http://mooreslore.corante.com/ en-us dana@a-clue.com 2006-02-23T15:23:39-05:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://mooreslore.corante.com/archives/2006/02/23/no_such_thing_as_free_wifi.php Earthlink is busy turning all those dreams of free municipal WiFi into broken promises. Both the municipal deal they signed in Philly and the one they’ve joined in San Francisco (with Google) carry user price tags. In Philly they say... 49179@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ 802.11 2006-02-23T15:23:39-05:00 http://mooreslore.corante.com/archives/2006/01/09/the_watermarking_of_the_web.php The news business is going to try cracking down on the Web this year. Already, I'm seeing all news pictures, even common mug shots of celebrities, given labels. They're small, usually in a corner. They read AP or AFP or... 45768@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ Internet 2006-01-09T16:02:55-05:00 http://mooreslore.corante.com/archives/2005/12/14/monopolists_at_the_academic_gates.php For the last few days I've been needlessly obsessed with a study I found at Georgia State University, about peer-reviewed journals. (The image is of Fondren Library at Rice University, where I got some really great naps during the 1970s,... 40510@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ Digital Divide 2005-12-14T15:03:47-05:00 http://mooreslore.corante.com/archives/2005/10/05/gas_rationing.php That's the issue no one will approach. No one will touch it. Yet it has to be touched. And now. According to energy experts, we need to see demand for gasoline drop 5% or else we'll be drawing down stocks... 36829@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ Economics 2005-10-05T15:57:47-05:00 http://mooreslore.corante.com/archives/2005/10/03/this_weeks_clue_george_lindsay.php This week's issue of my free weekly newsletter, A-Clue.Com, was closer to the subject of this blog, talking about international economics. (Subscribe here.) Enjoy. It's a special responsibility to have a reserve currency. (The picture is of the late John... 36740@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ Economics 2005-10-03T14:05:51-05:00 http://mooreslore.corante.com/archives/2005/09/26/apples_friends_are_foreign.php Last week's tirade by Motorola CEO Ed Zander, set alongside the nasty noises about Apple from music publishers , Microsoft's noise about its entry into the market and iSuppli's autopsy of the iPod Nano design all point to one salient... 36541@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ Consumer Electronics 2005-09-26T12:28:54-05:00 http://mooreslore.corante.com/archives/2005/08/22/verisign_cellular_a_match_made_in_heaven_not.php Birds are twittering about Verisign's moves to integrate WiFi, VOIP and cellular over campus-wide networks. The idea is to give cellular carriers their own "triple play" -- combining paid WiFi (through controlled real estate), VOIP (long distance) and cellular service... 8904@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ cellular 2005-08-22T21:07:11-05:00 http://mooreslore.corante.com/archives/2005/08/09/hipaa_and_unintended_consequences.php Like many protective laws, the HIPAA law covering the protection of your medical records comes with a small business exemption. The exemption works both ways. Small businesses who fund their own plans don't have to comply. Neither do medical providers... 8881@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ Internet 2005-08-09T12:42:07-05:00 http://mooreslore.corante.com/archives/2005/07/23/marc_canters_clue.php I'm a big fan of both Marc Canter (right) and Joi Ito . (NOTE: The picture, by Dan Farber of News.Com (and ZDNet fame), was taken off Marc's blog.) They're both brilliant. They're both A-list bloggers. They're both rich. I've... 8854@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ Business Strategy 2005-07-23T20:27:01-05:00 http://mooreslore.corante.com/archives/2005/07/12/ballmers_microsoft.php A reporter can make a good living just covering Microsoft. This is not a good thing. One fact that attracted me to technology journalism in the first place was its social mobility. I often write about companies I call "Clueless"... 8825@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ Software 2005-07-12T20:57:57-05:00 http://mooreslore.corante.com/archives/2005/06/15/moores_law_is_everywhere.php A note came in today from a friend I've known even longer than my saintly wife. "How does this fit into Moore's Law?" he asked. The link was to a story about a holographic storage system being marketed by Optware... 8780@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ Moore's Lore 2005-06-15T11:35:39-05:00 http://mooreslore.corante.com/archives/2005/04/12/the_right_way_to_citywide_wifi.php Glenn Fleischman and I disagree so seldom, we both get confused when it happens. It happened this week when I wrote predicting the failure of Philly's WiFi plan. Glenn says the taxpayers are protected and it all looks good... 8622@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ 802.11 2005-04-12T09:21:22-05:00 http://mooreslore.corante.com/archives/2005/03/24/mms_interoperability_finally.php It is finally going to be possible to transfer MMS messages between U.S. carriers. Yes, X.400 is finally here. X.400, I should note, was an interoperability system for moving messages betwen X.25 networks, and for billing the costs through the... 8577@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ cellular 2005-03-24T09:46:44-05:00 http://mooreslore.corante.com/archives/2005/03/10/one_more_step_for_always_on.php Wind River is continuing its slow march toward the computing mainstream. (The illustration, from the Wind River site, shows the engagement model the company follows with its customers in producing products. It's careful and complicated.) It's easy for someone to... 8526@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ Always On 2005-03-10T09:46:39-05:00 http://mooreslore.corante.com/archives/2005/02/25/another_always_on_resource.php Many different types of solutions go into creating an Always On world. I’ve talked here often of medical applications for Always On, where you wear a monitor (or have it implanted) that connects to the network and can alert you... 8485@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ 2005-02-25T10:31:44-05:00