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Argument Over Top-Level Domains Is 'Stupid'
4|11|13 | 2:07 | 3 comments

The whole Amazon.reader debate is a double-stupid. It's stupid to think that there's any e-book buyer who doesn't know Amazon's URL, and it was stupider to let ICANN launch the whole free-form TLD initiative to start with.

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Locked Handsets Aren't the Problem – Subsidies Are the Problem
3|13|13 | 2:09 | 10 comments

Subsidized handsets, rather than locked handsets, should be the focus of regulators. We're not getting good deals, not fostering innovation, and weakening our power as buyers.

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Firefox OS Points to Possible New Directions for Google
3|4|13 | 2:08 | 6 comments

A "Chromephone" would allow Google to regain the control it lost from Android.

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Terrorists Attack Our Refrigerators!
2|28|13 | 2:22 | No comments

50 billion household devices will be on the Internet by 2020, according to Cisco. And we're hearing foreign governments are hacking our infrastructure. Surely our refrigerators are next!

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It's Not Tablets That Threaten the PC
2|13|13 | 2:21 | 8 comments

Blaming the PC's gloomy future on tablets is an oversimplification.

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YouTube Payment Plan Could Get Complicated
2|4|13 | 2:10 | 5 comments

YouTube's move to a partial pay-for-view model could help relieve a dearth of good new content but it could also complicate debates in many parts of the world over payment by content providers for delivery of their material to customers.

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Google's Larry Page: We Are Living in Uncharted Territory
1|29|13 | 2:11 | 7 comments

That's what Larry Page said on Google's earnings call, referring to the conjunction of mobile and the cloud. Well, let's chart it then! We need to be thinking about an Internet where 90% of our traffic goes to 70 destinations within 40 miles of us.

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Graphing Facebook Graph Search's Success
1|25|13 | 2:13 | 10 comments

Facebook's Graph Search may face some profound challenges and risks, first, because Facebook users haven't been thinking of their posts as product reviews; and second, because Facebook will now have to contend with the social-network equivalent of SEO "gaming" of results.

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Europe Considers One Network to Cover them All
1|17|13 | 1:45 | 12 comments

EU operators are considering joining up to create a pan-European network to reduce competitive overbuild and cost. This might lower costs and focus operators on higher-level, more interesting services.

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Content Wars Will Define 2013
1|14|13 | 2:07 | 6 comments

2013 will see resolution of the conflict between content delivery systems such as Netflix and content providers, including broadcast TV networks.

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Good News: Streaming Video Could Be Coming to Rural Areas
1|10|13 | 2:16 | 9 comments

But the bad news is rural Internet providers might need to take a walled-garden approach.

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I'm Socially Fragmented!
1|9|13 | 2:16 | 7 comments

You are, too, and it's going to get worse because social media firms are pulling out of sharing deals to try to own their customers instead.

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Cisco & Linksys: A Problem at the Edge
1|4|13 | 2:15 | No comments

Cisco's rumored sale of Linksys suggests we may have problem with innovation and profit at the edge of our Internet, and that could be critical to the evolution of many Internet-delivered services.

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Apple TV: It's the Business Model
12|18|12 | 2:16 | 4 comments

Apple may want to do a TV offering, but to meet its goal it would have to address three specific issues that have been exposed by earlier attempts to make Internet TV work.

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Moratorium on Internet Regulation Could Be Dangerous
12|6|12 | 2:15 | No comments

Congress is considering a bill to extend a moratorium on Internet regulation changes for two years. But with issues like service quality, cloud performance, and privacy looming, we risk contaminating the Internet with fraud.

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Don't Be Scared of the ITU
12|4|12 | 2:04 | 8 comments

The risk of the ITU taking over the Internet is overblown. First, it's almost certain its goals are simply to create orderly interconnect and settlement. Second, how good a job has ICANN done anyway? If we don't like international control we should clean up our own processes in both governance and interconnect!

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UltraViolet Could Bring DRM Harmony
11|30|12 | 2:26 | No comments

The new UltraViolet online DRM model has people upset, but the question we should ask ourselves is whether we want a flexible model to harmonize content owner and content consumer rights, or a one-takes-all model that probably results in less online content.

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The Cloud May Be Taking Over the Internet
11|28|12 | 2:12 | 6 comments

A change in priorities for networking spending could indicate a fundamental shift in Internet architecture that would affect everyone.

