What Does Verizon Selling Northern New England Landlines Mean?

Verizon’s proposed sale of its landline business in Vermont, Maine, and New Hampshire is an indicator of the turmoil to come in telecom during the next five years.  Verizon is op More...

hackoff.com – e-book Edition

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Why Should the State of Vermont be Helping Fund Rural Telecom?

“Why should we subsidize rural residents?” More...

Verizon Wireless Allows VoIP

The headline of this post is true and the fact is significant; but the implications are less than they might be.  The terms of service for Verizon Wireless Data Service (aka EVDO More...

Google’s Brilliant Proposal

If Google’s proposal to the FCC for 700MHz auction rulesMore...

Congratulations FeedBlitz!

FeedBlitz, which I’ve invested in and on whose board I sit, just passed the 2 million subscription milestone.More...

Amazon Shorts Restricted To USA

Loyal hackoff.com reader Allan tried to download “More...

Book review – Winter in Madrid

Spain’s a strange and interesting place.  It was a rehearsal ground for part of World War II; it suffered both from both fascist and communist tyranny in the course of a single d More...

Microsoft Memories – Sleeping with Telcos

“So we get married but we don’t sleep together?” I asked billg (Bill Gates) facetiously.  It was a late night meeting which had coalesced in his office over whether to make a hug More...

The Interpreter's Tale

The pickpockets of Barcelona are justly famed for their ability to extract whatever they want from anywhere; why are they sudden More...