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The Future: 1964

http://www.nytimes.com/2002/11/28/technology/circuits/28stat.html November 28, 2002 Mr. Watson, Come Here, You Look a Little Blurry By DAVID POGUE A MAN in New York makes a phone call. But instead of just holding a handset to his head, he watches a small screen on the...

Who’s Afraid of WorldCom?

As I’ve been saying for months, when these long-haul telecom companies emerge from bankruptcy, free from servicing their huge capital debts, they will be dangerous. WorldCom, with its huge network assets, will be hugely dangerous and will cause massive...

Let Them Die…

Interesting thesis: Let Them Die. The authors of the letter (careful, some are on this mailing list) advocate that the FCC (and, I guess, the SEC as well) not attempt to intervene with natural business cycles and to let the telecom companies die, go into bankruptcy,...

Tired of Getting AOL CDs? Send Them Back!

Hee hee. -Ian. —— http://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/internet/10/17/aol.discs/index.html Campaign: Send AOL CDs back From Rusty Dornin CNN EL CERRITO, California (CNN) –Don’t know what to do with all those unwanted America Online compact discs that...

Internet Telephony Taking Off?

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&ncid12&e&u=/nm/ 20020928/wr_nm/column_pluggedin_dc&sid•573503 Consumers See Deals in Internet Calling Sat Sep 28, 3:44 PM ET By Eric Auchard NEW YORK (Reuters) – Telephone calling via the...