Video Killed the Radio Star

Remember that song?  It was recorded by a band called the Buggles and it was (ironically, in the true sense) the first song aired on MTV when the video channel…

May 31, 2011 0

Skype to Kill Asterisk VoIP Integration

There are reports that Skype will no longer license Asterisk integration into Skype after June 26 2011 (confirmed by PCWorld)  Asterisk is one of the most popular open source software…

May 25, 2011 5

The Cage Match

I keep wanting to write about the merger of AT&T and T-Mobile,  I really do – not because it’s so important, but because it’s really so unimportant.  Sure, there are…

May 12, 2011 2

Will Skype really kill the cellular voice business?

Will Skype really kill the cellular voice business?

Since the announcement of Microsoft’s acquisition of Skype, a lot of people are once again declaring the death of the cell phone company.  But people have been saying this for…

May 11, 2011 6

Microsoft buys Skype

All Things Digital is reporting that Microsoft’s play to buy Skype for $8.5 billion has been confirmed.  The deal would likely bring interoperability between Skype and Windows Live Messenger but more…

May 10, 2011 2

New business models alone can’t stop piracy

Ernesto at TorrentFreak (a BitTorrent and P2P download enthusiast website) had an interesting discussion about the positive effect that Netflix is having on reducing piracy.  Ernesto wrote “Movie piracy is not…

April 29, 2011 1

The Next Big Cause

Now that Net Neutrality is winding down – Larry Lessig says it’s a dead political movement – Internet policy attention naturally shifts to questions about what comes next for the…

April 28, 2011 5

Mega companies Netflix, Level 3 don’t need subsidies

Netflix now has more subscribers than Comcast thanks to a blistering growth rate, while Level 3 Communications will soon become the biggest backbone on the Internet due to its announced merger with…

April 26, 2011 3

Google continues WebM head fake

Google continues its masterful head fake campaign promoting its WebM VP8 video compression technology over the H.264/MPEG 4 AVC standard by telling the world that all of its YouTube videos…

April 20, 2011 0

The Internet’s First Turning Point

Watching today’s House debate on net neutrality and discussing Internet architecture in a meeting today reminded me that the Internet’s history is very poorly understood, if it’s understood at all….

April 8, 2011 3