasoline, and motorists thus have little reason to use it.” Plus the fact that it takes more energy to produce it than it delivers- is there anything that can put this into it’s well deserved grave ? Or will it be like the monster in the grade B flick that keeps popping out of the grave ? Contact Us Jack Dorsey’s Square in Action Watch Today’s Video Episode Be sure to check out GoToMeeting. Why? Because you can hold meetings right over the Net — from anywhere. Plus, you can hold all the meetings you want for one flat rate. To get your free 30-day trial , visit www.gotomeeting.com/techpodcasts. Take 10% off any order at GoDaddy.com! Code SLASH Take $5 off any $30 order at GoDaddy.com! Code SDR530 .com Domains $6.95 at GoDaddy.com! Code SLASH3 More blogs about SlashdotReview and SDRNews… tag:odeo.com,2009-12-02,25483363 Wed, 02 Dec 2009 16:55:35 -0800 no Slashdot Review - Produced by SDR News SDRNews, twitter, Facebook, comcast, ethanol http://odeo.com/episodes/25476564-SDRNews-We-Have-A-Winner Streaming Video Approved for iPhone Comcast in Line to Buy NBC Universal 105 Mbps DOCSIS 3.0 in Iowa SDR News is a Daily (M-F) Technology Podcast with Tech News Highlights from Slashdot, Digg and Reddit Click Here to Sign Up for the SDR Newsletter Prefer a Direct Download ? (mp3) Download today’s show. SDR News Links If a news item has disappeared from the Del.icio.us list above, try the full list here. SEARCH ANY STORY YOU HEAR ON THE PODCAST More Info on Screencasts Online We Have . . A Winner by Andrew McCaskey Slow Internet meets its Waterloo Waterloo, Iowa isn’t a name that conjures up visions of “blazing-fast Internet,” but it’s about to get the fastest residential connections in the country: 105Mbps. Waterloo is no high-tech haven; more typical are the surrounding farms, the John Deere plant, and a massive Target distribution center. Cable operator Mediacom is changing that perception, though, installing DOCSIS 3.0 gear that will boost the top-ti... Streaming Video Approved for iPhone Comcast in Line to Buy NBC Universal 105 Mbps DOCSIS 3.0 in Iowa SDR News is a Daily (M-F) Technology Podcast with Tech News Highlights from Slashdot, Digg and Reddit Click Here to Sign Up for the SDR Newsletter Prefer a Direct Download ? (mp3) Download today’s show. SDR News Links If a news item has disappeared from the Del.icio.us list above, try the full list here. SEARCH ANY STORY YOU HEAR ON THE PODCAST More Info on Screencasts Online We Have . . A Winner by Andrew McCaskey Slow Internet meets its Waterloo Waterloo, Iowa isn’t a name that conjures up visions of “blazing-fast Internet,” but it’s about to get the fastest residential connections in the country: 105Mbps. Waterloo is no high-tech haven; more typical are the surrounding farms, the John Deere plant, and a massive Target distribution center. Cable operator Mediacom is changing that perception, though, installing DOCSIS 3.0 gear that will boost the top-tier 20Mbps speeds in town up to 105Mbps, the highest speed in the country. Due to cable’s shared architecture, residents will rarely if ever see a full 105Mbps on their home connections. . If a modern cable plant has been properly installed, there is enough bandwidth that DOCSIS 3.0 upgrades require only headend upgrades and new modems, not extensive trenching and street-level work. The telcos, which depended on low-bandwidth copper wire for so many decades, now face a choice. To get more bandwidth, they can run fiber to the home (Verizon), fiber to the node (AT&T), or deploy new phone lines and rely on channel bonding. None is as simple or cheap as cable’s upgrade path. Unless Verizon is willing to aggressively push the deployment of FIOS service, it is going to be very hard for them to overcome the lead that DOCSIS 3.0 provides. And very hard to plow that back into the rate base and get it past various state regulatory authorities. On the other hand, it may be justice for 40 year amortization schedules of copper paid for 37 years ago that have enabled telcos to stay behind the times in comfort. Contact Us Knocking Live iPhone VIdeo App Watch Today’s Video Episode Be sure to check out GoToMeeting. Why? Because you can hold meetings right over the Net — from anywhere. Plus, you can hold all the meetings you want for one flat rate. To get your free 30-day trial , visit www.gotomeeting.com/techpodcasts. Take 10% off any order at GoDaddy.com! Code SLASH Take $5 off any $30 order at GoDaddy.com! Code SDR530 .com Domains $6.95 at GoDaddy.com! Code SLASH3 More blogs about SlashdotReview and SDRNews… Streaming Video Approved for iPhone Comcast in Line to Buy NBC Universal 105 Mbps DOCSIS 3.0 in Iowa SDR News is a Daily (M-F) Technology Podcast with Tech News Highlights from Slashdot, Digg and Reddit Click Here to Sign Up for the SDR Newsletter Prefer a Direct Download ? (mp3) Download today’s show. SDR News Links If a news item has disappeared from the Del.icio.us list above, try the full list here. SEARCH ANY STORY YOU HEAR ON THE PODCAST More Info on Screencasts Online We Have . . A Winner by Andrew McCaskey Slow Internet meets its Waterloo Waterloo, Iowa isn’t a name that conjures up visions of “blazing-fast Internet,” but it’s about to get the fastest residential connections in the country: 105Mbps. Waterloo is no high-tech haven; more typical are the surrounding farms, the John Deere plant, and a massive Target distribution center. Cable operator Mediacom is changing that perception, though, installing DOCSIS 3.0 gear that will boost the top-tier 20Mbps speeds in town up to 105Mbps, the highest speed in the country. Due to cable’s shared architecture, residents will rarely if ever see a full 105Mbps on their home connections. . If a modern cable plant has been properly installed, there is enough bandwidth that DOCSIS 3.0 upgrades require only headend upgrades and new modems, not extensive trenching and street-level work. The telcos, which depended on low-bandwidth copper wire for so many decades, now face a choice. To get more bandwidth, they can run fiber to the home (Verizon), fiber to the node (AT&T), or deploy new phone lines and rely on channel bonding. None is as simple or cheap as cable’s upgrade path. Unless Verizon is willing to aggressively push the deployment of FIOS service, it is going to be very hard for them to overcome the lead that DOCSIS 3.0 provides. And very hard to plow that back into the rate base and get it past various state regulatory authorities. On the other hand, it may be justice for 40 year amortization schedules of copper paid for 37 years ago that have enabled telcos to stay behind the times in comfort. Contact Us Knocking Live iPhone VIdeo App Watch Today’s Video Episode Be sure to check out GoToMeeting. Why? Because you can hold meetings right over the Net — from anywhere. Plus, you can hold all the meetings you want for one flat rate. To get your free 30-day trial , visit www.gotomeeting.com/techpodcasts. Take 10% off any order at GoDaddy.com! Code SLASH Take $5 off any $30 order at GoDaddy.com! Code SDR530 .com Domains $6.95 at GoDaddy.com! Code SLASH3 More blogs about SlashdotReview and SDRNews… tag:odeo.com,2009-12-01,25476564 Tue, 01 Dec 2009 16:03:20 -0800 no Slashdot Review - Produced by SDR News iphone, SDRNews, comcast, docsis http://odeo.com/episodes/25460793-SDRNews-CrunchPad-We-Hardly-Knew-Ye CrunchPad Dies GooglePhone as iPod Touch Competitor TV Remotes as Wireless Mesh SDR News is a Daily (M-F) Technology Podcast with Tech News Highlights from Slashdot, Digg and Reddit Click Here to Sign Up for the SDR Newsletter Prefer a Direct Download ? (mp3) Download today’s show. SDR News Links If a news item has disappeared from the Del.icio.us list above, try the full list here. SEARCH ANY STORY YOU HEAR ON THE PODCAST More Info on Screencasts Online Crunchpad, We Hardly Knew Ye by Andrew McCaskey It’s a Loss for Everyone The announcement by Michael Arrington that the CrunchPad project was killed a few days before its scheduled launch due to infighting in the production and design teams is a loss to the community. And even though it’s a different game played at those levels, it’s a shame that the work that was put into the project over the past eighteen months won’t benefit anyone but the lawyers that are gearing up on both sides. When the Apple Tab... CrunchPad Dies GooglePhone as iPod Touch Competitor TV Remotes as Wireless Mesh SDR News is a Daily (M-F) Technology Podcast with Tech News Highlights from Slashdot, Digg and Reddit Click Here to Sign Up for the SDR Newsletter Prefer a Direct Download ? (mp3) Download today’s show. SDR News Links If a news item has disappeared from the Del.icio.us list above, try the full list here. SEARCH ANY STORY YOU HEAR ON THE PODCAST More Info on Screencasts Online Crunchpad, We Hardly Knew Ye by Andrew McCaskey It’s a Loss for Everyone The announcement by Michael Arrington that the CrunchPad project was killed a few days before its scheduled launch due to infighting in the production and design teams is a loss to the community. And even though it’s a different game played at those levels, it’s a shame that the work that was put into the project over the past eighteen months won’t benefit anyone but the lawyers that are gearing up on both sides. When the Apple Tablet finally gets here – when Chrome OS is finally released on the carefully controlled hardware – when the Dells and HP’s and others begin to release their versions of the pad, it will be a shame that there weren’t a few hundred thousand Crunchpads out in the wild to provide a balance. With just enough capability and personality to make things interesting, a Crunchpad would have been the version 1.0 of a product class that is going to become an important part of our lives going forward. And by aborting the project, Crunchpad and it’s partners (who, incidentally are portrayed in such a negative light that it’ s going to be interesting to hear the other side of the story) deprived all of us of a test bed that would have made the next round of products a lot better. When all the pieces get swept up and the egos satisfied on both sides of the globe – maybe we will be able to get a special from Tiger Direct or find them advertised in the next SkyMall shopper. Then we can take note of opportunities missed, and turn the page. Contact Us Six Core Principles of Good Management Watch Today’s Video Episode Be sure to check out GoToMeeting. Why? Because you can hold meetings right over the Net — from anywhere. Plus, you can hold all the meetings you want for one flat rate. To get your free 30-day trial , visit www.gotomeeting.com/techpodcasts. Take 10% off any order at GoDaddy.com! Code SLASH Take $5 off any $30 order at GoDaddy.com! Code SDR530 .com Domains $6.95 at GoDaddy.com! Code SLASH3 More blogs about SlashdotReview and SDRNews… CrunchPad Dies GooglePhone as iPod Touch Competitor TV Remotes as Wireless Mesh SDR News is a Daily (M-F) Technology Podcast with Tech News Highlights from Slashdot, Digg and Reddit Click Here to Sign Up for the SDR Newsletter Prefer a Direct Download ? (mp3) Download today’s show. SDR News Links If a news item has disappeared from the Del.icio.us list above, try the full list here. SEARCH ANY STORY YOU HEAR ON THE PODCAST More Info on Screencasts Online Crunchpad, We Hardly Knew Ye by Andrew McCaskey It’s a Loss for Everyone The announcement by Michael Arrington that the CrunchPad project was killed a few days before its scheduled launch due to infighting in the production and design teams is a loss to the community. And even though it’s a different game played at those levels, it’s a shame that the work that was put into the project over the past eighteen months won’t benefit anyone but the lawyers that are gearing up on both sides. When the Apple Tablet finally gets here – when Chrome OS is finally released on the carefully controlled hardware – when the Dells and HP’s and others begin to release their versions of the pad, it will be a shame that there weren’t a few hundred thousand Crunchpads out in the wild to provide a balance. With just enough capability and personality to make things interesting, a Crunchpad would have been the version 1.0 of a product class that is going to become an important part of our lives going forward. And by aborting the project, Crunchpad and it’s partners (who, incidentally are portrayed in such a negative light that it’ s going to be interesting to hear the other side of the story) deprived all of us of a test bed that would have made the next round of products a lot better. When all the pieces get swept up and the egos satisfied on both sides of the globe – maybe we will be able to get a special from Tiger Direct or find them advertised in the next SkyMall shopper. Then we can take note of opportunities missed, and turn the page. Contact Us Six Core Principles of Good Management Watch Today’s Video Episode Be sure to check out GoToMeeting. Why? Because you can hold meetings right over the Net — from anywhere. Plus, you can hold all the meetings you want for one flat rate. To get your free 30-day trial , visit www.gotomeeting.com/techpodcasts. Take 10% off any order at GoDaddy.com! Code SLASH Take $5 off any $30 order at GoDaddy.com! Code SDR530 .com Domains $6.95 at GoDaddy.com! Code SLASH3 More blogs about SlashdotReview and SDRNews… tag:odeo.com,2009-11-30,25460793 Mon, 30 Nov 2009 16:46:31 -0800 no Slashdot Review - Produced by SDR News SDRNews, wireless, mesh, gPhone, crunchpad, arrington http://odeo.com/episodes/25460794-SDRNews-3G-Still-Has-Some-Punch FaceBook Targets Geolocation Apps FCC Seeks Whitespace Database Vendor 3G Still Has Promise SDR News is a Daily (M-F) Technology Podcast with Tech News Highlights from Slashdot, Digg and Reddit Click Here to Sign Up for the SDR Newsletter Prefer a Direct Download ? (mp3) Download today’s show. SDR News Links If a news item has disappeared from the Del.icio.us list above, try the full list here. SEARCH ANY STORY YOU HEAR ON THE PODCAST More Info on Screencasts Online 3G Still Has A Lot of Potential by Andrew McCaskey RoadWarrior Patchwork The next few years will be a patchwork of 3G, enhanced 3G and 4G. This is going to make for some interesting choices and a bag full of tricks to maximize connectivity during travels. I think that the best solution for a road warrior is going to gearing up for a mixture of 3G and 4G and hope that carriers are smart enough to roll out HSPA Plus 3G service in areas where 4G does not make the list. As Clear moves forward in the race against time t... FaceBook Targets Geolocation Apps FCC Seeks Whitespace Database Vendor 3G Still Has Promise SDR News is a Daily (M-F) Technology Podcast with Tech News Highlights from Slashdot, Digg and Reddit Click Here to Sign Up for the SDR Newsletter Prefer a Direct Download ? (mp3) Download today’s show. SDR News Links If a news item has disappeared from the Del.icio.us list above, try the full list here. SEARCH ANY STORY YOU HEAR ON THE PODCAST More Info on Screencasts Online 3G Still Has A Lot of Potential by Andrew McCaskey RoadWarrior Patchwork The next few years will be a patchwork of 3G, enhanced 3G and 4G. This is going to make for some interesting choices and a bag full of tricks to maximize connectivity during travels. I think that the best solution for a road warrior is going to gearing up for a mixture of 3G and 4G and hope that carriers are smart enough to roll out HSPA Plus 3G service in areas where 4G does not make the list. As Clear moves forward in the race against time to build the WiMax network – it is now providing service in about 15 cities, including two of great interest (Chicago and Las Vegas) . The first LTE service won’t be turned up for more than a year by Verizon Wireless. In some places, Comcast seems to be taking the lead, in other locations Sprint is the cheerleader for Clear. Regardless, the ability to take advantage of WiMax when available is going to be a real advantage in the months to come, and I am looking forward to giving it a try. Contact Us Flash Moves to CE Hardware Watch Today’s Video Episode Be sure to check out GoToMeeting. Why? Because you can hold meetings right over the Net — from anywhere. Plus, you can hold all the meetings you want for one flat rate. To get your free 30-day trial , visit www.gotomeeting.com/techpodcasts. Take 10% off any order at GoDaddy.com! Code SLASH Take $5 off any $30 order at GoDaddy.com! Code SDR530 .com Domains $6.95 at GoDaddy.com! Code SLASH3 More blogs about SlashdotReview and SDRNews… FaceBook Targets Geolocation Apps FCC Seeks Whitespace Database Vendor 3G Still Has Promise SDR News is a Daily (M-F) Technology Podcast with Tech News Highlights from Slashdot, Digg and Reddit Click Here to Sign Up for the SDR Newsletter Prefer a Direct Download ? (mp3) Download today’s show. SDR News Links If a news item has disappeared from the Del.icio.us list above, try the full list here. SEARCH ANY STORY YOU HEAR ON THE PODCAST More Info on Screencasts Online 3G Still Has A Lot of Potential by Andrew McCaskey RoadWarrior Patchwork The next few years will be a patchwork of 3G, enhanced 3G and 4G. This is going to make for some interesting choices and a bag full of tricks to maximize connectivity during travels. I think that the best solution for a road warrior is going to gearing up for a mixture of 3G and 4G and hope that carriers are smart enough to roll out HSPA Plus 3G service in areas where 4G does not make the list. As Clear moves forward in the race against time to build the WiMax network – it is now providing service in about 15 cities, including two of great interest (Chicago and Las Vegas) . The first LTE service won’t be turned up for more than a year by Verizon Wireless. In some places, Comcast seems to be taking the lead, in other locations Sprint is the cheerleader for Clear. Regardless, the ability to take advantage of WiMax when available is going to be a real advantage in the months to come, and I am looking forward to giving it a try. Contact Us Flash Moves to CE Hardware Watch Today’s Video Episode Be sure to check out GoToMeeting. Why? Because you can hold meetings right over the Net — from anywhere. Plus, you can hold all the meetings you want for one flat rate. To get your free 30-day trial , visit www.gotomeeting.com/techpodcasts. Take 10% off any order at GoDaddy.com! Code SLASH Take $5 off any $30 order at GoDaddy.com! Code SDR530 .com Domains $6.95 at GoDaddy.com! Code SLASH3 More blogs about SlashdotReview and SDRNews… tag:odeo.com,2009-11-29,25460794 Sun, 29 Nov 2009 16:05:20 -0800 no Slashdot Review - Produced by SDR News SDRNews, wimax, 3g, LTE, geolocation http://odeo.com/episodes/25460795-SDRNews-Paying-Twice-for-Cellphone-Coverage Tivo Provides Viewing Data to Google Twitter Launches Paid Business Accounts Joost Bites the Dust SDR News is a Daily (M-F) Technology Podcast with Tech News Highlights from Slashdot, Digg and Reddit Click Here to Sign Up for the SDR Newsletter Prefer a Direct Download ? (mp3) Download today’s show. SDR News Links If a news item has disappeared from the Del.icio.us list above, try the full list here. SEARCH ANY STORY YOU HEAR ON THE PODCAST More Info on Screencasts Online Paying Twice for Cellphone Service by Andrew McCaskey Paying Twice Cynics among us have often noted that the Killer App, when it arrives, will be some form of digital voice. With nearly 20 years of cellphone experience from analog 800Mhz through TDMA, CDMA, GSM and various steps in between, the continued problem of dropped calls, distorted signals and general unreliability have plagued users. Of course, our wonder in the ability to have any signal at all from the middle of a cornfield miles from any town with... Tivo Provides Viewing Data to Google Twitter Launches Paid Business Accounts Joost Bites the Dust SDR News is a Daily (M-F) Technology Podcast with Tech News Highlights from Slashdot, Digg and Reddit Click Here to Sign Up for the SDR Newsletter Prefer a Direct Download ? (mp3) Download today’s show. SDR News Links If a news item has disappeared from the Del.icio.us list above, try the full list here. SEARCH ANY STORY YOU HEAR ON THE PODCAST More Info on Screencasts Online Paying Twice for Cellphone Service by Andrew McCaskey Paying Twice Cynics among us have often noted that the Killer App, when it arrives, will be some form of digital voice. With nearly 20 years of cellphone experience from analog 800Mhz through TDMA, CDMA, GSM and various steps in between, the continued problem of dropped calls, distorted signals and general unreliability have plagued users. Of course, our wonder in the ability to have any signal at all from the middle of a cornfield miles from any town with the original bag phones was quickly superceded by annoyance when the signal dropped or calls failed to complete. Obviously the levels of service, numbers of subscribers, and network complexity have increased tremendously (along with our expectations) . As an AT&T subscriber (in a house with aluminum siding) it’s a major pain to suffer continually dropping calls. As a result, I’ve been very tempted by various extender boxes that promise solutions, allowing my network connection to perform the backhaul. Still, I’m a bit resentful on dropping three or four hundred additional dollars on a repeater system that should restore my service (and my neighbors as well) – I figure that I have already paid my roughly $100 a month for the service. As long as WiFi meets the need for backhaul, some clever combination of Fring, SkypeOut and Google Voice should be the work around. Now all I have to do is figure out how to get the good Wifi signal levels out in the backyard. But that seems to be doable for less than $400. Contact Us Solar Impulse Runway Test Watch Today’s Video Episode Be sure to check out GoToMeeting. Why? Because you can hold meetings right over the Net — from anywhere. Plus, you can hold all the meetings you want for one flat rate. To get your free 30-day trial , visit www.gotomeeting.com/techpodcasts. Take 10% off any order at GoDaddy.com! Code SLASH Take $5 off any $30 order at GoDaddy.com! Code SDR530 .com Domains $6.95 at GoDaddy.com! Code SLASH3 More blogs about SlashdotReview and SDRNews… Tivo Provides Viewing Data to Google Twitter Launches Paid Business Accounts Joost Bites the Dust SDR News is a Daily (M-F) Technology Podcast with Tech News Highlights from Slashdot, Digg and Reddit Click Here to Sign Up for the SDR Newsletter Prefer a Direct Download ? (mp3) Download today’s show. SDR News Links If a news item has disappeared from the Del.icio.us list above, try the full list here. SEARCH ANY STORY YOU HEAR ON THE PODCAST More Info on Screencasts Online Paying Twice for Cellphone Service by Andrew McCaskey Paying Twice Cynics among us have often noted that the Killer App, when it arrives, will be some form of digital voice. With nearly 20 years of cellphone experience from analog 800Mhz through TDMA, CDMA, GSM and various steps in between, the continued problem of dropped calls, distorted signals and general unreliability have plagued users. Of course, our wonder in the ability to have any signal at all from the middle of a cornfield miles from any town with the original bag phones was quickly superceded by annoyance when the signal dropped or calls failed to complete. Obviously the levels of service, numbers of subscribers, and network complexity have increased tremendously (along with our expectations) . As an AT&T subscriber (in a house with aluminum siding) it’s a major pain to suffer continually dropping calls. As a result, I’ve been very tempted by various extender boxes that promise solutions, allowing my network connection to perform the backhaul. Still, I’m a bit resentful on dropping three or four hundred additional dollars on a repeater system that should restore my service (and my neighbors as well) – I figure that I have already paid my roughly $100 a month for the service. As long as WiFi meets the need for backhaul, some clever combination of Fring, SkypeOut and Google Voice should be the work around. Now all I have to do is figure out how to get the good Wifi signal levels out in the backyard. But that seems to be doable for less than $400. Contact Us Solar Impulse Runway Test Watch Today’s Video Episode Be sure to check out GoToMeeting. Why? Because you can hold meetings right over the Net — from anywhere. Plus, you can hold all the meetings you want for one flat rate. To get your free 30-day trial , visit www.gotomeeting.com/techpodcasts. Take 10% off any order at GoDaddy.com! Code SLASH Take $5 off any $30 order at GoDaddy.com! Code SDR530 .com Domains $6.95 at GoDaddy.com! Code SLASH3 More blogs about SlashdotReview and SDRNews… tag:odeo.com,2009-11-24,25460795 Tue, 24 Nov 2009 16:38:15 -0800 no Slashdot Review - Produced by SDR News SDRNews, twitter, tivo, joost http://odeo.com/episodes/25460796-SDRNews-Right-On-Roku-Will-Oprah-Come-Calling IBM Smartphone Translates 11 Languages Roku Channel Store Launches Children Should Play in Dirt SDR News is a Daily (M-F) Technology Podcast with Tech News Highlights from Slashdot, Digg and Reddit Click Here to Sign Up for the SDR Newsletter Prefer a Direct Download ? (mp3) Download today’s show. SDR News Links If a news item has disappeared from the Del.icio.us list above, try the full list here. SEARCH ANY STORY YOU HEAR ON THE PODCAST More Info on Screencasts Online Right On, Roku ! Oprah May Come Calling by Andrew McCaskey The First Step for Oprah ? Early adopter that I am, I’ve had the Roku box for well over a year. And I have to admit it was a $99 curiosity for the first six months or so – offering VHS quality video. But around December of last year, a firmware upgrade installed a new codec and it was suddenly a new ball game. It’s not as sharp as the AppleTV but from a business standpoint, the price is right. The Channel Store launched today is one of... IBM Smartphone Translates 11 Languages Roku Channel Store Launches Children Should Play in Dirt SDR News is a Daily (M-F) Technology Podcast with Tech News Highlights from Slashdot, Digg and Reddit Click Here to Sign Up for the SDR Newsletter Prefer a Direct Download ? (mp3) Download today’s show. SDR News Links If a news item has disappeared from the Del.icio.us list above, try the full list here. SEARCH ANY STORY YOU HEAR ON THE PODCAST More Info on Screencasts Online Right On, Roku ! Oprah May Come Calling by Andrew McCaskey The First Step for Oprah ? Early adopter that I am, I’ve had the Roku box for well over a year. And I have to admit it was a $99 curiosity for the first six months or so – offering VHS quality video. But around December of last year, a firmware upgrade installed a new codec and it was suddenly a new ball game. It’s not as sharp as the AppleTV but from a business standpoint, the price is right. The Channel Store launched today is one of the most exciting opportunities to come down the line – and potentially, it is going to be huge for anyone who is involved in New Media. The efforts by Netflix to get their silicon into BluRay players, flat screen TV’s and through affordable players like the Roku are going to represent a critical mass in destabilizing of the cable industry. All of the publicity in the “Oprah Leaves Network Television” saga mentions the shift to cable by the Oprah Winfrey Network. She is certainly astute enough to seize upon some technology to cover her bets in case she wants to move beyond the technology that the purchase of the Discovery Network offers. Don’t be surprised if one day she gives away a Roku box to everyone in the audience. Not as exciting as the Pontiac, but with Oprah’s blessing, it would most certainly be around longer than Pontiac turned out to be. Contact Us First Google Production Server Watch Today’s Video Episode Be sure to check out GoToMeeting. Why? Because you can hold meetings right over the Net — from anywhere. Plus, you can hold all the meetings you want for one flat rate. To get your free 30-day trial , visit www.gotomeeting.com/techpodcasts. Take 10% off any order at GoDaddy.com! Code SLASH Take $5 off any $30 order at GoDaddy.com! Code SDR530 .com Domains $6.95 at GoDaddy.com! Code SLASH3 More blogs about SlashdotReview and SDRNews… IBM Smartphone Translates 11 Languages Roku Channel Store Launches Children Should Play in Dirt SDR News is a Daily (M-F) Technology Podcast with Tech News Highlights from Slashdot, Digg and Reddit Click Here to Sign Up for the SDR Newsletter Prefer a Direct Download ? (mp3) Download today’s show. SDR News Links If a news item has disappeared from the Del.icio.us list above, try the full list here. SEARCH ANY STORY YOU HEAR ON THE PODCAST More Info on Screencasts Online Right On, Roku ! Oprah May Come Calling by Andrew McCaskey The First Step for Oprah ? Early adopter that I am, I’ve had the Roku box for well over a year. And I have to admit it was a $99 curiosity for the first six months or so – offering VHS quality video. But around December of last year, a firmware upgrade installed a new codec and it was suddenly a new ball game. It’s not as sharp as the AppleTV but from a business standpoint, the price is right. The Channel Store launched today is one of the most exciting opportunities to come down the line – and potentially, it is going to be huge for anyone who is involved in New Media. The efforts by Netflix to get their silicon into BluRay players, flat screen TV’s and through affordable players like the Roku are going to represent a critical mass in destabilizing of the cable industry. All of the publicity in the “Oprah Leaves Network Television” saga mentions the shift to cable by the Oprah Winfrey Network. She is certainly astute enough to seize upon some technology to cover her bets in case she wants to move beyond the technology that the purchase of the Discovery Network offers. Don’t be surprised if one day she gives away a Roku box to everyone in the audience. Not as exciting as the Pontiac, but with Oprah’s blessing, it would most certainly be around longer than Pontiac turned out to be. Contact Us First Google Production Server Watch Today’s Video Episode Be sure to check out GoToMeeting. Why? Because you can hold meetings right over the Net — from anywhere. Plus, you can hold all the meetings you want for one flat rate. To get your free 30-day trial , visit www.gotomeeting.com/techpodcasts. Take 10% off any order at GoDaddy.com! Code SLASH Take $5 off any $30 order at GoDaddy.com! Code SDR530 .com Domains $6.95 at GoDaddy.com! Code SLASH3 More blogs about SlashdotReview and SDRNews… tag:odeo.com,2009-11-23,25460796 Mon, 23 Nov 2009 16:51:07 -0800 no Slashdot Review - Produced by SDR News SDRNews, Broadband, oprah, ISP, roku, telco http://odeo.com/episodes/25460797-SDRNews-ChromeOS-A-Narrow-Hit Why More Tech Job Losses ? Social Media and Black Friday New IE 6 and IE7 Vulnerability SDR News is a Daily (M-F) Technology Podcast with Tech News Highlights from Slashdot, Digg and Reddit Click Here to Sign Up for the SDR Newsletter Prefer a Direct Download ? (mp3) Download today’s show. SDR News Links If a news item has disappeared from the Del.icio.us list above, try the full list here. SEARCH ANY STORY YOU HEAR ON THE PODCAST More Info on Screencasts Online ChromeOS a Narrow Hit by Andrew McCaskey But Not the Mass Market With all the discussion on Google’s Chrome OS – I think that this first set of devices is going to hit a portion of the mobile professional market, but is going to miss the mass market. Two reasons: Price and Familiarity. A true mass market is going to take several years to develop, and mid America is going to continue to vacuum up replacements from the Walmart, Sam’s and