The whole of the Malaysian Twitter scene is abuzz with the official launch of the iPhone 3G by Maxis in Malaysia. Now, you can see the i-Value Plan with a 12 month contract, i-Value Plan with a 24 month contract, and the more sensible Value Plus Plans with a 6 month contract. Such is life, where Max...

REAL SILLY The following op-ed piece in the San Francisco Chronicle is worth some attention involving an initiative called RealDVD* by Real Networks.  Titled the "Movie industry's shortsighted fight", it explains: "Thomas Edison, probably America's best-known and most prominent inventor of all time...

Time Warner Cable is running a pilot program in Texas where they're metering your bandwidth usage and charging extra if you exceed your monthly allotment. This also gives them the opportunity to create a tiered system where you pay more for more bandwidth. Richard is a TWC Texas customer, and his st...

I’m posting this on the 5th of March 2009. I’m doing it for posterity’s sake so I can look back and remark just how shit the UK’s infrastructure is. Some people in the country are lucky enough to have nice fast connections. It seems that wherever I tend to choose to live, the...

Obama has appointed Julius Genachowski to head the FCC, which I think is pretty good. Genachowski is on the record as supporting network neutrality. Also, there’s a fair amount of eco-friendliness and tech-savviness in his background — he headed up the Obama team’s internet campaig...

BET debuts it’s new docu-drama “Harlem Height’s.� The show follows successful, young, and super cute African-American’s living and playing hard in Harlem. With Barack Obama as the cytalist for change these Harlemiets are ready to take on the world, but......

I’ve been interested in Vermont’s ongoing broadband woes for a while now. I lived there until I was 21, and have seen firsthand how disconnected the state can be from the rest of the country. It’s not only a cultural thing (though Vermonters’ continued obsession with jam-band...

troy_w_banther: Not all of are fortunate enough to have anything better than DSL. :-P about 54 minutes ago Wed Mar 04 19:38:54 +0000 2009 Paradigms: the Linux distro or the communications technology? about 4 hours ago Wed Mar 04 16:03:48 +0000 2009 BenjaminPrice: I wasn't either until I got fed u...

The many blessings of rural life generally need to be set against one huge drawback: bad Internet connections. Both urban and rural Internet use have soared in the US over the last few years, but some new number-crunching from the US Department of Agriculture puts a number on the urban/rural gap: 9....

It's snowing in Boston and my American flight has been cancelled but Virgin America claims their 8:35am flight is going to leave on time.  So here I am in the Virgin gate area.  Wish me luck. At this point there are a ton of people I'm hoping to hook up with at eComm 2009.  The agenda looks reall...