Archive for June, 2008
Solution to the Comcast Saga
For all the people who read this blog, maybe this posting can provide some ideas about a company that is managed by old-fashioned (defensive) thinking but has a few professionals who are really talented individuals. The issues regarding my wife’s ability to check her work email from home seem to have been solved, for now. [...]
History Repeating Itself
I am old enough to remember the breakup of the old American Telephone & Telegraph Company in 1982 after a legal battle that cost billions of dollars. The company was fat with arrogance, lacking in advanced technology and ripe for an antitrust suit. Today, 26 years later, I find the similarities between the old American [...]
Internet “Metering”
By coincidence, The New York Times has carried a story today, “Charging by the Byte to Curb Internet Traffic. In an age when everything is going online in a big way – from streaming motion pictures from Apple TV and Netflix to downloading music from iTunes to shopping online in addition to our normal email [...]
Comcast Responds
Comcast has responded by email to the blockage of my wife’s outgoing email service: It sounds like your account was triggered by our national network management team. Comcast manages our network to ensure the best possible broadband experience to all our customers as our network bandwidth is not an unlimited resource. We use network management [...]
Most Egregious Comcast Practice Ever
I normally don’t write about negative experiences on my blog … but this is an exception. Comcast, for anyone who may not know, is one of the small handful of big companies that dominate and monopolize the availability of Internet service in the United States. Comcast, more than others, has the worst reputation (earned by [...]
The New iPhone 3G
Readers of this blog and friends have asked my thoughts about the new Apple iPhone 3G that was unveiled, as expected, by Steve Jobs last Monday. Well, I admit that I’ve been dragging my feet a little while I learn more about the new iPhone. Now, a few words: 1. I believe David Pogue of the [...]
An Apple Store is Robbed!
It must be an unfortunate sign of our times. My neighborhood Apple store in the Clarendon shopping area of Arlington, Virginia, was robbed yesterday morning about 4 a.m. by persons who appeared to be organized and bold. They wore masks, apparently knowing that the store has multiple security cameras (which caught everything, I am told). [...]
Good Headlines, Bad Headlines
A acquaintance writes on Facebook today, “Dear Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer: Vista sucks! Vista is slow on my fast Lenovo x61 with 4GB RAM! [expletive deleted] Driving me to Mac!?” The opinion he expresses is but the latest in a chorus of complaints and news headlines about the significant shortcomings of Windows Vista, the [...]
