Video Over the Internet at SOTN

Tech Daily Dose’s Juliana Gruenwald has a story on the video panel at State of the Net: One of the biggest concerns raised about the $30 billion merger related to…

January 25, 2011 0

Guess Who’s Blocking Skype?

Add the Firefox browser to the list of Skype blockers that has included at various times the iTunes store, the cellular networks, and a number of entire countries from China…

January 21, 2011 0

State of the Net 2011

The State of the Net conference just wrapped up in Washington, DC. This is a unique event that brings policy wonks and technologists to Washington in order to help Congress…

January 19, 2011 6

Internet in 2010 by the Numbers

What are 262 billion, 21.4 million, 202 million, 1.97 billion, 2 billion, and 4? According to Royal Pingdom’s breakdown they would be the: 262 billion: The number of spam emails…

January 13, 2011 1

Has the FCC Created a Stone Too Heavy for It to Lift?

After five years of bickering, the FCC passed an Open Internet Report & Order on a partisan 3-2 vote this week. The order is meant to guarantee that the Internet…

December 24, 2010 1

It Finally Happened

So the FCC has finally gone and passed a net neutrality rule after all these many years of talking about how best to approach the Internet. Here’s the press release…

December 21, 2010 3

Now Playing: Video over the Internet

Since Level 3 Communications launched their public relations battle against Comcast on November 29th,  the tech press and the blogs have been abuzz with commentary and speculation about Internet peering,…

December 9, 2010 0

The Perfect, the Good, and the FCC

It has been a busy week in U.S. communications policy, with an FCC meeting adopting important spectrum policy reforms, an FCC complaint about Comcast’s approval policies for cable modems, and…

December 6, 2010 2

FCC’s Action on Open Internet Rules

We haven’t commented on the biggest buzz in DC in tech policy until now since there’s not much to say about it from a technical perspective until we have the…

December 3, 2010 0

How did China Telecom Snag 15% of the Internet?

Iljitsch van Beijnum explains how China Telecom was able to temporarily snag a big part of the Internet’s traffic for a few minutes last Spring. The Internet’s routing system is…

November 23, 2010 0