Give us all your money – or we shoot 100k DSL customers
it doesn’t look like the NorthPoint / AT&T DSL debacle is getting any better!
DSL’s single point of falure
more fallout from Northpoint’s bankruptcy … “Some of Northpoint’s larger ISP customers, like Telocity Inc., are in the process of switching to other wholesale carriers. But the uncertainty is leading some ISPs with smaller DSL operations to get out of the business.”
From: Quicken.com NewsCenter
Freedom Controller
I’m not sure what this is, but aparently Adam Curry is trying to create his own version of MTV with the Personal Television Transceiver: The FreedomController
Circumvent the telcos!
Build a community wireless network! A mention of it on GeekNews led me to some interesting “open source-ish” projects where by groups of people are connecting their SoHo WANs together to create P2P wireless backbones. Sweet!
AT&T Acquires Assets of NorthPoint Communications
eek … time to find a new DSL provider: AT&T Acquires Assets of NorthPoint Communications
Superduperconductivity could be back in the limelight
from the Economist.com “Rumours are circulating of a superconductor that works at room temperature”
Bluetooth P2P
sweet! … “A Swedish company says it’s created the first P2P software for wireless. The Bluetooth-based software aims to let a roomful of people swap files with no strings attached.”
It’s a cell phone, It’s an MP3 player ;
it’s both! check out the Uproar Wireless Phone/MP3 Player
wireless mp3 transmitter
$70 to broadcast your mp3s from your desktop to your home stereo sounds like a good deal to me … [more here]