Tim Wu vs. Tim Wu on Internet Evolution
Following the theme of amici in the Title II challenge, an interesting one came up today from Tim Wu, the man who coined the term “net neutrality”. Wu filed in…
What the FCC Gets Wrong About Mobile
Last time, I explained what the FCC’s reply brief gets wrong about DNS. The brief argues that DNS is a network management function that ISPs employ to achieve more efficient…
FCC Brief Painfully Wrong about DNS
The FCC’s response to the challenges to its latest Open Internet Order (OIO) completely misrepresents the nature of DNS and its role in the Internet. As a result, the brief…
Testing Vindicates LTE-U
A study of LTE-U’s interaction with Wi-Fi – and the interaction of real Wi-Fi access points with each other – appears to show that Wi-Fi users have nothing to fear…
Apple Day Celebration 2015
One of the fun things about being an Apple fan boy is the September announcement of all the cool stuff that’s been happening aboard the mother ship. Part of the…
Robot Explosion
It turns out Ashley Madison doesn’t just have porous security, most of its female members are software robots rather than real people. So all those people who’ve been embarrassed by having…
How Congress can fix the FCC
But there are several important communications laws that could use some enlightened congressional intervention. For example, in an anti-business ruling sure to keep corporations at risk and class action litigants…
Someday all companies will be tech companies
Pithy and true: “I find it interesting how, in many conversations I have about the business and technology landscape, so many people make a distinction between the “tech” industry and…
Apple Gets a Fast Lane (and the FCC can’t do a thing about it)
Apple and Cisco announced they’ve made a deal that gives Apple users a fast lane on networks run on Cisco devices. As you surely recall, the FCC banned fast lanes…
Tech and Liberal Arts in the US and Germany
While tech and the liberal arts often have a rocky relationship, the marriage of these two disciplines is a lot happier in the US than it is in Germany. In…