Google Threatens Anti-Trust If The Net’s Not Neutral
Vint Cerf, Father of the Internet and a vice president with Google, mentioned this week that the company might file antitrust complaints against telco and cablecos that block the Internet traffic of...
View ArticleLife in a Non-Neutral Networked World
A great piece was Slashdotted yesterday and called to my attention on the drive in to work on the Slashdot Review podcast. An analysis of the costs associated with deploying a service on a neutral...
View ArticleSoftware Will Empower Net Neutrality Vigilance
It’s great when the tech community comes up with a method to keep potential monopolists in check. From Computer World, a security researcher has developed a software tool to evaluate ISPs treatment of...
View ArticleUSF Debate Rages
There’s a very interesting piece in Forbes about one of the other raging debates surrounding the telecommunications bill currently pending in the Senate. For once network neutrality is not the topic of...
View ArticleGilder’s 10 Laws of the Telocosm
I really enjoyed reading this piece from George Gilder on Forbes.com talking about the Ten Laws of the Telecosm. I was particularly enamored of the notion that dumb networks with smart edges prevail...
View ArticleNet Neutrality One More Time
Peter Huber has an interesting piece over at Forbes in which he lays out an example of how content providers today engage in network management that he describes as being “inegaitarian” and violating...
View ArticleGod Bless Tim Wu: Has AT&T Lost its Mind?
When Tim Wu writes something, I almost always enjoy reading it. In yesterday’s Slate Wu wrote a piece that addresses a recent baffling development. Last week AT&T executives announced that they...
View ArticleAsk A Ninja “Net Neutrality” Episode
For a long time I’ve been a fan of the “Ask a Ninja” web video series. I was happy today when an episode devoted to net neutrality arrived in my podcatcher. I know feel wholly inadequate that I never...
View ArticleGoogle Wants Its Own Fast Track on the Web – WSJ.com
A colleague of mine was kind enough to call to my attention this article from the Wall Street Journal (subscription required) that briefly describes a proposal by Google called OpenEdge. Some comments...
View ArticleForbes gets Amazon – Sprint Relationship Wrong?
Back in January 2007 I wrote a blog entry trying to explain the basics of network neutrality one more time. This was in response to a Forbes column by Peter Huber that claimed Content Delivery...
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