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Unfit to Print
Spectrum policy is one of the most difficult policy issues that Congress has to deal with, and for that reason the Communications Act of 1934 established the FCC as a non-political technical expert to…
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Spectrum Reality
Now that a detente of sorts has been reached with Congressional efforts to muzzle some of the most egregious criminal sites on the Internet, attention came resume on some of the other pressing tech…
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Why Did Vint Cerf Say That?
Vint Cerf, one of the primary designers of TCP/IP and a man who’s among the “fathers of the Internet” has an Op-Ed recently in The New York Times arguing that Internet access is not…
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Giving Android a Chance
A little less than a month ago, I wrote some effusive praise for the iPhone 4S on this blog and chronicled my buying experience. The 4S is a very impressive device in many respects,…
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Verizon Takes a Step Forward
PC Magazine broke a very interesting piece of news Saturday about a new system Verizon has developed for their wireless network. Briefly put, this system presents an API that allows applications to signal their…
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Get Ready for Metered Wi-Fi
There’s a story in today’s New York Times on the impact the iPad is having on hotel Wi-Fi networks. Conclusion: Expect hotels to implement volume-sensitive pricing for Internet access via Wi-Fi. The typical plan…
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Landmark Study Finds That Cell Phones Do not Cause Cancer
A group of researchers at the Danish Cancer Society’s Institute of Cancer Epidemiology in Copenhagen and at the International Agency for Research on Cancer in Lyon have concluded the first serious prospective study of…
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The iPhone 4S Buying Experience
I bought my first iPhone Friday after bucking the trend for lo these many years. This was an upgrade from the Blackberry Bold 9000 that I’ve carried for nearly three years. The iPhone isn’t…
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Remaking the Internet
The Time Warner Research Program has published my essay on the Internet architecture, . The essay examines the issues that make it difficult if not impossible for the Internet to continue to grow and…
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Reacting to the Broadband Speed Data
Over on the Innovation Policy Blog I take a look at the FCC’s broadband speeds report and some of the reactions to it: The results are surprising to some because they contradict a widely-circulated…