Articles by George Ou
George Ou was a network engineer who built and designed wired network, wireless network, Internet, storage, security, and server infrastructure for various fortune 100 companies. He is also a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP #109250). He was Technical Director and Editor at Large at ZDNet.com and wrote one of their most popular blogs “Real World IT.” In 2008, he became a Senior Analyst at ITIF.org and in 2009 helped create the nonprofit group Digital Society.
My DNS Filtering Research before House SOPA Panel
The US House of Representatives was debating the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) bill yesterday and the issue of DNS Filtering and the alleged danger to the Internet was raised. My [...]
FCC and AT&T Rural LTE Kerfuffle
A lot of ink has been spilled in the past week since AT&T withdrew its FCC application for a merger with T-Mobile and the FCC released a staff analysis report. [...]
The Shift to Smartphones in the Developed World
It’s a clear indication of mainstream smartphone adoption when even my mother is interested in getting a smartphone. She has always been content with a basic phone – not even [...]
How Technology and Markets Made Net Neutrality Moot
Before the courts have even ruled on Verizon’s lawsuit against the FCC‘s proposed Net Neutrality regulations, it appears that technological progress will make the wireless device neutrality portion of the [...]
“Unlimited” Now Equals 300 Megabytes
A small wireless company called Republic Wireless has started a new “unlimited” wireless voice/text/data service for $19 per month. It was bad enough when companies were calling 5 gigabytes unlimited, but [...]
Digital Day 11-01-11 Reading List
Today is digital (binary) day and the date is 11-01-11, though the 2-digit year masks the fact that it’s 1000 years too late. The year isn’t even over and it has [...]
$4.5 Billion Annual Subsidies for Broadband Approved
The FCC has unanimously approved the conversion of the $4.5 billion Universal Service Fund (USF) High Cost fund into the Connect America Fund (CAF) for bringing broadband to rural america. Even [...]
iPhone Buyers Complaining About Sprint 4G
Robert Graham says he’s the 18th person at his store to return his Sprint iPhone 4S for the following reason. Credit: Robert Graham While this is just one sample, it [...]
Smartphones & Tablets and the Spectrum Crunch
The FCC has posted a beautiful new “infographic,” shown below, about the continuing spectrum crunch. The FCC has been warning for some time about the looming spectrum crunch caused by [...]
Apple Already Wrote off T-Mobile, When Will the Government?
Everyone got an invite to dance with one of the prettiest girls in school except for poor old T-Mobile. Apple seems to believe T-Mobile is destined to collapse as an [...]
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