Rob PegoraroLAS VEGAS–To answer every “are you going to CES?” PR query I’ve gotten over the last three months: Yes, I’m here. I’m around through Thursday night, which I already know will not be enough time to process the info-overload of CES.
In addition to the posts below, Patreon readers got a look into the purple prose that Google Bard can generate, which I compared to “the Simpsons’ Kent Brockman writing a tech blog post in the style of a 1950s romance novel.”
1/3/2024: SpaceX Inches Toward Cellular Starlink Service With First ‘Direct to Cell’ Launch, PCMag
SpaceX’s first of what I suspect will be well over 100 launches this year delivered the first six satellites capable of serving as cell towers in space for T-Mobile and other participating carriers. This roaming option should work on almost all T-Mobile phones in service, but we’re an unclear number of months away from it being available–at first only for text messages.
1/4/2024: Spectrum to Hike Rates Again, Including Its Low-Income Internet Option, PCMag
In my latest contribution to the cable-rate-hikes genre, I closed out the post by suggesting ways that Spectrum customers could blunt or avoid these increases. That gave me an opportunity to remind readers that the government’s Affordable Connectivity Program is at risk of being defunded by Republicans in Congress.
1/5/2024: T-Mobile Touts New Top Speeds for the Second-Fastest Flavor of 5G, PCMag
One of my editors asked Thursday morning if I could write up this wonky feat of speed that T-Mobile had just announced, and then errands and a prolonged bout of writer’s block meant that I did not file this short post until Thursday evening.
1/7/2024: Launch.IT, CES
As I did last year, I helped judge this pitch competition for Japanese startups exhibiting at CES–sponsored by the Japan External Trade Organization and produced by the ShowStoppers tech-events firm, with whom I’ve worked before.
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Jon Rowe