The following is a collection of over 383 pages worth of articles. These
articles cover the gambit of emerging technology, art, market strategy,
consumer advisories, and
even some opinion pieces and product reviews thrown in. Articles are updated
monthly and some cases weekly depending on the availability of material and
the time to write high quality content. Many of these articles have been run
as features in major trade magazines, technical journals, and some select
on-line content sites.
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Title: |
Description: |
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02/25/2013 |
Region Free Blu-ray and DVD Operating Instructions |
How to operate your disc player to play discs from any region. |
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02/17/2013 |
Review of video conferencing technology trends 2013 |
Results of completed search of related articles and video conferencing
products. |
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11/29/2012 |
Amazon Search Category Translation Table |
A handy conversion table between search category proper names
and their correct search index code. |
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10/04/2012 |
What TV Antenna to Buy for HD Reception in Fargo ND/Moorhead
MN |
A comprehensive look into what equipment you need to purchase
to receive quality FREE over the air reception of HD television signals. |
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04/13/2012 |
How much does John Deere charge to change the oil in a lawn tractor? |
A detailed breakdown of charges by John Deere for a lawn
tractor oil change. |
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04/06/2012 |
Grail Engine - A Critical Look |
A non-marketing driven inspection of the technology and problems likely
associated with it |
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11/15/2011 |
Mining for the Resolution to Sporadically Occurring Outages |
A review of a recent white paper on risk concentration
analysis |
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11/14/2011 |
Roku 2 XS Review |
A great, very small, box, but has some hiccups |
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09/19/2011 |
Netflix Divides Service Introduces Quickster - My response |
A personal message to the
Netflix CEO |
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06/11/2011 |
What to Bring on a Bigfoot Expedition |
Gearing up for possible encounter with the primitive sasquatch. |
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06/09/2011 |
Making PEG a Favorites Channel |
A story about a small town's aspirations to rejuvenate its Public
Educational and Government (PEG) access channel. |
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06/04/2011 |
Recommendations for City Websites |
Guide to cities considering a
website as well as those in the market to upgrade an existing website.
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03/03/2011 |
Review of ADSL Modems with Built-in Wireless Router |
A no nonsense review focused on range, reliability, cost, and ease of use.
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10/26/2010 |
Region Free DVD and Blu-ray players |
A real-world field study...
Do they really work? If so, where can they be found? |
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03/24/2009 |
Video on Demand (VoD) ala Netflix |
An in-depth look at how Netflix and Roku work together
and what to expect from the two in the future |
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07/06/2009 |
Domain Registration Scam Exposed |
Oversees domain registration preys on unsuspecting to generate domain registration revenue.
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01/12/2009 |
Are Over the Air Antennas Now Obsolete? |
The truths and benefits
of over-the-air antennas.
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01/08/2009 |
Detecting Click Fraud and Demanding Value for Your Ad Dollar(s) |
What Yahoo, Google, and MSN can and cannot do!.
