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ACS has nuts

Posted on July 12th, 2008 in Technology | No Comments »

Recently announced, ACS is apparently investing in a large “pipe” to Oregon to expand its connectivity capacity. Using the acronym AKORN to describe the Alaska-Oregon network connection leaves me wondering if ACS really has or is nuts? Read the rest of this entry »

WiMax arrives in Anchorage

Posted on June 27th, 2008 in Alaska Business, Technology | 5 Comments »

AT&T quietly rolled the announcement on their homepage recently that WiMax is now available in the Anchorage area. Reading the fine print, it’s obvious they’re not reaching everywhere in town yet.  The $19.95 price point looks attractive at first, but you can quickly deduct they are trying to rope you in on the low end bundle deal with local and long-distance plans then tacking on the less-than-interesting 384K Internet option.  As much as I am really excited about WiMax, this really stinks. Read the rest of this entry »

Get the Flock out of here

Posted on April 30th, 2008 in Technology | No Comments »

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iPhone 3G Alaska

Posted on April 30th, 2008 in Alaska Business, Technology | 8 Comments »

The iPhone is no doubt a great device and will only get better with the expected hardware update. Anyone who already has the iPhone will most likely tell you how cool it is, but the wireless Internet browsing is painfully slow. Well, there’s some good news for those who waited! Read the rest of this entry »

I want my ISP back

Posted on April 29th, 2008 in Alaska Business, Technology | No Comments »

Remember the days of $19.99 internet where you bought a basic 28.8K or even better yet a V.92 56K dial-up account?  Yeah, it sucked - but in many ways I long for those days and I’ll tell you why.

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