Best Buy channels to gradually replace their aging WindowsXP syste... Why More Tech Job Losses ? Social Media and Black Friday New IE 6 and IE7 Vulnerability SDR News is a Daily (M-F) Technology Podcast with Tech News Highlights from Slashdot, Digg and Reddit Click Here to Sign Up for the SDR Newsletter Prefer a Direct Download ? (mp3) Download today’s show. SDR News Links If a news item has disappeared from the Del.icio.us list above, try the full list here. SEARCH ANY STORY YOU HEAR ON THE PODCAST More Info on Screencasts Online ChromeOS a Narrow Hit by Andrew McCaskey But Not the Mass Market With all the discussion on Google’s Chrome OS – I think that this first set of devices is going to hit a portion of the mobile professional market, but is going to miss the mass market. Two reasons: Price and Familiarity. A true mass market is going to take several years to develop, and mid America is going to continue to vacuum up replacements from the Walmart, Sam’s and Best Buy channels to gradually replace their aging WindowsXP systems, and they are going to do that with the familiar, not with the evolutionary. A very large segment of the population has just moved in to computer literacy and are at the stage where the ability to function in Microsoft Word and Excel are proudly hard won skills. While many of us with technical skills and early adopter attention spans are freely moving to Windows7 ,OSX or the latest Ubuntu distro, many people have only recently climbed on to XP. Even though Chrome is the logical choice (considering the amount of work that is actually done outside of a browser), the ability to toss in a game from the Walmart discount bin for the kids or to have one of the teenagers in the house stock up an iPod with iTunes is going to be a killer if it does not work on the next PC as well as it has on the one that’s five or six years old and being replaced. Contact Us Zeppelin by Renault Watch Today’s Video Episode Be sure to check out GoToMeeting. Why? Because you can hold meetings right over the Net — from anywhere. Plus, you can hold all the meetings you want for one flat rate. To get your free 30-day trial , visit www.gotomeeting.com/techpodcasts. Take 10% off any order at GoDaddy.com! Code SLASH Take $5 off any $30 order at GoDaddy.com! Code SDR530 .com Domains $6.95 at GoDaddy.com! Code SLASH3 More blogs about SlashdotReview and SDRNews… Why More Tech Job Losses ? Social Media and Black Friday New IE 6 and IE7 Vulnerability SDR News is a Daily (M-F) Technology Podcast with Tech News Highlights from Slashdot, Digg and Reddit Click Here to Sign Up for the SDR Newsletter Prefer a Direct Download ? (mp3) Download today’s show. SDR News Links If a news item has disappeared from the Del.icio.us list above, try the full list here. SEARCH ANY STORY YOU HEAR ON THE PODCAST More Info on Screencasts Online ChromeOS a Narrow Hit by Andrew McCaskey But Not the Mass Market With all the discussion on Google’s Chrome OS – I think that this first set of devices is going to hit a portion of the mobile professional market, but is going to miss the mass market. Two reasons: Price and Familiarity. A true mass market is going to take several years to develop, and mid America is going to continue to vacuum up replacements from the Walmart, Sam’s and Best Buy channels to gradually replace their aging WindowsXP systems, and they are going to do that with the familiar, not with the evolutionary. A very large segment of the population has just moved in to computer literacy and are at the stage where the ability to function in Microsoft Word and Excel are proudly hard won skills. While many of us with technical skills and early adopter attention spans are freely moving to Windows7 ,OSX or the latest Ubuntu distro, many people have only recently climbed on to XP. Even though Chrome is the logical choice (considering the amount of work that is actually done outside of a browser), the ability to toss in a game from the Walmart discount bin for the kids or to have one of the teenagers in the house stock up an iPod with iTunes is going to be a killer if it does not work on the next PC as well as it has on the one that’s five or six years old and being replaced. Contact Us Zeppelin by Renault Watch Today’s Video Episode Be sure to check out GoToMeeting. Why? Because you can hold meetings right over the Net — from anywhere. Plus, you can hold all the meetings you want for one flat rate. To get your free 30-day trial , visit www.gotomeeting.com/techpodcasts. Take 10% off any order at GoDaddy.com! Code SLASH Take $5 off any $30 order at GoDaddy.com! Code SDR530 .com Domains $6.95 at GoDaddy.com! Code SLASH3 More blogs about SlashdotReview and SDRNews… tag:odeo.com,2009-11-22,25460797 Sun, 22 Nov 2009 16:40:45 -0800 no Slashdot Review - Produced by SDR News SDRNews, android, Broadband, recession http://odeo.com/episodes/25460798-SDRNews-Location-Location FourSquare the Next Twitter ? Chrome OS Big Debut AOL to Lay off 2500 SDR News is a Daily (M-F) Technology Podcast with Tech News Highlights from Slashdot, Digg and Reddit Click Here to Sign Up for the SDR Newsletter Prefer a Direct Download ? (mp3) Download today’s show. SDR News Links If a news item has disappeared from the Del.icio.us list above, try the full list here. SEARCH ANY STORY YOU HEAR ON THE PODCAST More Info on Screencasts Online Location, Location by Andrew McCaskey Location, Location The latest prediction from Mashable is that the real buzz in 2010 is going to surround Foursquare – the Next Big Thing. A combination of location reporting, tweeting and an online leaderboard game, Foursquare has all of the ingredients of a winner. I think it’s going to be big – and as the saying goes, the future is here, it’s just not evenly distributed. Fifty cities are now in the system, and presumably as more are added it will gain increased notoriety a... FourSquare the Next Twitter ? Chrome OS Big Debut AOL to Lay off 2500 SDR News is a Daily (M-F) Technology Podcast with Tech News Highlights from Slashdot, Digg and Reddit Click Here to Sign Up for the SDR Newsletter Prefer a Direct Download ? (mp3) Download today’s show. SDR News Links If a news item has disappeared from the Del.icio.us list above, try the full list here. SEARCH ANY STORY YOU HEAR ON THE PODCAST More Info on Screencasts Online Location, Location by Andrew McCaskey Location, Location The latest prediction from Mashable is that the real buzz in 2010 is going to surround Foursquare – the Next Big Thing. A combination of location reporting, tweeting and an online leaderboard game, Foursquare has all of the ingredients of a winner. I think it’s going to be big – and as the saying goes, the future is here, it’s just not evenly distributed. Fifty cities are now in the system, and presumably as more are added it will gain increased notoriety and utility. There are a lot of things lining up. First, Twitter has set the stage for social user generated content among a wide set of mobile users. And, for the first time they have smartphone platforms that are ready to go, and a familiar use model. Very different from the pre-iPhone days of just two years ago. Secondly, they have a strong local component that can, for very little money in the form of specials, discounts, free drinks for the “mayor” of the venue a small business, restaurant or bar can attract a group of highly aware, social and loquacious customers. It’s all about word of mouth advertising and personal recommendations, and this has it in spades. As true in the social media space as it is in Real Estate. More importantly, it’s the function of location and time. And moving people into your business. {sharethis} DISCLOSURE OF MATERIAL CONNECTION: http://cmp.ly/0 Contact Us Automatic Captions in YouTube Watch Today’s Video Episode Be sure to check out GoToMeeting. Why? Because you can hold meetings right over the Net — from anywhere. Plus, you can hold all the meetings you want for one flat rate. To get your free 30-day trial , visit www.gotomeeting.com/techpodcasts. Take 10% off any order at GoDaddy.com! Code SLASH Take $5 off any $30 order at GoDaddy.com! Code SDR530 .com Domains $6.95 at GoDaddy.com! Code SLASH3 More blogs about SlashdotReview and SDRNews… FourSquare the Next Twitter ? Chrome OS Big Debut AOL to Lay off 2500 SDR News is a Daily (M-F) Technology Podcast with Tech News Highlights from Slashdot, Digg and Reddit Click Here to Sign Up for the SDR Newsletter Prefer a Direct Download ? (mp3) Download today’s show. SDR News Links If a news item has disappeared from the Del.icio.us list above, try the full list here. SEARCH ANY STORY YOU HEAR ON THE PODCAST More Info on Screencasts Online Location, Location by Andrew McCaskey Location, Location The latest prediction from Mashable is that the real buzz in 2010 is going to surround Foursquare – the Next Big Thing. A combination of location reporting, tweeting and an online leaderboard game, Foursquare has all of the ingredients of a winner. I think it’s going to be big – and as the saying goes, the future is here, it’s just not evenly distributed. Fifty cities are now in the system, and presumably as more are added it will gain increased notoriety and utility. There are a lot of things lining up. First, Twitter has set the stage for social user generated content among a wide set of mobile users. And, for the first time they have smartphone platforms that are ready to go, and a familiar use model. Very different from the pre-iPhone days of just two years ago. Secondly, they have a strong local component that can, for very little money in the form of specials, discounts, free drinks for the “mayor” of the venue a small business, restaurant or bar can attract a group of highly aware, social and loquacious customers. It’s all about word of mouth advertising and personal recommendations, and this has it in spades. As true in the social media space as it is in Real Estate. More importantly, it’s the function of location and time. And moving people into your business. {sharethis} DISCLOSURE OF MATERIAL CONNECTION: http://cmp.ly/0 Contact Us Automatic Captions in YouTube Watch Today’s Video Episode Be sure to check out GoToMeeting. Why? Because you can hold meetings right over the Net — from anywhere. Plus, you can hold all the meetings you want for one flat rate. To get your free 30-day trial , visit www.gotomeeting.com/techpodcasts. Take 10% off any order at GoDaddy.com! Code SLASH Take $5 off any $30 order at GoDaddy.com! Code SDR530 .com Domains $6.95 at GoDaddy.com! Code SLASH3 More blogs about SlashdotReview and SDRNews… tag:odeo.com,2009-11-19,25460798 Thu, 19 Nov 2009 16:34:40 -0800 no Slashdot Review - Produced by SDR News SDRNews, google, aol, Foursquare, chromeOS http://odeo.com/episodes/25460799-SDRNews-Google%E2%80%99s-Golden-Goose FaceBook #3 Video Site Dawn of the GooglePhone Office 2010 Beta Downloads SDR News is a Daily (M-F) Technology Podcast with Tech News Highlights from Slashdot, Digg and Reddit Click Here to Sign Up for the SDR Newsletter Prefer a Direct Download ? (mp3) Download today’s show. SDR News Links If a news item has disappeared from the Del.icio.us list above, try the full list here. SEARCH ANY STORY YOU HEAR ON THE PODCAST More Info on Screencasts Online Google and the Golden Goose by Andrew McCaskey Why Threaten the Golden Goose ? Why would Google threaten the Golden Goose of search based targeted advertising by picking a fight with handset and netbook manufacturers ? Because they must. In ten glorious years Google has established and dominated the search category, but as the demographic baton gets passed to Baidu – the Chinese search engine – and with Bing gathering close to 10% market share a few months after launch, competition has arrived in full force. Gigantic com... FaceBook #3 Video Site Dawn of the GooglePhone Office 2010 Beta Downloads SDR News is a Daily (M-F) Technology Podcast with Tech News Highlights from Slashdot, Digg and Reddit Click Here to Sign Up for the SDR Newsletter Prefer a Direct Download ? (mp3) Download today’s show. SDR News Links If a news item has disappeared from the Del.icio.us list above, try the full list here. SEARCH ANY STORY YOU HEAR ON THE PODCAST More Info on Screencasts Online Google and the Golden Goose by Andrew McCaskey Why Threaten the Golden Goose ? Why would Google threaten the Golden Goose of search based targeted advertising by picking a fight with handset and netbook manufacturers ? Because they must. In ten glorious years Google has established and dominated the search category, but as the demographic baton gets passed to Baidu – the Chinese search engine – and with Bing gathering close to 10% market share a few months after launch, competition has arrived in full force. Gigantic companies have to make really big moves in order to move the needle at all. A succession of Google initiatives that have failed to gain traction have at least failed fast. A small few, such as the location based Latitude fit well within a mobile focused universe, and when combined with search could leap to the next level. The recent acquisition of Gizmo5 puts Google at last in a firm connect to the public switched network. A data only Google-phone, marketed in parallel with a carrier but not as a phone-offering (much like Amazon does with the Kindle and the Sprint 3G network) might keep carriers happy. The handset and netbook manufacturers will be bent out of shape for a short time – then figure out what their odds of success might be trying to develop a worthy competitor to Android and the iPhone. Netbook manufacturers will stretch XP for another year or two – but that long in the tooth strategy is going to run out of steam fast, and by that time, Chrome OS will have traction. Google’s not killing the Golden Goose. Just moving to a greener pasture. {sharethis} DISCLOSURE OF MATERIAL CONNECTION: http://cmp.ly/0 Contact Us http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgGxi3hiOnY&feature=player_embedded YouTube Direct Watch Today’s Video Episode Be sure to check out GoToMeeting. Why? Because you can hold meetings right over the Net — from anywhere. Plus, you can hold all the meetings you want for one flat rate. To get your free 30-day trial , visit www.gotomeeting.com/techpodcasts. Take 10% off any order at GoDaddy.com! Code SLASH Take $5 off any $30 order at GoDaddy.com! Code SDR530 .com Domains $6.95 at GoDaddy.com! Code SLASH3 More blogs about SlashdotReview and SDRNews… FaceBook #3 Video Site Dawn of the GooglePhone Office 2010 Beta Downloads SDR News is a Daily (M-F) Technology Podcast with Tech News Highlights from Slashdot, Digg and Reddit Click Here to Sign Up for the SDR Newsletter Prefer a Direct Download ? (mp3) Download today’s show. SDR News Links If a news item has disappeared from the Del.icio.us list above, try the full list here. SEARCH ANY STORY YOU HEAR ON THE PODCAST More Info on Screencasts Online Google and the Golden Goose by Andrew McCaskey Why Threaten the Golden Goose ? Why would Google threaten the Golden Goose of search based targeted advertising by picking a fight with handset and netbook manufacturers ? Because they must. In ten glorious years Google has established and dominated the search category, but as the demographic baton gets passed to Baidu – the Chinese search engine – and with Bing gathering close to 10% market share a few months after launch, competition has arrived in full force. Gigantic companies have to make really big moves in order to move the needle at all. A succession of Google initiatives that have failed to gain traction have at least failed fast. A small few, such as the location based Latitude fit well within a mobile focused universe, and when combined with search could leap to the next level. The recent acquisition of Gizmo5 puts Google at last in a firm connect to the public switched network. A data only Google-phone, marketed in parallel with a carrier but not as a phone-offering (much like Amazon does with the Kindle and the Sprint 3G network) might keep carriers happy. The handset and netbook manufacturers will be bent out of shape for a short time – then figure out what their odds of success might be trying to develop a worthy competitor to Android and the iPhone. Netbook manufacturers will stretch XP for another year or two – but that long in the tooth strategy is going to run out of steam fast, and by that time, Chrome OS will have traction. Google’s not killing the Golden Goose. Just moving to a greener pasture. {sharethis} DISCLOSURE OF MATERIAL CONNECTION: http://cmp.ly/0 Contact Us http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgGxi3hiOnY&feature=player_embedded YouTube Direct Watch Today’s Video Episode Be sure to check out GoToMeeting. Why? Because you can hold meetings right over the Net — from anywhere. Plus, you can hold all the meetings you want for one flat rate. To get your free 30-day trial , visit www.gotomeeting.com/techpodcasts. Take 10% off any order at GoDaddy.com! Code SLASH Take $5 off any $30 order at GoDaddy.com! Code SDR530 .com Domains $6.95 at GoDaddy.com! Code SLASH3 More blogs about SlashdotReview and SDRNews… tag:odeo.com,2009-11-18,25460799 Wed, 18 Nov 2009 16:33:07 -0800 no Slashdot Review - Produced by SDR News SDRNews, video, google, gPhone, Office2010 http://odeo.com/episodes/25460800-SDRNews-TV-Broadcasters-Circle-the-Wagons Liquid Cooled Servers Offer Big Savings Crowdsourced Cartography Pirate Bay Loses the Tracker SDR News is a Daily (M-F) Technology Podcast with Tech News Highlights from Slashdot, Digg and Reddit Click Here to Sign Up for the SDR Newsletter Prefer a Direct Download ? (mp3) Download today’s show. SDR News Links If a news item has disappeared from the Del.icio.us list above, try the full list here. SEARCH ANY STORY YOU HEAR ON THE PODCAST More Info on Screencasts Online Broadcasters Circle the Wagons by Andrew McCaskey The Coming Wireless Avalanche Broadcasters are starting to circle the wagons. And this time there are more Indians attacking than ever. The CTIA – The Wireless Association, and the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA)CTIA predicts that mobile data usage could grow by 66 times between what it was last year and 2013. BY 2015, a single smartphone users’ data consumption could be 450 times the amount of data consumed in 2005. The FCC predicts total wirel... Liquid Cooled Servers Offer Big Savings Crowdsourced Cartography Pirate Bay Loses the Tracker SDR News is a Daily (M-F) Technology Podcast with Tech News Highlights from Slashdot, Digg and Reddit Click Here to Sign Up for the SDR Newsletter Prefer a Direct Download ? (mp3) Download today’s show. SDR News Links If a news item has disappeared from the Del.icio.us list above, try the full list here. SEARCH ANY STORY YOU HEAR ON THE PODCAST More Info on Screencasts Online Broadcasters Circle the Wagons by Andrew McCaskey The Coming Wireless Avalanche Broadcasters are starting to circle the wagons. And this time there are more Indians attacking than ever. The CTIA – The Wireless Association, and the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA)CTIA predicts that mobile data usage could grow by 66 times between what it was last year and 2013. BY 2015, a single smartphone users’ data consumption could be 450 times the amount of data consumed in 2005. The FCC predicts total wireless consumption could grow from six petabytes a month last year to 400 by 2013—a petabyte being a thousand terrabytes. In the late 1980’s I remember a conversation with a broadcaster who was seriously suggesting that since 80% of his viewers were on cable, how they could justify the antenna, transmitter, tower and operating expense for the remaining 20%. Even then, he joked if the tower blew down his business results would improve once he cashed the insurance check, as long as he did not have to rebuild and had 80% of his business – the profitable part – left over. Broadcasters will be fighting every step of the way, but it’s a losing battle. And smart broadcasters are or should be moving as fast as they can to figure out what their online presence and strategy might be. Contact Us Senster Robotic Sculpture from 1969 Watch Today’s Video Episode Be sure to check out GoToMeeting. Why? Because you can hold meetings right over the Net — from anywhere. Plus, you can hold all the meetings you want for one flat rate. To get your free 30-day trial , visit www.gotomeeting.com/techpodcasts. Take 10% off any order at GoDaddy.com! Code SLASH Take $5 off any $30 order at GoDaddy.com! Code SDR530 .com Domains $6.95 at GoDaddy.com! Code SLASH3 More blogs about SlashdotReview and SDRNews… Liquid Cooled Servers Offer Big Savings Crowdsourced Cartography Pirate Bay Loses the Tracker SDR News is a Daily (M-F) Technology Podcast with Tech News Highlights from Slashdot, Digg and Reddit Click Here to Sign Up for the SDR Newsletter Prefer a Direct Download ? (mp3) Download today’s show. SDR News Links If a news item has disappeared from the Del.icio.us list above, try the full list here. SEARCH ANY STORY YOU HEAR ON THE PODCAST More Info on Screencasts Online Broadcasters Circle the Wagons by Andrew McCaskey The Coming Wireless Avalanche Broadcasters are starting to circle the wagons. And this time there are more Indians attacking than ever. The CTIA – The Wireless Association, and the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA)CTIA predicts that mobile data usage could grow by 66 times between what it was last year and 2013. BY 2015, a single smartphone users’ data consumption could be 450 times the amount of data consumed in 2005. The FCC predicts total wireless consumption could grow from six petabytes a month last year to 400 by 2013—a petabyte being a thousand terrabytes. In the late 1980’s I remember a conversation with a broadcaster who was seriously suggesting that since 80% of his viewers were on cable, how they could justify the antenna, transmitter, tower and operating expense for the remaining 20%. Even then, he joked if the tower blew down his business results would improve once he cashed the insurance check, as long as he did not have to rebuild and had 80% of his business – the profitable part – left over. Broadcasters will be fighting every step of the way, but it’s a losing battle. And smart broadcasters are or should be moving as fast as they can to figure out what their online presence and strategy might be. Contact Us Senster Robotic Sculpture from 1969 Watch Today’s Video Episode Be sure to check out GoToMeeting. Why? Because you can hold meetings right over the Net — from anywhere. Plus, you can hold all the meetings you want for one flat rate. To get your free 30-day trial , visit www.gotomeeting.com/techpodcasts. Take 10% off any order at GoDaddy.com! Code SLASH Take $5 off any $30 order at GoDaddy.com! Code SDR530 .com Domains $6.95 at GoDaddy.com! Code SLASH3 More blogs about SlashdotReview and SDRNews… tag:odeo.com,2009-11-17,25460800 Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:48:01 -0800 no Slashdot Review - Produced by SDR News energy, SDRNews, Datacenter, torrent, crowdsource http://odeo.com/episodes/25460801-SDRNews-Mutually-Assured-Destruction-in-Search Madoff’s Coder Helpers Droid Off to Respectable Start Apple Tablet – The Everything Killer SDR News is a Daily (M-F) Technology Podcast with Tech News Highlights from Slashdot, Digg and Reddit Click Here to Sign Up for the SDR Newsletter Prefer a Direct Download ? (mp3) Download today’s show. SDR News Links If a news item has disappeared from the Del.icio.us list above, try the full list here. SEARCH ANY STORY YOU HEAR ON THE PODCAST More Info on Screencasts Online Mutually Assured Destruction in Search by Andrew McCaskey Mark Cuban, owner of the Dallas Mavericks, has a plan to kill Google by paying the top 1,000 sites a cool million each to leave the Google index and move to Microsoft. But could such a plan ever work, and would it be worth the risk to abandon Google?” Anti-trust considerations aside, it might not be a good idea. First of all even though Microsoft could find $45Bn in an offer for Yahoo, stockholders might be cautious about a billion or two. B... Madoff’s Coder Helpers Droid Off to Respectable Start Apple Tablet – The Everything Killer SDR News is a Daily (M-F) Technology Podcast with Tech News Highlights from Slashdot, Digg and Reddit Click Here to Sign Up for the SDR Newsletter Prefer a Direct Download ? (mp3) Download today’s show. SDR News Links If a news item has disappeared from the Del.icio.us list above, try the full list here. SEARCH ANY STORY YOU HEAR ON THE PODCAST More Info on Screencasts Online Mutually Assured Destruction in Search by Andrew McCaskey Mark Cuban, owner of the Dallas Mavericks, has a plan to kill Google by paying the top 1,000 sites a cool million each to leave the Google index and move to Microsoft. But could such a plan ever work, and would it be worth the risk to abandon Google?” Anti-trust considerations aside, it might not be a good idea. First of all even though Microsoft could find $45Bn in an offer for Yahoo, stockholders might be cautious about a billion or two. But, it might be that Google wouldn’t stand still while its closest competitor tried to force the market away from its search engine. Maybe Google would up the stakes. After all, they have money too. Maybe the top sites could get Google into a bidding war with Microsoft, but would this be healthy for anyone except the companies that were the recipients of this largess? Mutually Assured Destruction strategies just keep everyone’s nerves on edge. And once it went through all the legal appeals suits and countersuits it is likely to tie up such an approach in court for so many years that it wouldn’t matter to most of us for a long, long time. Even Microsoft stockholders probably don’t like paying lawyers. Contact Us Little Dog Robot- Boston Dynamics Watch Today’s Video Episode Be sure to check out GoToMeeting. Why? Because you can hold meetings right over the Net — from anywhere. Plus, you can hold all the meetings you want for one flat rate. To get your free 30-day trial , visit www.gotomeeting.com/techpodcasts. Take 10% off any order at GoDaddy.com! Code SLASH Take $5 off any $30 order at GoDaddy.com! Code SDR530 .com Domains $6.95 at GoDaddy.com! Code SLASH3 More blogs about SlashdotReview and SDRNews… Madoff’s Coder Helpers Droid Off to Respectable Start Apple Tablet – The Everything Killer SDR News is a Daily (M-F) Technology Podcast with Tech News Highlights from Slashdot, Digg and Reddit Click Here to Sign Up for the SDR Newsletter Prefer a Direct Download ? (mp3) Download today’s show. SDR News Links If a news item has disappeared from the Del.icio.us list above, try the full list here. SEARCH ANY STORY YOU HEAR ON THE PODCAST More Info on Screencasts Online Mutually Assured Destruction in Search by Andrew McCaskey Mark Cuban, owner of the Dallas Mavericks, has a plan to kill Google by paying the top 1,000 sites a cool million each to leave the Google index and move to Microsoft. But could such a plan ever work, and would it be worth the risk to abandon Google?” Anti-trust considerations aside, it might not be a good idea. First of all even though Microsoft could find $45Bn in an offer for Yahoo, stockholders might be cautious about a billion or two. But, it might be that Google wouldn’t stand still while its closest competitor tried to force the market away from its search engine. Maybe Google would up the stakes. After all, they have money too. Maybe the top sites could get Google into a bidding war with Microsoft, but would this be healthy for anyone except the companies that were the recipients of this largess? Mutually Assured Destruction strategies just keep everyone’s nerves on edge. And once it went through all the legal appeals suits and countersuits it is likely to tie up such an approach in court for so many years that it wouldn’t matter to most of us for a long, long time. Even Microsoft stockholders probably don’t like paying lawyers. Contact Us Little Dog Robot- Boston Dynamics Watch Today’s Video Episode Be sure to check out GoToMeeting. Why? Because you can hold meetings right over the Net — from anywhere. Plus, you can hold all the meetings you want for one flat rate. To get your free 30-day trial , visit www.gotomeeting.com/techpodcasts. Take 10% off any order at GoDaddy.com! Code SLASH Take $5 off any $30 order at GoDaddy.com! Code SDR530 .com Domains $6.95 at GoDaddy.com! Code SLASH3 More blogs about SlashdotReview and SDRNews… tag:odeo.com,2009-11-16,25460801 Mon, 16 Nov 2009 16:21:37 -0800 no Slashdot Review - Produced by SDR News SDRNews, google, apple, verizon, search, tablet, droid http://odeo.com/episodes/25460802-SDRNews-Murdoch-Master-of-the-Universe Wordpress Adds Location Info Murdoch’s Google Leverage Hail Mary Cloud Password Attacks SDR News is a Daily (M-F) Technology Podcast with Tech News Highlights from Slashdot, Digg and Reddit Click Here to Sign Up for the SDR Newsletter Prefer a Direct Download ? (mp3) Download today’s show. SDR News Links If a news item has disappeared from the Del.icio.us list above, try the full list here. SEARCH ANY STORY YOU HEAR ON THE PODCAST More Info on Screencasts Online Murdoch -v- Google by Andrew McCaskey Master of the Universe We all got a good laugh last week when Rupert Murdoch announced that he was going to pull his NewsCorp content from Google. It may not be that simple. Mahalo CEO Jason Calacanis, who used to work for Murdoch’s Digital Chief Jonathan Miller when the two were at AOL, posted a simple suggestion: Not only should Murdoch de-index from Google, but he should get Bing to pay him for the exclusive right to index it. If other media companies joined Murdoch Google... Wordpress Adds Location Info Murdoch’s Google Leverage Hail Mary Cloud Password Attacks SDR News is a Daily (M-F) Technology Podcast with Tech News Highlights from Slashdot, Digg and Reddit Click Here to Sign Up for the SDR Newsletter Prefer a Direct Download ? (mp3) Download today’s show. SDR News Links If a news item has disappeared from the Del.icio.us list above, try the full list here. SEARCH ANY STORY YOU HEAR ON THE PODCAST More Info on Screencasts Online Murdoch -v- Google by Andrew McCaskey Master of the Universe We all got a good laugh last week when Rupert Murdoch announced that he was going to pull his NewsCorp content from Google. It may not be that simple. Mahalo CEO Jason Calacanis, who used to work for Murdoch’s Digital Chief Jonathan Miller when the two were at AOL, posted a simple suggestion: Not only should Murdoch de-index from Google, but he should get Bing to pay him for the exclusive right to index it. If other media companies joined Murdoch Google could actually find itself in a very difficult position, where Bing had content that Google didn’t. If you knew that Wall Street Journal and, say, New York TImes content was only in Bing search results, mainstream search users would suddenly have a big reason to go to Bing. This would shift the balance of power away from search engines and to the content sites – if they could pull it off. Bidding wars over rights to index content would conceivably break out between Google and Microsoft. In spite of what we see in the movies, the title Master of the Universe does not get thrown around lightly. Contact Us Cloud Computing Explained Watch Today’s Video Episode Be sure to check out GoToMeeting. Why? Because you can hold meetings right over the Net — from anywhere. Plus, you can hold all the meetings you want for one flat rate. To get your free 30-day trial , visit www.gotomeeting.com/techpodcasts. Take 10% off any order at GoDaddy.com! Code