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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

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

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

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

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. 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

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. 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

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

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

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 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

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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