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About Russell Shaw
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Russell Shaw passed away in March 2008. He was an enterprise computing journalist, analyst and author based in Portland, Oregon. A specialist in open source architectures and strategies, Microsoft applications, wireless networking, and multimedia content creation, Russell covered these fields regularly for several IT, business and consumer publications, including Investor's Business Daily and the syndicated IT news site NewsFactor.com.
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Funny is hard
My ire was raised by the results of an interview I had thought would result in a tribute to my late friend Russell Shaw. Instead Matt Richel made it plain he aimed to claim blogging killed...
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Sorry, Gizmodo, VoIP over iPhone isn't going to be "huge"
Gizmodo's Brian Lam (no, not the C-SPAN guy, that'd be Brian Lamb) notes a snippet from Apple's SDK-coming-out-part press conference in which one Mr. Jobs noted that any third-party iPhone...
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Over WiFi at DIA, free speech is DOA
SI model Jessica Gomes, if you must know. Our own Maggie Reardon expands on a Denver Post story that notes the Denver International Airport has chosen to block Wi-Fi access to such sites as...
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Exclusive: iPhone DevCamp's Raven on iPhone SDK and what it means
Just a few minutes ago, I had a most enlightening email conversation with someone who knows as much about the new iPhone SDK, and its effects/potential, as anyone who doesn't work at Apple. And...
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Is proprietary iPhone video player on the way?
In remarks to analysts yesterday, Apple CEO Steve Jobs clarified why the iPhone does not support Flash. Jobs said a key reason is that Adobe's Flash Player is optimally built for laptops....
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Truphone cuts international rates with new Tru Zone offering
Today, Wi-Fi centered mobile Internet service provider Truphone announced a pretty significant per-minute calling cost reduction on calls from the U.S. to 40 countries. Marketed as Tru Zone,...
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Score one for the little guy: FCC entirely backs consumer in Sprint slamming case
The meme that this FCC is highly partial to the interests of large broadband service providers and telcos has often been hammered home on these screens. While I am certainly not ready to...
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Fonality boosts presence detection in new PBXtra4.0
Got a guided tour the other day of business phone system solutions provider Fonality's new PBXtra 4.0 phone system. Announced this morning, the new rev offers enhanced presence detection under...
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Uh-oh: Oprah's streamed New Earth Event runs short on bandwidth
Last night's inaugural, Skype co-sponsored webcast of Oprah Winfrey's Oprah.com New Earth Event scored 500,000 simultaneous log-ins. That would be all well and good, but the gathering...
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Reader: AT&T tells me Time Warner Cable is blocking his VoIP
A reader and information technology professional in the New York area sent me an email this morning that raises the possibility that his high-speed Internet service provider Time Warner Cable may...
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Apple co-founder Woz: sometimes I use a Moto Razr instead of an iPhone
In Sydney, Australia for a keynote speech at the Broadband and Beyond Conference this morning, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak appeared to lament the fact that the iPhone doesn't have 3G support in...
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Sexism at the Apple Store? Woman claims "Genius" totally ignored her while pitching her husband
Seems as though when Consumerist reader Arjela and her husband entered an Apple store in Bellevue, Wash. to shop for a MacBook Air last week, she felt as though the Apple Store "genius"...
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No Government rules on packet throttling, blocking, colleague says on Capitol Hill
Colleague George Ou, who is not a proponent of most net neutrality regulations, stated his opinions before a Congressional staffer-panel on Network Management sponsored by iGrowthGlobal. That...
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Same old, same old control-freak Apple: they'll be "gatekeeper" for third-party iPhone apps
Jeremy Horvitz from iLounge has been listening to some developers with apparent knowledge of the iPhone SDK due next week. He's gleaned that Apple plans to require that all mobile applications be...
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Man mistakenly assigned Vonage number now has to go thru PITA of requesting it back
Yesterday I blogged about the case of reader dmuniz, who wrote to tell me that his Packet8 phone number was mistakenly assigned to Vonage- even though he is not, and never has been a Vonage...
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Vonage spent nearly $1.4 million to lobby Feds in 2007
The Associated Press reports that Vonage spent nearly $1.4 million to lobby the federal government in 2007. Vonage's key lobbying activities were related to telecommunications...
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Should software be patented? This site would like the practice stopped
A new website entitled End Software Patents is attempting to galvanize public support to accomplish that goal. Here's the core of their argument: Patents differ from copyright in one key...
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Asterisk Voicemail for iPhone on way; here's a peek
On his website, Asterisk developer Chris Carey posts an interesting preview of something he is building called Asterisk Voicemail for iPhone. Chris says Voicemail for iPhone will allow you to...
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Don't want Comcast junk mailers? They'll charge you $1.99 "service fee"
Update: Comcast has contacted the customer referenced below, has apologized for the charge, has refunded it, says was applied in error, counseled the customer service rep not to do this, and...
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BlackBerry with slide-out keyboard described in new Patent app
A new BlackBerry Patent app just published Thursday describes technology for a BlackBerry device with a slide-out keyboard. The Patent app is entitled, Hybrid Portrait-Landscape Handheld...
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