SLASH Take $5 off any $30 order at GoDaddy.com! Code SDR530 .com Domains $6.95 at GoDaddy.com! Code SLASH3 More blogs about SlashdotReview and SDRNews… Wordpress Adds Location Info Murdoch’s Google Leverage Hail Mary Cloud Password Attacks SDR News is a Daily (M-F) Technology Podcast with Tech News Highlights from Slashdot, Digg and Reddit Click Here to Sign Up for the SDR Newsletter Prefer a Direct Download ? (mp3) Download today’s show. SDR News Links If a news item has disappeared from the Del.icio.us list above, try the full list here. SEARCH ANY STORY YOU HEAR ON THE PODCAST More Info on Screencasts Online Murdoch -v- Google by Andrew McCaskey Master of the Universe We all got a good laugh last week when Rupert Murdoch announced that he was going to pull his NewsCorp content from Google. It may not be that simple. Mahalo CEO Jason Calacanis, who used to work for Murdoch’s Digital Chief Jonathan Miller when the two were at AOL, posted a simple suggestion: Not only should Murdoch de-index from Google, but he should get Bing to pay him for the exclusive right to index it. If other media companies joined Murdoch Google could actually find itself in a very difficult position, where Bing had content that Google didn’t. If you knew that Wall Street Journal and, say, New York TImes content was only in Bing search results, mainstream search users would suddenly have a big reason to go to Bing. This would shift the balance of power away from search engines and to the content sites – if they could pull it off. Bidding wars over rights to index content would conceivably break out between Google and Microsoft. In spite of what we see in the movies, the title Master of the Universe does not get thrown around lightly. Contact Us Cloud Computing Explained Watch Today’s Video Episode Be sure to check out GoToMeeting. Why? Because you can hold meetings right over the Net — from anywhere. Plus, you can hold all the meetings you want for one flat rate. To get your free 30-day trial , visit www.gotomeeting.com/techpodcasts. Take 10% off any order at GoDaddy.com! Code SLASH Take $5 off any $30 order at GoDaddy.com! Code SDR530 .com Domains $6.95 at GoDaddy.com! Code SLASH3 More blogs about SlashdotReview and SDRNews… tag:odeo.com,2009-11-15,25460802 Sun, 15 Nov 2009 16:12:28 -0800 no Slashdot Review - Produced by SDR News SDRNews, google, verizon, Security, murdoch, newscorp http://odeo.com/episodes/25444049-SDRNews-Netflix-CEO-on-ISP-Bandwidth-Costs Google SPDY HTTP Replacement Intel Settles with AMD for $1.25B Twitter Flatlines SDR News is a Daily (M-F) Technology Podcast with Tech News Highlights from Slashdot, Digg and Reddit Click Here to Sign Up for the SDR Newsletter Prefer a Direct Download ? (mp3) Download today’s show. SDR News Links If a news item has disappeared from the Del.icio.us list above, try the full list here. SEARCH ANY STORY YOU HEAR ON THE PODCAST More Info on Screencasts Online NetFlix Explains ISP Economics by Andrew McCaskey And a Lot More Netflix CEO Reed Hastings shed a little light on the actual costs of streaming at the NewTeeVee Live conference today in San Francisco and had some words on the idea that ISPs are suffering from higher costs to deliver video to end users. He pointed out that the cost of bandwidth and capacity is falling rapidly due to Moore’s Law. He pointed out that Amazon charges about 5 cents a gigabyte for bandwidth — or about a nickel a movie — as proof of the low cos... Google SPDY HTTP Replacement Intel Settles with AMD for $1.25B Twitter Flatlines SDR News is a Daily (M-F) Technology Podcast with Tech News Highlights from Slashdot, Digg and Reddit Click Here to Sign Up for the SDR Newsletter Prefer a Direct Download ? (mp3) Download today’s show. SDR News Links If a news item has disappeared from the Del.icio.us list above, try the full list here. SEARCH ANY STORY YOU HEAR ON THE PODCAST More Info on Screencasts Online NetFlix Explains ISP Economics by Andrew McCaskey And a Lot More Netflix CEO Reed Hastings shed a little light on the actual costs of streaming at the NewTeeVee Live conference today in San Francisco and had some words on the idea that ISPs are suffering from higher costs to deliver video to end users. He pointed out that the cost of bandwidth and capacity is falling rapidly due to Moore’s Law. He pointed out that Amazon charges about 5 cents a gigabyte for bandwidth — or about a nickel a movie — as proof of the low costs. and that few users are able to use enough bandwidth to pick up the $60-80 a month they are paying for a 20Mb/sec connection. Hastings also pointed out that Netflix may compete with cable and IPTV video providers on the video side, but that services like his streaming video offering are driving demand for cable’s high-speed Internet products. Calling it a halo effect, and comparing it to Apple’s ability to sell more Macs after folks snapped up iPods, Hastings said the primary reason for anyone to subscribe to 20Mbps service is to watch video, not send emails faster. Fair enough. I have to wonder where the middle ground lies, between the claims of Verizon and Comcast that the few bandwidth hogs are making their investor’s lives miserable, and the Netflix perspective. I pay around $80 a month (being forced to buy a basic Cable TV subscription that is not even connected) but get , on a good day, 20Mb/sec down and 5Mb/sec up. I have it mostly for the convenience, and for those times when I need to run simultaneous video, Skype, Voip sessions – maybe once every six weeks. I know that Comcast is making some serious money off of me – since I am buying the peak speeds, not the heavy throughput. If I had kids in the house watching movies, it might be a different story. Contact Us Boxee Quick Overview Watch Today’s Video Episode Be sure to check out GoToMeeting. Why? Because you can hold meetings right over the Net — from anywhere. Plus, you can hold all the meetings you want for one flat rate. To get your free 30-day trial , visit www.gotomeeting.com/techpodcasts. Take 10% off any order at GoDaddy.com! Code SLASH Take $5 off any $30 order at GoDaddy.com! Code SDR530 .com Domains $6.95 at GoDaddy.com! Code SLASH3 More blogs about SlashdotReview and SDRNews… Google SPDY HTTP Replacement Intel Settles with AMD for $1.25B Twitter Flatlines SDR News is a Daily (M-F) Technology Podcast with Tech News Highlights from Slashdot, Digg and Reddit Click Here to Sign Up for the SDR Newsletter Prefer a Direct Download ? (mp3) Download today’s show. SDR News Links If a news item has disappeared from the Del.icio.us list above, try the full list here. SEARCH ANY STORY YOU HEAR ON THE PODCAST More Info on Screencasts Online NetFlix Explains ISP Economics by Andrew McCaskey And a Lot More Netflix CEO Reed Hastings shed a little light on the actual costs of streaming at the NewTeeVee Live conference today in San Francisco and had some words on the idea that ISPs are suffering from higher costs to deliver video to end users. He pointed out that the cost of bandwidth and capacity is falling rapidly due to Moore’s Law. He pointed out that Amazon charges about 5 cents a gigabyte for bandwidth — or about a nickel a movie — as proof of the low costs. and that few users are able to use enough bandwidth to pick up the $60-80 a month they are paying for a 20Mb/sec connection. Hastings also pointed out that Netflix may compete with cable and IPTV video providers on the video side, but that services like his streaming video offering are driving demand for cable’s high-speed Internet products. Calling it a halo effect, and comparing it to Apple’s ability to sell more Macs after folks snapped up iPods, Hastings said the primary reason for anyone to subscribe to 20Mbps service is to watch video, not send emails faster. Fair enough. I have to wonder where the middle ground lies, between the claims of Verizon and Comcast that the few bandwidth hogs are making their investor’s lives miserable, and the Netflix perspective. I pay around $80 a month (being forced to buy a basic Cable TV subscription that is not even connected) but get , on a good day, 20Mb/sec down and 5Mb/sec up. I have it mostly for the convenience, and for those times when I need to run simultaneous video, Skype, Voip sessions – maybe once every six weeks. I know that Comcast is making some serious money off of me – since I am buying the peak speeds, not the heavy throughput. If I had kids in the house watching movies, it might be a different story. Contact Us Boxee Quick Overview Watch Today’s Video Episode Be sure to check out GoToMeeting. Why? Because you can hold meetings right over the Net — from anywhere. Plus, you can hold all the meetings you want for one flat rate. To get your free 30-day trial , visit www.gotomeeting.com/techpodcasts. Take 10% off any order at GoDaddy.com! Code SLASH Take $5 off any $30 order at GoDaddy.com! Code SDR530 .com Domains $6.95 at GoDaddy.com! Code SLASH3 More blogs about SlashdotReview and SDRNews… tag:odeo.com,2009-11-12,25444049 Thu, 12 Nov 2009 16:52:40 -0800 no Slashdot Review - Produced by SDR News SDRNews, twitter, google, Broadband, netflix, iptv, ISP http://odeo.com/episodes/25439387-SDRNews-Google-Steps-Over-the-Line Congress Investigates Scamville Broadband Stimulus Landrush Google 16TB Cloud Storage Pricedrop SDR News is a Daily (M-F) Technology Podcast with Tech News Highlights from Slashdot, Digg and Reddit Click Here to Sign Up for the SDR Newsletter Prefer a Direct Download ? (mp3) Download today’s show. SDR News Links If a news item has disappeared from the Del.icio.us list above, try the full list here. SEARCH ANY STORY YOU HEAR ON THE PODCAST More Info on Screencasts Online Google Oversteps by Andrew McCaskey Google Latitude Crosses the Line PC World says that Google Latitude has been ” updated to make it a smidge creepier than before. Now Latitude tracks your location history and alerts you when your friends are nearby — two add-ons that could make stalking that much easier!. Location History is the creepiest of all, so thankfully this service is only for personal use and is not shared with Latitude friends. The way it works is Google pinpoints your trail of breadcrum... Congress Investigates Scamville Broadband Stimulus Landrush Google 16TB Cloud Storage Pricedrop SDR News is a Daily (M-F) Technology Podcast with Tech News Highlights from Slashdot, Digg and Reddit Click Here to Sign Up for the SDR Newsletter Prefer a Direct Download ? (mp3) Download today’s show. SDR News Links If a news item has disappeared from the Del.icio.us list above, try the full list here. SEARCH ANY STORY YOU HEAR ON THE PODCAST More Info on Screencasts Online Google Oversteps by Andrew McCaskey Google Latitude Crosses the Line PC World says that Google Latitude has been ” updated to make it a smidge creepier than before. Now Latitude tracks your location history and alerts you when your friends are nearby — two add-ons that could make stalking that much easier!. Location History is the creepiest of all, so thankfully this service is only for personal use and is not shared with Latitude friends. The way it works is Google pinpoints your trail of breadcrumbs and determines where you were by where you paused.” The service is currently private, the rise in popularity of location-based services such as Loopt, Stalqer and FourSquare may convince Google to later selectively publicize Location History to friends. But wait, there’s more – -the other add-on to Latitude is Location Alerts – to let you know that a friend (or enemy) is not in his or her usual location. Alerts establishes frequently-visited locations, so you won’t get messages when someone is in an expected place like at home or in the office. PC World continues ” Google says it might take a week or so to learn your behaviors, but believe: it will definitely learn your behaviors. . .” About a year ago we did a TPN Roundtable session on LifeCasting and digital archive which basically captured the entire digital stream from an individual by video, photos, keyboard, sound and sensor. Both acquisition and storage are now sufficiently advanced to handle both with consumer grade equipment. At the time, I concluded that this is one service that my newly born grandson did not need. I think that I have found one that I can agree not even his Grandpa needs or wants. No matter how “non-evil” Google is in it’s current incarnation, it’s not guaranteed to be resistant to a Court Order for my lifetime – much less his. Contact Us Yubby Video Aggregator at Blogworld Watch Today’s Video Episode Be sure to check out GoToMeeting. Why? Because you can hold meetings right over the Net — from anywhere. Plus, you can hold all the meetings you want for one flat rate. To get your free 30-day trial , visit www.gotomeeting.com/techpodcasts. Take 10% off any order at GoDaddy.com! Code SLASH Take $5 off any $30 order at GoDaddy.com! Code SDR530 .com Domains $6.95 at GoDaddy.com! Code SLASH3 More blogs about SlashdotReview and SDRNews… Congress Investigates Scamville Broadband Stimulus Landrush Google 16TB Cloud Storage Pricedrop SDR News is a Daily (M-F) Technology Podcast with Tech News Highlights from Slashdot, Digg and Reddit Click Here to Sign Up for the SDR Newsletter Prefer a Direct Download ? (mp3) Download today’s show. SDR News Links If a news item has disappeared from the Del.icio.us list above, try the full list here. SEARCH ANY STORY YOU HEAR ON THE PODCAST More Info on Screencasts Online Google Oversteps by Andrew McCaskey Google Latitude Crosses the Line PC World says that Google Latitude has been ” updated to make it a smidge creepier than before. Now Latitude tracks your location history and alerts you when your friends are nearby — two add-ons that could make stalking that much easier!. Location History is the creepiest of all, so thankfully this service is only for personal use and is not shared with Latitude friends. The way it works is Google pinpoints your trail of breadcrumbs and determines where you were by where you paused.” The service is currently private, the rise in popularity of location-based services such as Loopt, Stalqer and FourSquare may convince Google to later selectively publicize Location History to friends. But wait, there’s more – -the other add-on to Latitude is Location Alerts – to let you know that a friend (or enemy) is not in his or her usual location. Alerts establishes frequently-visited locations, so you won’t get messages when someone is in an expected place like at home or in the office. PC World continues ” Google says it might take a week or so to learn your behaviors, but believe: it will definitely learn your behaviors. . .” About a year ago we did a TPN Roundtable session on LifeCasting and digital archive which basically captured the entire digital stream from an individual by video, photos, keyboard, sound and sensor. Both acquisition and storage are now sufficiently advanced to handle both with consumer grade equipment. At the time, I concluded that this is one service that my newly born grandson did not need. I think that I have found one that I can agree not even his Grandpa needs or wants. No matter how “non-evil” Google is in it’s current incarnation, it’s not guaranteed to be resistant to a Court Order for my lifetime – much less his. Contact Us Yubby Video Aggregator at Blogworld Watch Today’s Video Episode Be sure to check out GoToMeeting. Why? Because you can hold meetings right over the Net — from anywhere. Plus, you can hold all the meetings you want for one flat rate. To get your free 30-day trial , visit www.gotomeeting.com/techpodcasts. Take 10% off any order at GoDaddy.com! Code SLASH Take $5 off any $30 order at GoDaddy.com! Code SDR530 .com Domains $6.95 at GoDaddy.com! Code SLASH3 More blogs about SlashdotReview and SDRNews… tag:odeo.com,2009-11-11,25439387 Wed, 11 Nov 2009 16:45:14 -0800 no Slashdot Review - Produced by SDR News SDRNews, stimulus, cloud, latitude http://odeo.com/episodes/25434468-SDRNews-Road-Train-for-Lawyers Skype Becoming a Social Network ? LinkedIn and Twitter Team Up AdMob Grabbed by Google SDR News is a Daily (M-F) Technology Podcast with Tech News Highlights from Slashdot, Digg and Reddit Click Here to Sign Up for the SDR Newsletter Prefer a Direct Download ? (mp3) Download today’s show. SDR News Links If a news item has disappeared from the Del.icio.us list above, try the full list here. SEARCH ANY STORY YOU HEAR ON THE PODCAST More Info on Screencasts Online Road Train Concepts by Andrew McCaskey The EU is planning a study on Road Trains It’s basically a big semi trailer with a “professional driver” , and a series of automobiles drafting danger close behind in a line. Wireless sensors and radar link these autos maintaining precise distances and synchronized speeds while Presumably those drivers are taking a nap or catching up on work online. It’s sort of a guidance “tractor beam” that, once you join allows the group of vehicles to travel ... Skype Becoming a Social Network ? LinkedIn and Twitter Team Up AdMob Grabbed by Google SDR News is a Daily (M-F) Technology Podcast with Tech News Highlights from Slashdot, Digg and Reddit Click Here to Sign Up for the SDR Newsletter Prefer a Direct Download ? (mp3) Download today’s show. SDR News Links If a news item has disappeared from the Del.icio.us list above, try the full list here. SEARCH ANY STORY YOU HEAR ON THE PODCAST More Info on Screencasts Online Road Train Concepts by Andrew McCaskey The EU is planning a study on Road Trains It’s basically a big semi trailer with a “professional driver” , and a series of automobiles drafting danger close behind in a line. Wireless sensors and radar link these autos maintaining precise distances and synchronized speeds while Presumably those drivers are taking a nap or catching up on work online. It’s sort of a guidance “tractor beam” that, once you join allows the group of vehicles to travel on down the road all controlled by the lead driver. Because the vehicles are so closely spaced in the airflow, fuel savings of 20% are anticipated. The drivers can relax until they wish to leave the road train, at which point they signal their intention to the driver at the front, and they are free to accelerate out of the trainline to an adjacent lane, and the tractor beam signals the car behind you to take up the slack. The EU’s study will be entirely focused on the system working with wireless sensors and up to eight vehicles ranging from your everyday family cars to buses and trains. In theory, these vehicles could be mixed and matched in a ‘road train’ Either way, test trials are set to begin in the UK, Spain and Sweden on tracks with public road trials beginning in Spain. Bet there are an entire generation of lawyers in school right now on this one.. a business opportunity for lawyers. Contact Us SARTRE Road Train Concept in EU "Watch Today’s Video Episode Be sure to check out GoToMeeting. Why? Because you can hold meetings right over the Net — from anywhere. Plus, you can hold all the meetings you want for one flat rate. To get your free 30-day trial , visit www.gotomeeting.com/techpodcasts. Take 10% off any order at GoDaddy.com! Code SLASH Take $5 off any $30 order at GoDaddy.com! Code SDR530 .com Domains $6.95 at GoDaddy.com! Code SLASH3 More blogs about SlashdotReview and SDRNews… Skype Becoming a Social Network ? LinkedIn and Twitter Team Up AdMob Grabbed by Google SDR News is a Daily (M-F) Technology Podcast with Tech News Highlights from Slashdot, Digg and Reddit Click Here to Sign Up for the SDR Newsletter Prefer a Direct Download ? (mp3) Download today’s show. SDR News Links If a news item has disappeared from the Del.icio.us list above, try the full list here. SEARCH ANY STORY YOU HEAR ON THE PODCAST More Info on Screencasts Online Road Train Concepts by Andrew McCaskey The EU is planning a study on Road Trains It’s basically a big semi trailer with a “professional driver” , and a series of automobiles drafting danger close behind in a line. Wireless sensors and radar link these autos maintaining precise distances and synchronized speeds while Presumably those drivers are taking a nap or catching up on work online. It’s sort of a guidance “tractor beam” that, once you join allows the group of vehicles to travel on down the road all controlled by the lead driver. Because the vehicles are so closely spaced in the airflow, fuel savings of 20% are anticipated. The drivers can relax until they wish to leave the road train, at which point they signal their intention to the driver at the front, and they are free to accelerate out of the trainline to an adjacent lane, and the tractor beam signals the car behind you to take up the slack. The EU’s study will be entirely focused on the system working with wireless sensors and up to eight vehicles ranging from your everyday family cars to buses and trains. In theory, these vehicles could be mixed and matched in a ‘road train’ Either way, test trials are set to begin in the UK, Spain and Sweden on tracks with public road trials beginning in Spain. Bet there are an entire generation of lawyers in school right now on this one.. a business opportunity for lawyers. Contact Us SARTRE Road Train Concept in EU "Watch Today’s Video Episode Be sure to check out GoToMeeting. Why? Because you can hold meetings right over the Net — from anywhere. Plus, you can hold all the meetings you want for one flat rate. To get your free 30-day trial , visit www.gotomeeting.com/techpodcasts. Take 10% off any order at GoDaddy.com! Code SLASH Take $5 off any $30 order at GoDaddy.com! Code SDR530 .com Domains $6.95 at GoDaddy.com! Code SLASH3 More blogs about SlashdotReview and SDRNews… tag:odeo.com,2009-11-10,25434468 Tue, 10 Nov 2009 17:15:41 -0800 no Slashdot Review - Produced by SDR News SDRNews, twitter, skype, google, kindle, LinkedIn, AdMob http://odeo.com/episodes/25428606-SDRNews-A-New-Small-Business-Telco Skype Deal Finally Settled Google Buys Gizmo5 Firefox Turns Five SDR News is a Daily (M-F) Technology Podcast with Tech News Highlights from Slashdot, Digg and Reddit Click Here to Sign Up for the SDR Newsletter Prefer a Direct Download ? (mp3) Download today’s show. SDR News Links If a news item has disappeared from the Del.icio.us list above, try the full list here. SEARCH ANY STORY YOU HEAR ON THE PODCAST More Info on Screencasts Online Changing Business Telco by Andrew McCaskey Small Business Telco Definition The definition of small business telephone service is changing, and changing quickly. For sole practitioners, the combination of Google Voice, a cell phone and Skype pretty quickly eliminate the need for a landline connection. Like many entrepreneurs, I use Skype for almost all of my out bound calls. The convenience and quality – especially on the MacBookPro beats any speakerphone combo. With colleagues and vendors I often run on Video as well – even if th... Skype Deal Finally Settled Google Buys Gizmo5 Firefox Turns Five SDR News is a Daily (M-F) Technology Podcast with Tech News Highlights from Slashdot, Digg and Reddit Click Here to Sign Up for the SDR Newsletter Prefer a Direct Download ? (mp3) Download today’s show. SDR News Links If a news item has disappeared from the Del.icio.us list above, try the full list here. SEARCH ANY STORY YOU HEAR ON THE PODCAST More Info on Screencasts Online Changing Business Telco by Andrew McCaskey Small Business Telco Definition The definition of small business telephone service is changing, and changing quickly. For sole practitioners, the combination of Google Voice, a cell phone and Skype pretty quickly eliminate the need for a landline connection. Like many entrepreneurs, I use Skype for almost all of my out bound calls. The convenience and quality – especially on the MacBookPro beats any speakerphone combo. With colleagues and vendors I often run on Video as well – even if they don’t have the webcam capability, it speeds the interaction and adds another dimension to the relationship. Even with the addition of partners, a small company can flexibly move forward without Verizon or local telco “business line” support. And with services like Grasshopper augment their telecom presence on a flexible, month to month basis. It’s hard to beat the flexibility of such new offerings with any Verizon package, or the Packet8 Asterisk system. Too much overhead, too much telephone speak. I expect great things from Google. With the purchase of Gizmo5 the SIP client by Google, there is now an end to end solution to the public switched network that can exist totally within GoogleTalk/GoogleVoice/Gizmo. And they did not even have to get a new service name beginning with the letter G.. DISCLOSURE OF MATERIAL CONNECTION: http://cmp.ly/0 Contact Us Augmented Reality from Esquire Watch Today’s Video Episode Be sure to check out GoToMeeting. Why? Because you can hold meetings right over the Net — from anywhere. Plus, you can hold all the meetings you want for one flat rate. To get your free 30-day trial , visit www.gotomeeting.com/techpodcasts. Take 10% off any order at GoDaddy.com! Code SLASH Take $5 off any $30 order at GoDaddy.com! Code SDR530 .com Domains $6.95 at GoDaddy.com! Code SLASH3 More blogs about SlashdotReview and SDRNews… Skype Deal Finally Settled Google Buys Gizmo5 Firefox Turns Five SDR News is a Daily (M-F) Technology Podcast with Tech News Highlights from Slashdot, Digg and Reddit Click Here to Sign Up for the SDR Newsletter Prefer a Direct Download ? (mp3) Download today’s show. SDR News Links If a news item has disappeared from the Del.icio.us list above, try the full list here. SEARCH ANY STORY YOU HEAR ON THE PODCAST More Info on Screencasts Online Changing Business Telco by Andrew McCaskey Small Business Telco Definition The definition of small business telephone service is changing, and changing quickly. For sole practitioners, the combination of Google Voice, a cell phone and Skype pretty quickly eliminate the need for a landline connection. Like many entrepreneurs, I use Skype for almost all of my out bound calls. The convenience and quality – especially on the MacBookPro beats any speakerphone combo. With colleagues and vendors I often run on Video as well – even if they don’t have the webcam capability, it speeds the interaction and adds another dimension to the relationship. Even with the addition of partners, a small company can flexibly move forward without Verizon or local telco “business line” support. And with services like Grasshopper augment their telecom presence on a flexible, month to month basis. It’s hard to beat the flexibility of such new offerings with any Verizon package, or the Packet8 Asterisk system. Too much overhead, too much telephone speak. I expect great things from Google. With the purchase of Gizmo5 the SIP client by Google, there is now an end to end solution to the public switched network that can exist totally within GoogleTalk/GoogleVoice/Gizmo. And they did not even have to get a new service name beginning with the letter G.. DISCLOSURE OF MATERIAL CONNECTION: http://cmp.ly/0 Contact Us Augmented Reality from Esquire Watch Today’s Video Episode Be sure to check out GoToMeeting. Why? Because you can hold meetings right over the Net — from anywhere. Plus, you can hold all the meetings you want for one flat rate. To get your free 30-day trial , visit www.gotomeeting.com/techpodcasts. Take 10% off any order at GoDaddy.com! Code SLASH Take $5 off any $30 order at GoDaddy.com! Code SDR530 .com Domains $6.95 at GoDaddy.com! Code SLASH3 More blogs about SlashdotReview and SDRNews… tag:odeo.com,2009-11-09,25428606 Mon, 09 Nov 2009 16:06:05 -0800 no Slashdot Review - Produced by SDR News SDRNews, skype, AR, augmentedreality, Gizmo5 http://odeo.com/episodes/25423276-SDRNews-Connectify-a-Roundtable-Hit Apple World Phone USF Broadband Subsidy Challenge A Good Night’s Sleep SDR News is a Daily (M-F) Technology Podcast with Tech News Highlights from Slashdot, Digg and Reddit Click Here to Sign Up for the SDR Newsletter Prefer a Direct Download ? (mp3) Download today’s show. SDR News Links If a news item has disappeared from the Del.icio.us list above, try the full list here. SEARCH ANY STORY YOU HEAR ON THE PODCAST More Info on Screencasts Online Connectify a Roundtable Hit by Andrew McCaskey RoundtableDemo As I mentioned last week, Connectify.me is a new service that is going to turn into a game changer. And it offers real value and is going to sell more Windows 7 laptops to business users than any ad campaign. We had Alex Giziz, CEO on our TPN Roundtable, and got some more insight into the free download for Windows7 that creates a wifi hotspot from a net connection. In his demo, he was able to create the site and link his iPod Touch into the laptop within a few seconds.... Apple World Phone USF Broadband Subsidy Challenge A Good Night’s Sleep SDR News is a Daily (M-F) Technology Podcast with Tech News Highlights from Slashdot, Digg and Reddit Click Here to Sign Up for the SDR Newsletter Prefer a Direct Download ? (mp3) Download today’s show. SDR News Links If a news item has disappeared from the Del.icio.us list above, try the full list here. SEARCH ANY STORY YOU HEAR ON THE PODCAST More Info on Screencasts Online Connectify a Roundtable Hit by Andrew McCaskey RoundtableDemo As I mentioned last week, Connectify.me is a new service that is going to turn into a game changer. And it offers real value and is going to sell more Windows 7 laptops to business users than any ad campaign. We had Alex Giziz, CEO on our TPN Roundtable, and got some more insight into the free download for Windows7 that creates a wifi hotspot from a net connection. In his demo, he was able to create the site and link his iPod Touch into the laptop within a few seconds. The hotspot is secured by passphrase, and even if an intruder is able to guess the phrase or has left the group, the host is able to observe the real time participants on his machine. If you are a mobile worker, you really can’t live without connectivity. Connectify is going to be an essential part of mobile professional’s toolkits for years to come. Contact Us Live TV by Ustream TPN Roundtable #53 – Connectify.me Watch Today’s Video Episode Be sure to check out GoToMeeting. Why? Because you can hold meetings right over the Net — from anywhere. Plus, you can hold all the meetings you want for one flat rate. To get your free 30-day trial , visit www.gotomeeting.com/techpodcasts. Take 10% off any order at GoDaddy.com! Code SLASH Take $5 off any $30 order at GoDaddy.com! Code SDR530 .com Domains $6.95 at GoDaddy.com! Code SLASH3 More blogs about SlashdotReview and SDRNews… Apple World Phone USF Broadband Subsidy Challenge A Good Night’s Sleep SDR News is a Daily (M-F) Technology Podcast with Tech News Highlights from Slashdot, Digg and Reddit Click Here to Sign Up for the SDR Newsletter Prefer a Direct Download ? (mp3) Download today’s show. SDR News Links If a news item has disappeared from the Del.icio.us list above, try the full list here. SEARCH ANY STORY YOU HEAR ON THE PODCAST More Info on Screencasts Online Connectify a Roundtable Hit by Andrew McCaskey RoundtableDemo As I mentioned last week, Connectify.me is a new service that is going to turn into a game changer. And it offers real value and is going to sell more Windows 7 laptops to business users than any ad campaign. We had Alex Giziz, CEO on our TPN Roundtable, and got some more insight into the free download for Windows7 that creates a wifi hotspot from a net connection. In his demo, he was able to create the site and link his iPod Touch into the laptop within a few seconds. The hotspot is secured by passphrase, and even if an intruder is able to guess