Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Two stories of interest this week. The first story is about the FCC’s decision to open the so called “white space” spectrum, to allow for new wireless services. This is good news for those hoping for more competition in the broadband market, and has been long anticipated by companies such […]
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Perception
Since I was fulfilling one duty today I thought I would also fulfill another and renew my driver’s license. To renew a license here in Missouri you have to show all sorts of proof of residency, identity, and nationality. You also have to take an eye exam, and a traffic sign recognition test. The traffic […]
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Roku users: second class citizens
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. update Roku has come out with a note on the Roku user forum about Netflix and HD quality: Roku will be delivering Netflix in HD by the end of the year Roku will be using Advanced Profile encodes which will deliver HD at substantially lower bit-rates than what Xbox is offering The […]
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Forecast: Cloudy
From the lack of interest I’m seeing in my feed list, I would have to assume I’m not the only one less than enthused about Microsoft’s Azure. About the only person I know who has perked up and displayed real interest is Nicholas Carr, and some of his interest is most likely because he wrote a […]
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Aviary gots business model
I’ve written about Aviary, the online graphics toolset that includes Phoenix, a graphics tool/photo editor, Peacock, a “visual laboratory” (background editor), Toucan, for creating color swatches, and supposedly Raven, for vector editing. I’ve been waiting for Raven, and it is out in alpha, but available only for Blue subscribers. Blue subscribers? Yes, Aviary now has subscription […]