eBay: Car Service of the Future?
Autonomous cars auctioned by companies like eBay for trips and errands could become an important mode of transportation very soon.
The Driverless Uber of Networking
The FCC & its pals want us to build four car garages for the world of driverless Uber. This isn’t going to end well.
FCC Defeat Holds Chattanooga Train at the Station
FCC order preempting state broadband laws struck down by Sixth Circuit in the least surprising court decision of the year. So it’s back to the drawing board for the White House.
High Tech Olympics: Rio 2016 as a Testbed
Rio Olympics a proving ground for new tech in payments, VR, precision scoring, social media, security
Copyright Office Critiques Set-Top Box Order
Copyright Office sets the FCC straight on the nature of copyright law and fair use; piracy lobby objects loudly but wrongly.
The Internet Election
The Internet looms large in this presidential election. This has been true in various ways for several cycles, but it’s more true now than it ever has been. Since 2004,…
Russia’s Unconventional Election IT Strategy
It turns out my post on the digital campaign tools of the two major presidential candidates was a bit incomplete because it didn’t address outsourcing to foreign powers. The tech…
What Makes AI Work?
Pokémon GO hit peak optimism today as Nintendo stock dropped 17% on the realization that the company doesn’t actually control the game. Nintendo has a share: about 32% of the Pokémon…
Clinton and Trump Campaign Technologies
Since the Republican National Convention is underway as I write this – compelling entertainment – it’s appropriate to take a look at the ways the candidates will use technology in…
Net Neutrality Heats up in Europe
The net neutrality debate isn’t quite over in the US, as we learned today from the pushback from true believers against T-Mobile’s offer of uncapped data for a year to Pokémon GO…