the phrase or has left the group, the host is able to observe the real time participants on his machine. If you are a mobile worker, you really can’t live without connectivity. Connectify is going to be an essential part of mobile professional’s toolkits for years to come. Contact Us Live TV by Ustream TPN Roundtable #53 – Connectify.me Watch Today’s Video Episode Be sure to check out GoToMeeting. Why? Because you can hold meetings right over the Net — from anywhere. Plus, you can hold all the meetings you want for one flat rate. To get your free 30-day trial , visit www.gotomeeting.com/techpodcasts. Take 10% off any order at GoDaddy.com! Code SLASH Take $5 off any $30 order at GoDaddy.com! Code SDR530 .com Domains $6.95 at GoDaddy.com! Code SLASH3 More blogs about SlashdotReview and SDRNews… tag:odeo.com,2009-11-08,25423276 Sun, 08 Nov 2009 16:14:40 -0800 no Slashdot Review - Produced by SDR News iphone, SDRNews, apple, wifi, win7 http://odeo.com/episodes/25409797-SDRNews-Two-Types-of-Urban-Timebombs-Ticking-Away WSJ and NYT Weigh in on the Motorola Droid Win 7 and Viruses Traffic Light Fail SDR News is a Daily (M-F) Technology Podcast with Tech News Highlights from Slashdot, Digg and Reddit Click Here to Sign Up for the SDR Newsletter Prefer a Direct Download ? (mp3) Download today’s show. SDR News Links If a news item has disappeared from the Del.icio.us list above, try the full list here. SEARCH ANY STORY YOU HEAR ON THE PODCAST More Info on Screencasts Online Dual Urban Time Bombs by Andrew McCaskey There are two types of urban time bombs that were bought to the foreground by the story this week from the Washington DC area – when a single failure in a 1970’s vintage computer system took out 750 traffic lights and, for at least two days, threw the lights of Montgomery Country Maryland into un-synchronized chaos. First, it’s hard to imagine that there was a conscious design choice made that put that into a single point of failure mode. Probably the system had been e... WSJ and NYT Weigh in on the Motorola Droid Win 7 and Viruses Traffic Light Fail SDR News is a Daily (M-F) Technology Podcast with Tech News Highlights from Slashdot, Digg and Reddit Click Here to Sign Up for the SDR Newsletter Prefer a Direct Download ? (mp3) Download today’s show. SDR News Links If a news item has disappeared from the Del.icio.us list above, try the full list here. SEARCH ANY STORY YOU HEAR ON THE PODCAST More Info on Screencasts Online Dual Urban Time Bombs by Andrew McCaskey There are two types of urban time bombs that were bought to the foreground by the story this week from the Washington DC area – when a single failure in a 1970’s vintage computer system took out 750 traffic lights and, for at least two days, threw the lights of Montgomery Country Maryland into un-synchronized chaos. First, it’s hard to imagine that there was a conscious design choice made that put that into a single point of failure mode. Probably the system had been extended, patched and add-on over the years so that it would have been almost impossible not to have this incident some day. There have got to be a number of similar embedded systems throughout the country with exactly the same set of potential issues and failure potential. The second problem more easily overlooked is the fact that those who designed, installed and maintained those systems are either gone or headed out the door, as retirements. Even a young engineer of the 1970’s is headed into retirement or a second career – and has little or no interest in going back to the days of relays, ladder logic and dedicated controllers. Unlike COBOL skills, there are not too many places to keep those sorts of electrical, mechanical and discrete logic skills alive. That’s the second time bomb. Ticking away even faster than the first. After all, the hardware was pretty solid. Must have had some good designers. Contact Us http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hon8Ji3M1zM&feature=player_embedded Zyxio Breath Control System Watch Today’s Video Episode Be sure to check out GoToMeeting. Why? Because you can hold meetings right over the Net — from anywhere. Plus, you can hold all the meetings you want for one flat rate. To get your free 30-day trial , visit www.gotomeeting.com/techpodcasts. Take 10% off any order at GoDaddy.com! Code SLASH Take $5 off any $30 order at GoDaddy.com! Code SDR530 .com Domains $6.95 at GoDaddy.com! Code SLASH3 More blogs about SlashdotReview and SDRNews… WSJ and NYT Weigh in on the Motorola Droid Win 7 and Viruses Traffic Light Fail SDR News is a Daily (M-F) Technology Podcast with Tech News Highlights from Slashdot, Digg and Reddit Click Here to Sign Up for the SDR Newsletter Prefer a Direct Download ? (mp3) Download today’s show. SDR News Links If a news item has disappeared from the Del.icio.us list above, try the full list here. SEARCH ANY STORY YOU HEAR ON THE PODCAST More Info on Screencasts Online Dual Urban Time Bombs by Andrew McCaskey There are two types of urban time bombs that were bought to the foreground by the story this week from the Washington DC area – when a single failure in a 1970’s vintage computer system took out 750 traffic lights and, for at least two days, threw the lights of Montgomery Country Maryland into un-synchronized chaos. First, it’s hard to imagine that there was a conscious design choice made that put that into a single point of failure mode. Probably the system had been extended, patched and add-on over the years so that it would have been almost impossible not to have this incident some day. There have got to be a number of similar embedded systems throughout the country with exactly the same set of potential issues and failure potential. The second problem more easily overlooked is the fact that those who designed, installed and maintained those systems are either gone or headed out the door, as retirements. Even a young engineer of the 1970’s is headed into retirement or a second career – and has little or no interest in going back to the days of relays, ladder logic and dedicated controllers. Unlike COBOL skills, there are not too many places to keep those sorts of electrical, mechanical and discrete logic skills alive. That’s the second time bomb. Ticking away even faster than the first. After all, the hardware was pretty solid. Must have had some good designers. Contact Us http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hon8Ji3M1zM&feature=player_embedded Zyxio Breath Control System Watch Today’s Video Episode Be sure to check out GoToMeeting. Why? Because you can hold meetings right over the Net — from anywhere. Plus, you can hold all the meetings you want for one flat rate. To get your free 30-day trial , visit www.gotomeeting.com/techpodcasts. Take 10% off any order at GoDaddy.com! Code SLASH Take $5 off any $30 order at GoDaddy.com! Code SDR530 .com Domains $6.95 at GoDaddy.com! Code SLASH3 More blogs about SlashdotReview and SDRNews… tag:odeo.com,2009-11-05,25409797 Thu, 05 Nov 2009 16:44:06 -0800 no Slashdot Review - Produced by SDR News SDRNews, android, urban, win7, controller, droid http://odeo.com/episodes/25403047-SDRNews-Novell%E2%80%99s-Google-Wave Tweet Radio Microsoft Layoffs for 5000 Comcast Throttling Techniques SDR News is a Daily (M-F) Technology Podcast with Tech News Highlights from Slashdot, Digg and Reddit Click Here to Sign Up for the SDR Newsletter Prefer a Direct Download ? (mp3) Download today’s show. SDR News Links If a news item has disappeared from the Del.icio.us list above, try the full list here. SEARCH ANY STORY YOU HEAR ON THE PODCAST More Info on Screencasts Online Novell’s Google Wave by Andrew McCaskey Novell’s Pulse The announcement of the first Google Wave application for the enterprise – Novell’s Pulse – is going to be the first step in a journey that is going to take many years to complete. In fact, by the time we get there, it might be unrecognizable. When you consider that the Google Wave is set to displace not only email but collaborative document development and sharing, social media, wiki, and archival functions in an enterprise environment, it’s a tal... Tweet Radio Microsoft Layoffs for 5000 Comcast Throttling Techniques SDR News is a Daily (M-F) Technology Podcast with Tech News Highlights from Slashdot, Digg and Reddit Click Here to Sign Up for the SDR Newsletter Prefer a Direct Download ? (mp3) Download today’s show. SDR News Links If a news item has disappeared from the Del.icio.us list above, try the full list here. SEARCH ANY STORY YOU HEAR ON THE PODCAST More Info on Screencasts Online Novell’s Google Wave by Andrew McCaskey Novell’s Pulse The announcement of the first Google Wave application for the enterprise – Novell’s Pulse – is going to be the first step in a journey that is going to take many years to complete. In fact, by the time we get there, it might be unrecognizable. When you consider that the Google Wave is set to displace not only email but collaborative document development and sharing, social media, wiki, and archival functions in an enterprise environment, it’s a tall order, indeed. Someone has to go first, but you can tell the pioneers by the arrows in the back. It’s going to be a long time before the IT manager of a company that exists today is going to go out on a limb and allow anything like Google Wave into the main shop production. The growth of such a radical tool has to occur outside the system – and even though Novell is providing the impetus and name brand recognition, I’d not look for improvements or adoption there. Google’s Federation is what’s going to pull Google Wave through, and it’s going to be led by someone who has early access and a Federation Sandbox. And a tolerant spouse or parent who will allow the car to be parked outside the garage for the winter to make room for the server and three of his buddies to set the boardroom up in the garage, where the real Wave innovators are setting up shop. Contact Us Tweetradio at Tweetrad.io Watch Today’s Video Episode Be sure to check out GoToMeeting. Why? Because you can hold meetings right over the Net — from anywhere. Plus, you can hold all the meetings you want for one flat rate. To get your free 30-day trial , visit www.gotomeeting.com/techpodcasts. Take 10% off any order at GoDaddy.com! Code SLASH Take $5 off any $30 order at GoDaddy.com! Code SDR530 .com Domains $6.95 at GoDaddy.com! Code SLASH3 More blogs about SlashdotReview and SDRNews… Tweet Radio Microsoft Layoffs for 5000 Comcast Throttling Techniques SDR News is a Daily (M-F) Technology Podcast with Tech News Highlights from Slashdot, Digg and Reddit Click Here to Sign Up for the SDR Newsletter Prefer a Direct Download ? (mp3) Download today’s show. SDR News Links If a news item has disappeared from the Del.icio.us list above, try the full list here. SEARCH ANY STORY YOU HEAR ON THE PODCAST More Info on Screencasts Online Novell’s Google Wave by Andrew McCaskey Novell’s Pulse The announcement of the first Google Wave application for the enterprise – Novell’s Pulse – is going to be the first step in a journey that is going to take many years to complete. In fact, by the time we get there, it might be unrecognizable. When you consider that the Google Wave is set to displace not only email but collaborative document development and sharing, social media, wiki, and archival functions in an enterprise environment, it’s a tall order, indeed. Someone has to go first, but you can tell the pioneers by the arrows in the back. It’s going to be a long time before the IT manager of a company that exists today is going to go out on a limb and allow anything like Google Wave into the main shop production. The growth of such a radical tool has to occur outside the system – and even though Novell is providing the impetus and name brand recognition, I’d not look for improvements or adoption there. Google’s Federation is what’s going to pull Google Wave through, and it’s going to be led by someone who has early access and a Federation Sandbox. And a tolerant spouse or parent who will allow the car to be parked outside the garage for the winter to make room for the server and three of his buddies to set the boardroom up in the garage, where the real Wave innovators are setting up shop. Contact Us Tweetradio at Tweetrad.io Watch Today’s Video Episode Be sure to check out GoToMeeting. Why? Because you can hold meetings right over the Net — from anywhere. Plus, you can hold all the meetings you want for one flat rate. To get your free 30-day trial , visit www.gotomeeting.com/techpodcasts. Take 10% off any order at GoDaddy.com! Code SLASH Take $5 off any $30 order at GoDaddy.com! Code SDR530 .com Domains $6.95 at GoDaddy.com! Code SLASH3 More blogs about SlashdotReview and SDRNews… tag:odeo.com,2009-11-04,25403047 Wed, 04 Nov 2009 15:58:58 -0800 no Slashdot Review - Produced by SDR News SDRNews, twitter, microsoft, comcast http://odeo.com/episodes/25388464-SDRNews-Apple-TV-is-a-Natural-Play Pirate Bay Spawns More Sites Lists Widgets for Twitter EC2 Cracking PGP Passwords SDR News is a Daily (M-F) Technology Podcast with Tech News Highlights from Slashdot, Digg and Reddit Click Here to Sign Up for the SDR Newsletter Prefer a Direct Download ? (mp3) Download today’s show. SDR News Links If a news item has disappeared from the Del.icio.us list above, try the full list here. SEARCH ANY STORY YOU HEAR ON THE PODCAST More Info on Screencasts Online Apple TV is a Natural Play by Andrew McCaskey The Power in the ITunes Music Store There has got to be some credibility in the multiple rumors that are floating concerning the pitch from Apple to various television networks and content owners to allow Apple to provide television content for a monthly $30-$40 fee through iTunes. Disney seems to be the most likely content provider to buy into the deal, based on the close relationship that Disney and Pixar have had over the years. If there is one thing that Apple has been able t... Pirate Bay Spawns More Sites Lists Widgets for Twitter EC2 Cracking PGP Passwords SDR News is a Daily (M-F) Technology Podcast with Tech News Highlights from Slashdot, Digg and Reddit Click Here to Sign Up for the SDR Newsletter Prefer a Direct Download ? (mp3) Download today’s show. SDR News Links If a news item has disappeared from the Del.icio.us list above, try the full list here. SEARCH ANY STORY YOU HEAR ON THE PODCAST More Info on Screencasts Online Apple TV is a Natural Play by Andrew McCaskey The Power in the ITunes Music Store There has got to be some credibility in the multiple rumors that are floating concerning the pitch from Apple to various television networks and content owners to allow Apple to provide television content for a monthly $30-$40 fee through iTunes. Disney seems to be the most likely content provider to buy into the deal, based on the close relationship that Disney and Pixar have had over the years. If there is one thing that Apple has been able to do, it is to show how to effectively sell and deliver digital content efficiently. And with close to 100million installations of the iTunes Music Store software on Windows machines, it has the penetration and delivery depth that even Hulu will envy. One player that will be a lot more difficult to grab will be NBC Universal, especially if the proposed merger with Comcast goes into effect. That could put NBC at a significant dis-advantage with competitive material available on the iTunes platform and an expectation that even more programming be available online in some form. It didn’t have to be that way – reasonable channel packages from cable and satellite providers that got rid of the shopper channels, television preachers, infomercial channels and similar dreck at $85 a month and moved to that $35 price point could have prevented the whole problem. Apple just sees a consumer need and prepared a product that people will want at a price they are more than willing to pay. Nothing evil about that. {sharethis} Contact Us How to Build Twitter Lists Watch Today’s Video Episode Be sure to check out GoToMeeting. Why? Because you can hold meetings right over the Net — from anywhere. Plus, you can hold all the meetings you want for one flat rate. To get your free 30-day trial , visit www.gotomeeting.com/techpodcasts. Take 10% off any order at GoDaddy.com! Code SLASH Take $5 off any $30 order at GoDaddy.com! Code SDR530 .com Domains $6.95 at GoDaddy.com! Code SLASH3 More blogs about SlashdotReview and SDRNews… Pirate Bay Spawns More Sites Lists Widgets for Twitter EC2 Cracking PGP Passwords SDR News is a Daily (M-F) Technology Podcast with Tech News Highlights from Slashdot, Digg and Reddit Click Here to Sign Up for the SDR Newsletter Prefer a Direct Download ? (mp3) Download today’s show. SDR News Links If a news item has disappeared from the Del.icio.us list above, try the full list here. SEARCH ANY STORY YOU HEAR ON THE PODCAST More Info on Screencasts Online Apple TV is a Natural Play by Andrew McCaskey The Power in the ITunes Music Store There has got to be some credibility in the multiple rumors that are floating concerning the pitch from Apple to various television networks and content owners to allow Apple to provide television content for a monthly $30-$40 fee through iTunes. Disney seems to be the most likely content provider to buy into the deal, based on the close relationship that Disney and Pixar have had over the years. If there is one thing that Apple has been able to do, it is to show how to effectively sell and deliver digital content efficiently. And with close to 100million installations of the iTunes Music Store software on Windows machines, it has the penetration and delivery depth that even Hulu will envy. One player that will be a lot more difficult to grab will be NBC Universal, especially if the proposed merger with Comcast goes into effect. That could put NBC at a significant dis-advantage with competitive material available on the iTunes platform and an expectation that even more programming be available online in some form. It didn’t have to be that way – reasonable channel packages from cable and satellite providers that got rid of the shopper channels, television preachers, infomercial channels and similar dreck at $85 a month and moved to that $35 price point could have prevented the whole problem. Apple just sees a consumer need and prepared a product that people will want at a price they are more than willing to pay. Nothing evil about that. {sharethis} Contact Us How to Build Twitter Lists Watch Today’s Video Episode Be sure to check out GoToMeeting. Why? Because you can hold meetings right over the Net — from anywhere. Plus, you can hold all the meetings you want for one flat rate. To get your free 30-day trial , visit www.gotomeeting.com/techpodcasts. Take 10% off any order at GoDaddy.com! Code SLASH Take $5 off any $30 order at GoDaddy.com! Code SDR530 .com Domains $6.95 at GoDaddy.com! Code SLASH3 More blogs about SlashdotReview and SDRNews… tag:odeo.com,2009-11-03,25388464 Tue, 03 Nov 2009 15:45:30 -0800 no Slashdot Review - Produced by SDR News php, SDRNews, twitter, AppleTv, p2p, hulu, EC2 http://odeo.com/episodes/25388465-SDRNews-Jumping-to-DVR-Conclusions DVR is Network TV’s New Best Friend Skype on Linux Headed to Open Source Listorius – Discovering Twitter Lists SDR News is a Daily (M-F) Technology Podcast with Tech News Highlights from Slashdot, Digg and Reddit Click Here to Sign Up for the SDR Newsletter Prefer a Direct Download ? (mp3) Download today’s show. SDR News Links If a news item has disappeared from the Del.icio.us list above, try the full list here. SEARCH ANY STORY YOU HEAR ON THE PODCAST More Info on Screencasts Online Jumping to DVR Conclusions by Andrew McCaskey Look at your DVR Mix: Where are the Real Tivos ? The NYTimes is reporting on yet another lesson for content providers to learn and then immediately forget: ‘Against almost every expectation, nearly half of all people watching delayed shows are still slouching on their couches watching messages about movies, cars and beer. The lean-back experience is, apparently still passive entertainment. Too lazy to skip the commercials. Not so fas... DVR is Network TV’s New Best Friend Skype on Linux Headed to Open Source Listorius – Discovering Twitter Lists SDR News is a Daily (M-F) Technology Podcast with Tech News Highlights from Slashdot, Digg and Reddit Click Here to Sign Up for the SDR Newsletter Prefer a Direct Download ? (mp3) Download today’s show. SDR News Links If a news item has disappeared from the Del.icio.us list above, try the full list here. SEARCH ANY STORY YOU HEAR ON THE PODCAST More Info on Screencasts Online Jumping to DVR Conclusions by Andrew McCaskey Look at your DVR Mix: Where are the Real Tivos ? The NYTimes is reporting on yet another lesson for content providers to learn and then immediately forget: ‘Against almost every expectation, nearly half of all people watching delayed shows are still slouching on their couches watching messages about movies, cars and beer. The lean-back experience is, apparently still passive entertainment. Too lazy to skip the commercials. Not so fast, I think you have a change in the baseline – which DVR is being used to skip the commercials. According to Nielsen, 46 percent of viewers 18 to 49 years old for all four networks taken together are watching the commercials during playback, up slightly from last year.’ The article also notes viewership increases ‘in the range of 7 to 12 percent, with some shows having increases of more than 20 percent when DVR ratings are added. The four networks together are averaging a 10 percent increase.” I’d submit that jumping to conclusions may not be the first step. All I know is that the Tivo (Models 1 and 2) that we had for a number of years were far easier to control and a lot better in chopping those commercials out. When we shifted to an HD plasma and added the DirectTV HD-DVR, it became painfully obvious that there was some serious collusion between the content providers and Direct-TV. In addition to a hard to handle interface, the firmware itself seems to make it very difficult to skim through material, trim the commercials or jump to the start or end of the file. The TIVO model 3 was not an option, being incompatible with the DirectTV satellite delivery system – and accepting only Cablecard. DirectTV claims that they will be offering a real TIVO HD in 2010. Until that time, don’t blame it all on TV viewers- unless they have an option for less than crappy HD-DVR. {sharethis} Contact Us Novint Falcon Pistol Grip Watch Today’s Video Episode Be sure to check out GoToMeeting. Why? Because you can hold meetings right over the Net — from anywhere. Plus, you can hold all the meetings you want for one flat rate. To get your free 30-day trial , visit www.gotomeeting.com/techpodcasts. Take 10% off any order at GoDaddy.com! Code SLASH Take $5 off any $30 order at GoDaddy.com! Code SDR530 .com Domains $6.95 at GoDaddy.com! Code SLASH3 More blogs about SlashdotReview and SDRNews… DVR is Network TV’s New Best Friend Skype on Linux Headed to Open Source Listorius – Discovering Twitter Lists SDR News is a Daily (M-F) Technology Podcast with Tech News Highlights from Slashdot, Digg and Reddit Click Here to Sign Up for the SDR Newsletter Prefer a Direct Download ? (mp3) Download today’s show. SDR News Links If a news item has disappeared from the Del.icio.us list above, try the full list here. SEARCH ANY STORY YOU HEAR ON THE PODCAST More Info on Screencasts Online Jumping to DVR Conclusions by Andrew McCaskey Look at your DVR Mix: Where are the Real Tivos ? The NYTimes is reporting on yet another lesson for content providers to learn and then immediately forget: ‘Against almost every expectation, nearly half of all people watching delayed shows are still slouching on their couches watching messages about movies, cars and beer. The lean-back experience is, apparently still passive entertainment. Too lazy to skip the commercials. Not so fast, I think you have a change in the baseline – which DVR is being used to skip the commercials. According to Nielsen, 46 percent of viewers 18 to 49 years old for all four networks taken together are watching the commercials during playback, up slightly from last year.’ The article also notes viewership increases ‘in the range of 7 to 12 percent, with some shows having increases of more than 20 percent when DVR ratings are added. The four networks together are averaging a 10 percent increase.” I’d submit that jumping to conclusions may not be the first step. All I know is that the Tivo (Models 1 and 2) that we had for a number of years were far easier to control and a lot better in chopping those commercials out. When we shifted to an HD plasma and added the DirectTV HD-DVR, it became painfully obvious that there was some serious collusion between the content providers and Direct-TV. In addition to a hard to handle interface, the firmware itself seems to make it very difficult to skim through material, trim the commercials or jump to the start or end of the file. The TIVO model 3 was not an option, being incompatible with the DirectTV satellite delivery system – and accepting only Cablecard. DirectTV claims that they will be offering a real TIVO HD in 2010. Until that time, don’t blame it all on TV viewers- unless they have an option for less than crappy HD-DVR. {sharethis} Contact Us Novint Falcon Pistol Grip Watch Today’s Video Episode Be sure to check out GoToMeeting. Why? Because you can hold meetings right over the Net — from anywhere. Plus, you can hold all the meetings you want for one flat rate. To get your free 30-day trial , visit www.gotomeeting.com/techpodcasts. Take 10% off any order at GoDaddy.com! Code SLASH Take $5 off any $30 order at GoDaddy.com! Code SDR530 .com Domains $6.95 at GoDaddy.com! Code SLASH3 More blogs about SlashdotReview and SDRNews… tag:odeo.com,2009-11-02,25388465 Mon, 02 Nov 2009 15:41:35 -0800 no Slashdot Review - Produced by SDR News SDRNews, twitter, NSA, lists, packbot, haptics http://odeo.com/episodes/25388466-SDRNews-Pricing-Broadband-with-Human-Nature House and Senate BIlls to Kill Net Neutrality Metered Broadband Isn’t Metered Google Wave Handbook SDR News is a Daily (M-F) Technology Podcast with Tech News Highlights from Slashdot, Digg and Reddit Click Here to Sign Up for the SDR Newsletter Prefer a Direct Download ? (mp3) Download today’s show. SDR News Links If a news item has disappeared from the Del.icio.us list above, try the full list here. SEARCH ANY STORY YOU HEAR ON THE PODCAST More Info on Screencasts Online Pricing Human Nature by Andrew McCaskey Setting Broadband Rates It only seems fair – With broadband, as with other utilities such as electricity and water, people should pay for what they use. Apparently, none of the ISP’s are considering doing this, because they have a more profitable way that taps into human nature. It’s the same little quirk that sells laptop and cellphone batteries, because we keep them on the charger far more than they really need to be. You want to have plenty t... House and Senate BIlls to Kill Net Neutrality Metered Broadband Isn’t Metered Google Wave Handbook SDR News is a Daily (M-F) Technology Podcast with Tech News Highlights from Slashdot, Digg and Reddit Click Here to Sign Up for the SDR Newsletter Prefer a Direct Download ? (mp3) Download today’s show. SDR News Links If a news item has disappeared from the Del.icio.us list above, try the full list here. SEARCH ANY STORY YOU HEAR ON THE PODCAST More Info on Screencasts Online Pricing Human Nature by Andrew McCaskey Setting Broadband Rates It only seems fair – With broadband, as with other utilities such as electricity and water, people should pay for what they use. Apparently, none of the ISP’s are considering doing this, because they have a more profitable way that taps into human nature. It’s the same little quirk that sells laptop and cellphone batteries, because we keep them on the charger far more than they really need to be. You want to have plenty to go, to keep them topped off. We are afraid to run out, and that’s exactly the fear that the new “metered” services (which are not metered at all, but are sold in tiers) are designed to tap into. Demand and use of the Internet has risen faster than capacity can keep up, which means that the all-you-can-eat model of unlimited broadband per month no longer applies. ISPs’ version of metered broadband isn’t priced like your water or electricity. Carriers would never want to do this because it would actually reduce their profits. Broadband will instead be priced like a cell phone plan. In wireless, if you use around 450 minutes a month, you want to make sure you don’t run over and get extra charges – so you opt for the 600 minute plan. Your usage – and those of most people will still stay around 450 minutes. You are buying assurance that you aren’t going to get cut off or run up a big bill. But in fact, the probablity that you will consume up to the next limit is low. If you paid a large price for “unlimited use” per month, your calling patterns would have to change drastically to seriously impact their network – and the difference is almost pure profit. Broadband is going to be the same way. You are not paying for bits, you are paying for peace of mind. And there is always a market for that. Contact Us 3D Parallax Television Watch Today’s Video Episode Be sure to check out GoToMeeting. Why? Because you can hold meetings right over the Net — from anywhere. Plus, you can hold all the meetings you want for one flat rate. To get your free 30-day trial , visit www.gotomeeting.com/techpodcasts. Take 10% off any order at GoDaddy.com! Code SLASH Take $5 off any $30 order at GoDaddy.com! Code SDR530 .com Domains $6.95 at GoDaddy.com! Code SLASH3 More blogs about SlashdotReview and SDRNews… House and Senate BIlls to Kill Net Neutrality Metered Broadband Isn’t Metered Google Wave Handbook SDR News is a Daily (M-F) Technology Podcast with Tech News Highlights from Slashdot, Digg and Reddit Click Here to Sign Up for the SDR Newsletter Prefer a Direct Download ? (mp3) Download today’s show. SDR News Links If a news item has disappeared from the Del.icio.us list above, try the full list here. SEARCH ANY STORY YOU HEAR ON THE PODCAST More Info on Screencasts Online Pricing Human Nature by Andrew McCaskey Setting Broadband Rates It only seems fair – With broadband, as with other utilities such as electricity and water, people should pay for what they use. Apparently, none of the ISP’s are considering doing this, because they have a more profitable way that taps into human nature. It’s the same little quirk that sells laptop and cellphone batteries, because we keep them on the charger far more than they really need to be. You want to have plenty to go, to keep them topped off. We are afraid to run out, and that’s exactly the fear that the new “metered” services (which are not metered at all, but are sold in tiers) are designed to tap into. Demand and use of the Internet has risen faster than capacity can keep up, which means that the all-you-can-eat model of unlimited broadband per month no longer applies. ISPs’ version of metered broadband isn’t priced like your water or electricity. Carriers would never want to do this because it would actually reduce their profits. Broadband will instead be priced like a cell phone plan. In wireless, if you use around 450 minutes a month, you want to make sure you don’t run over and get extra charges – so you opt for the 600 minute plan. Your usage – and those of most people will still stay around 450 minutes. You are buying assurance that you aren’t going to