Thursday, July 7, 2011

Those Copper Wires Coming Into Your House - The Local Loop

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It’s all going to be going away soon but, for most of us, our landline phones are still connected the way they were 80 years ago...... The...
Wednesday, July 6, 2011

How Caller ID Works

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Back in May I wrote a couple of posts using a book I published about ten years ago titled Introduction to Telecommunications Networks . As ...
Wednesday, June 29, 2011

Massachusetts Broadband Institute Announces Grant Awards

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The Massachusetts Broadband Institute (MBI) announced $335,000 in competitive grant awards today .  These grants are part of    MBI...
Tuesday, June 28, 2011

Google+ Project Takes on Facebook

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Today, Google unveiled the Google+ project . It's similar to Facebook in some ways with some nice additional enhancements. One of the ni...
Sunday, June 26, 2011

Have an iPhone and Kids? Then You’re Probably An iParent!

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I’ve written here in the past about helicopter parents who are in almost constant contact with their older children using mobile devices bu...
Thursday, June 23, 2011

FCC Ups Caller ID Spoofing Penalties

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I've written here in the past about caller ID spoofing - faking a voice caller ID to trick the receiver into thinking someone else is c...
Tuesday, June 14, 2011

Comcast Deploying Upstream Channel Bonding

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The  DOCSIS 3.0 cable broadband standard allows channels to be bonded (or combined) for higher data (Internet) bandwidth. Cable providers l...