The Apple Antenna Story
What happens when real antenna engineers measure the performance of the iPhone 4’s antenna under different grip conditions? They find that it really needs a bumper: We can make several…
FCC’s Deeply Flawed Broadband Report
In my day job, I’m a policy researcher at ITIF working on Internet issues, so the FCC Broadband Deployment Report naturally caught my eye. See the analysis: The bottom line…
Internet Congestion 201
This is the second part of an examination of the nature of congestion on packet switched networks such as the Internet. In the first part, Internet Congestion 101, we looked…
Mobile Data Traffic Management Options
Dean Bubley is one of the most interesting contrarian thinkers in the mobile space, and all of his work is worthy of consideration whether you agree with his conclusions or…
Internet Congestion 101
One of the questions that comes up most persistently in discussions of the Internet is congestion. Traffic management by ISPs is a response to congestion, and naive critics of the…
Welcome to High Tech Forum
I’m glad you’ve found this needle in the Internet’s haystack, and hope you’ll come back on a regular basis, add us to your RSS reader, comment on our posts, and…
The Role of Technical Experts in Policy Debates
This is my first posting on this new blog. So, I thought I would take the occasion to introduce myself and describe the kind of postings that I hope to generate.