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AT&T and Verizon Wireless: Opposite Strategies to Win Landline Business - Both AT&T Wireless and Verizon Wireless (VZW) charge $19.99 (plus the usual extras) for unlimited US calling from residences. Both plans are clearly aimed at winning business away from the legacy landline carriers in those areas where the big dogs themselves are not the landline providers. Both services are competitive with VoIP offers from companies like Vonage, although slightly more... <a href="http://ads.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=9fa3ce3ad036853f25a2625d50a43324&p=1"><img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://ads.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=9fa3ce3ad036853f25a2625d50a43324&p=1"/></a> <img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://segment-pixel.invitemedia.com/pixel?code=TechBiz &partnerID=167&key=segment"/><img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://pixel.quantserve.com/pixel/p-8bUhLiluj0fAw.gif?labels=pub.29436.rss.TechBiz .9195,cat.TechBiz .rss"/>

Verizon Wireless Aims Salvo at Residential Landline Market - The banner in the window of the Verizon Wireless (VZW) store in Montpelier was a declaration of war on local landline providers. "Save on your home phone service," it said; "Unlimited [nb. US] calling for $19.99/month." This is particularly interesting here in Northern New England where Verizon (55% owner of VZW) sold its landline business to FairPoint Communications in 2007... <a href="http://ads.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=aceeb0746ea67a42460506e72e4a89fb&p=1"><img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://ads.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=aceeb0746ea67a42460506e72e4a89fb&p=1"/></a> <img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://segment-pixel.invitemedia.com/pixel?code=TechBiz &partnerID=167&key=segment"/><img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://pixel.quantserve.com/pixel/p-8bUhLiluj0fAw.gif?labels=pub.29436.rss.TechBiz .9195,cat.TechBiz .rss"/>

Bill Gates and I: 60 Milliseconds on 60 Minutes - Billg was berating a group of us. "Somebody's confused. Somebody just doesn't understand. You guys are all wrong. I'm not going to use this thing!" The camera cuts to me looking dour, then back to Bill. The episode is part of a 60 Minutes interview (I'm at 6:50 into it) with Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen and is meant to illustrate... <a href="http://ads.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=e4e27b4928fd73ca97b348aac58bef14&p=1"><img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://ads.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=e4e27b4928fd73ca97b348aac58bef14&p=1"/></a> <img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://segment-pixel.invitemedia.com/pixel?code=TechBiz &partnerID=167&key=segment"/><img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://pixel.quantserve.com/pixel/p-8bUhLiluj0fAw.gif?labels=pub.29436.rss.TechBiz .9195,cat.TechBiz .rss"/>

Moore’s Law and Medicine: Why We Should Be Spending More - Within twelve hours of granddaughter Lily's birth, we knew she might have a hearing problem. Within two weeks we knew she did. She had hearing aids almost immediately. After several anxious months for genetic testing and many visits to specialists, we knew that the mutation causing her hearing problem was not one of those which would have also meant heart... <a href="http://ads.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=9585a6c4f9ec1536981297e454238b53&p=1"><img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://ads.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=9585a6c4f9ec1536981297e454238b53&p=1"/></a> <img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://segment-pixel.invitemedia.com/pixel?code=TechBiz &partnerID=167&key=segment"/><img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://pixel.quantserve.com/pixel/p-8bUhLiluj0fAw.gif?labels=pub.29436.rss.TechBiz .9195,cat.TechBiz .rss"/>

Talking About Moore's Law, Medicine, and Innovation - My friend Bill Sayre interviewed me today on Common Sense Radio on WDEV. The show is sponsored by the Ethan Allen Institute, where I recently talked about the Economics of Abundance and some of the reasons why Moore's law doesn't apply to every thing. The show was more a conversation than an interview - more fun that way - and... <a href="http://ads.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=3e749ce60ca5e975355bb7da064cc0e3&p=1"><img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://ads.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=3e749ce60ca5e975355bb7da064cc0e3&p=1"/></a> <img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://segment-pixel.invitemedia.com/pixel?code=TechBiz &partnerID=167&key=segment"/><img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://pixel.quantserve.com/pixel/p-8bUhLiluj0fAw.gif?labels=pub.29436.rss.TechBiz .9195,cat.TechBiz .rss"/>