get cut off or run up a big bill. But in fact, the probablity that you will consume up to the next limit is low. If you paid a large price for “unlimited use” per month, your calling patterns would have to change drastically to seriously impact their network – and the difference is almost pure profit. Broadband is going to be the same way. You are not paying for bits, you are paying for peace of mind. And there is always a market for that. Contact Us 3D Parallax Television Watch Today’s Video Episode Be sure to check out GoToMeeting. Why? Because you can hold meetings right over the Net — from anywhere. Plus, you can hold all the meetings you want for one flat rate. To get your free 30-day trial , visit www.gotomeeting.com/techpodcasts. Take 10% off any order at GoDaddy.com! Code SLASH Take $5 off any $30 order at GoDaddy.com! Code SDR530 .com Domains $6.95 at GoDaddy.com! Code SLASH3 More blogs about SlashdotReview and SDRNews… tag:odeo.com,2009-11-01,25388466 Sun, 01 Nov 2009 16:36:38 -0800 no Slashdot Review - Produced by SDR News SDRNews, skype, Broadband, netneutrality http://odeo.com/episodes/25388467-SDRNews-Connectify-me-Now-for-Windows-7 Internet Phone Systems Riding High Amazon Phrase that Pays Connectify.me for Windows 7 Internet Phone Systems Riding High Amazon Phrase that Pays Connectify.me for Windows 7 SDR News is a Daily (M-F) Technology Podcast with Tech News Highlights from Slashdot, Digg and Reddit Prefer a Direct Download ? (mp3) Download today’s show. SDR News Links If a news item has disappeared from the Del.icio.us list above, try the full list here. Thumbnail Views: Via Thumblicio.us SEARCH ANY STORY YOU HEAR ON THE PODCAST Connectify.me Now with Windows 7 by Andrew McCaskey Road Warrior Cloud Connectify.me is a new service that is going to turn into a game changer. And it offers real value and is going to sell more Windows 7 laptops to business users than any ad campaign. If you are a mobile worker, you really can’t live without connectivity. My trusty Sprint EVDO Cradlepoint, the new Verizon MiFi a Boingo Wi-Fi account, a 3G data plan with Verizon Wireless or Internet tethering on your Blackbe... Internet Phone Systems Riding High Amazon Phrase that Pays Connectify.me for Windows 7 Internet Phone Systems Riding High Amazon Phrase that Pays Connectify.me for Windows 7 SDR News is a Daily (M-F) Technology Podcast with Tech News Highlights from Slashdot, Digg and Reddit Prefer a Direct Download ? (mp3) Download today’s show. SDR News Links If a news item has disappeared from the Del.icio.us list above, try the full list here. Thumbnail Views: Via Thumblicio.us SEARCH ANY STORY YOU HEAR ON THE PODCAST Connectify.me Now with Windows 7 by Andrew McCaskey Road Warrior Cloud Connectify.me is a new service that is going to turn into a game changer. And it offers real value and is going to sell more Windows 7 laptops to business users than any ad campaign. If you are a mobile worker, you really can’t live without connectivity. My trusty Sprint EVDO Cradlepoint, the new Verizon MiFi a Boingo Wi-Fi account, a 3G data plan with Verizon Wireless or Internet tethering on your Blackberry – we all have our ways. The main difference between tethering and a Cradlepoint or Mifi is that the MiFi creates an Internet connection for 3-5 users using cellular networks, and tethering allows only one. Connectify allows multiple users to piggyback off a single connection. Oh, and the MiFi and similar devices cost a bit – or a lot – to buy and maintain, but Connectify is free to install and run. It’s a free download, and makes any Windows 7 computer into a WiFi hotspot. Windows 7 users have got to try this app. You never know when you’ll get to save the day by letting other users share your Internet connection. On a decent Win7 Laptop, you might be the hit of the next meeting on the road. Now if they could do the same with AC power. DISCLOSURE OF MATERIAL CONNECTION: http://cmp.ly/0 Using Photographs to Enhance Videos of a Static Scene from pro on Vimeo. Enhanced Video with Still Images Watch Today’s Video Episode Save $10 on any order of $50 or more at GoDaddy.com! Be sure to sign up for our upcoming roundtable. We will be using GoToMeeting. Also, be sure to check out GoToMeeting. Why? Because you can hold meetings right over the Net — from anywhere. Plus, you can hold all the meetings you want for one flat rate. To get your free 30-day trial , visit www.gotomeeting.com/techroundtable. Take 10% off any order at GoDaddy.com! Code SLASH Take $5 off any $30 order at GoDaddy.com! Code SDR530 .com Domains $6.95 at GoDaddy.com! Code SLASH3 More blogs about SlashdotReview… Internet Phone Systems Riding High Amazon Phrase that Pays Connectify.me for Windows 7 Internet Phone Systems Riding High Amazon Phrase that Pays Connectify.me for Windows 7 SDR News is a Daily (M-F) Technology Podcast with Tech News Highlights from Slashdot, Digg and Reddit Prefer a Direct Download ? (mp3) Download today’s show. SDR News Links If a news item has disappeared from the Del.icio.us list above, try the full list here. Thumbnail Views: Via Thumblicio.us SEARCH ANY STORY YOU HEAR ON THE PODCAST Connectify.me Now with Windows 7 by Andrew McCaskey Road Warrior Cloud Connectify.me is a new service that is going to turn into a game changer. And it offers real value and is going to sell more Windows 7 laptops to business users than any ad campaign. If you are a mobile worker, you really can’t live without connectivity. My trusty Sprint EVDO Cradlepoint, the new Verizon MiFi a Boingo Wi-Fi account, a 3G data plan with Verizon Wireless or Internet tethering on your Blackberry – we all have our ways. The main difference between tethering and a Cradlepoint or Mifi is that the MiFi creates an Internet connection for 3-5 users using cellular networks, and tethering allows only one. Connectify allows multiple users to piggyback off a single connection. Oh, and the MiFi and similar devices cost a bit – or a lot – to buy and maintain, but Connectify is free to install and run. It’s a free download, and makes any Windows 7 computer into a WiFi hotspot. Windows 7 users have got to try this app. You never know when you’ll get to save the day by letting other users share your Internet connection. On a decent Win7 Laptop, you might be the hit of the next meeting on the road. Now if they could do the same with AC power. DISCLOSURE OF MATERIAL CONNECTION: http://cmp.ly/0 Using Photographs to Enhance Videos of a Static Scene from pro on Vimeo. Enhanced Video with Still Images Watch Today’s Video Episode Save $10 on any order of $50 or more at GoDaddy.com! Be sure to sign up for our upcoming roundtable. We will be using GoToMeeting. Also, be sure to check out GoToMeeting. Why? Because you can hold meetings right over the Net — from anywhere. Plus, you can hold all the meetings you want for one flat rate. To get your free 30-day trial , visit www.gotomeeting.com/techroundtable. Take 10% off any order at GoDaddy.com! Code SLASH Take $5 off any $30 order at GoDaddy.com! Code SDR530 .com Domains $6.95 at GoDaddy.com! Code SLASH3 More blogs about SlashdotReview… tag:odeo.com,2009-10-29,25388467 Thu, 29 Oct 2009 17:00:58 -0700 no Slashdot Review - Produced by SDR News SDRNews, google, VoIP, asterisk, GoogleVoice, vishing http://odeo.com/episodes/25388468-SDRNews-Power-Grab-by-Net-Neutrality Netflix Streaming on the Wii Voting Machine Open Source Open Clouds SDR News is a Daily (M-F) Technology Podcast with Tech News Highlights from Slashdot, Digg and Reddit Click Here to Sign Up for the SDR Newsletter Prefer a Direct Download ? (mp3) Download today’s show. SDR News Links If a news item has disappeared from the Del.icio.us list above, try the full list here. SEARCH ANY STORY YOU HEAR ON THE PODCAST More Info on Screencasts Online Power Grab Net Neutrality by Andrew McCaskey Power In the Guise of Net Neutrality The Electronic Frontier Foundation is throwing some wet towels on the FCC’s initiatives on Net Neutrality. Not at all for the concept of insuring equal access to the internet, or preventing ISP’s from artifically introducing tiered services for selected deep pocket customers – but rather how the FCC derives such authority. Specifically, Congress has never authorized the FCC to regulate the internet. Telephony, yes. Wireless, yes – but... Netflix Streaming on the Wii Voting Machine Open Source Open Clouds SDR News is a Daily (M-F) Technology Podcast with Tech News Highlights from Slashdot, Digg and Reddit Click Here to Sign Up for the SDR Newsletter Prefer a Direct Download ? (mp3) Download today’s show. SDR News Links If a news item has disappeared from the Del.icio.us list above, try the full list here. SEARCH ANY STORY YOU HEAR ON THE PODCAST More Info on Screencasts Online Power Grab Net Neutrality by Andrew McCaskey Power In the Guise of Net Neutrality The Electronic Frontier Foundation is throwing some wet towels on the FCC’s initiatives on Net Neutrality. Not at all for the concept of insuring equal access to the internet, or preventing ISP’s from artifically introducing tiered services for selected deep pocket customers – but rather how the FCC derives such authority. Specifically, Congress has never authorized the FCC to regulate the internet. Telephony, yes. Wireless, yes – but the FCC has extended it’s reach on the basis of “ancillary jurisdiction” – and in the words of the EFF ” a position that amounts to ‘we can regulate the Internet however we like without waiting for Congress to act’. That’s a power grab – and it will set a precedent that will live on long after this administration. Net neutrality regulations (something we might like) today, it could just as easily be invoked tomorrow for any other Internet regulation that the FCC dreams up (including things we won’t like). The EFF goes on to suggest that in the future, politically driven “Internet decency”, or “Lawful Use Only” rulings could slip by, outside of any Congressional mandate. This is way too important not to have Congress explictly say that the FCC is authorized to regulate in matters of Net Neutrality, but is limited to the will of Congress in other Internet matters. DISCLOSURE OF MATERIAL CONNECTION: http://cmp.ly/0 {sharethis} Contact Us http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aaxo9g2GYSk&feature=player_embedded Official Droid Demo Watch Today’s Video Episode Be sure to check out GoToMeeting. Why? Because you can hold meetings right over the Net — from anywhere. Plus, you can hold all the meetings you want for one flat rate. To get your free 30-day trial , visit www.gotomeeting.com/techpodcasts. Take 10% off any order at GoDaddy.com! Code SLASH Take $5 off any $30 order at GoDaddy.com! Code SDR530 .com Domains $6.95 at GoDaddy.com! Code SLASH3 More blogs about SlashdotReview and SDRNews… Netflix Streaming on the Wii Voting Machine Open Source Open Clouds SDR News is a Daily (M-F) Technology Podcast with Tech News Highlights from Slashdot, Digg and Reddit Click Here to Sign Up for the SDR Newsletter Prefer a Direct Download ? (mp3) Download today’s show. SDR News Links If a news item has disappeared from the Del.icio.us list above, try the full list here. SEARCH ANY STORY YOU HEAR ON THE PODCAST More Info on Screencasts Online Power Grab Net Neutrality by Andrew McCaskey Power In the Guise of Net Neutrality The Electronic Frontier Foundation is throwing some wet towels on the FCC’s initiatives on Net Neutrality. Not at all for the concept of insuring equal access to the internet, or preventing ISP’s from artifically introducing tiered services for selected deep pocket customers – but rather how the FCC derives such authority. Specifically, Congress has never authorized the FCC to regulate the internet. Telephony, yes. Wireless, yes – but the FCC has extended it’s reach on the basis of “ancillary jurisdiction” – and in the words of the EFF ” a position that amounts to ‘we can regulate the Internet however we like without waiting for Congress to act’. That’s a power grab – and it will set a precedent that will live on long after this administration. Net neutrality regulations (something we might like) today, it could just as easily be invoked tomorrow for any other Internet regulation that the FCC dreams up (including things we won’t like). The EFF goes on to suggest that in the future, politically driven “Internet decency”, or “Lawful Use Only” rulings could slip by, outside of any Congressional mandate. This is way too important not to have Congress explictly say that the FCC is authorized to regulate in matters of Net Neutrality, but is limited to the will of Congress in other Internet matters. DISCLOSURE OF MATERIAL CONNECTION: http://cmp.ly/0 {sharethis} Contact Us http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aaxo9g2GYSk&feature=player_embedded Official Droid Demo Watch Today’s Video Episode Be sure to check out GoToMeeting. Why? Because you can hold meetings right over the Net — from anywhere. Plus, you can hold all the meetings you want for one flat rate. To get your free 30-day trial , visit www.gotomeeting.com/techpodcasts. Take 10% off any order at GoDaddy.com! Code SLASH Take $5 off any $30 order at GoDaddy.com! Code SDR530 .com Domains $6.95 at GoDaddy.com! Code SLASH3 More blogs about SlashdotReview and SDRNews… tag:odeo.com,2009-10-28,25388468 Wed, 28 Oct 2009 17:51:16 -0700 no Slashdot Review - Produced by SDR News SDRNews, verizon, netflix, fcc, droid, cloudcomputing http://odeo.com/episodes/25388469-SDRNews-NetNeutrality-Lobbying-%E2%80%93-The-Usual-Suspects Smart Grid Gets a Boost Roku’s New Hardware and Channels Net Neutrality Astroturf SDR News is a Daily (M-F) Technology Podcast with Tech News Highlights from Slashdot, Digg and Reddit Click Here to Sign Up for the SDR Newsletter Prefer a Direct Download ? (mp3) Download today’s show. SDR News Links If a news item has disappeared from the Del.icio.us list above, try the full list here. SEARCH ANY STORY YOU HEAR ON THE PODCAST More Info on Screencasts Online Net Neutrality – the Usual Suspects by Andrew McCaskey Just like Casablanca Now that the officail Notice of Proposed Rulemaking is set on the Net Neutrality issue, the net neutrality debate continues and now the heavy lobbying begins. The ISP’s and telcos maintain that the net runs on their equipment, and that they should have the freedom to do what they want with their investment, and maximize the return to their stockholders. Just like the Inspector, all you need to do is round up the usual suspects. MacL... Smart Grid Gets a Boost Roku’s New Hardware and Channels Net Neutrality Astroturf SDR News is a Daily (M-F) Technology Podcast with Tech News Highlights from Slashdot, Digg and Reddit Click Here to Sign Up for the SDR Newsletter Prefer a Direct Download ? (mp3) Download today’s show. SDR News Links If a news item has disappeared from the Del.icio.us list above, try the full list here. SEARCH ANY STORY YOU HEAR ON THE PODCAST More Info on Screencasts Online Net Neutrality – the Usual Suspects by Andrew McCaskey Just like Casablanca Now that the officail Notice of Proposed Rulemaking is set on the Net Neutrality issue, the net neutrality debate continues and now the heavy lobbying begins. The ISP’s and telcos maintain that the net runs on their equipment, and that they should have the freedom to do what they want with their investment, and maximize the return to their stockholders. Just like the Inspector, all you need to do is round up the usual suspects. MacLife published an even handed assessment of both sides of the issue: “One of the ways an ISP could ramp up profits is to make deals with Internet Application companies who would pay more to provide consumers with an optimum experience. If, say, your company streams video you could pay an ISP to ensure that viewers can access your service at the best possible speeds. So the people watching your videos will be happily munching popcorn while your competitor’s viewers are throwing their popcorn at their computer’s screen in frustration. Pay-for-optimum-play service agreements would also affect small businesses and entrepreneurs. If you are a kid in a dorm room with a few bucks and a plan for the next Google, Twitter, YouTube or Facebook you may find that a big corporation can deliver a less-innovative offering more effectively because they can afford to pay ISPs for first class delivery service.” The way that is going to end is going to be a triumph of the lobby power on both sides. Government lobbying has a long and fairly sordid history. And there are a lot of accusations about “astroturf” the political grass roots campaign that’s not quite authentic grass roots. The recent stories about the Communications Workers union, various minorities and a good number of Democratic congressmen coming out against net neutrality have had a bit of “follow the money” flavor. Contact Us Do The Economics of Bandwidth Scale ? Watch Today’s Video Episode Be sure to check out GoToMeeting. Why? Because you can hold meetings right over the Net — from anywhere. Plus, you can hold all the meetings you want for one flat rate. To get your free 30-day trial , visit www.gotomeeting.com/techpodcasts. Take 10% off any order at GoDaddy.com! Code SLASH Take $5 off any $30 order at GoDaddy.com! Code SDR530 .com Domains $6.95 at GoDaddy.com! Code SLASH3 More blogs about SlashdotReview and SDRNews… Smart Grid Gets a Boost Roku’s New Hardware and Channels Net Neutrality Astroturf SDR News is a Daily (M-F) Technology Podcast with Tech News Highlights from Slashdot, Digg and Reddit Click Here to Sign Up for the SDR Newsletter Prefer a Direct Download ? (mp3) Download today’s show. SDR News Links If a news item has disappeared from the Del.icio.us list above, try the full list here. SEARCH ANY STORY YOU HEAR ON THE PODCAST More Info on Screencasts Online Net Neutrality – the Usual Suspects by Andrew McCaskey Just like Casablanca Now that the officail Notice of Proposed Rulemaking is set on the Net Neutrality issue, the net neutrality debate continues and now the heavy lobbying begins. The ISP’s and telcos maintain that the net runs on their equipment, and that they should have the freedom to do what they want with their investment, and maximize the return to their stockholders. Just like the Inspector, all you need to do is round up the usual suspects. MacLife published an even handed assessment of both sides of the issue: “One of the ways an ISP could ramp up profits is to make deals with Internet Application companies who would pay more to provide consumers with an optimum experience. If, say, your company streams video you could pay an ISP to ensure that viewers can access your service at the best possible speeds. So the people watching your videos will be happily munching popcorn while your competitor’s viewers are throwing their popcorn at their computer’s screen in frustration. Pay-for-optimum-play service agreements would also affect small businesses and entrepreneurs. If you are a kid in a dorm room with a few bucks and a plan for the next Google, Twitter, YouTube or Facebook you may find that a big corporation can deliver a less-innovative offering more effectively because they can afford to pay ISPs for first class delivery service.” The way that is going to end is going to be a triumph of the lobby power on both sides. Government lobbying has a long and fairly sordid history. And there are a lot of accusations about “astroturf” the political grass roots campaign that’s not quite authentic grass roots. The recent stories about the Communications Workers union, various minorities and a good number of Democratic congressmen coming out against net neutrality have had a bit of “follow the money” flavor. Contact Us Do The Economics of Bandwidth Scale ? Watch Today’s Video Episode Be sure to check out GoToMeeting. Why? Because you can hold meetings right over the Net — from anywhere. Plus, you can hold all the meetings you want for one flat rate. To get your free 30-day trial , visit www.gotomeeting.com/techpodcasts. Take 10% off any order at GoDaddy.com! Code SLASH Take $5 off any $30 order at GoDaddy.com! Code SDR530 .com Domains $6.95 at GoDaddy.com! Code SLASH3 More blogs about SlashdotReview and SDRNews… tag:odeo.com,2009-10-27,25388469 Tue, 27 Oct 2009 17:33:07 -0700 no Slashdot Review - Produced by SDR News SDRNews, fcc, netneutrality, roku, astroturf http://odeo.com/episodes/25381286-SDRNews-Mozilla-Raindrop-Simply-is-On-Target Google Introduces Social Search Mozilla Raindrop Hits the Target Netflix Streaming Comes to PS3 SDR News is a Daily (M-F) Technology Podcast with Tech News Highlights from Slashdot, Digg and Reddit Click Here to Sign Up for the SDR Newsletter Prefer a Direct Download ? (mp3) Download today’s show. SDR News Links If a news item has disappeared from the Del.icio.us list above, try the full list here. SEARCH ANY STORY YOU HEAR ON THE PODCAST More Info on Screencasts Online Mozilla Raindrop Simply Hits the Target by Andrew McCaskey Mozilla Raindrop Solving a Real Problem There has got to be some real potential for Mozilla Foundation’s Raindrop. It seems to solve some real annoyances in the way that we interact with our message streams, but does so in a way that could really get some mainstream adoption and extend the life of the email/IM/Twitter/RSS feed ecosystem with intelligent filtering and front end processing. By contrast, Google Wave reportedly innundates with even mo... Google Introduces Social Search Mozilla Raindrop Hits the Target Netflix Streaming Comes to PS3 SDR News is a Daily (M-F) Technology Podcast with Tech News Highlights from Slashdot, Digg and Reddit Click Here to Sign Up for the SDR Newsletter Prefer a Direct Download ? (mp3) Download today’s show. SDR News Links If a news item has disappeared from the Del.icio.us list above, try the full list here. SEARCH ANY STORY YOU HEAR ON THE PODCAST More Info on Screencasts Online Mozilla Raindrop Simply Hits the Target by Andrew McCaskey Mozilla Raindrop Solving a Real Problem There has got to be some real potential for Mozilla Foundation’s Raindrop. It seems to solve some real annoyances in the way that we interact with our message streams, but does so in a way that could really get some mainstream adoption and extend the life of the email/IM/Twitter/RSS feed ecosystem with intelligent filtering and front end processing. By contrast, Google Wave reportedly innundates with even more noise and data. Mozilla Foundation is providing what we need – tools that simplify. The release seems to be in very early stages- but Mozilla might be surprised to find out how quickly this could resonate with users and move into the mainstream . The strength is in attaching some intelligent weighting to the stream of information that comes through our email inboxes each day. Simple confirmations, receipts, newsletters and other low priority traffic makes it through the spam filters but still provides a miserable experience. Simple UI intelligent folders, flags and colors add to the visual confusion, not helping. The Raindrop interface would be a real benefit to millions of email users. Most importantly being open source, it could lend itself to hundreds of variants – which could be freely distributed to various demographic groups or applications. You could easily imagine the usefulness of having messages pre-sorted or presented in prioritized order for seniors who are increasingly active, but still easily overwealmed by the sheer volume of email traffic, even as their children and grandchildren move to SMS, Twitter or similar platforms. Contact Us How Google Social Search Works Watch Today’s Video Episode Be sure to check out GoToMeeting. Why? Because you can hold meetings right over the Net — from anywhere. Plus, you can hold all the meetings you want for one flat rate. To get your free 30-day trial , visit www.gotomeeting.com/techpodcasts. Take 10% off any order at GoDaddy.com! Code SLASH Take $5 off any $30 order at GoDaddy.com! Code SDR530 .com Domains $6.95 at GoDaddy.com! Code SLASH3 More blogs about SlashdotReview and SDRNews… Google Introduces Social Search Mozilla Raindrop Hits the Target Netflix Streaming Comes to PS3 SDR News is a Daily (M-F) Technology Podcast with Tech News Highlights from Slashdot, Digg and Reddit Click Here to Sign Up for the SDR Newsletter Prefer a Direct Download ? (mp3) Download today’s show. SDR News Links If a news item has disappeared from the Del.icio.us list above, try the full list here. SEARCH ANY STORY YOU HEAR ON THE PODCAST More Info on Screencasts Online Mozilla Raindrop Simply Hits the Target by Andrew McCaskey Mozilla Raindrop Solving a Real Problem There has got to be some real potential for Mozilla Foundation’s Raindrop. It seems to solve some real annoyances in the way that we interact with our message streams, but does so in a way that could really get some mainstream adoption and extend the life of the email/IM/Twitter/RSS feed ecosystem with intelligent filtering and front end processing. By contrast, Google Wave reportedly innundates with even more noise and data. Mozilla Foundation is providing what we need – tools that simplify. The release seems to be in very early stages- but Mozilla might be surprised to find out how quickly this could resonate with users and move into the mainstream . The strength is in attaching some intelligent weighting to the stream of information that comes through our email inboxes each day. Simple confirmations, receipts, newsletters and other low priority traffic makes it through the spam filters but still provides a miserable experience. Simple UI intelligent folders, flags and colors add to the visual confusion, not helping. The Raindrop interface would be a real benefit to millions of email users. Most importantly being open source, it could lend itself to hundreds of variants – which could be freely distributed to various demographic groups or applications. You could easily imagine the usefulness of having messages pre-sorted or presented in prioritized order for seniors who are increasingly active, but still easily overwealmed by the sheer volume of email traffic, even as their children and grandchildren move to SMS, Twitter or similar platforms. Contact Us How Google Social Search Works Watch Today’s Video Episode Be sure to check out GoToMeeting. Why? Because you can hold meetings right over the Net — from anywhere. Plus, you can hold all the meetings you want for one flat rate. To get your free 30-day trial , visit www.gotomeeting.com/techpodcasts. Take 10% off any order at GoDaddy.com! Code SLASH Take $5 off any $30 order at GoDaddy.com! Code SDR530 .com Domains $6.95 at GoDaddy.com! Code SLASH3 More blogs about SlashdotReview and SDRNews… tag:odeo.com,2009-10-26,25381286 Mon, 26 Oct 2009 16:49:10 -0700 no Slashdot Review - Produced by SDR News SDRNews, social, mozilla, netflix, raindrop, socialcircle http://odeo.com/episodes/25373327-SDRNews-AT-T-May-Have-Misconfigured AT&T Wireless Problems Self Inflicted ? Raytheon Sends Android to Battle Kindle for Mac is Coming SDR News is a Daily (M-F) Technology Podcast with Tech News Highlights from Slashdot, Digg and Reddit Click Here to Sign Up for the SDR Newsletter Prefer a Direct Download ? (mp3) Download today’s show. SDR News Links If a news item has disappeared from the Del.icio.us list above, try the full list here. SEARCH ANY STORY YOU HEAR ON THE PODCAST More Info on Screencasts Online Speaking Radio, Data and Telephone by Andrew McCaskey Speaking Radio and Telephone The recent problems and the virtual collapse of the AT&T network from overload congestion with iPhone data traffic has received a lot of press. Now, some hope that the problem may not be as serious as thought: although someone will end up with some serious explaining to do. It appears that at last some of the problems may be due to misconfiguration of routers in the AT&T network. The problem is in the cross disci... AT&T Wireless Problems Self Inflicted ? Raytheon Sends Android to Battle Kindle for Mac is Coming SDR News is a Daily (M-F) Technology Podcast with Tech News Highlights from Slashdot, Digg and Reddit Click Here to Sign Up for the SDR Newsletter Prefer a Direct Download ? (mp3) Download today’s show. SDR News Links If a news item has disappeared from the Del.icio.us list above, try the full list here. SEARCH ANY STORY YOU HEAR ON THE PODCAST More Info on Screencasts Online Speaking Radio, Data and Telephone by Andrew McCaskey Speaking Radio and Telephone The recent problems and the virtual collapse of the AT&T network from overload congestion with iPhone data traffic has received a lot of press. Now, some hope that the problem may not be as serious as thought: although someone will end up with some serious explaining to do. It appears that at last some of the problems may be due to misconfiguration of routers in the AT&T network. The problem is in the cross disciplinary nature of the beast. A telephone company has to employ radio in a data networking problem. In addition to the organizational challenges, there’s a cultural one as well. I’ve observed each of the three worlds up close (adding maybe a fourth one with broadcast engineers) and there is absolutely a total difference in vocabulary, approach, standards and expectations. The wireline engineers in control of some of the settings that put “maximum buffering” into the system – resulting in ping times up to eight seconds. What should have happened is much smaller buffers that would allow short term blockage to occur and then prompt temporary but automatic fallback in speed that would have removed the congestion. Add in radio effects of jitter with mobiles in motion, and it’s a wonder the system ever settles in as well as it does. Contact Us Sean Parker’s Web 2.0 Summit Presentation New Era of Network Service http://www.scribd.com/doc/21539640/Sean-Parker-s-Web-2-0-Summit-Presentation"Watch Today’s Video Episode Be sure to check out GoToMeeting. Why? Because you can hold meetings right over the Net — from anywhere. Plus, you can hold all the meetings you want for one flat rate. To get your free 30-day trial , visit www.gotomeeting.com/techpodcasts. Take 10% off any order at GoDaddy.com! Code SLASH Take $5 off any $30 order at GoDaddy.com! Code SDR530 .com Domains $6.95 at GoDaddy.com! Code SLASH3 More blogs about SlashdotReview and SDRNews… AT&T Wireless Problems Self Inflicted ? Raytheon Sends Android to Battle Kindle for Mac is Coming SDR News is a Daily (M-F) Technology Podcast with Tech News Highlights from Slashdot, Digg and Reddit Click Here to Sign Up for the SDR Newsletter Prefer a Direct Download ? (mp3) Download today’s show. SDR News Links If a news item has disappeared from the Del.icio.us list above, try the full list here. SEARCH ANY STORY YOU HEAR ON THE PODCAST More Info on Screencasts Online Speaking Radio, Data and Telephone by Andrew McCaskey Speaking Radio and Telephone The recent problems and the virtual collapse of the AT&T network from overload congestion with iPhone data traffic has received a lot of press. Now, some hope that the problem may not be as serious as thought: although someone will end up with some serious explaining to do. It appears that at last some of the problems may be due to misconfiguration of routers in the AT&T network. The problem is in the cross disciplinary nature of the beast. A telephone company has to employ radio in a data networking problem. In addition to the organizational challenges, there’s a cultural one as well. I’ve observed each of the three worlds up close (adding maybe a fourth one with broadcast engineers) and there is absolutely a total difference in vocabulary, approach, standards