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JFK Plot Confirmed...

If you are into technology industry, future trends and perhaps have some investment portfolio, get Strategix News from Mark Anderson.

Really nice weekly publication with the predictions and data on current markets, correspondence written in by Michael Dell, US senators, venture capitalists, etc. (Who reads SNS?)

It's not free, but if your hobby includes making money on tech, it's the best.

If you are into technology industry, future trends and perhaps have some investment portfolio, get Strategix News from Mark Anderson.

Really nice weekly publication with the predictions and data on current markets, correspondence written in by Michael Dell, US senators, venture capitalists, etc. (Who reads SNS?)

It's not free, but if your hobby includes making money on tech, it's the best.

It blows my mind that an article could make it into the NY Times Magazine with no independent research behind it. Tony and his story isn't exactly a secret -- he shows up at Campus Recruiting events to tell it!

This story sounds like a wrap-up of an SNS issue, written by analyst Mark Anderson about half a year ago. Yes, Bluetooth has essentially failed to deliver promises on its wild popularity, and Wi-Fi is the NBT (Next Big Thing). However, it's important to remember that Bluetooth and Wi-Fi were designed for different reasons.

If Bob Frankston were writing for an automotive magazine, he'd probably write a subheading 'Why has car business flourished while bikes have essentially failed? Should we even care about bikes?' If you want to connect to the Internet and have wireless access within your house or in the hotel room, use Wi-Fi. But what if all you want is to have devices talk to one another? Remote control to your car computer, telephone handset to the telephone base, PDA to the laptop, etc.? In some cases Bluetooth makes sense more than 802.11b, if you consider cost of deployment and power consumption issues.

Thus Bluetooth is not really a competitor, it's a niche technology that's out there and that's getting more attention from manufacturers. Wi-Fi is immensely bigger and more marketable, but in the nutshell Bluetooth has its own applications and will persist in hardware design for next few years.

This story sounds like a wrap-up of an SNS issue, written by analyst Mark Anderson about half a year ago. Yes, Bluetooth has essentially failed to deliver promises on its wild popularity, and Wi-Fi is the NBT (Next Big Thing). However, it's important to remember that Bluetooth and Wi-Fi were designed for different reasons.

If Bob Frankston were writing for an automotive magazine, he'd probably write a subheading 'Why has car business flourished while bikes have essentially failed? Should we even care about bikes?' If you want to connect to the Internet and have wireless access within your house or in the hotel room, use Wi-Fi. But what if all you want is to have devices talk to one another? Remote control to your car computer, telephone handset to the telephone base, PDA to the laptop, etc.? In some cases Bluetooth makes sense more than 802.11b, if you consider cost of deployment and power consumption issues.

Thus Bluetooth is not really a competitor, it's a niche technology that's out there and that's getting more attention from manufacturers. Wi-Fi is immensely bigger and more marketable, but in the nutshell Bluetooth has its own applications and will persist in hardware design for next few years.

This week's SNS newsletter, a memo on technology strategy, talks about how personal chat is overwhelming business talk on cellular phones. That creates hell for spooks - can you imagine being the guy listening to 2000 hours of meaningless banter that Echelon flagged as significant?

As governments around the world realise the Net makes them irrelevant, they will strike out to protect their own existence; we have a few scary years before governments are truly harmless. But remember it's their own paranoia that will kill them. Because wasting tremendous resources checking out really stupid stuff will eventually cause them to collapse under their own weight... letting the web's freedom and libertarianism emerge into the world at large.

I think I'll let them install one on my older PC, set it to randomly spam Microsoft addresses with chapters of spy novels, and mention the words "terrorist" and "FBI" in the sigfile.