Ending Tax Giveaways Isn’t Raising Taxes - OK. Now we all agree that the deficit needs to be cut by some huge amount in the next decade. That's some progress. We also mostly agree that the deficit cutting has to start real soon. That's even more progress. And President Obama says he believes that you can't and shouldn't make the deficit go away just by raising taxes.... <a href="http://ads.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=3a07757801b70cfe6fea32a0b812c1d0&p=1"><img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://ads.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=3a07757801b70cfe6fea32a0b812c1d0&p=1"/></a> <img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://segment-pixel.invitemedia.com/pixel?code=TechBiz &partnerID=167&key=segment"/><img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://pixel.quantserve.com/pixel/p-8bUhLiluj0fAw.gif?labels=pub.29436.rss.TechBiz .9195,cat.TechBiz .rss"/>

AT&T “Freeloading” on ISP Pipes - AT&T, on whose network Mary's iPhone usually runs, just gave us a free microcell so that we can take cellular traffic off their network and put that same traffic on the network of our local ISP, while still paying AT&T for voice minutes and data bytes. This is an enormous irony considering the q and a below with ex-AT&T Chair... <a href="http://ads.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=16bb9ac0de67efe9489cf0dbd73b02c7&p=1"><img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://ads.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=16bb9ac0de67efe9489cf0dbd73b02c7&p=1"/></a> <img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://segment-pixel.invitemedia.com/pixel?code=TechBiz &partnerID=167&key=segment"/><img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://pixel.quantserve.com/pixel/p-8bUhLiluj0fAw.gif?labels=pub.29436.rss.TechBiz .9195,cat.TechBiz .rss"/>

DVR Dies; Wii and Netflix to the Rescue - "If rebooting doesn't work, call customer service" is what the diagnostic on the blue screen says. Rebooting doesn't revive the DVR, so I call. Mary and I have already settled into the room with the big screen TV and the exhaust fan and lit our cigars to catch the last episode of the first season of Damages. "Please tell me... <a href="http://ads.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=9ad6dfd0c58ac34dcaad574417e4800f&p=1"><img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://ads.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=9ad6dfd0c58ac34dcaad574417e4800f&p=1"/></a> <img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://segment-pixel.invitemedia.com/pixel?code=TechBiz &partnerID=167&key=segment"/><img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://pixel.quantserve.com/pixel/p-8bUhLiluj0fAw.gif?labels=pub.29436.rss.TechBiz .9195,cat.TechBiz .rss"/>

Cutting the Cord; Dismounting the Dish - A young friend and his family just disconnected their FairPoint landline, which they had been using for voice and DSL, and took down their Directv satellite dish; total gross savings: over $100/month. They replaced all of this with a Verizon cell phone he bought at the VZW store, which came with a $30/month all you can eat data plan for... <a href="http://ads.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=80d3b6cc7ae001a38e02c222fea42a54&p=1"><img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://ads.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=80d3b6cc7ae001a38e02c222fea42a54&p=1"/></a> <img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://segment-pixel.invitemedia.com/pixel?code=TechBiz &partnerID=167&key=segment"/><img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://pixel.quantserve.com/pixel/p-8bUhLiluj0fAw.gif?labels=pub.29436.rss.TechBiz .9195,cat.TechBiz .rss"/>

We Can’t Have All the Medical Care We Want - Doesn't matter whether we pay out-of-pocket, buy private insurance, are "insured" by the government, or whether medical care is "free" – eg. paid for by someone else. Unless we have unlimited wealth, we can't have unlimited health care. That's just a simple fact of life and economics, which is such an unpleasant truth that it's usually ignored by all the... <a href="http://ads.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=ed2867e0d024667377112e905852d839&p=1"><img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://ads.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=ed2867e0d024667377112e905852d839&p=1"/></a> <img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://segment-pixel.invitemedia.com/pixel?code=TechBiz &partnerID=167&key=segment"/><img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://pixel.quantserve.com/pixel/p-8bUhLiluj0fAw.gif?labels=pub.29436.rss.TechBiz .9195,cat.TechBiz .rss"/>

