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	<description>Chaos is not a business model: thoughts about next generation telecom, with occasional off-topic commentary for variety.</description>
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		<title>Reason Magazine notices the Kindle is not &#8220;net neutral&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[PC World quotes Peter Suderman, an associate editor with Reason Magazine in Los Angeles, on his observation that the Kindle provides limited functionality and therefore is not &#8220;net neutral.&#8221; http://bit.ly/cdYELi &#8220;It&#8217;s a business model that relies, in fact, on discrimination,&#8221; he said this morning on On Point, a talk show aired by WBUR, a National [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.chrishoover.org/uncategorized/reason-magazine-notices-the-kindle-is-not-net-neutral/</link>
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		<title>I broke Google.  How is that possible?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A Chinese colleague just sent me some amazing tea as a gift. I&#8217;d love to purchase more for myself, so I did a Google search for &#8220;Puerh Tea,&#8221; which I thought would result in the usual tea.com type listings. Instead, I was consistently able to &#8220;break&#8221; Google, no matter how many times I submitted the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.chrishoover.org/uncategorized/i-broke-google-how-is-that-possible/</link>
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		<title>Why I don&#8217;t invest in Yahoo.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So I&#8217;m looking for a receipt to print out for my expense report. I purchased a UI mockup application called Balsamiq. Here I&#8217;m searching for &#8220;Balsamiq&#8221;. No luck. So I go look for it manually. It&#8217;s right there, on top, with &#8220;Balsamiq&#8221; as both the sender and subject. I think this explains why I had [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.chrishoover.org/uncategorized/why-i-dont-invest-in-yahoo/</link>
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		<title>Top five reasons Singapore has the best airport in the world</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I travel to Southeast Asia on business every so often. If I have a choice, I’ll always connect through Changi airport in Singapore. There are lots of nice things about the airport; it’s got a nice transit hotel, a gym, amazing shops, and reasonable food. But there are some things that set it apart. Top [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.chrishoover.org/general-mutterings/the-best-airport-in-the-world/</link>
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		<title>Random Quote in Telephony online</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Somewhere toward the bottom.  I didn&#8217;t mean wireless carriers exclusively, my point was that all operators have an inherent advantage over content providers.  But point made for me, I suppose&#8230; Finding telecoms link in the value chain.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.chrishoover.org/uncategorized/random-quote-in-telephony-online/</link>
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		<title>Net Neutrality and reality</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Interesting post in Financial Times today. Personally, I think that net neutrality will force operators to innovate a bit &#8212; this isn&#8217;t about discriminating against heaviest users, it&#8217;s about changing the business model from flat rate all-you-can-eat access to one in which heavy usage isn&#8217;t a problem that requires random throttling. Operators should offer access [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.chrishoover.org/uncategorized/net-neutrality-and-reality/</link>
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		<title>The telecom subscriber model will change</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I just completed a guest blog post at Telco 2.0 pointing out that the SLAs involved in new business models, coupled with the fundamental driver behind those business models (bandwidth as a scarce and valuable resource), will put wireless operators in a position of allocating resources selectively. That is, in times of high demand, a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.chrishoover.org/uncategorized/the-telecom-subscriber-model-will-change/</link>
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		<title>18 billion reasons wireless bandwidth is a scarce, valuable resource</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Great story in NYT today on the effect the iPhone is having on the ATT network. Directly related to my argument that wireless bandwidth is as a scarce, valuable resource will be the foundation of next generation business models. Killer quotes: [Because of network capacity being sucked up by iPhones] The result is dropped calls, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.chrishoover.org/business-models/18-billion-reasons-wireless-bandwidth-is-a-scarce-valuable-resource/</link>
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		<title>Amazon links cloud to enterprise data centers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Take a look Not to beat this drum too loudly, but cloud computing is among the one or two key truly significant changes that affect the telecom industry, dramatically expanding a business&#8217; reliance on the network and dramatically increasing data volume &#8212; particularly data volume through cell sites as roaming employees access documents and other [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.chrishoover.org/business-models/amazon-links-cloud-to-enterprise-data-centers/</link>
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		<title>Study: IT shops have cash in hand for cloud computing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Study: IT shops have cash in hand for cloud computing: &#8221; More data showing showing growth of cloud computing. Most relevant to telecom is this growth in the context of Netbooks, and the resultant deluge of data volume.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.chrishoover.org/uncategorized/study-it-shops-have-cash-in-hand-for-cloud-computing/</link>
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