Cloudy Thinking

This book about implementing lean manufacturing sounds interesting: The Gold Mine, A Novel of Lean Turnaround [Via Clarke Ching]

Steven Levy writes in Newsweek about Television Reloaded.

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Om Malik is a consistently interesting commentator on all things broadband. His analysis of how BellSouth is rolling out broadband is on point. Om doesn’t mention that BellSouth will use IP delivered over gigabit Ethernet in their newest service rollout.

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The BBC reports that Seagate has announced a 2.5-inch 160 Gigabyte hard drive, and 20GB and 40 GB “ruggedized” (-30C to 80C) hard drives for cars.

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This is mind bogglingly good stuff. You must watch and listen to this. Do it NOW! [Via Adam Curry.]

Corinex is SHIPPING 200 Mbps data over powerline boxes. They got tired of waiting for HomePNA to complete the HomePlug/AV spec. Since they have working silicon, they formed Universal Powerline Association to build support for this technology.

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In addition to ReliOn, PlugPower is another telecom fuel cell vendor. The two companies have optimized their products in different ways. ReliOn capacity is 1.2 Kwatts (per unit) while PlugPower starts at 5 Kwatts. The guts of the ReliOn fuel cell is a modular, hot pluggable array. Very clever stuff, but reasonable people can disagree whether the extra flexibility is worth the added complexity.

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A funny thing happened while “reading the Internet” using my $14.95 per day (OUCH!) broadband in the room of the W Lakeshore hotel in Chicago.

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I’m in Chicago (yes, it’s HOT and muggy here) for the annual SuperComm telecommunication trade show. After working our booth during the morning shift (booth traffic was great, thanks for asking;) I began exloring the floor. A friend told me about ReliOn.

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A. K. M. Adams offers this interesting commentary on music. I especially like his term “information flux.”

Peter Macaulay (consultant on SIP and broadband) writes (lightly edited):

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Peter Macaulay writes:

(1) Skype has 171 employees (Verizon has 142,000 employees)
(2) 40 Million Skype users (same as Verizon)
(3) All other VoIP providers have 3 million subs.
(4) Skype is adding 200,000 per week (same number as Vonage in total)
(5) 1.5 Million paying SkypeOUT users now.

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