Evaluating Our Predictions for 2015
Last March, I wrote a post evaluating three of the most interesting technology predictions for 2015; one from Frog Design on fitness devices, one from Deloitte on “Software-Defined Everything,” and one of…
The Software-Defined Internet
The Internet continues to change. The traditional Internet was a highly static system: All addresses were global, endpoints were stationary, users were tied to a single primary device, and the…
Is AI Held Back by the Profit Motive?
In my overview post on the Internet of Things, I offered the suggestion that IoT needs artificial intelligence to succeed: One of the primary challenges for the smart home and…
FCC’s Factual Errors in Oral Argument: Part 1, DNS
The oral arguments in the challenge to the FCC’s 2015 Open Internet regulations illustrated the difference between the way engineers and users see the Internet and the way that lawyers…
Net Neutrality Oral Arguments
At 9:30 AM Eastern Time on Friday December 4th, the legal gunslingers representing US Telecom and the FCC will show down before a three judge panel of the DC Circuit…
This Connected Life: Black Friday Goes Online
For a while now, shopping around Thanksgiving has been a mix of in-store and online, that’s nothing new. But this year something happened that we haven’t seen before: A National Retail…
Needles in Haystacks
As expected, the House Subcommittee on Communications and Technology FCC oversight hearing featured some controversy. Commissioners Pai and O’Riely pointed out just how severely the chairman has been depriving them of…
FCC Clarifies the Ask for Wi-Fi Routers
As we explained recently, the FCC is asking for input on regulations for home routers with built-in Wi-Fi. Chief Engineer Julie Knapp has written a blog post clarifying his concerns…
Why Fast Networks are Secure and Pirated Software is Not
Conventional wisdom says that curated app stores like Apple’s are more secure than wild west downloads from random servers. This is true, of course, but being more secure doesn’t mean…
Three Challenges to the Internet of Things
There’s little doubt that the Internet of Things is the next wave of computing, the next chapter in the story that began more than 50 years ago and has already passed…