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10/28/2008 |
Guidance Technology Opportunities and Challenges |
What subscribers can't find on television is more than just an
inconvenience. |
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10/28/2008 |
BD-Live: Internet Invading Physical Media |
What does BD-Live have in common with Tru2way? |
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10/09/2008 |
Television - The Best is 'Still' Yet to Come! |
A glimpse of the future of Television courtesy of Gary Shapiro. |
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09/29/2008 |
Troubleshooting Microsoft Windows Applications |
Things I keep having to do,
but can never remember how I fixed them |
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08/26/2008 |
Rising Competitive Threat of Communications as a Service (CaaS) |
Where and how is CaaS competing against Telecom and Cable? |
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07/02/2008 |
High Speed Upgrade Challenges |
High speed upgrades paying price for installation short cuts made in the
past. |
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06/06/2008 |
The "Potentially" Smart Home |
A huge market looking for a console to manage it. |
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04/22/2008 |
Digital Television (DTV) Converter Box Review & Where to Buy |
Untangling the choices in DTV converter boxes, here is a
short and sweet cheat sheet |
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03/28/2008 |
What Ever Happened to DCAS |
A solution looking for industry buyer. |
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02/04/2008 |
Opportunity or Trouble with C's - CableB2B, CableHome, Canoe? |
Cable's pursuit of a homogeneous nationwide interactive advertising
solution. |
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01/03/2008 |
Choosing Best High Definition TV (HDTV)
Programming Package |
Guidance in choosing between Cable, DBS (Satellite), FiOS and U-verse for
HDTV service. |
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10/07/2007 |
Video on Demand (VoD) Reinventing Itself |
How technology and competitive
shifts within VoD are defining next generation solutions. |
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08/20/2007 |
Brushing the dust of long tail Video on Demand (VoD) titles |
Addressing the problem of accessibility in ever growing
VoD libraries. |
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07/04/2007 |
Due
Diligence and the Percentages of Doing Business |
Beating the percentages with careful planning and
extensive due diligence. |
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05/07/2007 |
Paying Publishers for their (Video) Content |
Risk versus rewards not yet adding up for the average
publisher of video content challenging the Web 2.0 model. |
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05/02/2007 |
Choosing High Definition Disc Player: Blu-ray vs HD-DVD |
The "confusion" around competing standards is way over blown |
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04/01/2007 |
Digital
Living Network Alliance (DLNA) Essentials |
Enabling bridges between services within a connected home
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01/20/2007 |
Business Success and Rewarding the Right People |
Building a sustainable business by rewarding and keeping the right people |
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12/21/2006 |
Choosing
Best Digital Television: DLP vs LCD vs Plasma |
Guidance in choosing the best digital television |
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11/05/2006 |
The Best High Definition DVD Players Reviewed |
The perfect gift for the gadget lover, but making an
uninformed purchase could cost you |
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11/03/2006 |
Toshiba HD-DVD Review |
A review of the latest high definition DVD players and
what to look for |
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03/22/2006 |
Local Video Franchise - Asset or Liability |
A journey from local video monopoly to a true broadband free market
economy |
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03/11/2006 |
Automated Patent Evaluation |
An introduction to evaluating intellectual property (IP)
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03/08/2006 |
Finding, Comparing, and Buying an HDTV Plasma Television |
A walk through a recent purchase of a plasma television |
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02/12/2006 |
Consumer Appetite for High-Tech Television |
A historical look at television innovations and how they
help us predict consumer appetite for new high-tech features |
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11/15/2005 |
The
Skype Loop Hole |
How Skype
exploited holes in telecommunications legislation and hype from Forbes and Red Herring
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10/06/2005 |
Navigating Seattle-Tacoma International Airport (SEA) |
One of the nation's worst airports for the handicap and
families with small children
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09/21/2005 |
eBay, Skype, and the Terrorists |
How
to build the largest terrorist communications network in the world! |
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08/25/2005 |
Enterprise RSS
Applications |
Augmenting really simple syndication to fit enterprise
businesses |
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08/02/2005 |
Digital Rights Management (DRM) Strategies 2005 |
Our take-away from the conference downtown New York City |
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07/23/2005 |
Patent Search and Management Services Review |
A detailed look at your global patent search and management options |
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07/21/2005 |
The Need for Speed - Over Delivering Bandwidth |
Questioning demand for higher bandwidth in an effort to understand the
repercussions. |
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07/21/2005 |
Lead with Content & Services not Bandwidth |
What is more valuable to consumers – a pipe or the water that flows
through it? |
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07/19/2005 |
Brownfield vs Greenfield Opportunities |
Alternatives when searching for diamonds in the rough – the search for an
acquisition target |
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07/16/2005 |
Over the Top VoIP Service Providers Review |
Got broadband, need phone services, take your pick from an increasing
selection |
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07/15/2005 |
The Future of Quality of Service (QoS) |
Will it will not be the differentiator that service providers are looking
for? |
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07/06/2005 |
Wireless Repeater
Review |
Extending the range of your wireless networks without
adding wires |
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06/26/2005 |
Lucid Security Review |
Dawn of a new age or just another software company? |
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06/24/2005 |
Speed Bumps on the Battlefield of Bandwidth (price) Wars |
Obstacles
to speed increases and the ongoing expansion of broadband |
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06/19/2005 |
Rebecca Hackemann Reinvents Stereo Photographic Art Form |
An artist's drive to create entirely unique photographic
optical sculptures
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05/26/2005 |
What are SMTP Mail
Relay Services? |
How
to get around your ISP blocking your ability to use any SMTP server
other than theirs
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05/18/2005 |
You Might
be a Dog Fanatic if You? |
A
comical look into dog ownership and those owners that go to the extreme
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04/20/2005 |
Why Comcast should Buy Netflix |
Recipe for building a monopoly in movie content distribution |
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04/08/2005 |
Broadband, HDTV,
and Video Art |
An artistic window with a view towards next generation
broadband services.
