Apr 24, 2008 | business, mobile, phone
The advertising industry is starting to turn its attention to advertising on cell phones. Here’s an article that forecasts a “perfect storm” of annoying advertising. “It audibly interrupts your life like telemarketing. It�s cheap to...
Apr 18, 2008 | broadband, business, Internet
Jim Cicconi, vice president of legislative affairs for AT&T, made some extraordinarily stupid comments in London this week.ISPs are doing a full-court press to ensure they can shape our Internet traffic to maximize their revenue. They want to do deals with media...
Apr 15, 2008 | audio, business, law
This is for my lawyer friends and clients – and anyone who enjoys seeing a lawyer smack down a company that deserves it. Monster Cable makes high-end, expensive audio and video cables. It’s not obvious that Monster Cables are worth the price –...
Apr 6, 2008 | broadband, business, Internet
At its heart, “net neutrality” involves a simple question: Should your Internet provider have any control over how you use your Internet connection? You’re accustomed to being able to reach any Internet site freely and you assume you can run any kind...
Mar 14, 2008 | business, computers
I can’t let the moment pass without acknowledging the loss of a dear friend. Magazines were a crucial source of information in the primitive days before the Internet. PC Magazine was a trusted advisor, devoured eagerly every two weeks for details of the latest...
Feb 1, 2008 | business, Microsoft
Microsoft has made an unsolicited bid to buy Yahoo for $44.6 billion. Yahoo has been struggling to find a place in a world dominated by Google; it just spent a year analyzing its position and coming up without any particularly strong ideas to turn things around. In...
