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Piano Man

Friday evening Gigi, Alex and I went to see Movin’ Out, the music and dance show conceived of and choreographed by Twyla Tharp; the entire score is by Bill Joel, who won a Tony award for it in 2003. Tharp used Joel’s songs as backdrop to a story of early Viet Nam era New York [...]

The Price of Internet Commerce

…has apparently been set at $.01 by CompUSA. Here’s the story.
Yesterday morning I ordered a combination USB 2.0/Firewire PCI card from CompUSA’s Web site, and designated that I would pick the board up at their store in Rockville. I received a confirmation email quoting me a price of $52.49; $49.99 for the part, and $2.50 [...]

Orange Launches UMTS in Britain and France

Orange became the third operator to offer UMTS services in Britain today, following 3 (UK) and Vodafone. The France Telecom subsidiary is matching 3’s £30/month offer at the low end and is selling six different handsets. Orange has 14M subscribers on its GSM network in the UK but is only targeting 1.6M UMTS users by [...]

SSSSHHHHH….Don’t Tell BellSouth

Besides SBC, Cingular’s other co-owner is Vodafone, which is based in the U.K.

So sayeth Mobile Pipeline News in a short article about the integration of Cingular and ATTWS.

PowerBook Fixit

I love it when I save $1000 or so.
I have an Apple Titanium PowerBook, circa October 2001. Not the latest and greatest, to be sure, but perfectly fine for my main portable tasks: email and ‘Net access, reading and writing blogs, plus presentations both desktop and projector-driven. The machine shows a wee [...]

Verizon Gets Its Way in Pennsylvania; Philadelphia Gets Its Network

Verizon’s strategy to stop municipal governments in Pennsylvania from providing broadband services worked. The governor signed a bill which mandates that the ILEC has the right of first refusal on any such project in the state. Verizon, the local carrier for nearly all of Pennsylvania, said it would waive its right for Philadelphia, the first [...]

Commercial UMTS Coming to US

Cingular announced yesterday that it will roll out commercial UMTS services across their nationwide footprint next year. The company said it will make service available starting in Q4 2005 and finish the rollout in 2006. Cingular added that its main handset suppliers, Nokia, Motorola and LG have committed to provide enough devices to support the [...]