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Tablet WiFi Getting Away From Us
11|9|12 | 2:08 | 2 comments

The iPad Mini is the latest iteration of the exploding tablet category. Because most tablets are WiFi-only, they create a new kind of mobile network. The problem is that we don't have issues like roaming and security defined for this new world.

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US at Risk of Internet Leadership Loss
11|6|12 | 2:07 | No comments

The new Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) initiative of operators is being run out of Europe's ETSI and not here in the United States, even though the issues have been here for five years. The US needs to step up; otherwise, it's surrendering leadership.

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Sandy Tests the Internet
11|1|12 | 2:13 | 2 comments

The superstorm demonstrates that we need to improve Internet reliability and its infrastructure.

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Uniting the Web World
10|31|12 | 1:51 | No comments

We need to establish some framework for cultural harmony and tolerance in the Internet community to prevent the best global forum that has ever been becoming a locus of ill will.

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What Microsoft Is Betting On With Windows 8
10|22|12 | 2:12 | 13 comments

Intel's numbers say the PC is at risk, and Microsoft's Windows 8 interface is an attempt to make Windows relevant in the tablet age. But Microsoft could be betting too much. A dramatic transformation to cloud-and-appliance would mean a big change for our industry.

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Yahoo Needs Tech Leadership
10|15|12 | 2:18 | 6 comments

Marissa Mayer at Yahoo has come out with her strategy on turning the company around: culture, company, calibration, and compensation. But Yahoo needs to have a technical approach to the mobile cloud opportunity, not a management theory lesson.

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Twitter Tweaks Twist Facebook?
9|20|12 | 2:07 | 8 comments

Twitter's changes are clearly aimed at being more Facebook-like, and this is because both companies are vying to serve the mobile social network market. But can that market work for anybody, given how difficult it is to push ads to social-update readers?

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Will the iPhone 5 Save Facebook?
9|14|12 | 2:16 | No comments

Just as Facebook promised a better mobile ad performance, Apple adds screen real estate in the iPhone 5 into which ads could fit.

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Apple Tablets Still Rule the Mobile Market
8|22|12 | 2:11 | 17 comments

Apple is falling further behind in the smartphone space but it looks as if Google is falling behind in the tablet world, and that may be the most important device in the mobile market. But there's still time for Google to catch up.

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Software-Defined Networking on the Internet
8|21|12 | 2:14 | 4 comments

Internet evolution has been stagnating both conceptually and in business model terms, and what is likely to bring us out of that is the concept of software-defined networking, not as it is today but in the form it will become.

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The Real Problem With Cloud Security
8|17|12 | 2:12 | 7 comments

All the recent hoopla about cloud security overlooks an important point, which is that it's not strictly a cloud problem. The linkage of online services into cooperative chains creates the risk, and only biometrics and federation of providers can save us.

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Thoughts on Google Knowledge Graph
8|15|12 | 2:14 | 2 comments

Google's Knowledge Graph concept of returning the "right answer" might change the Internet if it becomes a common practice, but it could also contaminate the answers with commericalism or hurt Google's own business. Can they navigate these choices?

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Streaming Video Requires an Ecosystem
8|8|12 | 2:19 | 3 comments

What do Apple TV, Google TV, Netflix, and Apple's tossing YouTube from iOS have in common? They prove that streaming video success is dependent on two things, a solid linkage to TV and an ecosystem surrounding the video to mine margins and profits for the provider.

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Microsoft Looks Out With Outlook.com
8|1|12 | 2:15 | 2 comments

Microsoft's changes to Hotmail to create Outlook.com are clearly aimed at solidifying a cloud portal position, but does the product offer anything that would really be a game-changer versus Google's Gmail?

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Netflix Learns a Lesson
7|27|12 | 2:08 | 7 comments

Netflix seemed to be a threat to all of TV, but with the current quarterly earnings report, it sure doesn't look as if that's true now. Netflix really proves that even Internet viewing of video isn't immune to profit and other business issues. This is a lesson we need to learn if we want a viable online video model.

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Open Letter to Marissa
7|18|12 | 2:11 | 13 comments

Yahoo's new CEO can't go back to what Yahoo was; that's how it got to what it is! Instead she has to look at something that Yahoo has always rejected, which is a relationship with the telcos and cablecos. They'd love a partner in creating service applications.

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Cloud Spawns Mobile Ecosystem
7|12|12 | 2:09 | 6 comments

The Amazon smartphone rumor and the Apple mini-iPad rumor show that the mobile device giants think they have to be in all the device spaces to win. Why? Because the cloud can create an ecosystem where every device can cooperate to support the user, and if you don't supply all the devices you miss out on the total value.

