Net Neutrality: The Real Issue
The recent AT&T merger and Senate net neutrality bill (see our takes here and here) have understandably given rise to a flood of commentary. Although Read More…
Month: May 2006
Bye Bye Cingular, AT&T Name Taking Over Monday: Cool Traded In for Stuffy
AT&T won’t say how much the rebranding will cost but claims it will benefit from having one name on all its services. But is it worth it? The coRead More…
The Politics of Net Neutrality
On Tuesday a Senate net neutrality bill was introduced by Sens. Olympia Snowe and Byron Dorgan. It’s mostly the same as the one they introduced lastRead More…
How to Get Your Comments Dugg…
A site on the web is asking folks to vote on features they’d most like to see implemented on Digg. One of them is a user rating system based on comRead More…
Apple Releases iPhone, Changes Name, and Gets Sued: All Smart Moves
So unless you’ve been hiding under a rock the past couple days, you’ve inevitably heard that Apple released its highly anticipated iPhone, fusing Read More…
Letter from IT Personnel at Purdue University: No Upgrades to Vista, Office 2007, or even IE7
Purdue University is a Big Ten school with 40,000+ students and a fairly tech savvy campus. But due to bugs, compatibility issues, and lack of backwarRead More…
Encyclopedia Britannica Content in Wikipedia?
The other day I was looking up an article on Wikipedia – The Battle of Agincourt. Every time I visit Wikipedia, I come away impressed at the breadRead More…
This Week in Cyberlaw, 1/7/07 Letter from IT Personnel at Purdue University: No Upgrades to Vista, Office 2007, or even IE7 Get an Emmy for Your MySpace Videos, MySpace Offering Scholarships
MySpace.com and the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences are announcing today that amateur video makers (anyone using MySpace) can submit thRead More…
This Week in Cyberlaw, 1/7/07
Net neutrality has been in the news. The must-read article of the week is by Lawrence Lessig in Wired about the regulation of technology. He says thatRead More…
Online Music at a Tipping Point?
The LA Times reports on the latest Nielsen SoundScan data for 2006. Interesting is that the number of albums by which CD sales declined was more than Read More…