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When Will Millenials Discover PayTV?

by Daniel Taylor on 26 August, 2010

Because the rest of us have already made our decision and are moving on. Sure, some of us Gen-Xers have already tried the alternatives, including piling the family around the laptop for an evening of “The A-Team” re-runs on Hulu and weaning ourselves from the linear television schedule in favor of what we could find on Netflix’s streaming service.

What are the demographics of the Millenial generation? Have they begun to subscribe to PayTV? How does this compare to other generations? And how will this change over time?

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Goodbye Open Internet

by Daniel Taylor on 10 August, 2010

While everyone else is telling you that — with Google and Verizon behind the effort — we now will have Network Neutrality and an Open Internet in perpetuity. I’ll say the exact opposite. This proposal is the death knell of the Open Internet.

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Believe The Hype

August 5, 2010

I often wonder how we end up with technology bubbles — you know, the ones where there’s a market that’s so completely hyped that all anyone talks about is how much start-ups are selling for. Of course, revenues are often murky, and profits are elusive. I’ve spent enough time in the technology industry to not be surprised when these things happen. And I know not to register too many thoughts when deals such as Disney’s purchase of Playdom happen.

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Net Neutrality is Dead, Long Live Net Neutrality

August 4, 2010

Sometimes the cure is worse than the disease. Other times, you have to kill something in order to make it live. With Verizon and Google poised to sign the first of many content-to-connectivity digital media deals; it’s apparent that the future of network neutrality will lie in tiered pricing.

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Are Jailbreaks A Good Thing?

July 29, 2010

The media seems to like the idea of unlocking the software on the iPhone to allow unsupervised changes to the installed applications and operating environment, but is this really a good thing? And is it time for users to start paying full price for unlocked devices?

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National Broadband Yawn?

March 22, 2010

Okay. So the FCC finally pulled together its hopeful plan for a future that we’ll almost certainly never see. 100 Mbps in 100 million homes within ten years? Sounds great! Why do we need it? And who’s going to pay for it?

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Can Television “Want” Anything?

March 10, 2010

It’s hard to understand the rhetoric that ascribes human traits to a medium, but writers continue to make assertions about the things that “television” and, more broadly, “video” “want.” The most recent offender is an op-ed piece in the New York Times that asserts that “Television Is Not Free and Does Not Want to Be.” Of course, after clarifying their own inherent bias on the topic of à la carte media pricing, the question the Times should be asking is whether consumers still want to pay for television.

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