Someone has to say it. The debate surrounding so-called net neutrality proposed policies reminds me of a heavily Marxist-influenced student protest from 1968. It’s all about keeping private property in name only, while regulating the product so that it can only be provided in a way defined by the government. In other words, it’s a ...

The rumors about an Apple iPhone 4 recall has to be one of the most useless ideas in recent technology memory. There is nothing about the design flaw that could be fixed in any recall, short of rebuilding the phone from scratch or redesigning a whole new phone, which would take one year or perhaps ...

In a somewhat stunning about-face from the recently implemented unlimited data plan for the iPad, AT&T announced the effective end to unlimited data. Gone are the days when you could stream Netflix to your cellular device such as Apple’s iPhone or iPad 3G for a fixed monthly fee — at least on the AT&T network. ...

On Friday after the close of market, Beceem filed its S-1, paving the way for its IPO in the coming months. The investors are mostly venture capitalists and some management participation, with Intel being the strategic investor at 20.3% (page 102 of the prospectus). In brief, Beceem is the leading play on WiMax chips, with ...

Sprint recently announced it will soon launch America’s first WiMax smartphone, the HTC Evo 4G. This smartphone looks much like the HTC HD2 now offered by T-Mobile, but it operates on America’s dominant WiMax network, built by Clearwire where Sprint is a 57% equity holder. Let’s establish the WiMax advantage over the current 3G networks ...

With the latest in a long line of Verizon iPhone rumors recently circulated by The Wall Street Journal, it’s worth commenting on the engineering logic and how it relates to a timeline for such a potential event. First of all, I have absolutely no insight into the Apple and Verizon negotiations or plans to the ...

Firms in the enterprise market can be divided into two kinds — very large enterprises with particular compliance requirements and smaller enterprises in which internal policing is lax. Research In Motion’s BlackBerry dominates the compliance-sensitive, large-enterprise market with essentially 100% market share. The reason for this is relatively simple: BlackBerry has a consistent record of ...

Amazingly, nobody has yet pointed out a severe usage limitation on Apple’s iPad that surely will cause grief with the very first reviewers. I’ll get right to the bottom line: Just like the iPod Touch, the iPhone and most or even all other smartphones, the iPad lacks multiple user profile logins, including any "Guest" login.  ...

Once upon a time, when I was a student of economics and foreign policy, we had to learn about government five-year plans to accomplish this or that. "The central government is marshaling the productive forces to build X, Y or Z for the people" and so forth. Fill in the blanks depending on the day ...

If you’re active at all on the location based status update sites like BrightKite or Foursquare, then you’ve more than likely heard about the Please Rob Me website. A good friend let me know about the site and he’s stopped using both sites cold turkey. The gist of the site is that the folks behind ...