What more perfect place for a Guns & Ammo theme park than in Times Square? Does anyone other than me comprehend the sheer lunacy of this? -Ian. —=— http://www.cnn.com/2000/US/05/19/nra.restaurant/ NRA Plans Theme Store for Times Square The NRA wants...
http://www.theregister.co.uk/000518-000008.html Posted 18/05/2000 9:56am by Dr Therese Torris, Forrester Research Forrester Why did Boo flame out so fast? Boo.com quickly burned cash on PR and advertising Boo.com’s first financing round of E120 million –...
GSM uses two main techniques, TDMA AND Frequency-Hopping. This, combined with a third feature that doesn’t transmit “quiet times” — points where there is no speech, combines to produce between a 15x-20x increase in utilization. TDMA combined...
Oops. Let me clarify: CDM = 20x, TDM = 3x. AT&T and Rogers/Cantel use TDMA. Sprint, Telus, and most others use CDMA. -Ian. At 11:04 AM 18/05/00 -0700, Ian Andrew Bell wrote: >Oh. Sorry. > >TDMA: Time Division Multiple Access 3x Frequency Re-use >CDMA: Code...
Oh. Sorry. TDMA: Time Division Multiple Access 3x Frequency Re-use CDMA: Code Division Multiple Access 20x Frequency Re-use Refers, basically, to how cellular carriers squeeze multiple phones onto one “circuit” (which is actually a frequency/modulation)....
AT&T launched PocketNet a few days ago, which is CDPD-based. Sprint has been offering free WAP access for months now (I have a Sprint mobile now in the US) for free in some packages, with unrestricted web access. You can even surf to https://ianbell.com:8888 on...
Yep. He’s on to the name change thing again. Interestingly, he’s not as wacko as I thought. The name change to “the symbol” was actually a way for him to get out of his contractual obligations as “Prince”. By being a logo instead of...
Just so you know I’m still paying attention, even if I do need a slap with a clue noodle… -Ian. http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20000516/wr/terra_agreement_3.html Tuesday May 16 7:49 PM ET Terra Agrees to Buy Lycos for $12.5 Billion By Jessica Hall NEW...
Let’s not wade too much into the profanity or the slander here, but I think Tom Whore, Jeff, Morton et al have the nuggets of some real common sense (so do the others). Making music has been a profitable (or at least an artist-sustaining) enterprise almost since...
Actually, since FOIB is kind of a meta-all-things-cool I like subscribing to only the hippest of e-zines, among which UTD is one. Add us, slacker! Besides, I’m convinced that nobody reads FOIB anyway. -Ian. At 01:14 PM 16/05/00 -0700, Mike Masnick wrote:>Uh...
Ian Andrew Bell has been bending bits into business since 1993. He created Tingle, RosterBot, RingCentral, and other things celebrated and ignominious.
He is also a Hockeyist, Motorcyclist, and Aviation Enthusiast. Follow him on twitter as @ianb or find him on LinkedIN.
