Monthly Archives: June 2003

Verizon Drops Opposition To Number Portability

Wu-hoo! Verizon, who has been a major opponent of forthcoming cell-phone number portability, has announced it will no longer be opposing the November implementation. Continue reading

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Oh, you mean USB 2.0?

The USB Forum renames USB 1.1 to USB 2.0. Continue reading

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Netscape 4 Must DIE!

My loathing of Netscape 4.x increases daily. It is the only browser that requires extensive backward-compatible HTML code changes in order to render pages correctly. Microsoft has pretty successfully upgraded most users away from the IE 4.x branch, yet there … Continue reading

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Court Upholds Cell Phone Portability!

Consumers scored a rare victory last Friday (6 June 2003) as the “US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia upheld the legality of a pending regulation from the Federal Communications Commission, known in the cell phone industry as … Continue reading

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Thumbs Up for ClearType

I recently upgraded my main Win2k box to WinXP. When XP first arrived I figured I would stay with Win2k until Longhorn shipped. After all, Win2k and WinXP share essentially the same NT 5 engine, and Win2k is fairly stable … Continue reading

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Comcast introduces HDTV to SF Bay Area

It would seem that Comcast will start to offer HDTV to about half their Bay Area customers within the next week. I guess my calls weren’t in vain. They plan to offer local ABC, NBC, PBS, HBO and Showtime. They … Continue reading

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Transition to WordPress complete

B2 is now WordPress and development on this blog software continues. The upgrade/transition was painless and the Smarty Template Engine is on the way. Huzzah!

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