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Back in April, I commented about Indian telcom chief Dayanidhi Maran’s plan for 2007 to be the year of broadband.  Here we are at the middle of the year and nothing positive yet, just negative news:
- Maran is out as telecom chief, some sort of power play within the DMK governement
- no new ISP’s [...]

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This week is the highly anticipated Apple Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco. All eyes will be on getting juicy bits of information on 10.5 (aka Leopard) from Steve. I’m also betting there will be an update on the iPhone launch which is all systems go for June 29. The new MacBook Pro’s are [...]

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What do those three things have in common…Cisco Systems. It’s been a pretty busy two weeks with a lot of news involving ex-Cisco people. First up is Mike Volpi who is now the CEO of Joost, which is a way to watch TV over the internet. At Cisco, Volpi ran the multi-billion Routing [...]

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Hello, I’m in the process of moving my blog from iPowerWeb to GoDaddy. If you are seeing this post, then that means the blog is working. However, there are still some static pages (such as the pictures section) that need to be moved over. I should have everything back to normal by [...]

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The time has finally arrived where my home theater setup is complete…well sorta (which I’ll get to in a bit). I had a couple design criteria that were different from most other setup’s that I have seen. The first is when it was not being used it had to be hidden because the [...]

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Although the 2008 Democratic National Convention (DNC) is about 18 months away. I thought I would dig into the archives and show a clip from the 2000 DNC that took place in Los Angeles. I was part of a promotional video highlighting the work Cisco Systems was doing through its Cisco Network Academy [...]

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I’ve been using the newest iPod from Apple - the second generation Shuffle for the past 2 months and figured it was time for a review. This is not my first iPod nor my last, I’ve been using iPods since January 2003, when I bought my first, a 10GB second generation iPod, since then I’ve [...]

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The Indian Union Minister for Communications and IT, Dayanidhi Maran has promised that 2007 will be the year of broadband.
“The year-2007 will see broadband in India further affordable and promised that people have to forget the 256 Kbps and enter the Information Superhighway. Already BSNL and MTNL are working on this. [...]

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Google seems to be killing the business plans for many start-ups that are centered around Google Maps. Google’s latest is called My Maps, that let’s user map specific points of interest and do it really easy. I played with the service for about 30 minutes and was able to generate some maps of [...]

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…Google style. Google has done it again, first they took the search engine market by storm then they raised the ante in the email space with Gmail. Prior to them you had a couple of choices that were so damn stingy with storage space it was pathetic, Yahoo had a 5 or 10mb limit [...]

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