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Firefox Opens Up Smartphones
7|6|12 | 2:10 | 2 comments

Mozilla's Firefox OS could be a major advance in building smartphones and tablets with a more cloud-friendly and open interface, but there are still questions of performance and security that will have to be managed.

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Telcos Take Command of OTT Video
6|29|12 | 2:07 | 5 comments

Guess who wants to be a streaming video player? The telcos! And they're taking control of their own destiny by launching their own projects or investing in startups, rather than going with vendor solutions.

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Big Hype for Big Access
6|22|12 | 2:12 | 6 comments

Telcos and cable companies seem to be engaging in a speed war, pushing access up to 300Mbit/s. Does this mean our Internet is getting better? No, it means that the operators are thinking of ways to use the capacity outside the Internet.

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One Quota for All!
6|15|12 | 2:08 | 3 comments

Verizon's one-data-plan-for-all-devices could revolutionize mobile data by making it practical to have multiple devices share a plan, and thus encourage users to cellular-equip all their portable appliances.

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ITU Internet Regulation: Not So Bad!
6|7|12 | 2:14 | No comments

There's a lot of debate on whether ceding control of the Internet to the ITU/UN is bad for the Internet. Whether that's really true depends on just how much of the "control" we yield and what we do to balance the Internet as an innovation platform and as a service platform.

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Self-Driving Cars Need Stronger Security
5|24|12 | 2:09 | 7 comments

Self-driving cars are being tested in Nevada, but can this technology work optimally without Internet integration, and can we offer integration without improving security considerably? In fact, all M2M is a potential risk until security is tightened.

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Facebook's IPO Might Turn VCs Rational
5|15|12 | 2:09 | 15 comments

Facebook's IPO might change the way VCs look at funding fundamental Internet infrastructure research. If Facebook doesn't do well, VCs might move away from mindless flipping of social media startups and toward something serious. That could be good for everyone.

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The Likely Truth Behind WiFi Roaming
5|11|12 | 2:08 | 8 comments

Why are we hearing so much about WiFi roaming when what most users say they want is simply automatic registration and re-registration when they move into a hotspot? It may be because carriers want tablets to be made cellular-ready, to make it easier for someone to move from WiFi-only to 3G/4G.

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Devil in the Oracle/Google Details
5|3|12 | 2:07 | 11 comments

The Oracle/Google lawsuit is about arcane issues like APIs, but the ramifications of a decision here could touch every single software developer and every piece of software on the Internet. We're going to have to review the decision closely; it could stop innovation in its tracks!

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Apple's Handing Microsoft a Chance at Tablet
4|26|12 | 2:06 | 24 comments

Apple's numbers show that it may be giving Microsoft an opportunity to gain ground in tablets by failing to cement Mac, iPhone, and iPad lines together with an effective cloud strategy.

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LTE Replacing Wireline? Not!
4|19|12 | 2:07 | No comments

There are reports out there that say LTE providers want to throttle their services to protect wireline broadband. This, with Verizon dropping naked DSL? This, with LTE requiring as much deep fiber as wireline? Think again!

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IT Vendors to Define Network Services
4|13|12 | 2:12 | 8 comments

The future of telco/cable network services may be defined, not by network vendors, but by IT giants.

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Google & Facebook: Beware Yahoo!
4|5|12 | 2:14 | 9 comments

Yahoo's problems may be due to bad management in part, but they're also due to the fad nature of online advertising. It's easy to make costly mistakes here. Google and Facebook should beware.

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Pondering 'New Internet' Technology
3|28|12 | 2:10 | 4 comments

Over time, demand forces will change the Internet. What will this mean at the technology level? Think a combination of cloud-address technologies, like the Donabe, Melange, and Quantum activity, and the OpenFlow switching architecture.

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Measuring Online Violence vs. Real Risk
3|23|12 | 3:13 | 8 comments

Some say that exposure to violence in gaming, online video, etc., is creating a violent culture. Tom says it's not that straightforward. Rather than regulate violence, we should understand it better.

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A Glimpse of the New Internet!
3|16|12 | 2:07 | 8 comments

A combination of an announcement by DT and a Pew survey is showing us what the next-gen Internet may look like, and why. The demand for flexible services, created by rewired, iPhoned, social brains, combines with cloud and optical technology to create something totally new!

