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my fat pipes ?

Posted in general foo-ness, internet, movie, people, politics, social, telecom, television, thoughts, tagged BBC, Bittorrent, CBS, Comcast, iPlayer, pipes on April 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

This is what the ISPs will face in the near future: Their precious IPTV model turned upside down! Now youtube starts to introduce high quality/resolution video, now state television broadcasters use bittorrent to multicast episodes of popular shows (Norway, Canada, …) and some deploy their own player (BBC’s iPlayer), the strain on ISPs raises. Not [...]

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Boing Boing TV

Posted in begin, DIY, general foo-ness, internet, OS, people, politics, project, social, software, telecom, television, thoughts on October 3, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

As of today you can also enjoy Boing Boing in online TV format. They promise us small TV chunks every workday. First one can be found here.

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webthreedotzero

Posted in begin, flickr, general foo-ness, internet, IPTV, movie, music, OS, people, social, software, telecom, thoughts on July 6, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

First coined at the end of 2005, when even web 2.0 was still a strange sounding name for the new web to come, web 3.0 now really starts to appear in real life and in more manifest forms. Although I agree we now only see the power of web 2.0 unleashing it’s full potential, web [...]

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peeling the onion

Posted in Apple, begin, general foo-ness, internet, iPhone, music, OS, photo, social, telecom, top gear on July 4, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

Once in the store we notice the mysteries and locks of the iPhone are peeled off bit by bit. First of all there’s the usability aspect. Having no keyboard would kill blind typing, well it doesn’t if you read the reports. Second, the applications on the iPhone wouldn’t be sufficient and awkward to use. Apparently [...]

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juiced

Posted in begin, general foo-ness, internet, IPTV, movie, people, project, social, software, telecom, television on May 24, 2007 | 2 Comments »

I‘m “juiced” … eurrrmm … “Joost” now. Kind of confusing as Joost is pronounced “iowst” in Dutch (well sort of, I’m no good at phonetical spelling). update : it’s supposed to be [jo:wst] in phonetic spelling, thanks to erika

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patent wars !

Posted in begin, cure, general foo-ness, internet, IPTV, music, OS, politics, software, telecom on February 23, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

As I mentioned earlier Alcatel-Lucent had a bit of a squabble with Microsoft over MP3 patents. As it goes, Alcatel-Lucent is the parent company of the famous Bell Labs which in its turn started a lot of the MP3 ideas upon which later on the German Frauenhofer Institute and French Thomson SA joined to build [...]

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router troubles

Posted in cure, emotions, general foo-ness, internet, telecom on February 21, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

Recently my router shows severe hiccups. Connections drops (especially on the WAN side) quasi constantly. Although the wireless connection in itself was never extremely good, it still keeps up and only occasionally drops. Now I’m in for an dilemma : do I call my cable operator trying to get them analyse the modem and/or replace [...]

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patent wars ?

Posted in begin, cure, general foo-ness, internet, IPTV, music, OS, politics, software, telecom, television on January 30, 2007 | 1 Comment »

Following a series of lawsuits launched by former Lucent (the Bell Labs guys), former Alcatel and now also the newly formed Alcatel-Lucent, now we have in a San Diego court one woman and eight men to decide on the fate of mp3. The technology behind mp3 (MPEG1 layer 3), although originating from the German based [...]

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