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The broadband gap: Is FCC grabbing for the wrong tool?

Network World - An FCC task force studying broadband deployment in the United States has started to let us know what it has been thinking about. I have not found a white paper that explains things in detail, but the commission has issued a press ...

From SCOTT BRADNER, ComputerWorld,  23 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Federal Communications Commission,  Harvard University

Apple as an obsessive-compulsive case study

Network World - Regular readers of this column will know that I'm a fan of Apple products (hardware and software), but they might not realize just how much Apple the company itself frustrates me. Apple has had more "insanely great" (to use Steve Jobs's ...

From SCOTT BRADNER, ComputerWorld,  9 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Steve Jobs,  Federal Communications Commission

Is a neutral net within the power of the FCC?

Network World - A few weeks ago I wrote about the then pending FCC notice of proposed rulemaking concerning rules for the Internet. The FCC has now posted the proposed rulemaking and there is little to immediately worry or cheer about. In the last ...

From SCOTT BRADNER, ComputerWorld,  28 Oct 2009
Related Topics: Federal Communications Commission,  John McCain,  Comcast,  Google Inc.

Danger, Inc: living up to its name

Let's say that you wanted to warn people that there are real risks in cloud computing - what would you do? You could tell them that a feature of the cloud is that you cannot be sure of the reliability of other cloud participants, or maybe even know who ...

From SCOTT BRADNER, NetworkWorld,  14 Oct 2009
Related Topics: Microsoft Corporation,  T-Mobile

Legally arrived at principles for ISPs?

Network World - About a year ago I lamented that the FCC supported neutrality on the Internet. Not that I thought carriers should be able to treat customers' traffic unfairly, but the FCC had acted without proper authority. The issue of a lack of ...

From SCOTT BRADNER, ComputerWorld,  28 Sep 2009
Related Topics: Federal Communications Commission,  Comcast,  Julius Genachowski,  Google Inc.

An Internet civics lesson?

Network World - The Pew Internet and American Life Project has just published the latest of its explorations on how the Internet is affecting us. The latest study confirms what many observers have assumed -- the Internet, or at least social Web sites, ...

From SCOTT BRADNER, ComputerWorld,  8 Sep 2009
Related Topics: Harvard University

Human and computer viruses are both security risks

Network World - The U.S. federal government is worried about the Swine Flu (official name: 2009 H1N1 influenza virus). There have been predictions by experts of two or three times the normal number of flu related deaths this coming flu season - maybe ...

From SCOTT BRADNER, ComputerWorld,  31 Aug 2009

Apple App Store and Google Voice: Move may not be as capricious as it seemed

Network World - A few weeks ago I wrote about the first round of fallout that resulted from the press reports that Apple had rejected a Google Voice application after Google tried to add it to the App Store. The next round in this likely long process ...

From SCOTT BRADNER, ComputerWorld,  24 Aug 2009
Related Topics: Google Inc.,  AT&T Inc.,  Federal Communications Commission

U.S. broadband program - too much like old times?

Network World - If I sounded a bit positive in my last column about the state of part of the U.S. government bureaucracy, I will make up for that this week. Since my last column, the Department of Commerce capitulated to the big carriers, the FCC is ...

From SCOTT BRADNER, ComputerWorld,  17 Aug 2009
Related Topics: Federal Communications Commission

Amazon fails to remember the physical

Some background: The Amazon terms of use say that the company grants Kindle users "the non-exclusive right to keep a permanent copy" of the e-books they purchase. The terms do not let you resell the e-books and limit their use to the individual who ...

From SCOTT BRADNER, San Francisco Chronicle,  22 Jul 2009
Related Topics: Harvard University

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