Archive for: January 2005

Marc Cuban, who owns the Dallas Mavericks Basketball team and was the subject of a reality TV show called “The Benefactor” in the fall of 2004 wrote a very interesting opinion about Grokster and the Financial Future of …

A recent blog entry by August Jackson shows how you can either migrate from AT&T Wireless or get service with Cingular without having to “buy” a new phone from Cingular. You can use any unlocked phone as well, as …

This past week, I obtained a new IBM Thinkpad T41 laptop, which I have to say is a nice system. Of course, the drive inside of it has a work disk image on it with all of the corporate applications …

A number of reports are out there that SBC has agreed to by AT&T for $16 billion, which is incidently about a third of the price that SBC and Bell South paid for AT&T Wireless (a seperate company). Whether or …

I just don’t really read DSL Reports all that much anymore, at least not the VoIP forum. I peek in occasionally to see what’s going on, particularly with my local ISP, but I don’t read and respond to many …

Yesterday morning, my shipment of two Nokia 6340i came in. It reminds me of the Nokia 6360 I had a couple of years back, which is an updated design of the old Nokia 6160. I actually gave my …

This posting on DSL Reports mentions the upcoming FX-300 GSM which includes the functionality of the SIP CPE FX-200 with a built-in GSM “phone” for making/receiving calls via the FXO/FXS port converer. As to why they didn’t post …

Recently, a federal court judge strikes down the federal obsenity laws as unconsitutional. Of course, if the “update” posted in the blog entry is correct, they’ll overturn the decision anyway. Either that or some self-righteous congress critter will find …

I went to the Hawaii Preparatory Academy for high school. It is a private school nestled just outside the town of Waimea on the Big Island of Hawaii. I wouldn’t mind sending my kids there, though I’m not sure …

Today, the cable company showed up at my in-laws place to install their new spiffy broadband connection with the cable company. Apparently, the tech who was there to check their computer to make sure it “met the requirements” was rather …