Good morning tech

NUMBER PUNCH

12 million — How many iPhones Verizon could sell next year when (or if) it begins
offering the device in January, according to analysts who
spoke to Bloomberg.

TWEETED

“Coming soon: Brand new dashboard so the American people can see how the IT Dashboard is performing. It’s truly #meta”

@fed_cio, a Twitter account parodying President Obama’s chief information officer Vivek Kundra.

SAID

“If you build it he will come.”

—Ray Kinsella, played by Kevin Costner, in Field of Dreams. And Frank Simone, AT&T vice president for federal regulatory policy, in a blog post on special access. Carriers build infrastructure while consumers come enjoy services, he wrote last night.

SCHEDULED

…2 p.m. House Energy and Commerce communications subcommittee markup of H.R. 3101, the Twenty-first Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act of 2009.

FOR THE WATERCOOLER

SHAKING…Stanford professor and famed computer scientist Donald Knuth will deliver a speech titled “an
earthshaking announcement” at the TUG 2010 Conference for programmers in
San Francisco today. The much-anticipated speech has his followers puzzled.