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Pricing Constraints With the 'New iPad'
3|8|12 | 02:08 | No comments

The new iPad may not have an official name, but its mission is to make an appliance/cloud combo as good as a desktop. The question is whether the business model of wireless broadband can keep up with the technology capabilities of Apple.

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AT&T Creates More Neutrality Confusion
3|1|12 | 2:12 | 4 comments

The AT&T notion of letting some apps "buy" the data for its users seems inconsistent with the neutrality principles designed to keep big sites from dominating the Internet. Is the principle wrong, or is AT&T's policy wrong? We need a consistent position here.

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Gaming May Drive Apple's 7-Inch iPad
2|24|12 | 2:05 | 19 comments

We think Amazon's Kindle Fire is pushing Apple to a smaller iPad format. But Sony's Vita and the interest in a small device for portable gaming may create the real threat. Keep your eye on the tablet-gaming space!

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IBM's New Vision of the Cloud
2|16|12 | 2:07 | 10 comments

IBM's latest user survey suggests that the real value of the cloud lies in enabling new business models, not in doing old IT stuff cheaply. If that's the case, we need a whole different kind of cloud debate, and a new vision of cloud services.

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SOPA: Forget Technical, Think Constitutional
1|27|12 | 2:09 | 5 comments

We're getting wrapped around the wrong issues with SOPA. The problem isn't in how it's enforced. It's the fact that the basic concept is a violation of due process.

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Video In-Home & In-Roam
1|23|12 | 2:09 | 16 comments

The drive to stream TV directly to HD sets, to tablets, or to PCs in the home may create a broader demand for streaming, and this could create a major new source of traffic pressure on mobile networks, mobile pricing, and mobile service policies.

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It's Time for Florida-Fi!
1|17|12 | 02:07 | 4 comments

Forget superFi. The real development in wireless is Florida-Fi! Bright House, a cable company in Florida, wants to wire the state for WiFi and help create a federation of cable players that could offer tablet owners a whole new way of getting online.

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Mobile Operators Prop Up Microsoft & RIM
1|12|12 | 2:13 | 3 comments

If RIM has fallen behind, and Microsoft was never there, smartphone-wise, who's keeping them in the game? The mobile operators! Why? Because mobile operators don't want a few giant handsets controlling their destiny.

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M2M Equals Mine-to-Mine
1|5|12 | 2:12 | 2 comments

M2M is a hot acronym, but maybe it should stand for "Mine-to-Mine" because our appliances exist in a zone of personal information. Managing cooperation of the devices within this zone will allow us to create value and understand and mitigate the security risks they pose.

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Google May Slip on Ice Cream Sandwich
1|2|12 | 2:01 | 8 comments

Google may give Microsoft an opening for its phone and tablet if it can't induce all the Android handset and tablet vendors to update their OSes to Version 4 (Ice Cream Sandwich). Forcing users to choose between buying a new device and having an obsolete OS is a bad idea.

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Patent Wars & Collateral Damage
12|28|11 | 2:06 | 5 comments

The patent wars in the handset space threaten mobile innovation. They also threaten every consumer who's bought or wants to buy a phone. We need to drive change from the consumer side.

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Here's $133. Now Give Me My Privacy!
12|16|11 | 2:05 | 13 comments

We've been sacrificing more privacy every day to the online industry, risking more identity theft, for sponsorship of our online experience. How much sponsorship? About $133 per year per household at the most. Where do I send my money to opt out?

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Seeking the Truth Online
12|8|11 | 2:10 | 11 comments

The quest for Webpage clicks and ad impressions is creating a market for sensational truths and lies in equal measure. How are we going to get to the bottom of any real issue online – like what's really going on with Carrier IQ, for example – if we can't separate hype from reality?

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Xbox, FiOS & the Future of 'Universal TV'
12|5|11 | 2:08 | 2 comments

Verizon has made the Xbox into a basic set-top box, so does that mean streaming video will replace TV after all? That's complicated. It turns out there are three different video models and three different futures for them.

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Measuring Digital Degrees of Separation
11|29|11 | 02:11 | 21 comments

Latest data shows we're separated by 4.74 degrees, rather than six. But do social connections online really count as connections? Or are we creating, via social networks, more loose and trivial relationships that inhibit the creation of real ones?

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Sony & Apple Could Threaten the Net
11|14|11 | 2:10 | 2 comments

Sony and Ericsson broke up so Sony can compete more effectively with Apple. But is that competition pulling the power of innovation out of the Net by creating a shell of gadgets that hide us from the Internet (and hide the Net from us)?