and expectations. The wireline engineers in control of some of the settings that put “maximum buffering” into the system – resulting in ping times up to eight seconds. What should have happened is much smaller buffers that would allow short term blockage to occur and then prompt temporary but automatic fallback in speed that would have removed the congestion. Add in radio effects of jitter with mobiles in motion, and it’s a wonder the system ever settles in as well as it does. Contact Us Sean Parker’s Web 2.0 Summit Presentation New Era of Network Service http://www.scribd.com/doc/21539640/Sean-Parker-s-Web-2-0-Summit-Presentation"Watch Today’s Video Episode Be sure to check out GoToMeeting. Why? Because you can hold meetings right over the Net — from anywhere. Plus, you can hold all the meetings you want for one flat rate. To get your free 30-day trial , visit www.gotomeeting.com/techpodcasts. Take 10% off any order at GoDaddy.com! Code SLASH Take $5 off any $30 order at GoDaddy.com! Code SDR530 .com Domains $6.95 at GoDaddy.com! Code SLASH3 More blogs about SlashdotReview and SDRNews… tag:odeo.com,2009-10-25,25373327 Sun, 25 Oct 2009 17:57:00 -0700 no Slashdot Review - Produced by SDR News iphone, SDRNews, android, wireless, kindle http://odeo.com/episodes/25353709-SDRNews-House-Payments-and-Memory-Chips Wimax Catches a Smart Grid Break Sharepoint is the Real Microsoft Strategy Hulu May Start to Charge For Content SDR News is a Daily (M-F) Technology Podcast with Tech News Highlights from Slashdot, Digg and Reddit Click Here to Sign Up for the SDR Newsletter Prefer a Direct Download ? (mp3) Download today’s show. SDR News Links If a news item has disappeared from the Del.icio.us list above, try the full list here. SEARCH ANY STORY YOU HEAR ON THE PODCAST More Info on Screencasts Online House Payments and Memory Chips by Andrew McCaskey It’s Sort of Relative Engineers from North Carolina State University have created a new fingernail-size chip that can hold 1 trillion bytes (a terabyte) of data. The nanostructured Nickel Magnesium Oxide Ni-MgO system can store up to 20 high-definition DVDs or 250 million pages of text. Using selective doping at nanoscale and adds the metal nickel to magnesium oxide, a ceramic. The resulting material contained clusters of nickel atoms no b... Wimax Catches a Smart Grid Break Sharepoint is the Real Microsoft Strategy Hulu May Start to Charge For Content SDR News is a Daily (M-F) Technology Podcast with Tech News Highlights from Slashdot, Digg and Reddit Click Here to Sign Up for the SDR Newsletter Prefer a Direct Download ? (mp3) Download today’s show. SDR News Links If a news item has disappeared from the Del.icio.us list above, try the full list here. SEARCH ANY STORY YOU HEAR ON THE PODCAST More Info on Screencasts Online House Payments and Memory Chips by Andrew McCaskey It’s Sort of Relative Engineers from North Carolina State University have created a new fingernail-size chip that can hold 1 trillion bytes (a terabyte) of data. The nanostructured Nickel Magnesium Oxide Ni-MgO system can store up to 20 high-definition DVDs or 250 million pages of text. Using selective doping at nanoscale and adds the metal nickel to magnesium oxide, a ceramic. The resulting material contained clusters of nickel atoms no bigger than 10 square nanometers – a pinhead has a diameter of 1 million nanometers. The discovery represents a 90% size reduction compared with today’s techniques, and an advancement that could boost computer storage capacity. If you are like me, in a few years you can tell your grandchildren about 8k DRAM boards from the 1970’s that set you back the cost of a house payment. They may find that mildly amusing, or they may not – and take their keychain with the 1TB drive off to plug into their electric car. You can rest assured that electric car will be several house payments. Contact Us Raindrop UX Design and Demo from Mozilla Messaging on Vimeo. Mozilla Labs Raindrop Watch Today’s Video Episode Be sure to check out GoToMeeting. Why? Because you can hold meetings right over the Net — from anywhere. Plus, you can hold all the meetings you want for one flat rate. To get your free 30-day trial , visit www.gotomeeting.com/techpodcasts. Take 10% off any order at GoDaddy.com! Code SLASH Take $5 off any $30 order at GoDaddy.com! Code SDR530 .com Domains $6.95 at GoDaddy.com! Code SLASH3 More blogs about SlashdotReview and SDRNews… Wimax Catches a Smart Grid Break Sharepoint is the Real Microsoft Strategy Hulu May Start to Charge For Content SDR News is a Daily (M-F) Technology Podcast with Tech News Highlights from Slashdot, Digg and Reddit Click Here to Sign Up for the SDR Newsletter Prefer a Direct Download ? (mp3) Download today’s show. SDR News Links If a news item has disappeared from the Del.icio.us list above, try the full list here. SEARCH ANY STORY YOU HEAR ON THE PODCAST More Info on Screencasts Online House Payments and Memory Chips by Andrew McCaskey It’s Sort of Relative Engineers from North Carolina State University have created a new fingernail-size chip that can hold 1 trillion bytes (a terabyte) of data. The nanostructured Nickel Magnesium Oxide Ni-MgO system can store up to 20 high-definition DVDs or 250 million pages of text. Using selective doping at nanoscale and adds the metal nickel to magnesium oxide, a ceramic. The resulting material contained clusters of nickel atoms no bigger than 10 square nanometers – a pinhead has a diameter of 1 million nanometers. The discovery represents a 90% size reduction compared with today’s techniques, and an advancement that could boost computer storage capacity. If you are like me, in a few years you can tell your grandchildren about 8k DRAM boards from the 1970’s that set you back the cost of a house payment. They may find that mildly amusing, or they may not – and take their keychain with the 1TB drive off to plug into their electric car. You can rest assured that electric car will be several house payments. Contact Us Raindrop UX Design and Demo from Mozilla Messaging on Vimeo. Mozilla Labs Raindrop Watch Today’s Video Episode Be sure to check out GoToMeeting. Why? Because you can hold meetings right over the Net — from anywhere. Plus, you can hold all the meetings you want for one flat rate. To get your free 30-day trial , visit www.gotomeeting.com/techpodcasts. Take 10% off any order at GoDaddy.com! Code SLASH Take $5 off any $30 order at GoDaddy.com! Code SDR530 .com Domains $6.95 at GoDaddy.com! Code SLASH3 More blogs about SlashdotReview and SDRNews… tag:odeo.com,2009-10-22,25353709 Thu, 22 Oct 2009 18:14:08 -0700 no Slashdot Review - Produced by SDR News SDRNews, wimax, hulu, raindrop http://odeo.com/episodes/25335060-SDRNews-Verizon-Bets-Motorola Verizon Droid Bets Ranch for Motorola First Whitespace Broadband USB 3.0 one of Top Five Technologies SDR News is a Daily (M-F) Technology Podcast with Tech News Highlights from Slashdot, Digg and Reddit Click Here to Sign Up for the SDR Newsletter Prefer a Direct Download ? (mp3) Download today’s show. SDR News Links If a news item has disappeared from the Del.icio.us list above, try the full list here. SEARCH ANY STORY YOU HEAR ON THE PODCAST More Info on Screencasts Online Verizon Bets Motorola by Andrew McCaskey In the Droid The current Verizon campaign is one that is certainly going to win some creativity awards in the advertising business. Whether or not it sells phones remains to be seen. It may have, in the words of the BoyGenius Report been sufficient to scare small children. How much does novelty and notoriety sell ? It may be that Verizon knows their audience very, very well – and that this approach is sufficient to attract younger customers onto their first s... Verizon Droid Bets Ranch for Motorola First Whitespace Broadband USB 3.0 one of Top Five Technologies SDR News is a Daily (M-F) Technology Podcast with Tech News Highlights from Slashdot, Digg and Reddit Click Here to Sign Up for the SDR Newsletter Prefer a Direct Download ? (mp3) Download today’s show. SDR News Links If a news item has disappeared from the Del.icio.us list above, try the full list here. SEARCH ANY STORY YOU HEAR ON THE PODCAST More Info on Screencasts Online Verizon Bets Motorola by Andrew McCaskey In the Droid The current Verizon campaign is one that is certainly going to win some creativity awards in the advertising business. Whether or not it sells phones remains to be seen. It may have, in the words of the BoyGenius Report been sufficient to scare small children. How much does novelty and notoriety sell ? It may be that Verizon knows their audience very, very well – and that this approach is sufficient to attract younger customers onto their first smartphone platform. It might well be that the anti-iphone is just what the doctor ordered for that marketplace. If parents have Blackberry or iPhone, then a phone with coolness factor, optimized for texting with friends but with the programability to add apps as they move from one fad to the next might be a winner. Verizon will have to be very careful. If they begin to restrict apps or cripple the Android platform there are plenty of other carriers that might be able to step in with even cooler hardware. If the Android performance begins to suffer as apps are added or the network starts to get overloaded, Verizon may find itself in the same boat as AT&T. Motorola ? Motorola has so much riding on the success of this phone that a market stumble by Verizon – for all it’s success in years past- could approach a fatal error. It’s like watching someone at the Blackjack table playing your last house payment. You know he’s good but if the cards aren’t counted right, your house is the one that goes. {sharethis} Contact Us Gyroscope Bike Watch Today’s Video Episode Be sure to check out GoToMeeting. Why? Because you can hold meetings right over the Net — from anywhere. Plus, you can hold all the meetings you want for one flat rate. To get your free 30-day trial , visit www.gotomeeting.com/techpodcasts. Take 10% off any order at GoDaddy.com! Code SLASH Take $5 off any $30 order at GoDaddy.com! Code SDR530 .com Domains $6.95 at GoDaddy.com! Code SLASH3 More blogs about SlashdotReview and SDRNews… Verizon Droid Bets Ranch for Motorola First Whitespace Broadband USB 3.0 one of Top Five Technologies SDR News is a Daily (M-F) Technology Podcast with Tech News Highlights from Slashdot, Digg and Reddit Click Here to Sign Up for the SDR Newsletter Prefer a Direct Download ? (mp3) Download today’s show. SDR News Links If a news item has disappeared from the Del.icio.us list above, try the full list here. SEARCH ANY STORY YOU HEAR ON THE PODCAST More Info on Screencasts Online Verizon Bets Motorola by Andrew McCaskey In the Droid The current Verizon campaign is one that is certainly going to win some creativity awards in the advertising business. Whether or not it sells phones remains to be seen. It may have, in the words of the BoyGenius Report been sufficient to scare small children. How much does novelty and notoriety sell ? It may be that Verizon knows their audience very, very well – and that this approach is sufficient to attract younger customers onto their first smartphone platform. It might well be that the anti-iphone is just what the doctor ordered for that marketplace. If parents have Blackberry or iPhone, then a phone with coolness factor, optimized for texting with friends but with the programability to add apps as they move from one fad to the next might be a winner. Verizon will have to be very careful. If they begin to restrict apps or cripple the Android platform there are plenty of other carriers that might be able to step in with even cooler hardware. If the Android performance begins to suffer as apps are added or the network starts to get overloaded, Verizon may find itself in the same boat as AT&T. Motorola ? Motorola has so much riding on the success of this phone that a market stumble by Verizon – for all it’s success in years past- could approach a fatal error. It’s like watching someone at the Blackjack table playing your last house payment. You know he’s good but if the cards aren’t counted right, your house is the one that goes. {sharethis} Contact Us Gyroscope Bike Watch Today’s Video Episode Be sure to check out GoToMeeting. Why? Because you can hold meetings right over the Net — from anywhere. Plus, you can hold all the meetings you want for one flat rate. To get your free 30-day trial , visit www.gotomeeting.com/techpodcasts. Take 10% off any order at GoDaddy.com! Code SLASH Take $5 off any $30 order at GoDaddy.com! Code SDR530 .com Domains $6.95 at GoDaddy.com! Code SLASH3 More blogs about SlashdotReview and SDRNews… tag:odeo.com,2009-10-21,25335060 Wed, 21 Oct 2009 17:17:12 -0700 no Slashdot Review - Produced by SDR News SDRNews, android, verizon, whitespace http://odeo.com/episodes/25321574-SDRNews-Envisioning-Twitter-and-Planning-Podcasts Google Gears up for Ten Million Servers FCC Net Neutrality Comments Podcast Survey Requests SDR News is a Daily (M-F) Technology Podcast with Tech News Highlights from Slashdot, Digg and Reddit Click Here to Sign Up for the SDR Newsletter Prefer a Direct Download ? (mp3) Download today’s show. SDR News Links If a news item has disappeared from the Del.icio.us list above, try the full list here. SEARCH ANY STORY YOU HEAR ON THE PODCAST More Info on Screencasts Online Please Help: Fill out Our Ad Survey by Andrew McCaskey Your Thoughts on Podcasting Advertisements ? ?SDRNews is one of the charter members of Techpodcasts.com. Along with our parent company, RawVoice, Inc we ask your participation in important research on consumers’ thoughts on advertising within their favorite Podcasts. The Consumers Attitudes on Advertising & Sponsorship in Audio and Video Podcasts research project is a survey that should take you about 10 minutes. It does NOT ask for personal contact inform... Google Gears up for Ten Million Servers FCC Net Neutrality Comments Podcast Survey Requests SDR News is a Daily (M-F) Technology Podcast with Tech News Highlights from Slashdot, Digg and Reddit Click Here to Sign Up for the SDR Newsletter Prefer a Direct Download ? (mp3) Download today’s show. SDR News Links If a news item has disappeared from the Del.icio.us list above, try the full list here. SEARCH ANY STORY YOU HEAR ON THE PODCAST More Info on Screencasts Online Please Help: Fill out Our Ad Survey by Andrew McCaskey Your Thoughts on Podcasting Advertisements ? ?SDRNews is one of the charter members of Techpodcasts.com. Along with our parent company, RawVoice, Inc we ask your participation in important research on consumers’ thoughts on advertising within their favorite Podcasts. The Consumers Attitudes on Advertising & Sponsorship in Audio and Video Podcasts research project is a survey that should take you about 10 minutes. It does NOT ask for personal contact information. The Association for Downloadable Media (ADM) , a nonprofit organization serving podcast producers, is looking for the podcast audience’s reactions to topics such as ad style, delivery and placement. The research will help podcast producers best fulfill the expectations of their listeners and viewers. Your participation can make a big difference in the quantity, type and content of advertising that supports our efforts each day. Take the Survey Contact Us GoodMorning! Full Render #2 from blprnt on Vimeo. Good Morning Twitter Visualization Watch Today’s Video Episode Be sure to check out GoToMeeting. Why? Because you can hold meetings right over the Net — from anywhere. Plus, you can hold all the meetings you want for one flat rate. To get your free 30-day trial , visit www.gotomeeting.com/techpodcasts. Take 10% off any order at GoDaddy.com! Code SLASH Take $5 off any $30 order at GoDaddy.com! Code SDR530 .com Domains $6.95 at GoDaddy.com! Code SLASH3 More blogs about SlashdotReview and SDRNews… Google Gears up for Ten Million Servers FCC Net Neutrality Comments Podcast Survey Requests SDR News is a Daily (M-F) Technology Podcast with Tech News Highlights from Slashdot, Digg and Reddit Click Here to Sign Up for the SDR Newsletter Prefer a Direct Download ? (mp3) Download today’s show. SDR News Links If a news item has disappeared from the Del.icio.us list above, try the full list here. SEARCH ANY STORY YOU HEAR ON THE PODCAST More Info on Screencasts Online Please Help: Fill out Our Ad Survey by Andrew McCaskey Your Thoughts on Podcasting Advertisements ? ?SDRNews is one of the charter members of Techpodcasts.com. Along with our parent company, RawVoice, Inc we ask your participation in important research on consumers’ thoughts on advertising within their favorite Podcasts. The Consumers Attitudes on Advertising & Sponsorship in Audio and Video Podcasts research project is a survey that should take you about 10 minutes. It does NOT ask for personal contact information. The Association for Downloadable Media (ADM) , a nonprofit organization serving podcast producers, is looking for the podcast audience’s reactions to topics such as ad style, delivery and placement. The research will help podcast producers best fulfill the expectations of their listeners and viewers. Your participation can make a big difference in the quantity, type and content of advertising that supports our efforts each day. Take the Survey Contact Us GoodMorning! Full Render #2 from blprnt on Vimeo. Good Morning Twitter Visualization Watch Today’s Video Episode Be sure to check out GoToMeeting. Why? Because you can hold meetings right over the Net — from anywhere. Plus, you can hold all the meetings you want for one flat rate. To get your free 30-day trial , visit www.gotomeeting.com/techpodcasts. Take 10% off any order at GoDaddy.com! Code SLASH Take $5 off any $30 order at GoDaddy.com! Code SDR530 .com Domains $6.95 at GoDaddy.com! Code SLASH3 More blogs about SlashdotReview and SDRNews… tag:odeo.com,2009-10-20,25321574 Tue, 20 Oct 2009 17:45:31 -0700 no Slashdot Review - Produced by SDR News SDRNews, netneutrality http://odeo.com/episodes/25315748-SDRNews-A-Different-Song-on-Net-Neutrality Ultracapacitor Bus in China Net Neutrality Battlelines Shift Proposed CA Windshield Tint Blocks RF SDR News is a Daily (M-F) Technology Podcast with Tech News Highlights from Slashdot, Digg and Reddit Click Here to Sign Up for the SDR Newsletter Prefer a Direct Download ? (mp3) Download today’s show. SDR News Links If a news item has disappeared from the Del.icio.us list above, try the full list here. SEARCH ANY STORY YOU HEAR ON THE PODCAST More Info on Screencasts Online Different Net Neutrality Song by Andrew McCaskey Local CWA versus National The battle lines being drawn between Republicans and Democrats on Net Neutrality are getting fuzzy. Partisans keep slipping from one side to the other, proving once again that “politics makes strange bedfellows” The most recent example is the Communications Workers of America (CWA) who seem to have a split personality, on this issue at least. At the National level, the CWA has been quite supportive of the FCC’s propo... Ultracapacitor Bus in China Net Neutrality Battlelines Shift Proposed CA Windshield Tint Blocks RF SDR News is a Daily (M-F) Technology Podcast with Tech News Highlights from Slashdot, Digg and Reddit Click Here to Sign Up for the SDR Newsletter Prefer a Direct Download ? (mp3) Download today’s show. SDR News Links If a news item has disappeared from the Del.icio.us list above, try the full list here. SEARCH ANY STORY YOU HEAR ON THE PODCAST More Info on Screencasts Online Different Net Neutrality Song by Andrew McCaskey Local CWA versus National The battle lines being drawn between Republicans and Democrats on Net Neutrality are getting fuzzy. Partisans keep slipping from one side to the other, proving once again that “politics makes strange bedfellows” The most recent example is the Communications Workers of America (CWA) who seem to have a split personality, on this issue at least. At the National level, the CWA has been quite supportive of the FCC’s proposals to assure that ISP’s provide non-discriminatory access. That has not turned out to be the case, once the local lobbyists started to make things felt at the state and local government level for the telco interests. Obviously the threat of non-investment by the established carriers in a given geography points explicitly to whose ox is about to be gored. The CWA locals want none of it. All this points to the fact that the FCC’s proposal in February is going to have to have a lot of features baked in to keep them on board. It’s worse than figuring out how to insure an aircraft carrier has all 535 Congressional Districts covered. Contact Us http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPXIjRB9mIU&feature=player_embedded Ultracapacitor Electric Bus in Shanghai Watch Today’s Video Episode Be sure to check out GoToMeeting. Why? Because you can hold meetings right over the Net — from anywhere. Plus, you can hold all the meetings you want for one flat rate. To get your free 30-day trial , visit www.gotomeeting.com/techpodcasts. Take 10% off any order at GoDaddy.com! Code SLASH Take $5 off any $30 order at GoDaddy.com! Code SDR530 .com Domains $6.95 at GoDaddy.com! Code SLASH3 More blogs about SlashdotReview and SDRNews… Ultracapacitor Bus in China Net Neutrality Battlelines Shift Proposed CA Windshield Tint Blocks RF SDR News is a Daily (M-F) Technology Podcast with Tech News Highlights from Slashdot, Digg and Reddit Click Here to Sign Up for the SDR Newsletter Prefer a Direct Download ? (mp3) Download today’s show. SDR News Links If a news item has disappeared from the Del.icio.us list above, try the full list here. SEARCH ANY STORY YOU HEAR ON THE PODCAST More Info on Screencasts Online Different Net Neutrality Song by Andrew McCaskey Local CWA versus National The battle lines being drawn between Republicans and Democrats on Net Neutrality are getting fuzzy. Partisans keep slipping from one side to the other, proving once again that “politics makes strange bedfellows” The most recent example is the Communications Workers of America (CWA) who seem to have a split personality, on this issue at least. At the National level, the CWA has been quite supportive of the FCC’s proposals to assure that ISP’s provide non-discriminatory access. That has not turned out to be the case, once the local lobbyists started to make things felt at the state and local government level for the telco interests. Obviously the threat of non-investment by the established carriers in a given geography points explicitly to whose ox is about to be gored. The CWA locals want none of it. All this points to the fact that the FCC’s proposal in February is going to have to have a lot of features baked in to keep them on board. It’s worse than figuring out how to insure an aircraft carrier has all 535 Congressional Districts covered. Contact Us http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPXIjRB9mIU&feature=player_embedded Ultracapacitor Electric Bus in Shanghai Watch Today’s Video Episode Be sure to check out GoToMeeting. Why? Because you can hold meetings right over the Net — from anywhere. Plus, you can hold all the meetings you want for one flat rate. To get your free 30-day trial , visit www.gotomeeting.com/techpodcasts. Take 10% off any order at GoDaddy.com! Code SLASH Take $5 off any $30 order at GoDaddy.com! Code SDR530 .com Domains $6.95 at GoDaddy.com! Code SLASH3 More blogs about SlashdotReview and SDRNews… tag:odeo.com,2009-10-19,25315748 Mon, 19 Oct 2009 17:53:30 -0700 no Slashdot Review - Produced by SDR News SDRNews, netneutrality, ultracapacitor http://odeo.com/episodes/25310217-SDRNews-Net-Neutrality-and-Open-Access Google Sends YouTube for Free Verizon to Announce Android Phone Chem Robot Oozes Along SDR News is a Daily (M-F) Technology Podcast with Tech News Highlights from Slashdot, Digg and Reddit Click Here to Sign Up for the SDR Newsletter Prefer a Direct Download ? (mp3) Download today’s show. SDR News Links If a news item has disappeared from the Del.icio.us list above, try the full list here. SEARCH ANY STORY YOU HEAR ON THE PODCAST More Info on Screencasts Online Net Neutrality and Open Access by Andrew McCaskey Net Neutrality and Open Access Raises the Stakes Logo for NetNeutrality There is no doubt that there is going to be a vigorous debate now that the FCC has opened the Net Neutrality topic for public commentary. Add the reopening of the notion of Open Access , and it is going to expose lines and links to lobbyists on both the left and the right. You are already beginning to see some cracks in the uniform Democratic support for Net Neutrality. Clearly opposed by Republicans... Google Sends YouTube for Free Verizon to Announce Android Phone Chem Robot Oozes Along SDR News is a Daily (M-F) Technology Podcast with Tech News Highlights from Slashdot, Digg and Reddit Click Here to Sign Up for the SDR Newsletter Prefer a Direct Download ? (mp3) Download today’s show. SDR News Links If a news item has disappeared from the Del.icio.us list above, try the full list here. SEARCH ANY STORY YOU HEAR ON THE PODCAST More Info on Screencasts Online Net Neutrality and Open Access by Andrew McCaskey Net Neutrality and Open Access Raises the Stakes Logo for NetNeutrality There is no doubt that there is going to be a vigorous debate now that the FCC has opened the Net Neutrality topic for public commentary. Add the reopening of the notion of Open Access , and it is going to expose lines and links to lobbyists on both the left and the right. You are already beginning to see some cracks in the uniform Democratic support for Net Neutrality. Clearly opposed by Republicans from the beginning, it now has opposition arriving in dribbles and drabs from Democrats with strong telco union presence in their districts. Net neutrality opponents are skillfully deploying a variety of pressure points – this time from the notion that minority districts would be hurt by a reluctance of private telcom investment if net access must be equally offered. It’s just not clear why their districts would be better off with infrastructure not built at all. Contact Us Shape Shifting Chembot Watch Today’s Video Episode Be sure to check out GoToMeeting. Why? Because you can hold meetings right over the Net — from anywhere. Plus, you can hold all the meetings you want for one flat rate. To get your free 30-day trial , visit www.gotomeeting.com/techpodcasts. Take 10% off any order at GoDaddy.com! Code SLASH Take $5 off any $30 order at GoDaddy.com! Code SDR530 .com Domains $6.95 at GoDaddy.com! Code SLASH3 More blogs about SlashdotReview and SDRNews… Google Sends YouTube for Free Verizon to Announce Android Phone Chem Robot Oozes Along SDR News is a Daily (M-F) Technology Podcast with Tech News Highlights from Slashdot, Digg and Reddit Click Here to Sign Up for the SDR Newsletter Prefer a Direct Download ? (mp3) Download today’s show. SDR News Links If a news item has disappeared from the Del.icio.us list above, try the full list here. SEARCH ANY STORY YOU HEAR ON THE PODCAST More Info on Screencasts Online Net Neutrality and Open Access by Andrew McCaskey Net Neutrality and Open Access Raises the Stakes Logo for NetNeutrality There is no doubt that there is going to be a vigorous debate now that the FCC has opened the Net Neutrality topic for public commentary. Add the reopening of the notion of Open Access , and it is going to expose lines and links to lobbyists on both the left and the right. You are already beginning to see some cracks in the uniform Democratic support for Net Neutrality. Clearly opposed by Republicans from the beginning, it now has opposition arriving in dribbles and drabs from Democrats with strong telco union presence in their districts. Net neutrality opponents are skillfully deploying a variety of pressure points – this time from the notion that minority districts would be hurt by a reluctance of private telcom investment if net access must be equally offered. It’s just not clear why their districts would be better off with infrastructure not built at all. Contact Us Shape Shifting Chembot Watch Today’s Video Episode Be sure to check out GoToMeeting. Why? Because you can hold meetings right over the Net — from anywhere. Plus, you can hold all the meetings you want for one flat rate. To get your free 30-day trial , visit www.gotomeeting.com/techpodcasts. Take 10% off any order at GoDaddy.com! Code SLASH Take $5 off any $30 order at GoDaddy.com! Code SDR530 .com Domains $6.95 at GoDaddy.com! Code SLASH3 More blogs about SlashdotReview and SDRNews… tag:odeo.com,2009-10-18,25310217 Sun, 18 Oct 2009 17:50:09 -0700 no Slashdot Review - Produced by SDR News SDRNews, fcc, netneutrality, chembot http://odeo.com/episodes/25294054-SDRNews-Augmented-Reality-%E2%80%93-Consumer-Safety Augmented Reality to the iPhone ScreenJelly – Spreads Knowledge Companies and Lawmakers Against Net Neutrality SDR News is a Daily (M-F) Technology Podcast with Tech News Highlights from Slashdot, Digg and Reddit Click Here to Sign Up for the SDR Newsletter Prefer a Direct Download ? (mp3) Download today’s show. SDR News Links If a news item has disappeared from the Del.icio.us list above, try the full list here. SEARCH ANY STORY YOU HEAR ON THE PODCAST More Info on Screencasts Online Augmented Reality Use for Consumers by Andrew McCaskey AR Could be More Than Novelty The Urban Spoon augmented reality app has made it to both the Android and iPhone platforms – and soon will, at least in urban areas, begin to provide a succession of layers of information on restaurants. Location aware, drawing upon socially derived ratings and trends, there’s a chance to serve the public interest as well. Consider the layer that should be available – namely the health ins... Augmented Reality to the iPhone ScreenJelly – Spreads Knowledge Companies and Lawmakers Against Net Neutrality SDR News is a Daily (M-F) Technology Podcast with Tech News Highlights from Slashdot, Digg and Reddit Click Here to Sign Up for the SDR Newsletter Prefer a Direct Download ? (mp3) Download today’s show. SDR News Links If a news item has disappeared from the Del.icio.us list above, try the full list here. SEARCH ANY STORY YOU HEAR ON THE PODCAST More Info on Screencasts Online Augmented Reality Use for Consumers by Andrew McCaskey AR Could be More Than Novelty The Urban Spoon augmented reality app has made it to both the Android and iPhone platforms – and soon will, at least in urban areas, begin to provide a succession of layers of information on restaurants. Location aware, drawing upon socially derived ratings and trends, there’s a chance to serve the public interest as well. Consider the layer that should be available – namely the health inspection records for the restaurant on a given street. It should be possible to derive overlays that would show the scores, citations or how long a given restaurant has been checked. Consider the layer that could be available – the violent crimes report for a particular section of street, or robbery reports for a given parking garage. There’s probably a business there somewhere – taking information that is in the public domain (or should be) and packaging it into layers for those who have an interest. Contact Us Layar Augmented Reality Watch Today’s Video Episode Be sure to check out GoToMeeting. Why? Because you can hold meetings right over the Net — from anywhere. Plus, you can hold all the meetings you want for one flat rate. To get your free 30-day trial , visit www.gotomeeting.com/techpodcasts. Take 10% off any order at GoDaddy.com! Code SLASH Take $5 off any $30 order at GoDaddy.com! Code SDR530 .com Domains $6.95 at GoDaddy.com! Code SLASH3 More blogs about SlashdotReview and SDRNews… Augmented Reality to the iPhone ScreenJelly – Spreads Knowledge Companies and Lawmakers Against Net Neutrality SDR News is a Daily (M-F) Technology Podcast with Tech News Highlights from Slashdot, Digg and Reddit Click Here to Sign Up for the SDR Newsletter Prefer a Direct Download ? (mp3) Download today’s show. SDR News Links If a news item has disappeared from the Del.icio.us list above, try the full list here. SEARCH ANY STORY YOU HEAR ON THE PODCAST More Info on Screencasts Online Augmented Reality Use for Consumers by Andrew McCaskey AR Could be More Than Novelty The Urban Spoon augmented reality app has made it to both the Android and iPhone platforms – and soon will, at least in urban areas, begin to provide a succession of layers of information on restaurants. Location aware, drawing upon socially derived ratings and trends, there’s a chance to serve the public interest as well. Consider the layer that should be available – namely the health inspection records for the restaurant on a given street. It should be possible to derive overlays that would show the scores, citations or how long a given restaurant has been checked. Consider the layer that could be available – the violent crimes report for a particular section of street, or robbery reports for a given parking garage. There’s probably a business there somewhere – taking information that is in the public domain (or should be) and packaging it into layers for those who have an interest. Contact Us Layar Augmented Reality Watch Today’s Video Episode Be sure to check out GoToMeeting. Why? Because you can hold meetings right over the Net — from anywhere. Plus, you can hold all the meetings you want for one flat rate. To get your free 30-day trial , visit www.gotomeeting.com/techpodcasts. Take 10% off any order at GoDaddy.com! Code SLASH Take $5 off any $30 order at GoDaddy.com! Code SDR530 .com Domains $6.95 at GoDaddy.com! Code SLASH3 More blogs about SlashdotReview and SDRNews… tag:odeo.com,2009-10-15,25294054 Thu, 15 Oct 2009 19:20:33 -0700 no Slashdot Review - Produced by SDR News SDRNews, netneutrality, augmentedreality http://odeo.com/episodes/25287571-SDRNews-Mobile-at-Blogworld-Expo Finland Makes 1MB Broadband Legal Right Wi-Fi Gets Boost from New P2P Standard Acer Overtakes Dell in PC Shipments SDR News is a Daily (M-F) Technology Podcast with Tech News Highlights from Slashdot, Digg and Reddit Click Here to Sign Up for the SDR Newsletter Prefer a Direct Download ? (mp3) Download today’s show. SDR News Links If a news item has disappeared from the Del.icio.us list above, try the full list here. SEARCH ANY STORY YOU HEAR ON THE PODCAST More Info on Screencasts Online Mobile at Blogworld Conference by Andrew McCaskey Mobile Mode SDRNews will be in the mobile mode for the remainder of the week, while I participate in the Blogworld Expo in Las Vegas. The original show for Podcasters – The Podcast and New Media Expo was held in Ontario, CA for three years, and last year was held here in Las Vegas. The owners of the show sold the event to Blogworld – and so this is the first year of a combined effort. It’s a new perspective on new media &#821... Finland Makes 1MB Broadband Legal Right Wi-Fi Gets Boost from New P2P Standard Acer Overtakes Dell in PC Shipments SDR News is a Daily (M-F) Technology Podcast with Tech News Highlights from Slashdot, Digg and Reddit Click Here to Sign Up for the SDR Newsletter Prefer a Direct Download ? (mp3) Download today’s show. SDR News Links If a news item has disappeared from the Del.icio.us list above, try the full list here. SEARCH ANY STORY YOU HEAR ON THE PODCAST More Info on Screencasts Online Mobile at Blogworld Conference by Andrew McCaskey Mobile Mode SDRNews will be in the mobile mode for the remainder of the week, while I participate in the Blogworld Expo in Las Vegas. The original show for Podcasters – The Podcast and New Media Expo was held in Ontario, CA for three years, and last year was held here in Las Vegas. The owners of the show sold the event to Blogworld – and so this is the first year of a combined effort. It’s a new perspective on new media – and is going to be a very interesting three days. We will have some reports from the TPN crew – and possibly some live streaming from the show. Please monitor Twitter @axmc and #bwe09 for details. Contact Us 10/GUI from C. Miller on Vimeo. 