that deliver video art |
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11/14/2004 |
XoIP - Anything over Internet Protocol (IP) |
The vision of things to come and perhaps a much needed
reality check |
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09/28/2004 |
Grid
Computing: Toolkits and IDEs |
Building the foundation for super scalable application
development |
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08/27/2004 |
Broadband
over Power Lines (BPL) |
Going beyond the lab and technical trials and into
production rollouts |
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06/20/2004 |
Universities pave the way for online gaming |
While service providers balk, universities forge ahead
with online gaming initiates |
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05/21/2004 |
Billing
& OSS Show 2004 in Washington, DC |
My personal observations of the show, vendors, and
technologies showcased |
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05/02/2004 |
Consumer Electronics and the Realities of Retail Broadband Equipment |
Where compliance with standards has limited vendors
ability to be unique & competitive |
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04/09/2004 |
Broadband
Messaging & Permission Based Marketing |
Building a successful marketing and consumer information system using
broadband messaging |
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02/11/2004 |
Emergency Alert System (EAS) Over Broadband |
Proactively taking Homeland Security to the growing
online community |
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02/13/2004 |
Skype, Vonage,
Net2Phone, etc. and residential secondary line service |
How far can outsiders go by exploiting broadband? |
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01/13/2004 |
Fixed versus Usage-Based Billing: Reasons to Keep it
Simple |
Making real cents with simplicity over delving too quickly into
usage-based options |
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12/30/2003 |
The Lure of
Using Microsoft .NET for OSS/BSS |
Evaluating Microsoft's entry into the OSS/BSS space |
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12/12/2003 |
Service Qualification: Dead End Technology or the Future of Provisioning |
Examining trends of the service qualification industry |
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11/12/2003 |
Buying Into
High Definition Television (HDTV) |
What you need to know before buying an HDTV system |
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11/06/2003 |
Nonresponding
Digital Set Top Box (STB) |
Realizing pay-per-view purchases before they become orphans |
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10/12/2003 |
Broadband
Exception Reporting |
Simplifying network monitoring by only addressing
exceptions |
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09/11/2003 |
PPV: Consequence of Using Store and Forward Authorization |
Devils in the details of managing a successful PPV
service |
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08/02/2003 |
Build, Buy, or Subscribe and Pursuit of Functionality |
Direction for service providers seeking to gain
functionality |
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07/14/2003 |
VoD No Match for Portability and Standardization |
Predicting the outcome between VoD and packaged media |
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06/10/2003 |
Reverse
Auto-Provisioning |
Reversing the process of subscriber signup to force
service agreement compliance |
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05/09/2003 |
Multiple Broadband Connections to Home/Business |
Building a multi-ISP home just got easier |
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04/24/2003 |
The Power of the Pen |
Adventures in obtaining permission to publicly announce
customer wins |
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03/31/2003 |
Limiting the Impact of Top Talkers on a Budget |
Employing restrictions of subscriber bandwidth usage
without packet shaping |
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02/11/2003 |
Bandwidth, Contention, and Profits |
Combating forces working against efficient, profitable
delivery of quality data services. |
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02/11/2003 |
DOCSIS Upstream Amplifier Comparison |
Combating forces working against efficient, profitable delivery of quality data services. |
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12/03/2002 |
Route Control |
Taking control of your enterprise Internet routing |
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08/24/2002 |
Predictive Modeling |
Applications for predictive modeling in the broadband
space |
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08/02/2002 |
Oversubscribing Broadband Networks |
Understanding the economics of providing broadband
service and capital costs |
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06/14/2002 |
Keys to Implementing
Successful CRM |
Providing incentives to improve CRM information and
success. |
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06/13/2002 |
Trouble at Home |
