CNET = hard times, FCC opens up broadcast spectrum

CNET looks to be on hard times. CEO Shelby Bonnie resigned earlier this week. Comscore shows September 2006 traffic for all CNET properties at 616 million page views, that is compared to 1.37 BILLION page views in September 2005.

The FCC is opening up the broadcast spectrum. This is mainly due to HDTV. It’s going to be mainly for low-power wireless devices.

Technically Speaking, time for me to run again!

Former Facebook Engineer

Wrote a book called – Inside Facebook: Life, Work and Visions of Greatness.

Liz Gannes of GigaOm.com had time to check the book out today. Technically Speaking, I have to run now!

**UPDATE** ATT-BellSouth meeting Cancelled!

After delaying the vote from Thursday to Friday at 11 a.m., the commissioners remained sequestered until after 1 p.m., when FCC Chairman Kevin Martin finally cancelled the meeting.

ATT-BellSouth merger stalled, Denmark #1, ProtectMyPhotos

The ATT and Bell South merger that was stalled until a Friday FCC vote is still stalled. Looks like not enough money has changed hands or been wired to the right accounts yet. It should be interesting to see or read the outcome on this one.

Denmark is now #1 in Broadband penetration per household according to the statistics just released by OECD (Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development). Now if that doesn’t sound like a bunch of number crunchers and analysts sitting around, I don’t know what does. The US is still #12, and #4 is South Korea who is behind the Netherlands and Iceland. Denmark has 29.3 subscribers per 100 inhabitants in case you wanted the exact numbers.

ProtectMyPhotos launched this morning. Even though the field is overcrowded, TechCrunch says they are a solid addition to the field of other sites and companies out there.

Technically Speaking, news has been really slow since Monday’s big GoogTube’age.

NBA’s Portland Trail Blazers go Social Networking!

Affinity Circles – The Mountain View, Calif. software vendor just announced a partnership agreement with the Portland Trail Blazers to launch what it said will be the first official social network for a professional basketball team.

Technically Speaking this could bring a whole new social network market; pro sports teams.

RealTravel, Sony Video Walkman, Foster City Goes MetroFi

RealTravel appears to be a decent looking travel site that is now up and coming according to Nick over at TechCrunch. Interesting enough, one of my last promising interviews in the IT Tech world was at a local travel agency. They wanted me for their IT and Marketing person. I think the person that ended up getting hired was more a marketing type then IT person. Not a big deal, Professional BlogCasting is allot more satisfying!

Sony is looking to me to be about “a day late, dollar short“. If I was Sony, and Rex Dixon is NOT, I would look elsewhere to put R/D team to work on. I have a really quick interesting story about Sony. Back in the day, my mother actually HAD/OWNED original Sony stock. She was actually in with the original founders of the company; knew them somehow personally. Then of course, she SOLD all of the stock when she married my father due to his line of work requiring poverty and suffering! I think that was something that she perceived.

Foster City is launching their Free WiFi network. How does that help Rex Dixon? It doesn’t!

Everything seems to be out west, like the credit/debit cards that are now widely accepted at all the local MCD’s, Jack In The Boxes, etc… well I lived out west 10 years back and they were already doing that initial phase of consumer testing back about 12 years ago!

Technically Speaking in about 10 years I guess I will have Free WiFi here in the midwest; everything here takes about 5-10 years to migrate from the coasts (Rex Dixon knows this how? … I have lived on both the East and West coasts!)