10/GUI Multitouch Interface Concept Watch Today’s Video Episode Be sure to check out GoToMeeting. Why? Because you can hold meetings right over the Net — from anywhere. Plus, you can hold all the meetings you want for one flat rate. To get your free 30-day trial , visit www.gotomeeting.com/techpodcasts. Take 10% off any order at GoDaddy.com! Code SLASH Take $5 off any $30 order at GoDaddy.com! Code SDR530 .com Domains $6.95 at GoDaddy.com! Code SLASH3 More blogs about SlashdotReview and SDRNews… Finland Makes 1MB Broadband Legal Right Wi-Fi Gets Boost from New P2P Standard Acer Overtakes Dell in PC Shipments SDR News is a Daily (M-F) Technology Podcast with Tech News Highlights from Slashdot, Digg and Reddit Click Here to Sign Up for the SDR Newsletter Prefer a Direct Download ? (mp3) Download today’s show. SDR News Links If a news item has disappeared from the Del.icio.us list above, try the full list here. SEARCH ANY STORY YOU HEAR ON THE PODCAST More Info on Screencasts Online Mobile at Blogworld Conference by Andrew McCaskey Mobile Mode SDRNews will be in the mobile mode for the remainder of the week, while I participate in the Blogworld Expo in Las Vegas. The original show for Podcasters – The Podcast and New Media Expo was held in Ontario, CA for three years, and last year was held here in Las Vegas. The owners of the show sold the event to Blogworld – and so this is the first year of a combined effort. It’s a new perspective on new media – and is going to be a very interesting three days. We will have some reports from the TPN crew – and possibly some live streaming from the show. Please monitor Twitter @axmc and #bwe09 for details. Contact Us 10/GUI from C. Miller on Vimeo. 10/GUI Multitouch Interface Concept Watch Today’s Video Episode Be sure to check out GoToMeeting. Why? Because you can hold meetings right over the Net — from anywhere. Plus, you can hold all the meetings you want for one flat rate. To get your free 30-day trial , visit www.gotomeeting.com/techpodcasts. Take 10% off any order at GoDaddy.com! Code SLASH Take $5 off any $30 order at GoDaddy.com! Code SDR530 .com Domains $6.95 at GoDaddy.com! Code SLASH3 More blogs about SlashdotReview and SDRNews… tag:odeo.com,2009-10-14,25287571 Wed, 14 Oct 2009 18:11:27 -0700 no Slashdot Review - Produced by SDR News SDRNews, Broadband, wifi, acer, finland http://odeo.com/episodes/25281848-SDRNews-Google-Crowdsources-Buildings New Jersey Outshines In Solar FaceBook and Twitter Growth Slows Skype Negotiating for Gizmo5 SDR News is a Daily (M-F) Technology Podcast with Tech News Highlights from Slashdot, Digg and Reddit Click Here to Sign Up for the SDR Newsletter Prefer a Direct Download ? (mp3) Download today’s show. SDR News Links If a news item has disappeared from the Del.icio.us list above, try the full list here. SEARCH ANY STORY YOU HEAR ON THE PODCAST More Info on Screencasts Online Google Discovers Tom Sawyer by Andrew McCaskey Crowdsourcing is all the rage – and Google does it in a reverse Mechanical Turk – right out of Tom Sawyer. Mechanical Turk is the Amazon system where people are paid a few fractions of a cent to look at a browser and decide if a page contains automobiles or boats, then hit the button. Today’s newly announced Building Maker as a cross between Google Maps and a gigantic bin of building blocks. Basically, you pick a building and construct a model of it ... New Jersey Outshines In Solar FaceBook and Twitter Growth Slows Skype Negotiating for Gizmo5 SDR News is a Daily (M-F) Technology Podcast with Tech News Highlights from Slashdot, Digg and Reddit Click Here to Sign Up for the SDR Newsletter Prefer a Direct Download ? (mp3) Download today’s show. SDR News Links If a news item has disappeared from the Del.icio.us list above, try the full list here. SEARCH ANY STORY YOU HEAR ON THE PODCAST More Info on Screencasts Online Google Discovers Tom Sawyer by Andrew McCaskey Crowdsourcing is all the rage – and Google does it in a reverse Mechanical Turk – right out of Tom Sawyer. Mechanical Turk is the Amazon system where people are paid a few fractions of a cent to look at a browser and decide if a page contains automobiles or boats, then hit the button. Today’s newly announced Building Maker as a cross between Google Maps and a gigantic bin of building blocks. Basically, you pick a building and construct a model of it using aerial photos and simple 3D shapes – provided by Google. . When you’re done, Google takes a look at your model. If it looks right, and if a better model doesn’t already exist, we add it to the 3D Buildings layer in Google Earth. You can make a whole building in a few minutes. It’s work disguised as a game – and as a break for a minute or two, I expect that Google is going to be pretty successful in getting the cooperation and participation of hundreds of thousands worldwide. The only thing that would improve it ? a Leaderboard with the square footage drawn. That would get the biggest buildings quickly built out. Then, harness a team approach of square footage versus number of buildings, to provide weighting favoring the smaller structures. It’s a notch above Windows Solitare, and would include bragging rights at no charge. Contact Us Google Building Maker Watch Today’s Video Episode Be sure to check out GoToMeeting. Why? Because you can hold meetings right over the Net — from anywhere. Plus, you can hold all the meetings you want for one flat rate. To get your free 30-day trial , visit www.gotomeeting.com/techpodcasts. Take 10% off any order at GoDaddy.com! Code SLASH Take $5 off any $30 order at GoDaddy.com! Code SDR530 .com Domains $6.95 at GoDaddy.com! Code SLASH3 More blogs about SlashdotReview and SDRNews… New Jersey Outshines In Solar FaceBook and Twitter Growth Slows Skype Negotiating for Gizmo5 SDR News is a Daily (M-F) Technology Podcast with Tech News Highlights from Slashdot, Digg and Reddit Click Here to Sign Up for the SDR Newsletter Prefer a Direct Download ? (mp3) Download today’s show. SDR News Links If a news item has disappeared from the Del.icio.us list above, try the full list here. SEARCH ANY STORY YOU HEAR ON THE PODCAST More Info on Screencasts Online Google Discovers Tom Sawyer by Andrew McCaskey Crowdsourcing is all the rage – and Google does it in a reverse Mechanical Turk – right out of Tom Sawyer. Mechanical Turk is the Amazon system where people are paid a few fractions of a cent to look at a browser and decide if a page contains automobiles or boats, then hit the button. Today’s newly announced Building Maker as a cross between Google Maps and a gigantic bin of building blocks. Basically, you pick a building and construct a model of it using aerial photos and simple 3D shapes – provided by Google. . When you’re done, Google takes a look at your model. If it looks right, and if a better model doesn’t already exist, we add it to the 3D Buildings layer in Google Earth. You can make a whole building in a few minutes. It’s work disguised as a game – and as a break for a minute or two, I expect that Google is going to be pretty successful in getting the cooperation and participation of hundreds of thousands worldwide. The only thing that would improve it ? a Leaderboard with the square footage drawn. That would get the biggest buildings quickly built out. Then, harness a team approach of square footage versus number of buildings, to provide weighting favoring the smaller structures. It’s a notch above Windows Solitare, and would include bragging rights at no charge. Contact Us Google Building Maker Watch Today’s Video Episode Be sure to check out GoToMeeting. Why? Because you can hold meetings right over the Net — from anywhere. Plus, you can hold all the meetings you want for one flat rate. To get your free 30-day trial , visit www.gotomeeting.com/techpodcasts. Take 10% off any order at GoDaddy.com! Code SLASH Take $5 off any $30 order at GoDaddy.com! Code SDR530 .com Domains $6.95 at GoDaddy.com! Code SLASH3 More blogs about SlashdotReview and SDRNews… tag:odeo.com,2009-10-13,25281848 Tue, 13 Oct 2009 16:17:38 -0700 no Slashdot Review - Produced by SDR News SDRNews, skype, google, Gizmo5, crowdsource http://odeo.com/episodes/25276487-SDRNews-Google-Wave-The-Eternal-Conference-Call MySpace on the Cliff Edge Amazon EC2 Not Immune to DDOS Wave: The Eternal Conference Call SDR News is a Daily (M-F) Technology Podcast with Tech News Highlights from Slashdot, Digg and Reddit Click Here to Sign Up for the SDR Newsletter Prefer a Direct Download ? (mp3) Download today’s show. SDR News Links If a news item has disappeared from the Del.icio.us list above, try the full list here. SEARCH ANY STORY YOU HEAR ON THE PODCAST More Info on Screencasts Online End of Google Wave: The Eternal Conference Call by Andrew McCaskey That Will Finish Off Google Wave Nickolas Carr noted the ebb and flow of business communications over the past thirty five or forty years, and sets up the nightmare vision that could finish off Google Wave before the seond round of invites hits the streets. One of the advantages of email, when first introduced was the fact that you had much of the immediacy of the telephone but allowed a few minutes to compose the thoughts before the response got sent... MySpace on the Cliff Edge Amazon EC2 Not Immune to DDOS Wave: The Eternal Conference Call SDR News is a Daily (M-F) Technology Podcast with Tech News Highlights from Slashdot, Digg and Reddit Click Here to Sign Up for the SDR Newsletter Prefer a Direct Download ? (mp3) Download today’s show. SDR News Links If a news item has disappeared from the Del.icio.us list above, try the full list here. SEARCH ANY STORY YOU HEAR ON THE PODCAST More Info on Screencasts Online End of Google Wave: The Eternal Conference Call by Andrew McCaskey That Will Finish Off Google Wave Nickolas Carr noted the ebb and flow of business communications over the past thirty five or forty years, and sets up the nightmare vision that could finish off Google Wave before the seond round of invites hits the streets. One of the advantages of email, when first introduced was the fact that you had much of the immediacy of the telephone but allowed a few minutes to compose the thoughts before the response got sent out. By destroying the synchronous nature of query / response by phone, but still taking advantage of the electronic medium the best of both worlds seemed at hand. It was still attractive, even if the CC and Reply to all allowed duplication with almost no effort. That minimal duplication cost and the ability to substitute activity for thought gave rise to spammers – in the public sense, and the far more insidious internal corporate spam that copied everyone on trivia, and set off additional spasms of traffic asking to be taken off the list. Which worked well until the next rising tide of traffic as a result of not being “read into” a situation. Nickolas notes that Google Wave is nothing but the worst of both worlds: The interruptive immediacy of the telephone, the party-line noise of multiple chattering updates, and the quick to observe notes and phrasing as the words are being typed in. A Brave New World of Corporate communications, indeed. Contact Us HP SuperDome Tech Day – Cell Module Detail Watch Today’s Video Episode Be sure to check out GoToMeeting. Why? Because you can hold meetings right over the Net — from anywhere. Plus, you can hold all the meetings you want for one flat rate. To get your free 30-day trial , visit www.gotomeeting.com/techpodcasts. Take 10% off any order at GoDaddy.com! Code SLASH Take $5 off any $30 order at GoDaddy.com! Code SDR530 .com Domains $6.95 at GoDaddy.com! Code SLASH3 More blogs about SlashdotReview and SDRNews… MySpace on the Cliff Edge Amazon EC2 Not Immune to DDOS Wave: The Eternal Conference Call SDR News is a Daily (M-F) Technology Podcast with Tech News Highlights from Slashdot, Digg and Reddit Click Here to Sign Up for the SDR Newsletter Prefer a Direct Download ? (mp3) Download today’s show. SDR News Links If a news item has disappeared from the Del.icio.us list above, try the full list here. SEARCH ANY STORY YOU HEAR ON THE PODCAST More Info on Screencasts Online End of Google Wave: The Eternal Conference Call by Andrew McCaskey That Will Finish Off Google Wave Nickolas Carr noted the ebb and flow of business communications over the past thirty five or forty years, and sets up the nightmare vision that could finish off Google Wave before the seond round of invites hits the streets. One of the advantages of email, when first introduced was the fact that you had much of the immediacy of the telephone but allowed a few minutes to compose the thoughts before the response got sent out. By destroying the synchronous nature of query / response by phone, but still taking advantage of the electronic medium the best of both worlds seemed at hand. It was still attractive, even if the CC and Reply to all allowed duplication with almost no effort. That minimal duplication cost and the ability to substitute activity for thought gave rise to spammers – in the public sense, and the far more insidious internal corporate spam that copied everyone on trivia, and set off additional spasms of traffic asking to be taken off the list. Which worked well until the next rising tide of traffic as a result of not being “read into” a situation. Nickolas notes that Google Wave is nothing but the worst of both worlds: The interruptive immediacy of the telephone, the party-line noise of multiple chattering updates, and the quick to observe notes and phrasing as the words are being typed in. A Brave New World of Corporate communications, indeed. Contact Us HP SuperDome Tech Day – Cell Module Detail Watch Today’s Video Episode Be sure to check out GoToMeeting. Why? Because you can hold meetings right over the Net — from anywhere. Plus, you can hold all the meetings you want for one flat rate. To get your free 30-day trial , visit www.gotomeeting.com/techpodcasts. Take 10% off any order at GoDaddy.com! Code SLASH Take $5 off any $30 order at GoDaddy.com! Code SDR530 .com Domains $6.95 at GoDaddy.com! Code SLASH3 More blogs about SlashdotReview and SDRNews… tag:odeo.com,2009-10-12,25276487 Mon, 12 Oct 2009 16:26:11 -0700 no Slashdot Review - Produced by SDR News SDRNews, myspace, Amazon, EC2, googlewave, cloudcomputing http://odeo.com/episodes/25270978-SDRNews-Newsweek-Calls-It-AP-and-Murdoch-Problem-Easily-Solved AP and Murdoch: Easy Way to Solve Your Problem TMobile Sidekick Cloud Vaporizes The Fight for Skype SDR News is a Daily (M-F) Technology Podcast with Tech News Highlights from Slashdot, Digg and Reddit Click Here to Sign Up for the SDR Newsletter Prefer a Direct Download ? (mp3) Download today’s show. SDR News Links If a news item has disappeared from the Del.icio.us list above, try the full list here. SEARCH ANY STORY YOU HEAR ON THE PODCAST More Info on Screencasts Online AP and Murdoch Problem Almost Solved by Andrew McCaskey Problem Almost Solved Newsweek writes that Rupert Murdoch gave an impassioned speech to media executives in Beijing decrying that search engines-; in particular Google – are stealing from him, because Google links to his stories but doesn’t pay News Corp. to do so. It is an impassioned plea that has risen up from the Associated Press and from NewsCorp – and they claim as the reason that ad revenues have dropped from about $750 Million... AP and Murdoch: Easy Way to Solve Your Problem TMobile Sidekick Cloud Vaporizes The Fight for Skype SDR News is a Daily (M-F) Technology Podcast with Tech News Highlights from Slashdot, Digg and Reddit Click Here to Sign Up for the SDR Newsletter Prefer a Direct Download ? (mp3) Download today’s show. SDR News Links If a news item has disappeared from the Del.icio.us list above, try the full list here. SEARCH ANY STORY YOU HEAR ON THE PODCAST More Info on Screencasts Online AP and Murdoch Problem Almost Solved by Andrew McCaskey Problem Almost Solved Newsweek writes that Rupert Murdoch gave an impassioned speech to media executives in Beijing decrying that search engines-; in particular Google – are stealing from him, because Google links to his stories but doesn’t pay News Corp. to do so. It is an impassioned plea that has risen up from the Associated Press and from NewsCorp – and they claim as the reason that ad revenues have dropped from about $750 Million a year to $700 million. Weston Cassova calls BS: ” But if Murdoch really thinks Google is stealing from him, and if he really wants Google to stop driving all those readers to his Web sites at no charge, he can simply stop Google from linking to their news stories by going to his Web site’s robot.txt file and adding ‘Disallow.’ ” Simple and effective – if not dramatic “Yet neither AP nor News Corp. has taken this simple step to stop the marauding Google pirates from pillaging their cargo. Why? Because they know that their traffic would dry up overnight. They’d rather blame someone else for their failure to compete in a changing marketplace. They happily take all the customers Google sends them for free, and then accuse Google of theft. Classy.” Contact Us 120 MPG BMW Concept 3 wheeler Watch Today’s Video Episode Be sure to check out GoToMeeting. Why? Because you can hold meetings right over the Net — from anywhere. Plus, you can hold all the meetings you want for one flat rate. To get your free 30-day trial , visit www.gotomeeting.com/techpodcasts. Take 10% off any order at GoDaddy.com! Code SLASH Take $5 off any $30 order at GoDaddy.com! Code SDR530 .com Domains $6.95 at GoDaddy.com! Code SLASH3 More blogs about SlashdotReview and SDRNews… AP and Murdoch: Easy Way to Solve Your Problem TMobile Sidekick Cloud Vaporizes The Fight for Skype SDR News is a Daily (M-F) Technology Podcast with Tech News Highlights from Slashdot, Digg and Reddit Click Here to Sign Up for the SDR Newsletter Prefer a Direct Download ? (mp3) Download today’s show. SDR News Links If a news item has disappeared from the Del.icio.us list above, try the full list here. SEARCH ANY STORY YOU HEAR ON THE PODCAST More Info on Screencasts Online AP and Murdoch Problem Almost Solved by Andrew McCaskey Problem Almost Solved Newsweek writes that Rupert Murdoch gave an impassioned speech to media executives in Beijing decrying that search engines-; in particular Google – are stealing from him, because Google links to his stories but doesn’t pay News Corp. to do so. It is an impassioned plea that has risen up from the Associated Press and from NewsCorp – and they claim as the reason that ad revenues have dropped from about $750 Million a year to $700 million. Weston Cassova calls BS: ” But if Murdoch really thinks Google is stealing from him, and if he really wants Google to stop driving all those readers to his Web sites at no charge, he can simply stop Google from linking to their news stories by going to his Web site’s robot.txt file and adding ‘Disallow.’ ” Simple and effective – if not dramatic “Yet neither AP nor News Corp. has taken this simple step to stop the marauding Google pirates from pillaging their cargo. Why? Because they know that their traffic would dry up overnight. They’d rather blame someone else for their failure to compete in a changing marketplace. They happily take all the customers Google sends them for free, and then accuse Google of theft. Classy.” Contact Us 120 MPG BMW Concept 3 wheeler Watch Today’s Video Episode Be sure to check out GoToMeeting. Why? Because you can hold meetings right over the Net — from anywhere. Plus, you can hold all the meetings you want for one flat rate. To get your free 30-day trial , visit www.gotomeeting.com/techpodcasts. Take 10% off any order at GoDaddy.com! Code SLASH Take $5 off any $30 order at GoDaddy.com! Code SDR530 .com Domains $6.95 at GoDaddy.com! Code SLASH3 More blogs about SlashdotReview and SDRNews… tag:odeo.com,2009-10-11,25270978 Sun, 11 Oct 2009 16:27:51 -0700 no Slashdot Review - Produced by SDR News SDRNews, skype, newsweek, tmobile, ap, newscorp http://odeo.com/episodes/25257124-SDRNews-Google-Power-Meter-Is-a-Winner Google Powermeter Partnership Biggest Microsoft Patch Day Ever Congress Asks FCC to Probe Google Voice SDR News is a Daily (M-F) Technology Podcast with Tech News Highlights from Slashdot, Digg and Reddit Click Here to Sign Up for the SDR Newsletter Prefer a Direct Download ? (mp3) Download today’s show. SDR News Links If a news item has disappeared from the Del.icio.us list above, try the full list here. SEARCH ANY STORY YOU HEAR ON THE PODCAST More Info on Screencasts Online Google Power Meter by Andrew McCaskey Ready for Holiday Giving The partnership announcement between Google and Energy, Inc for sale of devices that will interface directly with Google Power Meter is great news. For $200, a home owner can get a device that attaches to the common 200amp service panel, contains it’s own web server, and measures the power consumption for the household. The system is more or less real-time, as opposed to the overnight batch processing reporting that power company provid... Google Powermeter Partnership Biggest Microsoft Patch Day Ever Congress Asks FCC to Probe Google Voice SDR News is a Daily (M-F) Technology Podcast with Tech News Highlights from Slashdot, Digg and Reddit Click Here to Sign Up for the SDR Newsletter Prefer a Direct Download ? (mp3) Download today’s show. SDR News Links If a news item has disappeared from the Del.icio.us list above, try the full list here. SEARCH ANY STORY YOU HEAR ON THE PODCAST More Info on Screencasts Online Google Power Meter by Andrew McCaskey Ready for Holiday Giving The partnership announcement between Google and Energy, Inc for sale of devices that will interface directly with Google Power Meter is great news. For $200, a home owner can get a device that attaches to the common 200amp service panel, contains it’s own web server, and measures the power consumption for the household. The system is more or less real-time, as opposed to the overnight batch processing reporting that power company provided “smart meters” provide with a 24 hours lag. This is going to be snapped up by geeks all over the country – as it’s a way to get control of the power consumption in the home, and at the same time have some geekly fun. And with the price point, it won’t take too many months of monitoring and gaining geekly cred with friends and colleagues to break even and turn it into a money saving machine. Contact Us Mint CEO Aaron Patzer on Startups from Techcrunch on Vimeo. Mint CEO Advice on Startups Watch Today’s Video Episode Be sure to check out GoToMeeting. Why? Because you can hold meetings right over the Net — from anywhere. Plus, you can hold all the meetings you want for one flat rate. To get your free 30-day trial , visit www.gotomeeting.com/techpodcasts. Take 10% off any order at GoDaddy.com! Code SLASH Take $5 off any $30 order at GoDaddy.com! Code SDR530 .com Domains $6.95 at GoDaddy.com! Code SLASH3 More blogs about SlashdotReview and SDRNews… Google Powermeter Partnership Biggest Microsoft Patch Day Ever Congress Asks FCC to Probe Google Voice SDR News is a Daily (M-F) Technology Podcast with Tech News Highlights from Slashdot, Digg and Reddit Click Here to Sign Up for the SDR Newsletter Prefer a Direct Download ? (mp3) Download today’s show. SDR News Links If a news item has disappeared from the Del.icio.us list above, try the full list here. SEARCH ANY STORY YOU HEAR ON THE PODCAST More Info on Screencasts Online Google Power Meter by Andrew McCaskey Ready for Holiday Giving The partnership announcement between Google and Energy, Inc for sale of devices that will interface directly with Google Power Meter is great news. For $200, a home owner can get a device that attaches to the common 200amp service panel, contains it’s own web server, and measures the power consumption for the household. The system is more or less real-time, as opposed to the overnight batch processing reporting that power company provided “smart meters” provide with a 24 hours lag. This is going to be snapped up by geeks all over the country – as it’s a way to get control of the power consumption in the home, and at the same time have some geekly fun. And with the price point, it won’t take too many months of monitoring and gaining geekly cred with friends and colleagues to break even and turn it into a money saving machine. Contact Us Mint CEO Aaron Patzer on Startups from Techcrunch on Vimeo. Mint CEO Advice on Startups Watch Today’s Video Episode Be sure to check out GoToMeeting. Why? Because you can hold meetings right over the Net — from anywhere. Plus, you can hold all the meetings you want for one flat rate. To get your free 30-day trial , visit www.gotomeeting.com/techpodcasts. Take 10% off any order at GoDaddy.com! Code SLASH Take $5 off any $30 order at GoDaddy.com! Code SDR530 .com Domains $6.95 at GoDaddy.com! Code SLASH3 More blogs about SlashdotReview and SDRNews… tag:odeo.com,2009-10-08,25257124 Thu, 08 Oct 2009 17:33:49 -0700 no Slashdot Review - Produced by SDR News energy, SDRNews, google, power http://odeo.com/episodes/25251283-SDRNews-WiFi-on-a-Plane-Divide-by-Zero Free WiFi Coming to Airplanes ? Robotic Bees Broadband Service Mapping – Round 1 SDR News is a Daily (M-F) Technology Podcast with Tech News Highlights from Slashdot, Digg and Reddit Click Here to Sign Up for the SDR Newsletter Prefer a Direct Download ? (mp3) Download today’s show. SDR News Links If a news item has disappeared from the Del.icio.us list above, try the full list here. SEARCH ANY STORY YOU HEAR ON THE PODCAST More Info on Screencasts Online Divide by Zero – Wifi on Airplanes by Andrew McCaskey Divide by Zero The excited announcement by Alaska Airlines and Southwest Airlines implementing the JIWire and Row44 inflight services sounds great. Until you ask “How does that happen, really ? Just having spent a number of hours in the airline system Chicago-LA-San Jose and return, the possibility of getting this thing to work is going to be a challenge. And the WiFi part of it is just the tip of the iceberg. There’s no doubt that there is lots of ... Free WiFi Coming to Airplanes ? Robotic Bees Broadband Service Mapping – Round 1 SDR News is a Daily (M-F) Technology Podcast with Tech News Highlights from Slashdot, Digg and Reddit Click Here to Sign Up for the SDR Newsletter Prefer a Direct Download ? (mp3) Download today’s show. SDR News Links If a news item has disappeared from the Del.icio.us list above, try the full list here. SEARCH ANY STORY YOU HEAR ON THE PODCAST More Info on Screencasts Online Divide by Zero – Wifi on Airplanes by Andrew McCaskey Divide by Zero The excited announcement by Alaska Airlines and Southwest Airlines implementing the JIWire and Row44 inflight services sounds great. Until you ask “How does that happen, really ? Just having spent a number of hours in the airline system Chicago-LA-San Jose and return, the possibility of getting this thing to work is going to be a challenge. And the WiFi part of it is just the tip of the iceberg. There’s no doubt that there is lots of demand for the service. But unless it lives up to billing, it is going to take the same route as the GTE Airphones that gathered dust on aircraft for years. The problem is