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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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….