- youtu.be/zOJw_pWKCT0 Details and shop: http://bit.ly/17hZIK2 Disclosure: Smartturtle is clearly a sponsor of Bits und so, but this recommendation is genuinely independent of that.
- Word problem. Put your pencils down. Three percent of customers—the power users—will be affected by the “throttle”.The average customer currently “uses” 15–20 GB a month.By 2016, internet traffic will quadruple. I drew…
- Telekom’s head in Germany in Die Welt : By 2018, we want to switch completely to IP-based services … Just as nobody will miss the old analog C-network when it was replaced by the digital D-network, nobody will miss the…
- @ timohetzel So the Telekom guy asked customers to vote by cancelling, because that’s the only metric he understands. — wacholderpolka, May 5, 2013 If I wanted to cancel (I do; the contract runs until 2014), what…
- Not bad, Twitter. Not bad.
- So it really is just a price increase? Obermann promises unlimited plans in 2016 , but at higher prices. This post says nothing about “managed services” or net neutrality. Q1 2013 figures Broadband connections ,…
- Telekom’s secret dealings with politicians Wirtschaftswoche on the Federal Network Agency’s central role: The telecommunications market faces a return to the old monopoly days before 1989, when the Federal Post Office…
- Until Apple finally ships the xMac, I needed an interim solution to ingest hours of ProRes HQ video into Final Cut Pro X from a SATA SSD. The Mac Pro has, depending on its model year, one or two spare SATA ports on the…
- By now it should be clear that Telekom’s argument is absurd. But let’s look at it again. From Telekom’s blog post, “New rules for DSL?” : On the one hand, data volumes are growing exponentially. The networks therefore…
- youtu.be/EwfSWyC5iwk I think it needs a T-shirt update .
- youtu.be/X0p0lREq6qE A bit of ISDN nostalgia: my MusicTaxi from the pre-show of Bits und so #328 . Manual (PDF)
- Here’s the recording of today’s lunchtime broadcast. Daniel Fiene and Herr Pähler’s guests are Philipp Blank from Telekom, YouTuber Christoph Krachten, and me. Programme page MP3 / Podcast feed / iTunes link
- A handful of links: Two clips from Bits und so #327 . youtu.be/QPs2RN65fiY youtu.be/qYsG2iJbUpw A very, very good piece (audio and text): Fast Internet Slowed Down from Deutschlandfunk(via Tim ) Telekom isn’t merely…
- Enable Google Now in the Google Search app Background location reporting turns on Location history
- VW model overview . Probably the world’s least user-friendly PDF viewer. And VW’s website? The iBeetle maker has a configurator that won’t let you scroll down to the diesel models on an iPad.
- Sounds tempting.
- The quiet power struggle An overly long article about the heart of Telekom’s problem: they don’t want to be a mere carrier, and they’re willing to destroy the open internet along the way. Here’s my short version:…
- New page up on the iPad App Store to help explain where the last pay check went. Unfortunately, they omit two types: Free subscriptions for Newsstand (no harm, they’re free) and old-style subscriptions (still needed for…
- Telekom on its idiotic new contracts : The alternative would have been to raise prices across the board for all customers. Yes, please, raise the prices. Given the profits they’ve announced, that’s probably a lie, but…
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