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Watch for Nokia's Featurephones!
11|3|11 | 2:06 | 4 comments

Nokia's Phone 7 commitment gets all the news, but it may be Nokia's line of featurephones that will make the difference. Putting stuff in the cloud makes the handset cheaper and eases worries about data plan usage as well, making this ideal for emerging market opportunities and holdout buyers.

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Netflix's Woes Are a Sign
10|27|11 | 2:09 | 20 comments

Netflix lost more customers than the Street expected, because people are upset about price increases, but are users inevitably facing even higher costs for streaming video in the future? The portal players are in a squeeze, and consumers will likely pay in the end.

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We Win the Skype/Google Voice Wars
10|21|11 | 2:08 | 4 comments

The increased competition between Microsoft/Skype and Google Voice may create a whole new kind of calling experience for us all, one that's both socially bound and much less expensive. We will need to watch for the opportunities it creates.

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Apple Doesn't Like Ice Cream!
10|11|11 | 2:07 | 2 comments

Apple's patent duel with Samsung may be in large part because it doesn't like Ice Cream Sandwich and the union of the tablet and smartphone arms of Android. But the multi-device angle may be more important than the characteristics of individual phones or tablets.

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iPhone? More Like iPhony!
10|5|11 | 2:07 | 10 comments

People are right to be disappointed by Apple's iPhone 4S announcement, but not because of the phone itself. Rather, they should be disappointed with Apple's lack of innovation with iCloud.

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Amazon Fire Is More Than a 'Nook-Alike'
9|29|11 | 2:07 | 11 comments

Amazon's new Fire isn't an iPad competitor, but it is a device that will rival Barnes and Noble's Nook. It also may signal a shift toward retail-dominated Web media versus the ad-dominated form. In short, be prepared to pay more for content!

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Facebook Gets More Intrusive
9|22|11 | 2:10 | 21 comments

Facebook's latest round of changes may be more appealing to those whose lives revolve around it. In an attempt to get more committed eyeballs, Facebook may be making itself too intrusive to appeal to those who use it rarely, or not at all. That's the wrong choice in this now-competitive space.

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Facebook's New Friends Lists Make Things Awkward
9|19|11 | 2:07 | 6 comments

Facebook's "Improved Friends Lists" are rolling out, but they're very different from Google+ Circles. The latter are like private labels; you're the only one who sees them. The former are like rooms you can invite visitors to, where they see you and each other. Google's approach is better.

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No Cheers for Yahoo!
9|7|11 | 2:08 | 16 comments

Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz has been removed, and the question is whether the company can succeed under ANY leadership. It has two problems: its Internet startup culture and its unwillingness to take advantage of potential partnerships with telcos and cable companies.

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Enough With IPv4 Already!
9|1|11 | 2:10 | 9 comments

The proposal to make more IPv4 addresses available through a buy-and-sell exchange is dumb and won't work. We've fiddled on this issue long enough; it's time to just make the switch to IPv6 and be done with it!

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Google's Cellular-Carrier Strategy
8|24|11 | 2:05 | 4 comments

Google bid on spectrum once, but it can get into the cellular carrier business a cheaper way by becoming a mobile virtual network operator. Since Apple is looking at that approach, we may get our phone service from our handset vendors in the future.

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More Mobile Devices Are Coming!
8|19|11 | 2:05 | 8 comments

Google's buy of Motorola Mobility will start a wave of innovation. Prepare to see handset models with bigger screens and even new TV applications as Apple and Google spar for new opportunities in the market.

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Solving Microsoft's Smartphone Problem
8|11|11 | 2:09 | 4 comments

I've got the solution to Microsoft's smartphone problem: Forget Phone 7, forget Nokia, forget smartphones! Instead, focus on making Windows 8 a killer in the tablet space.

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Lies, Statistics & the FCC
8|5|11 | 2:09 | 2 comments

The FCC has just released statistics on broadband, but they don't measure anything useful. We need good data if we're ever going to have good policy.

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Mozilla Needs to Focus on B2G
8|1|11 | 2:11 | 4 comments

Mozilla has a bold strategy to create a new model of mobile OS by making HTML5 essentially a part of the operating system, creating an open developer framework for future apps. The question is whether they're sincerely trying to elevate HTML5 or to get back at Google for Chrome's success.

