atmaspheric | endeavors

Andy at VoIP Watch states VOIP is going Mass Market, a position I totally agree with based on my experience and understanding of what’s been going on. AT&T is never a small player in any of the markets they play within and CallVantage is clearly replacing all previous marketing efforts in Local, Long Distance [...]

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As a fan of the show, it’s too bad we won’t be getting this in the US… Have to just wait to hear about how it all works once things launch.
In what appeared to be the first arrangement of its kind, Twentieth Century Fox said Wednesday it would create a unique series of one-minute dramas [...]

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about to take on on my first Song flight…
seems pretty good here from 24C. I’ve got Sat TV from Dish, PPV movies (I’ll pass on Cinderella Story), some tunes and music trivia in addition to my iPod, magazines and book to keep my always-on life occupied for the next few hours…
onward!

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According to the Park Associates study eHomeupgrade points to, the Media Adapter market is slow to grow based on just a sheer lack of understanding of things. You have to have a network of some kind (or be willing to create one) if you want to use a Media Adapter and apparently the people [...]

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Veteran journalist J.D. Lasica interviews Skype co-founder and CEO Niklas Zennström about the future of voice communication, using Skype through wi-fi handhelds, and the coming death of the telecom dinosaurs… [ Engadget]

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It’s finally here! I’ve just downloaded it and am looking forward to giving this a shot - could be the ultimate catalogue app ever!
Run your very own library from your home or office using our impossibly simple interface. Delicious Library’s digital shelves act as a visual card-catalog of your books, movies, music and video [...]

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If you were watching ABC tonight and caught Extreme Makeover Home Edition you might have caught a 60 sec spot following the program for Digital Joy, The Microsoft, Intel and HP vision of what your home entertainment could all be routed through a new HP powered Media Center PC.
While I don’t doubt the power of [...]

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If you live in NYC and use Time Warner Cable with an HD box, you might want to check out the newly added channels… They’ve added INHD, INHD2, HDNet Movies, HDNet and ESPN HD. Free for now, but I think this will be sold as a package for an additional $9.95/mo.
TWC now has [...]

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PVRBlog drew my attention to a letter to TiVo from George Hotelling asking that they enable web links ala ITMS so you could remotely program your device…
A day later… TiVo has added this as a feature! Congratulations TiVo! Apparently they were already working on this when George wrote the letter, but regardless the timing [...]

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Last night my DVR crapped out(second time, second box), froze and decided to delete everything it had done since 7 am that day. We lost a few primetime programs which we had yet to watch or complete and I was at a loss for what to do (in order to prevent the wrath of [...]

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I never got into this guy …I just found him to be incredibly annoying.
Facing declining sales and robust competition, and widespread criticism over the campaign featuring the hapless burger evangelist, Wendy’s today said the chain would end its Mr. Wendy campaign at the end of the month. [AdAge]

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I caught this on Paid Content today… Of course Japan only for the moment, but still very cool and goes well beyond what we can do in the states, both with bandwidth and with the content.
“Hikari de DVD” is the first video content distribution system to combine the capabilities of a high speed Fiber [...]

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CNN just reported a chat between Bush and Kerry… it’s over. Kerry to make his speech at 1pm. Time to move on.

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We voted before lunch today and I was pleased to see a good crowd all doing their part. Nothing too major to report on the line, it was not a big deal and only took a few minutes… be sure to do your part today!

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In my very unscientific tests here in the home lab, I have noticed a significant difference in call quality between Vonage and CallVantage.
I’ve made calls at similar times with similar loads on both my internal network as well as traffic flowing in and out via iPodder and Bit Torrent. MIleage may vary [...]

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Does the fact that ATT/Cingular already has an active EDGE network give it a true edge for hungry Treo user itching to get their hands on the latest?
As a T-Mobile customer I know I am certainly weighing my options… I’ll have to wait and see what kind of data plans are available once [...]

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Engadget notes the News.com story that PalmOne may actually be looking into developing a Windows Mobile Treo in addition to a Palm based unit. This would seriously hurt the PalmSource group and OS devices in general to have such an inside defection… I hope it’s just a rumor, though at least there are solutions [...]

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