that in our homes – where most mobile professionals work when they are not on the road – we are pretty spoiled. I’ve yet to find a hotel below say $300 a night that has anything close to the level of media, connectivity and snacks that I enjoy each day. Particularly in wireless connectivity and media choice. This is not ten years ago – when the ability to dial up and pull email or FTP a small file while traveling was a source of wonder. File sizes, connectivity, security, and lag or delay tolerence standards are now up by at least one or two orders of magnitude. And, with cloud based services like SalesForce.com, Googledocs, and similar systems, that is going to accelerate. Expectations are even higher, set by home office standards. Lurking in the chilly waters below the visible iceberg? No primary power. The DC power jacks that made a brief appearance in business class on some widebody aircraft about ten years ago turned into a literal and figurative flash in the pan. AC power opens a can of worms and more importantly adds weight to the aircraft which hits fuel and operating costs. The real reason this is going to be a non starter ? Everyone wants it – but most are not going to pay for it. Visions of Wifi on the plane are great. Now find a comptroller that will sign off on moving 80% of their frequent travelers to Business Class on every flight on an airline that now is passing along the true costs of providing primary power for those laptops at “no charge”. That number has got to be small. Find and add the airlines that will put in power for “free” in coach and offer “free” ad based wifi, then divide the first number by the second. That’s what is known as a ‘divide by zero’ error. {sharethis} Contact Us Report Errors on Google Maps Watch Today’s Video Episode Be sure to check out GoToMeeting. Why? Because you can hold meetings right over the Net — from anywhere. Plus, you can hold all the meetings you want for one flat rate. To get your free 30-day trial , visit www.gotomeeting.com/techpodcasts. Take 10% off any order at GoDaddy.com! Code SLASH Take $5 off any $30 order at GoDaddy.com! Code SDR530 .com Domains $6.95 at GoDaddy.com! Code SLASH3 More blogs about SlashdotReview and SDRNews… Free WiFi Coming to Airplanes ? Robotic Bees Broadband Service Mapping – Round 1 SDR News is a Daily (M-F) Technology Podcast with Tech News Highlights from Slashdot, Digg and Reddit Click Here to Sign Up for the SDR Newsletter Prefer a Direct Download ? (mp3) Download today’s show. SDR News Links If a news item has disappeared from the Del.icio.us list above, try the full list here. SEARCH ANY STORY YOU HEAR ON THE PODCAST More Info on Screencasts Online Divide by Zero – Wifi on Airplanes by Andrew McCaskey Divide by Zero The excited announcement by Alaska Airlines and Southwest Airlines implementing the JIWire and Row44 inflight services sounds great. Until you ask “How does that happen, really ? Just having spent a number of hours in the airline system Chicago-LA-San Jose and return, the possibility of getting this thing to work is going to be a challenge. And the WiFi part of it is just the tip of the iceberg. There’s no doubt that there is lots of demand for the service. But unless it lives up to billing, it is going to take the same route as the GTE Airphones that gathered dust on aircraft for years. The problem is that in our homes – where most mobile professionals work when they are not on the road – we are pretty spoiled. I’ve yet to find a hotel below say $300 a night that has anything close to the level of media, connectivity and snacks that I enjoy each day. Particularly in wireless connectivity and media choice. This is not ten years ago – when the ability to dial up and pull email or FTP a small file while traveling was a source of wonder. File sizes, connectivity, security, and lag or delay tolerence standards are now up by at least one or two orders of magnitude. And, with cloud based services like SalesForce.com, Googledocs, and similar systems, that is going to accelerate. Expectations are even higher, set by home office standards. Lurking in the chilly waters below the visible iceberg? No primary power. The DC power jacks that made a brief appearance in business class on some widebody aircraft about ten years ago turned into a literal and figurative flash in the pan. AC power opens a can of worms and more importantly adds weight to the aircraft which hits fuel and operating costs. The real reason this is going to be a non starter ? Everyone wants it – but most are not going to pay for it. Visions of Wifi on the plane are great. Now find a comptroller that will sign off on moving 80% of their frequent travelers to Business Class on every flight on an airline that now is passing along the true costs of providing primary power for those laptops at “no charge”. That number has got to be small. Find and add the airlines that will put in power for “free” in coach and offer “free” ad based wifi, then divide the first number by the second. That’s what is known as a ‘divide by zero’ error. {sharethis} Contact Us Report Errors on Google Maps Watch Today’s Video Episode Be sure to check out GoToMeeting. Why? Because you can hold meetings right over the Net — from anywhere. Plus, you can hold all the meetings you want for one flat rate. To get your free 30-day trial , visit www.gotomeeting.com/techpodcasts. Take 10% off any order at GoDaddy.com! Code SLASH Take $5 off any $30 order at GoDaddy.com! Code SDR530 .com Domains $6.95 at GoDaddy.com! Code SLASH3 More blogs about SlashdotReview and SDRNews… tag:odeo.com,2009-10-07,25251283 Wed, 07 Oct 2009 16:45:52 -0700 no Slashdot Review - Produced by SDR News SDRNews http://odeo.com/episodes/25245653-SDRNews-HP-SuperDome-in-Amazon-Mode GOP Organizes to Oppose Net Neutrality Verizon to Feature Android Phones Cloud Computing: The Hotel California of Data SDR News is a Daily (M-F) Technology Podcast with Tech News Highlights from Slashdot, Digg and Reddit Click Here to Sign Up for the SDR Newsletter Prefer a Direct Download ? (mp3) Download today’s show. SDR News Links If a news item has disappeared from the Del.icio.us list above, try the full list here. SEARCH ANY STORY YOU HEAR ON THE PODCAST HP SuperDome – Amazon Mode by Andrew McCaskey Scalability Rules The HP Tech Day had some deep dive content that kept a number of the invited guests busy – for example, Ben Rockwood http://www.cuddletech.com/blog wanted to dispense with the GUI’s, spend the day on the command line and with ample supplies of coffee get to the bottom of all this. Since I’m not a professional IT admin, that had a little less appeal – although to be honest, I was able to follow the demos at the command line as w... GOP Organizes to Oppose Net Neutrality Verizon to Feature Android Phones Cloud Computing: The Hotel California of Data SDR News is a Daily (M-F) Technology Podcast with Tech News Highlights from Slashdot, Digg and Reddit Click Here to Sign Up for the SDR Newsletter Prefer a Direct Download ? (mp3) Download today’s show. SDR News Links If a news item has disappeared from the Del.icio.us list above, try the full list here. SEARCH ANY STORY YOU HEAR ON THE PODCAST HP SuperDome – Amazon Mode by Andrew McCaskey Scalability Rules The HP Tech Day had some deep dive content that kept a number of the invited guests busy – for example, Ben Rockwood http://www.cuddletech.com/blog wanted to dispense with the GUI’s, spend the day on the command line and with ample supplies of coffee get to the bottom of all this. Since I’m not a professional IT admin, that had a little less appeal – although to be honest, I was able to follow the demos at the command line as well or better than the GUI based ones – I think simply because it was in smaller chunks. What I did get from Richard Warham’s talk on Adaptive Infrastructure was a sense of how HP has implemented the scalability of resources for front end, middleware, and back end database processing and how a cleverly set up SuperDome system with multiple cells, processors and memory can flex with demand, order level, web traffic and database calls dynamically. Old school “more blades” thinking reminds me of Scotty on Star Trek, throwing in more crystals and hoping that it holds together through the attack. The new scalable resources mode seems a lot more elegant. The other connection made for me was the similarity to Amazon’s EC2 cloud based service – exactly the same notion of allowing developers to have a variety of images or templates for highly tweaked configurations – to be called up at will – allowing production and dev sites to be resident on the same hardware. The final wrap-up with the business case from John Pickett told about a customer that had 30 different OS variants/patch levels/versions deployed – each reduced into an image template that salvaged original investment in code – but allowed the savings in energy costs and maintainability. The difference, though in responsiveness and control and speed has got to be major. As soon as we can get the videos posted, I think you’ll learn a lot, even if IT is not your career field. Contact Us Google Wave Tutorial Watch Today’s Video Episode Be sure to check out GoToMeeting. Why? Because you can hold meetings right over the Net — from anywhere. Plus, you can hold all the meetings you want for one flat rate. To get your free 30-day trial , visit www.gotomeeting.com/techpodcasts. Take 10% off any order at GoDaddy.com! Code SLASH Take $5 off any $30 order at GoDaddy.com! Code SDR530 .com Domains $6.95 at GoDaddy.com! Code SLASH3 More blogs about SlashdotReview and SDRNews… GOP Organizes to Oppose Net Neutrality Verizon to Feature Android Phones Cloud Computing: The Hotel California of Data SDR News is a Daily (M-F) Technology Podcast with Tech News Highlights from Slashdot, Digg and Reddit Click Here to Sign Up for the SDR Newsletter Prefer a Direct Download ? (mp3) Download today’s show. SDR News Links If a news item has disappeared from the Del.icio.us list above, try the full list here. SEARCH ANY STORY YOU HEAR ON THE PODCAST HP SuperDome – Amazon Mode by Andrew McCaskey Scalability Rules The HP Tech Day had some deep dive content that kept a number of the invited guests busy – for example, Ben Rockwood http://www.cuddletech.com/blog wanted to dispense with the GUI’s, spend the day on the command line and with ample supplies of coffee get to the bottom of all this. Since I’m not a professional IT admin, that had a little less appeal – although to be honest, I was able to follow the demos at the command line as well or better than the GUI based ones – I think simply because it was in smaller chunks. What I did get from Richard Warham’s talk on Adaptive Infrastructure was a sense of how HP has implemented the scalability of resources for front end, middleware, and back end database processing and how a cleverly set up SuperDome system with multiple cells, processors and memory can flex with demand, order level, web traffic and database calls dynamically. Old school “more blades” thinking reminds me of Scotty on Star Trek, throwing in more crystals and hoping that it holds together through the attack. The new scalable resources mode seems a lot more elegant. The other connection made for me was the similarity to Amazon’s EC2 cloud based service – exactly the same notion of allowing developers to have a variety of images or templates for highly tweaked configurations – to be called up at will – allowing production and dev sites to be resident on the same hardware. The final wrap-up with the business case from John Pickett told about a customer that had 30 different OS variants/patch levels/versions deployed – each reduced into an image template that salvaged original investment in code – but allowed the savings in energy costs and maintainability. The difference, though in responsiveness and control and speed has got to be major. As soon as we can get the videos posted, I think you’ll learn a lot, even if IT is not your career field. Contact Us Google Wave Tutorial Watch Today’s Video Episode Be sure to check out GoToMeeting. Why? Because you can hold meetings right over the Net — from anywhere. Plus, you can hold all the meetings you want for one flat rate. To get your free 30-day trial , visit www.gotomeeting.com/techpodcasts. Take 10% off any order at GoDaddy.com! Code SLASH Take $5 off any $30 order at GoDaddy.com! Code SDR530 .com Domains $6.95 at GoDaddy.com! Code SLASH3 More blogs about SlashdotReview and SDRNews… tag:odeo.com,2009-10-06,25245653 Tue, 06 Oct 2009 17:20:33 -0700 no Slashdot Review - Produced by SDR News SDRNews, linux, android, google, opensource, solar http://odeo.com/episodes/25240733-SDRNews-Thanks-to-HP-For-Tech-Day-in-Cupertino Hidden Fees in “Free” Win 7 Upgrade DHS Seeks Security Experts Hotmail Accounts Compromised SDR News is a Daily (M-F) Technology Podcast with Tech News Highlights from Slashdot, Digg and Reddit Click Here to Sign Up for the SDR Newsletter Prefer a Direct Download ? (mp3) Download today’s show. SDR News Links If a news item has disappeared from the Del.icio.us list above, try the full list here. SEARCH ANY STORY YOU HEAR ON THE PODCAST –Your Comment Title Here– by Andrew McCaskey Plenty of video today – at the HP SUPERDOME Tech Day in Cupertino. Thanks to HP and IVY worldwide for the invitation. Learned a lot about high performance servers, and got to tour a portion of an HP Data Center literally five acres of server and storage racks. Flights tomorrow, but beginning Wednesay will have some of the tutorials and presentations online at the Events Tab. Throughout the day over 250 people stopped by – and thanks to work by Jeffrey Powers of Geeka... Hidden Fees in “Free” Win 7 Upgrade DHS Seeks Security Experts Hotmail Accounts Compromised SDR News is a Daily (M-F) Technology Podcast with Tech News Highlights from Slashdot, Digg and Reddit Click Here to Sign Up for the SDR Newsletter Prefer a Direct Download ? (mp3) Download today’s show. SDR News Links If a news item has disappeared from the Del.icio.us list above, try the full list here. SEARCH ANY STORY YOU HEAR ON THE PODCAST –Your Comment Title Here– by Andrew McCaskey Plenty of video today – at the HP SUPERDOME Tech Day in Cupertino. Thanks to HP and IVY worldwide for the invitation. Learned a lot about high performance servers, and got to tour a portion of an HP Data Center literally five acres of server and storage racks. Flights tomorrow, but beginning Wednesay will have some of the tutorials and presentations online at the Events Tab. Throughout the day over 250 people stopped by – and thanks to work by Jeffrey Powers of Geekazine.comfor keeping the first deployment of the Cover IT Live software – some rough edges as we began to learn how to use it – but a useful tool that you will see more of on the Tech Podast Network. Thanks also to TPN, SimonSezIT.com and www.allthingsgeek.info or www.allthingsgeek.org for putting the embed on their sites as well. All sorts of real time field issues with audio, cameras, room layout, fan noise and connectivity – but enough to add some value and learn more. Next time , better. Contact Us --Your Title Here-- "Watch Today's Video Episode Be sure to check out GoToMeeting. Why? Because you can hold meetings right over the Net -- from anywhere. Plus, you can hold all the meetings you want for one flat rate. To get your free 30-day trial , visit www.gotomeeting.com/techpodcasts. Take 10% off any order at GoDaddy.com! Code SLASH Take $5 off any $30 order at GoDaddy.com! Code SDR530 .com Domains $6.95 at GoDaddy.com! Code SLASH3 More blogs about SlashdotReview and SDRNews... Hidden Fees in “Free” Win 7 Upgrade DHS Seeks Security Experts Hotmail Accounts Compromised SDR News is a Daily (M-F) Technology Podcast with Tech News Highlights from Slashdot, Digg and Reddit Click Here to Sign Up for the SDR Newsletter Prefer a Direct Download ? (mp3) Download today’s show. SDR News Links If a news item has disappeared from the Del.icio.us list above, try the full list here. SEARCH ANY STORY YOU HEAR ON THE PODCAST –Your Comment Title Here– by Andrew McCaskey Plenty of video today – at the HP SUPERDOME Tech Day in Cupertino. Thanks to HP and IVY worldwide for the invitation. Learned a lot about high performance servers, and got to tour a portion of an HP Data Center literally five acres of server and storage racks. Flights tomorrow, but beginning Wednesay will have some of the tutorials and presentations online at the Events Tab. Throughout the day over 250 people stopped by – and thanks to work by Jeffrey Powers of Geekazine.comfor keeping the first deployment of the Cover IT Live software – some rough edges as we began to learn how to use it – but a useful tool that you will see more of on the Tech Podast Network. Thanks also to TPN, SimonSezIT.com and www.allthingsgeek.info or www.allthingsgeek.org for putting the embed on their sites as well. All sorts of real time field issues with audio, cameras, room layout, fan noise and connectivity – but enough to add some value and learn more. Next time , better. Contact Us --Your Title Here-- "Watch Today's Video Episode Be sure to check out GoToMeeting. Why? 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SEARCH ANY STORY YOU HEAR ON THE PODCAST Getting Ready for HP Superdome Tech Day by Andrew McCaskey Very short comments – as we are preparing for HP Superdome Tech day – starting in about eight hours. Sure hope the luggage gets here. This is going to be a very short night. HP SuperDome Tech Day –Your Title Here– “Watch Today’s Video Episode Be sure to check out GoToMeeting. Why? Because you can hold meetings right over the Net — from anywhere. Plus, you can hold all the meetings you want for one flat rate. To get your free 30-day trial , visit www.gotomeetin... Napsterization of Books Facebook Captcha Fractured Identity Theft Not So Smart SDR News is a Daily (M-F) Technology Podcast with Tech News Highlights from Slashdot, Digg and Reddit Click Here to Sign Up for the SDR Newsletter Prefer a Direct Download ? (mp3) Download today’s show. SDR News Links If a news item has disappeared from the Del.icio.us list above, try the full list here. SEARCH ANY STORY YOU HEAR ON THE PODCAST Getting Ready for HP Superdome Tech Day by Andrew McCaskey Very short comments – as we are preparing for HP Superdome Tech day – starting in about eight hours. Sure hope the luggage gets here. This is going to be a very short night. HP SuperDome Tech Day –Your Title Here– “Watch Today’s Video Episode Be sure to check out GoToMeeting. Why? Because you can hold meetings right over the Net — from anywhere. Plus, you can hold all the meetings you want for one flat rate. To get your free 30-day trial , visit www.gotomeeting.com/techpodcasts. Take 10% off any order at GoDaddy.com! Code SLASH Take $5 off any $30 order at GoDaddy.com! Code SDR530 .com Domains $6.95 at GoDaddy.com! Code SLASH3 More blogs about SlashdotReview and SDRNews… Napsterization of Books Facebook Captcha Fractured Identity Theft Not So Smart SDR News is a Daily (M-F) Technology Podcast with Tech News Highlights from Slashdot, Digg and Reddit Click Here to Sign Up for the SDR Newsletter Prefer a Direct Download ? (mp3) Download today’s show. SDR News Links If a news item has disappeared from the Del.icio.us list above, try the full list here. SEARCH ANY STORY YOU HEAR ON THE PODCAST Getting Ready for HP Superdome Tech Day by Andrew McCaskey Very short comments – as we are preparing for HP Superdome Tech day – starting in about eight hours. Sure hope the luggage gets here. This is going to be a very short night. HP SuperDome Tech Day –Your Title Here– “Watch Today’s Video Episode Be sure to check out GoToMeeting. Why? Because you can hold meetings right over the Net — from anywhere. Plus, you can hold all the meetings you want for one flat rate. 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SEARCH ANY STORY YOU HEAR ON THE PODCAST HP SuperDome Tech Day Coverage by Andrew McCaskey Live Coverage Monday October 5th We are fortunate to be on the invite list to a very exclusive event at Hewlett-Packard this coming Monday – the Superdome Tech Day at Cupertino HP Campus. We are anticipating a very small group in a highly focused, and we hope, interactive session with some of the top BCS Server people – both marketing and technical. There will be sessions on Mission critical applications, discussion of UNIX industry trends, and a tour of a portion of HP Labs. This event has been ... Google Wave Overhype Wireless Mesh Sees Through Walls Linked Launch Close to CRM SDR News is a Daily (M-F) Technology Podcast with Tech News Highlights from Slashdot, Digg and Reddit Click Here to Sign Up for the SDR Newsletter Prefer a Direct Download ? (mp3) Download today’s show. SDR News Links If a news item has disappeared from the Del.icio.us list above, try the full list here. SEARCH ANY STORY YOU HEAR ON THE PODCAST HP SuperDome Tech Day Coverage by Andrew McCaskey Live Coverage Monday October 5th We are fortunate to be on the invite list to a very exclusive event at Hewlett-Packard this coming Monday – the Superdome Tech Day at Cupertino HP Campus. We are anticipating a very small group in a highly focused, and we hope, interactive session with some of the top BCS Server people – both marketing and technical. There will be sessions on Mission critical applications, discussion of UNIX industry trends, and a tour of a portion of HP Labs. This event has been in the works for several weeks, but just today we received permission to make portions of the day live coverage events on the SDRNewsroom channel. We are also trying out a realtime chat system where viewers will be able to interact more directly with the presenters. The “Cover-It-Live” system requires no special equipment or software on your end – but should allow us to provide a superior conference experience. It is going to be a new experience for SDRNews – and it promises to be a very interesting and challenging one day event. You will be able to catch the video directly on uStream.tv at SDRNewsroom and, more importantly participate directly in the online event at SDRNews.com. Send an email to events { AT} sdrnews.com and we will be able to send you an email reminder before we go live. Events should start around 8:30am Pacific time, with breaks for individual interviews between sessions. Agenda: 8:40 – 9:30 Superdome, Past, Present and Future: Jeff Kyle, BCS Server Marketing Manager 9:45 – 10:30 Unleashing the capabilities of Superdome with HP-UX, Brian Cox, BCS Director Software Marketing 10:45– 12:00 Superdome in an Adaptive Infrastructure Demonstration Tech Works: Richard Warham 1:15 – 2:15 Enterprise UNIX Industry Trends, Jean Bozman, Research Vice President, IDC Enterprise Server Group 2:30– 2:55 Superdome Solution Lifecycle for the Mission Critical Enterprise, Marc Higgins, BCS Solutions Development Architect 3:00—4:00 Superdome for the mission critical enterprise: RAS, partitioning, balanced architecture Panel of Experts— Marc Higgins, BCS Solutions Development Architect, Mark Riley, ESS Distinguished Technologist, and Jeff Foster, ESS Competitive Analyst 4:15- 5:00 Superdome as a Mainframe Alternative, John Pickett, ESS Competitive Program Manager 5:00 – 5:30 Superdome Tech Day Wrap-up Session and Q&A Contact Us Be sure to check out GoToMeeting. Why? 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SEARCH ANY STORY YOU HEAR ON THE PODCAST HP SuperDome Tech Day Coverage by Andrew McCaskey Live Coverage Monday October 5th We are fortunate to be on the invite list to a very exclusive event at Hewlett-Packard this coming Monday – the Superdome Tech Day at Cupertino HP Campus. We are anticipating a very small group in a highly focused, and we hope, interactive session with some of the top BCS Server people – both marketing and technical. There will be sessions on Mission critical applications, discussion of UNIX industry trends, and a tour of a portion of HP Labs. This event has been in the works for several weeks, but just today we received permission to make portions of the day live coverage events on the SDRNewsroom channel. We are also trying out a realtime chat system where viewers will be able to interact more directly with the presenters. The “Cover-It-Live” system requires no special equipment or software on your end – but should allow us to provide a superior conference experience. It is going to be a new experience for SDRNews – and it promises to be a very interesting and challenging one day event. You will be able to catch the video directly on uStream.tv at SDRNewsroom and, more importantly participate directly in the online event at SDRNews.com. Send an email to events { AT} sdrnews.com and we will be able to send you an email reminder before we go live. Events should start around 8:30am Pacific time, with breaks for individual interviews between sessions. Agenda: 8:40 – 9:30 Superdome, Past, Present and Future: Jeff Kyle, BCS Server Marketing Manager 9:45 – 10:30 Unleashing the capabilities of Superdome with HP-UX, Brian Cox, BCS Director Software Marketing 10:45– 12:00 Superdome in an Adaptive Infrastructure Demonstration Tech Works: Richard Warham 1:15 – 2:15 Enterprise UNIX Industry Trends, Jean Bozman, Research Vice President, IDC Enterprise Server Group 2:30– 2:55 Superdome Solution Lifecycle for the Mission Critical Enterprise, Marc Higgins, BCS Solutions Development Architect 3:00—4:00 Superdome for the mission critical enterprise: RAS, partitioning, balanced architecture Panel of Experts— Marc Higgins, BCS Solutions Development Architect, Mark Riley, ESS Distinguished Technologist, and Jeff Foster, ESS Competitive Analyst 4:15- 5:00 Superdome as a Mainframe Alternative, John Pickett, ESS Competitive Program Manager 5:00 – 5:30 Superdome Tech Day Wrap-up Session and Q&A Contact Us Be sure to check out GoToMeeting. Why? Because you can hold meetings right over the Net — from anywhere. Plus, you can hold all the meetings you want for one flat rate. To get your free 30-day trial , visit www.gotomeeting.com/techpodcasts. Take 10% off any order at GoDaddy.com! Code SLASH Take $5 off any $30 order at GoDaddy.com! Code SDR530 .com Domains $6.95 at GoDaddy.com! Code SLASH3 More blogs about SlashdotReview and SDRNews… tag:odeo.com,2009-10-01,25219393 Thu, 01 Oct 2009 17:25:31 -0700 no Slashdot Review - Produced by SDR News SDRNews, wireless, hp, mesh, googlewave, superdome http://odeo.com/episodes/25213499-SDRNews-Net-Neutrality-FUD-Never-Goes-Out-of-Style Dropbox for the iPhone Passing the Torch on ICAAN Net Neutrality or Net Neutering ? . SDR News is a Daily (M-F) Technology Podcast with Tech News Highlights from Slashdot, Digg and Reddit Click Here to Sign Up for the SDR Newsletter Prefer a Direct Download ? (mp3) Download today’s show. SDR News Links If a news item has disappeared from the Del.icio.us list above, try the full list here. SEARCH ANY STORY YOU HEAR ON THE PODCAST GotoMeeting Hold your meetings online for just $49/mo. Try GoToMeeting FREE for 30 days Net Neutrality: FUD Never Goes Out of Style by Andrew McCaskey FUD is Never Out of Style Ars Technica seems to disassemble the Wall Street Journal’s editorial line by line – and points out that if you are going to argue the points of a technology related case, you might want to have some basic understanding of the economics of the creation and distribution of content. Especially when pointing fingers at deployment of edge servers – presented as a m... Dropbox for the iPhone Passing the Torch on ICAAN Net Neutrality or Net Neutering ? . SDR News is a Daily (M-F) Technology Podcast with Tech News Highlights from Slashdot, Digg and Reddit Click Here to Sign Up for the SDR Newsletter Prefer a Direct Download ? (mp3) Download today’s show. SDR News Links If a news item has disappeared from the Del.icio.us list above, try the full list here. SEARCH ANY STORY YOU HEAR ON THE PODCAST GotoMeeting Hold your meetings online for just $49/mo. Try GoToMeeting FREE for 30 days Net Neutrality: FUD Never Goes Out of Style by Andrew McCaskey FUD is Never Out of Style Ars Technica seems to disassemble the Wall Street Journal’s editorial line by line – and points out that if you are going to argue the points of a technology related case, you might want to have some basic understanding of the economics of the creation and distribution of content. Especially when pointing fingers at deployment of edge servers – presented as a more equitable solution for Google and Microsoft to share the burden with ISP’s – with the idea that instead of campaigning for net neutrality in the political scheme, they should be taking some steps to do the heavy lifting in delivering the bits. It’s such a good idea that in fact all sorts of organizations have been deploying edge servers to speed delivery of content to customers. The very openness that the ISP’s claim to fear is in fact already offloading their network’s traffic – all for the reason that an open net permits exactly that sort of placement. Without the guarantee of net neutrality, that creative work around would be off limits. You can bet that in the bad old days, there would have been no placement of “foreign attachments” to the all powerful telco pipes. That battle was fought 41 years ago in the Carterphone decision. We don’t ever want to go back to those days. Contact Us Courier User Interface from Gizmodo on Vimeo. New Microsoft Courier Watch Today’s Video Episode Be sure to check out GoToMeeting. Why? Because you can hold meetings right over the Net — from anywhere. Plus, you can hold all the meetings you want for one flat rate. To get your free 30-day trial , visit www.gotomeeting.com/techpodcasts. 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Try GoToMeeting FREE for 30 days Net Neutrality: FUD Never Goes Out of Style by Andrew McCaskey FUD is Never Out of Style Ars Technica seems to disassemble the Wall Street Journal’s editorial line by line – and points out that if you are going to argue the points of a technology related case, you might want to have some basic understanding of the economics of the creation and distribution of content. Especially when pointing fingers at deployment of edge servers – presented as a more equitable solution for Google and Microsoft to share the burden with ISP’s – with the idea that instead of campaigning for net neutrality in the political scheme, they should be taking some steps to do the heavy lifting in delivering the bits. It’s such a good idea that in fact all sorts of organizations have been deploying edge servers to speed delivery of content to customers. The very openness that the ISP’s claim to fear is in fact already offloading their network’s traffic – all for the reason that an open net permits exactly that sort of placement. Without the guarantee of net neutrality, that creative work around would be off limits. You can bet that in the bad old days, there would have been no placement of “foreign attachments” to the all powerful telco pipes. That battle was fought 41 years ago in the Carterphone decision. We don’t ever want to go back to those days. Contact Us Courier User Interface from Gizmodo on Vimeo. New Microsoft Courier Watch Today’s Video Episode Be sure to check out GoToMeeting. Why? Because you can hold meetings right over the Net — from anywhere. Plus, you can hold all the meetings you want for one flat rate. To get your free 30-day trial , visit www.gotomeeting.com/techpodcasts. Take 10% off any order at GoDaddy.com! Code SLASH Take $5 off any $30 order at GoDaddy.com! Code SDR530 .com Domains $6.95 at GoDaddy.com! 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