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

What we are reading: 4/27/11

What we are reading: 4/27/11

Extending WiFi to one mile, thanks to empty TV channels State of the Internet: Fiber, Fast Cities and Faster Broadband: Broadband News and Analysis « Sony: Attackers may have obtained…

April 27, 2011 0

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

What we are reading: 4/25/11

What we are reading: 4/25/11

Army Selects Android For Mobile Battlefield Network — InformationWeek Liberty Media’s Greg Maffei on the future of the television industry – Post Tech – The Washington Post State Department shifts…

April 25, 2011 0

The Challenge of HD Video Streaming on LTE

One of AT&T’s non-redacted arguments in support of its acquisition of T-Mobile USA is that data usage on AT&T’s network is projected to “skyrocket by a factor of eight to…

April 24, 2011 3

What we are reading: 4/20/11

What we are reading: 4/20/11

Google: Map your own neighborhood | Rafe’s Radar – CNET News In A Sign Of Things To Come, Sprint, AT&T Spar Over T-Mobile Merger – Tech Daily Dose In Silicon…

April 20, 2011 0

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

What we are reading: 4/19/11

What we are reading: 4/19/11

Google displeased: The FCC is too slow, company says – The Hill’s Hillicon Valley Verizon: More breaches but less data lost. Huh?! | InSecurity Complex – CNET News Microsoft urges…

April 19, 2011 0

Forecasting Spectrum Demand

There’s been a lot of talk lately regarding the looming spectrum crisis in America, with the FCC and the mobile operators talking it up, and some bloggers, analysts, and buffs…

April 19, 2011 4