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Are “Managed Services” a New Thing?
The reaction to the Internet regulation framework Google and Verizon laid out on August 9th by the tech blogs was extremely uniform: the bloggers harshly criticized the firms, Google in particular, in very personal terms ("sellout," "surrender monkey", "greedy swindler," etc.) and lambasted the agreement for its failings in terms of mobile broadband and managed services.
Crashing the Internet
Something interesting happened on the Internet Friday that you may not have noticed. For a fairly brief period of time, about 2% of sites lost their connection (couldn’t communicate with the rest of the Internet.) It was caused by a latent bug in Cisco routers that was triggered by an experiment run by researchers at Duke University with RIPE NCC, [...]
Unclouded Vision
Editor's summary: Cloud Computing is, in some ways, a throwback to the mainframe era, a movement that stands in stark contrast to advanced research in distributed computing. In this original paper, the authors, four leading computer science professors in the UK, propose a vision of the future of computing termed "Droplets" which combines the best features of centralized cloud computing and distributed personal computing. "Droplets" gives users control over access to their personal data through the use of cryptographic tokens they can distribute to groups of their choosing. This system allows data-mining by commercial cloud services and reading by the right audience, but prevents corruption and hijacking of user data.
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Security and the Cloud
Here’s another reason to read Unclouded Vision. IBM: Biggest threat to the cloud could be security issues | VentureBeat The number of exploitable options in computer programs grew by 36 percent in 2010, largely a result of the increased prevalence [...]
LTE Rolling-out in Sweden
TeliaSonera is one of the most forward-looking network operators in the world. Here’s the news on their LTE roll-out. TeliaSonera plans LTE in 218 Swedish communities in 2011 – FierceBroadbandWireless TeliaSonera has introduced its LTE network in Gothenburg, Sweden, and [...]
A Milestone in Publishing
This had to happen sometime, but I’m surprised it was so soon. Amazon Says E-Books Now Top Hardcover Sales – NYTimes.com Monday was a day for the history books — if those will even exist in the future. Amazon.com, one [...]
Damn the Internet, Let’s Fire Up the Base
I don’t generally write about politics on this blog because it has a technology focus, but a couple of things have happened in the political sphere recently that are too outrageous to ignore. They’re smoking guns which, in my opinion, [...]
A Question of Priorities
Jerry Brito, a legal scholar who’s a fellow at the Mercatus Center, posted a thoughtful piece about Internet priorities yesterday at the TLF blog, Let’s get our priorities straight. Jerry starts by commenting on a recent piece by Litan and [...]
Google Responds to Attacks
Rick Whitt has penned an explanation for the thinking behind the Google-Verizon Open Internet proposal on the Google Public Policy Blog, Facts about our network neutrality policy proposal: Over the past few days there’s been a lot of discussion surrounding [...]
Confidence in the Media Restored
This is a milestone. Eliza Krigman of National Journal’s Tech Daily Dose wrote a post this week on some comments that I filed with the FCC on behalf of ITIF that indicate she understands what we’re saying: ITIF maintains that [...]
Reality Always Wins
Lovely essay in the WSJ by Holman Jenkins, End of the Net Neut Fetish: Historians, if any are interested, will conclude that the unraveling of the net neutrality movement began when the iPhone appeared, instigating a tsunami of demand for [...]
Shrill Reactions
I’ve really been amazed by how shrill the reaction has been on the left to the Google-Verizon proposal. You’d think they’d set fire to the Internet Exchanges simply by proposing a starting point for some Congressional action to clarify the [...]
A Ferrari for the Price of a Geo Metro
The Wall Street Journal has a pretty decent survey of the reaction to the Google-Verizon Internet Proposal: Phone and cable companies say they need leeway in managing their Internet networks so bandwidth hogs such as video services don’t take up [...]
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