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There’s no real innovation in telecom

Telecom has, generally speaking, become a zero-sum game. In fact it probably always was, despite numerous attempts by governments at deregulation. The fact of the matter is that even today, full-duplex voice conversations between two parties is almost entirely...

Cubic Telecom: Your Phone has No Home

Cubic launched its service, MaxRoam, at TechCrunch40 last week. The crux of their offering is that you can take a secondary phone with you when you travel, forward your existing number to it, and roam wherever you are at local calling rates. David Pogue wrote it up...

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...

Harry Connick Thinks Different

I saw this the last time Harry Connick, Jr. toured and thought it was scary: he uses flat screens in his orchestra rather than sheet music. During the concert that I went to (in 1999, in fact) he explained that he had re-arranged a bunch of new songs while riding in...