Monday, January 05, 2026

Starlink in Ukraine: What Three Years of Wartime Connectivity Taught Us

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Ukrainian soldier with a Starlink dish near Kreminna, eastern Ukraine. Photo: Clodagh Kilcoyne When Russia invaded Ukraine in February 202...
Saturday, December 20, 2025

AI chatbot conversations should be archived

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To paraphrase Bill Clinton’s 1990 campaign slogan, “it’s the conversation, stupid”, and Alan Turing would agree. ChatGPT shareable links are...
Tuesday, November 18, 2025

Starlink and the Seven Dwarfs

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In the 1960s, IBM dominated the computer market, which was often referred to as “IBM and the seven dwarfs.” IBM is prosperous today, but no ...
Tuesday, October 14, 2025

Western LEO Satellite Internet Update: OneWeb, Telesat, Amazon Project Kuiper and IRIS²

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In an  earlier post ,  I updated the status of three Chinese low-Earth orbit (LEO) satellite Internet constellations. This one looks at four...
Wednesday, September 17, 2025

SES's unique three-orbit satellite Internet strategy

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SES's three-orbit offering is unique. In 2021, OneWeb CEO Neil Masterson said , "Interoperability with GEO satellites must happen -...
Monday, September 01, 2025

Chinese LEO satellite Internet update

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China has pursued a strategy of  competition among government-owned organizations , and it initiated two government-owned constellation proj...
Wednesday, August 27, 2025

Starlink and the seven dwarfs

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This post has been superseded, see:  https://cis471.blogspot.com/2025/11/starlink-and-seven-dwarfs.html Source: ChatGPT In the 1960s, IBM do...