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/2006/02/17/blog_pimple_about_to_pop.php Slate has another of those "blog bubble about to pop" stories out. (The doll's name is pimple, available here. We are not into grossing y'all out here at Mooreslore.) As a business story it may be 100% accurate. As a... 48828@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ blogging 2006-02-17T13:11:39-05:00 http://mooreslore.corante.com/archives/2006/02/01/st_google_and_the_dragons.php Change is the one business constant. Those who embrace it succeed, those who resist it fail. But change also dislocates. Workers threatened by change organize unions and seek protection from government. The Luddite movement was a call by workers to... 47713@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ Digital Divide 2006-02-01T20:33:14-05:00 http://mooreslore.corante.com/archives/2006/01/30/the_internet_necessity.php A few years ago some wags talked about people having a "right" to Internet service, and they got laughed at. Let's try it another way. America's economic future requires every citizen have access to Internet resources, and full freedom to... 47524@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ Internet 2006-01-30T21:11:42-05:00 http://mooreslore.corante.com/archives/2006/01/29/this_weeks_clue_the_entrepreneurial_team.php This week's issue of A-Clue.Com is on-topic (for once). It's about e-commerce, and about how to make start-ups work. Specifically we're talking about what it takes to get a start-up launched and the character of a successful entrepreneur, who is... 47388@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ e-commerce 2006-01-29T11:14:40-05:00 http://mooreslore.corante.com/archives/2006/01/24/alternative_energy_no_longer_an_option.php John Robb of Global Guerillas has posted a blog entry that should curl your hair. (The picture is from Drexel University.) The control over the price of oil is in now in the hands of global guerrillas -- the open... 46996@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ energy 2006-01-24T17:00:28-05:00 http://mooreslore.corante.com/archives/2006/01/21/railroaded.php NOTE: The following entry is being mirrored at the new Infrastructure Held Hostage blog. We live in an uneasy relationship with the past.Photograph courtesy RPI.) The whole past is available to us, there to teach us lessons, to give us... 46892@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ Digital Divide 2006-01-21T12:51:43-05:00 http://mooreslore.corante.com/archives/2006/01/20/what_jobs_could_buy_today.php Disney. The Walt Disney Co., including ABC, ESPN, the movies, the theme parks -- the whole shebang -- is presently valued at about $50 billion. That's actually about one-sixth less than it was worth five years ago. Apple Computer Corp.,... 46859@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ Business Strategy 2006-01-20T15:25:52-05:00 http://mooreslore.corante.com/archives/2006/01/20/angel_investors_in_america.php NOTE: I'm promoting this to the top today because of its comment thread. When I first interviewed Richard Wingard back in September, I thought little of it. He seemed to have a clever way to research basic research, using individual... 8939@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ Investment 2006-01-20T12:56:53-05:00 http://mooreslore.corante.com/archives/2006/01/06/making_microsoft_disappear.php Ever play the old board game Risk? There were two winners at the end, and one ultimate winner. The first kid would pile all his counters up in one spot (usually Greenland, because it was big on the Risk board)... 45596@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ Consumer Electronics 2006-01-06T10:37:36-05:00 http://mooreslore.corante.com/archives/2006/01/05/the_google_bubble.php We haven't had that kind of spirit here since, 1999. And watch out. It lies like cocaine. How else do you explain Google supposedly heading to $600/share? How else do you explain a company with $500,000 in revenues over its... 45507@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ Economics 2006-01-05T11:45:46-05:00 http://mooreslore.corante.com/archives/2006/01/05/is_otellini_changing_intel_quickly_enough.php When Paul Otellini was named the CEO of Intel last year, he promised major changes. As the first non-engineer to rise to the top at the chipmaker, he said he would push platforms, and communications, and low power, and change... 45504@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ Semiconductors 2006-01-05T10:51:27-05:00 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/2006/01/03/where_is_the_power.php I have something interesting in common with Sun COO Jonathan Schwartz. That is a fascination with a scene in history. The year is 1881, and in J.P. Morgan's mansion on Madison Avenue an experiment is taking place. It's overseen by... 45292@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ Economics 2006-01-03T09:49:24-05:00 http://mooreslore.corante.com/archives/2006/01/02/fox_myspace_violates_net_neutrality.php Folks who were wondering how Rupert Murdoch and Fox would try and capitalize on the purchase of MySpace over the summer don't have to wait any longer. They're doing it by trying to break network neutrality, from inside a Web... 45215@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ Internet 2006-01-02T08:54:11-05:00