http://mooreslore.corante.com/ en-us dana@a-clue.com 2006-02-09T14:33:59-05:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://mooreslore.corante.com/archives/2006/02/09/the_superbowls_most_important_ad.php The funniest Super Bowl ad was probably the FedEx bit with the caveman saying "it's not my problem" FedEx hadn't been invented and the other caveman's package got stomped by the dinosaur. (Although my 14 year old son howled at... 47943@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ cellular 2006-02-09T14:33:59-05:00 http://mooreslore.corante.com/archives/2006/02/02/a_world_of_rationed_liberty.php If you want to launch a lynch mob against the "Chinese Communists," I'll probably be there with a pitchfork. I'm an American who believes in ordered liberty, after all. Of course, when Congress tried to get the leaders of the... 47776@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ Politics 2006-02-02T14:16:12-05:00 http://mooreslore.corante.com/archives/2006/01/10/a_government_action_i_like.php Too bad it's not my government. The Korean government has jawboned an agreement from that nation's mobile operators to get rid of the walled gardens and make mobile Internet service, well, Internet service. Mike over at TechDirt picked up this... 45909@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ cellular 2006-01-10T12:37:05-05:00 http://mooreslore.corante.com/archives/2006/01/03/diminishing_returns_on_spectrum.php The U.S. government approved yet-another auction of spectrum last week. (The picture is of bids in an Australian spectrum auction.) But there's a problem. The big hoarders of spectrum -- phone companies -- are choking on what they already have.... 45296@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ 802.11 2006-01-03T10:26:26-05:00 http://mooreslore.corante.com/archives/2005/12/06/buckytubes_phone_home.php One tragedy of the late Richard Smalley's life was that his beloved Buckytubes did not make more progress into the world of real products. So I'm sure he's smiling from heaven at this news, word that Fujitsu has learned to... 39640@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ Moore's Lore 2005-12-06T11:41:05-05:00 http://mooreslore.corante.com/archives/2005/12/05/lessons_from_virgin_mobile.php Wired phone assets are plunging in value. It's that simple. Wireless assets are rising in value, wired assets are plunging in value, so the Bells figure if they can run the wired like the wireless they'll create more value. The... 39511@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ Internet 2005-12-05T15:07:32-05:00 http://mooreslore.corante.com/archives/2005/12/05/what_the_world_of_always_on_needs_now.php The International Telecommunications Union has released a full report on what I've been calling The World of Always On, which they call The Internet of Things. The report correctly identifies the biggest problem, user acceptance: Concerns over privacy and data... 39530@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ Always On 2005-12-05T14:28:23-05:00 http://mooreslore.corante.com/archives/2005/11/28/mapquest_going_down.php Mapquest, the AOL-owned first-mover in online mapping, is about to fall.(That's their map of Cancun to the right.) The Clue here is an AP story that looks like it was ordered-up by the AOL marketing department, but which can't resist... 38742@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ Internet 2005-11-28T09:00:04-05:00 http://mooreslore.corante.com/archives/2005/11/21/solving_the_retail_experience.php Where competition is limited, service sucks. Competition for mobile services are limited by government fiat. Services have to buy the frequencies they use. In fact, most service is held by a small oligopoly, often Verizon on one side, Cingular (soon... 38387@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ cellular 2005-11-21T13:55:13-05:00 http://mooreslore.corante.com/archives/2005/10/30/the_50_cellphone.php The $50 phone is coming. I’m not talking about a phone that costs $50 to make (that retails for $250). I’m talking a phone that costs $50 or less to make at retali. Americans already get free phones, subsidized by... 37580@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ cellular 2005-10-30T19:14:44-05:00 http://mooreslore.corante.com/archives/2005/09/30/internet_war_beginsin_the_us.php The Internet War we've warned about here for years has begun, but in a most unexpected way. While most attention was being placed on the UN and ITU, which were making noises about seizing control of Internet resources, perhaps by... 36693@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ Internet 2005-09-30T15:34:10-05:00 http://mooreslore.corante.com/archives/2005/09/28/palmwindows_not_a_big_deal.php News that Palm is in the Windows Mobile business is not that big a deal. Palm has been faltering for years. Even before it split off from its operating system unit, PalmSource, it was losing market share in big hunks.... 36609@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ Consumer Electronics 2005-09-28T10:33:53-05:00 http://mooreslore.corante.com/archives/2005/09/20/google_flattens_the_world.php Let me take a stab at explaining Google's grand strategy. My friends at ZDNet call this the Google PC, or a network computer. Well, sort of. You may, instead of buying Microsoft Office, suscribe to Google's GMail and have a... 8959@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ Internet 2005-09-20T11:40:39-05:00 http://mooreslore.corante.com/archives/2005/09/19/the_internet_as_shopping_mall.php Americans are finally following the rest of the world toward the controlled interface of the cellular phone. This has profound implications. Mobile carriers are not Internet Service Providers. They control where you go and what you do on their networks.... 8958@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ cellular 2005-09-19T16:47:06-05:00 http://mooreslore.corante.com/archives/2005/09/16/paris_hilton_hacker_gets_jail.php A 17 year old who admitted to hacking Paris Hilton's cellphone (and some other things) drew an 11-month prison sentence from Massachusetts today. (Next time, kid, go with Drew Barrymore.) He also draws two years' probation with no computer access.... 8953@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ cellular 2005-09-16T13:48:29-05:00