Issues regarding home networking that complicate the
delivery of value added services |
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03/29/2002 |
Online Gaming: Getting down to business |
Introduction to online gaming business components,
architectures, and financials. |
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03/15/2002 |
Impact of Content & Demand on Bandwidth Management |
Addressing the source of broadband's network capacity
woes |
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02/12/2002 |
Broadband
Provisioning: The need for a standardization |
How the lack of standardization in broadband provisioning
is impacting future services |
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02/13/2002 |
Internet Gaming: Understanding the Attraction |
An in-depth look at makes internet games so attractive
over their CD counterparts |
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01/23/2002 |
Internet Gaming: Demystifying the Attraction |
An introduction to Internet gaming and what attracts
gamers. |
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12/27/2001 |
Broadband
Installation Options |
A comparison of various installation options available to
broadband operators today (focus on MDUs). |
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12/07/2001 |
Managing Network
Bandwidth |
Evaluating the usefulness of managing network bandwidth |
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08/02/2001 |
Cable Modem Security |
Insulating your network from your subscribers |
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07/20/2001 |
The
ABC's of Understanding DHCP Performance |
A look into how DHCP works and what things impact its
performance |
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05/29/2001 |
IP Address Management |
Nuts and bolts of managing explosion of IP addresses on
broadband networks |
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04/30/2001 |
Distributed Systems |
Distributing applications as a way of promoting service
reliability and better performance |
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02/25/2001 |
Non-Invasive
Network Management |
Getting more out of our network management system without
impacting what your managing |
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01/16/2001 |
Innovation on
the Internet |
A discussion about the future of the Internet |
|
01/28/2001 |
Open Access:
Transparency |
How to make open access compelling for customers -- make
changing ISPs transparent |
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01/25/2001 |
A day in the life of a cable junkie |
What makes people life-long cable guys |
|
12/17/2000 |
Open Access: HFC
Management |
Where the real problem with open access lies -- last mile |
|
11/13/2000 |
Open Access:
Service Management |
Wrangling with all the service choices regarding Open
Access |
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10/26/2000 |
Open
Access: Connection Management |
How ISPs can access broadband networks |
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08/15/2000 |
Customer
Premise vs, End-of-Line Monitoring |
Comparison of cable modem monitoring methods |
|
08/2000 |
Customer
Information Center |
How to keep customers appraised of your service |
|
07/2000 |
How Many Heads
Do You Have? |
A look at MSO monitoring requirements, fcaps, etc. |
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06/28/2000 |
Open Access:
Freedom to Choose |
Introduction to open access for cable networks |
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06/24/2000 |
Where Do Your
Services Fail |
How to determine where to monitor services |
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06/19/2000 |
How
Important Are Your Transactions |
Transaction software's good and bad points |
|
06/2000 |
Self-Diagnostics
for Broadband Consumers |
How to empower customers with self-diagnostics |
|
05/2000 |
Broadband
Troubleshooting Tool Design |
Problems and design issues with troubleshooting tools and
making them work with a particular MSO. |
|
04/2000 |
Personal
Computer and Cable Modem Troubleshooting |
An analysis of personal computer and cable modem
troubleshooting techniques |
|
02/2000 |
Hassle-Free Modem Installs |
A six-step program to avoid the pitfalls of high-speed
data installation. |
|
01/2000 |
IP Address
Provisioning Overview |
How Internet protocol (IP) address provisioning can
affect your data service |
|
12/10/1999 |
Monitoring Client Experience |
How to monitor your clients experience to deliver
top-notch service. |
|
11/1999 |
Serve Yourself |
Lessons learned from an experiment with cable modem self
install |
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08/1995 |
The Development of Echocardiology on the ICN |
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05/1995 |
Job Opportunities in Telemedicine |
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01/1995 |
Medical Education on the ICN |
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These broadband articles are based on research performed by Birds-Eye.Net
and may include opinion and or views of other industry experts.