How very conspiratorial... On the other hand, CMAF doesn't appear to actually do anything, except hold a handful of patents and never update a crap website whose primary value is a bunch of links to external sites on its "resources" page.
It's offices are listed at the same address as its (presumed) lawyers, K&L Gates. Too bad Amex isn't on their client list :P
"Either way, it makes you wonder what anyone is doing sending any money to a stranger overseas."
That's a very un-Mike-like comment, Mike! Perhaps they're buying stuff?! And what's so special about "overseas"? Is there any greater a chance of improprietary for overseas interactions than there is for same-country or even same-city transactions?
While mega-payoffs from options are the incentive, quite often there's a reasonable level of expectation from options that all employees have. Executives in particular have, in recent years, forgone bonuses in lieu of options. So as long as these options aren't being repriced to values above this happy-point, I have no problems with this practice.
There are many factual errors in your article, but I wanted to focus on (IMHO) the most important one;
> the WWW is one single medium, Internet-enabled phones are another, and home Internet appliances and webpads yet others
The World Wide Web is not a PC-only phenomena. It is an information space that spans all means of accessing it (the media you refer to).
Sure, there's a lot of Web content that is designed to be only viewed on PCs, but that doesn't mean that HTML itself cannot be used for content for non-PC devices, nor does it mean that all existing content is unsuitable for small devices - you'd be surprised.
The last thing we need is different ways of communicating information for different devices, as you appear to suggest above. That's hardly useful. Luckily the WAPforum (which I have represented Sun Micro on for the past 18 months) has finally accepted this (due in no small part to Sun lobbying), and is in the process of junking much of what WAP 1.x is, and finally getting down to the business of reusing the work of smart people from the IETF and W3C, and adding value in the way that you'd expect wireless experts to do so.
TheRegister points out that if someone else were selling these domains they'd be called a cybersquatter, but with P&G it's simply a "great opportunity".
If their intent was to use them and then they didn't, it's not squatting. Though obviously knowing that is difficult from the outside, except that the listed names appear to be ones that P&G may have used.
I hadn't heard that point made before. I realized long ago that NSI had basically merged all three top level domains into one, but didn't realize it could have been in breach of contract.
Cool. I'd love to see them taken to the cleaners.
Could we also sue them for moving the WhoIS URL? 8-)
Not sure why this is once again getting press, but About.com made waves about this back when they were the Mining Co. Can't find any URLs for that though.
Whoa, I'm all for having eBay opening up their data formats, but *requiring* them to? That seems excessive.
The market will decide here. If everybody but eBay (Yahoo, Amazon, etc..) used a common publishing format (eg. an Auction XML schema), then aggregator sites would effectively combine those into one big virtual auction site that would make a more formidable competitor.
Who sets whisper prices anyhow? There's way too much opportunity for corruption there.
I think I'll create a "Mark's price", market it as the be-all and end-all of EPS metrics, and then make a killing intentionally under or over estimating and getting in early on the resultant action. Yeah, yeah, that's the ticket.
Aaron
FYI s/Schwarz/Swartz/
Re: CMAF?
How very conspiratorial... On the other hand, CMAF doesn't appear to actually do anything, except hold a handful of patents and never update a crap website whose primary value is a bunch of links to external sites on its "resources" page.
It's offices are listed at the same address as its (presumed) lawyers, K&L Gates. Too bad Amex isn't on their client list :P
They already do
Companies worldwide already pay CSIRO for their infamous Wifi patents. Buffalo was targetted because they *didn't* pay.
No link
One wonders why they didn't just put the MP3 on their site behind a POST form, then it wouldn't have a URI to pass around...
New model what?
"but what happens when they come out with a new model with bigger capacity"
You have to ask? 8-)
Google PR
Actually, Google do now have a press release up; http://www.google.com/press/pressrel/sun_toolbar.html
Interesting URL though. 8-)
Overseas
"Either way, it makes you wonder what anyone is doing sending any money to a stranger overseas."
That's a very un-Mike-like comment, Mike! Perhaps they're buying stuff?! And what's so special about "overseas"? Is there any greater a chance of improprietary for overseas interactions than there is for same-country or even same-city transactions?
Well
While mega-payoffs from options are the incentive, quite often there's a reasonable level of expectation from options that all employees have. Executives in particular have, in recent years, forgone bonuses in lieu of options. So as long as these options aren't being repriced to values above this happy-point, I have no problems with this practice.
MB
One Web
Derek,
There are many factual errors in your article, but I wanted to focus on (IMHO) the most important one;
> the WWW is one single medium, Internet-enabled phones are another, and home Internet appliances and webpads yet others
The World Wide Web is not a PC-only phenomena. It is an information space that spans all means of accessing it (the media you refer to).
Sure, there's a lot of Web content that is designed to be only viewed on PCs, but that doesn't mean that HTML itself cannot be used for content for non-PC devices, nor does it mean that all existing content is unsuitable for small devices - you'd be surprised.
The last thing we need is different ways of communicating information for different devices, as you appear to suggest above. That's hardly useful. Luckily the WAPforum (which I have represented Sun Micro on for the past 18 months) has finally accepted this (due in no small part to Sun lobbying), and is in the process of junking much of what WAP 1.x is, and finally getting down to the business of reusing the work of smart people from the IETF and W3C, and adding value in the way that you'd expect wireless experts to do so.
MB
Re: Are you crazy?
Flame bait!
Not necessarily
TheRegister points out that if someone else were selling these domains they'd be called a cybersquatter, but with P&G it's simply a "great opportunity".
If their intent was to use them and then they didn't, it's not squatting. Though obviously knowing that is difficult from the outside, except that the listed names appear to be ones that P&G may have used.
MB
Users
Nearly 7 million subscribers now.
http://www.nttdocomo.com/source/i_m_scr.htm
MB
Solved!
If you want to increase the effective bandwidth, decrease the range.
Bluetooth uses 2.4GHz, sure. But devices only use a 10m radius, meaning that beyond that 10m, that spectrum is free to be used by other devices.
MB
Good point
I hadn't heard that point made before. I realized long ago that NSI had basically merged all three top level domains into one, but didn't realize it could have been in breach of contract.
Cool. I'd love to see them taken to the cleaners.
Could we also sue them for moving the WhoIS URL? 8-)
MB
Old bits!
Not sure why this is once again getting press, but About.com made waves about this back when they were the Mining Co. Can't find any URLs for that though.
MB
Wuss!
So what is it that you don't like, Mike? The business model, or the market it's targetting. 8-)
I say more power to them!
MB
Palm
Palm's in.
MB
Anti-competitive?!
Whoa, I'm all for having eBay opening up their data formats, but *requiring* them to? That seems excessive.
The market will decide here. If everybody but eBay (Yahoo, Amazon, etc..) used a common publishing format (eg. an Auction XML schema), then aggregator sites would effectively combine those into one big virtual auction site that would make a more formidable competitor.
MB
Whisper
Who sets whisper prices anyhow? There's way too much opportunity for corruption there.
I think I'll create a "Mark's price", market it as the be-all and end-all of EPS metrics, and then make a killing intentionally under or over estimating and getting in early on the resultant action. Yeah, yeah, that's the ticket.
MB
Vapor
I have no firsthand knowledge of these guys, but with that feature set at that price, the thing won't be ready to go for a couple of years.
Also, the battery life will approach that of a fruit fly with a deathwish.
MB