Read Rep. Ryan on His Budget Plan - You don't need a subscription to the Wall Street Journal to read Rep, Paul Ryan's excellent op ed there describing his budget plan. I've quoted some of it below; but, whether you agree or disagree with the thrust of the plan, you should read the whole thing. Congress is currently embroiled in a funding fight over how much to spend... <a href="http://ads.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=e53ed09daf53853de23b17721435540c&p=1"><img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://ads.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=e53ed09daf53853de23b17721435540c&p=1"/></a> <img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://segment-pixel.invitemedia.com/pixel?code=TechBiz &partnerID=167&key=segment"/><img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://pixel.quantserve.com/pixel/p-8bUhLiluj0fAw.gif?labels=pub.29436.rss.TechBiz .9195,cat.TechBiz .rss"/>

Rep. Ryan’s Budget: Change You Can Believe In - Any politician who claims federal spending can be brought under control without substantial changes to Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security is at least ignorant and, if not ignorant, lying; but most Republicans campaigned on a platform of reduced budgets and ignored or denied the need to cut these entitlements. Any politician who thinks that the federal budget can keep growing... <a href="http://ads.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=87515d55850df3c4b8711b65de76579a&p=1"><img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://ads.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=87515d55850df3c4b8711b65de76579a&p=1"/></a> <img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://segment-pixel.invitemedia.com/pixel?code=TechBiz &partnerID=167&key=segment"/><img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://pixel.quantserve.com/pixel/p-8bUhLiluj0fAw.gif?labels=pub.29436.rss.TechBiz .9195,cat.TechBiz .rss"/>

Post Stimulus, States Are Where the Action Is - Unlike the Federal government, states can't print money. All states except Vermont are required by their constitutions to have balanced budgets (not counting pension obligations); and Vermont, justifiably proud of its triple A bond-rating, keeps its budget balanced as well (not counting pension obligations). So, when no more money is available, cuts have to be made. While Congress struggles over... <a href="http://ads.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=c40ce61876ffcc741bdcf7f687d0fcb0&p=1"><img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://ads.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=c40ce61876ffcc741bdcf7f687d0fcb0&p=1"/></a> <img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://segment-pixel.invitemedia.com/pixel?code=TechBiz &partnerID=167&key=segment"/><img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://pixel.quantserve.com/pixel/p-8bUhLiluj0fAw.gif?labels=pub.29436.rss.TechBiz .9195,cat.TechBiz .rss"/>

We’ll Always have 50 Years of Oil Left - Sixty years ago I read in Junior Scholastic that there were only fifty years of oil left. Since I intended to live that long, I was alarmed - so alarmed that I still remember the picture of the gushing drill rig that companied the article. Well, it's still true. This morning the New York Times quotes a report from HSBC:... <a href="http://ads.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=953388a02e749e4c3649411ddce55807&p=1"><img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://ads.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=953388a02e749e4c3649411ddce55807&p=1"/></a> <img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://segment-pixel.invitemedia.com/pixel?code=TechBiz &partnerID=167&key=segment"/><img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://pixel.quantserve.com/pixel/p-8bUhLiluj0fAw.gif?labels=pub.29436.rss.TechBiz .9195,cat.TechBiz .rss"/>

Moore’s Law and the Economics of Abundance - Moore's Law explains why the price of everything electronic keeps going down; but now Moore's Law is starting to have an effect on much more than technology prices The costs of energy, medicine, law, education, financial transactions, and government itself are falling because of Moore's Law's relentless progress. But these cost decreases are not being fully reflected in the prices... <a href="http://ads.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=0de812864ca2294d81aa8372e13947a6&p=1"><img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://ads.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=0de812864ca2294d81aa8372e13947a6&p=1"/></a> <img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://segment-pixel.invitemedia.com/pixel?code=TechBiz &partnerID=167&key=segment"/><img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://pixel.quantserve.com/pixel/p-8bUhLiluj0fAw.gif?labels=pub.29436.rss.TechBiz .9195,cat.TechBiz .rss"/>

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