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Google+: Going the Distance
7|28|11 | 2:07 | 10 comments

Google+ has gained a lot of ground since its launch, but to be a winner it needs to be quickly opened up to the full market. Google also has to think about how to expand its video hangout capability to make it into something that will provide enduring differentiation from Facebook/Skype.

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The Real Impact of Google+
7|15|11 | 2:13 | 14 comments

Maybe Google+ will be competitive and maybe it won't, but it's likely to introduce video calling and OTT communications as a replacement for standard telephony. There will be major consequences to this, and we don't have an FCC or political framework capable of coping.

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Where Our Real Cloud Lies
7|6|11 | 2:06 | 6 comments

VMware's CEO is now talking about a cloud takeover based on "contextual intelligence" and he's almost right. The cloud that will matter most to us is the mobile cloud, and it's important because it can provide "community intelligence," which will be critical for mobile app success.

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How Amazon's Tablet Could Change the iPad Model
7|1|11 | 2:09 | 2 comments

Amazon's upcoming tablet may not be a technical revolution over the iPad, but it might be a business model revolution that pushes Apple toward a subsidize-tablet-with-service approach. That might bring a major change to the tablet market.

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Beware Hulu's Sale!
6|27|11 | 2:07 | 6 comments

Hulu is supposed to be up for sale. Some say the business model is bad, some it may be too good. Whatever it is, it makes more sense for Hulu's owners to work out a position for OTT video than to sell off the venture and let someone else do that.

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Striking a Balance With YouTubeTV
6|24|11 | 2:10 | 5 comments

Google is rumored to be prepping a channelized streaming TV offering out of YouTube. It may prove that streaming video programming can strike the balance between paid and ad-sponsored and still deliver content we're willing to watch.

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ICANN: Yet Another Self-Serving Move
6|21|11 | 2:19 | 21 comments

ICANN's plan to create new top-level domains doesn't do the Internet user community any good. Instead, it puts companies at risk of having trademark names held hostage, and it lines ICANN's pockets. Guess what the motivation is here!

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Pondering Comcast/Skype
6|17|11 | 2:18 | 8 comments

Comcast's deal with Skype for on-TV videoconferencing seems illogical on its face: It encourages the worst kind of traffic for cable broadband providers. So could they have a deeper strategy to monetize this, one that might test neutrality rules yet again?

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Internet-in-a-Suitcase: Help or Warfare?
6|15|11 | 2:06 | 7 comments

The US government's notion of "Internet in a suitcase" to provide online access where repressive regimes suspend it might be helpful in a democratic sense, but it may provoke more government attacks on the Internet itself, opening real online warfare.

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The Most Dangerous Internet Company
6|13|11 | 2:08 | 13 comments

The most dangerous company online is one you know well: Facebook. The financial pyramid swindle we call "Venture Capital" is driving Facebook to find more and more revenue to pay off its backers – and to put our privacy more and more at risk.

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Security: Not Just a Hacker Problem
6|9|11 | 2:14 | 4 comments

Security issues are all over the media today, along with condemnation of hackers who "create" them, but the sad truth is that only one enterprise in eight says it would submit to a public security audit. We need to get serious about this issue as we head into the cloud era.

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Windows 8: Destined for Tablets
6|3|11 | 2:10 | 6 comments

Microsoft's early comments about Windows 8 suggest that its real focus is tablets. The tablet features would have to compete head-to-head with Apple and Android.

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Apple Could Cut the Carrier Cord
6|1|11 | 2:07 | 12 comments

Apple is said to be preparing a new iPhone that's technically carrier-independent. Apple may split from carriers financially, too, by subsidizing iPhones and iPads with subscriptions to its impending cloud-based media service.

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NFC: Think Outside the Credit Card
5|27|11 | 2:05 | 2 comments

We're hearing a lot about phones and NFC being used instead of credit cards, but it seems more likely that a mobile purchase ecosystem would build from coupons and research and even advertising, and embrace payment handling only as a last logical step. Watch Apple and Google here for developments.

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US Broadband Is a Mess!
5|25|11 | 2:06 | 8 comments

Everything about US broadband policy is inconsistent, deceitful, or both, and we're at risk of having our services get even worse relative to the rest of the world if we don't make people accountable for their data and their choices.

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Lesson From LinkedIn IPO
5|20|11 | 02:06 | 10 comments

LinkedIn's IPO will open the door for some insight on how social net insiders think their own market space will fare. If LinkedIn now starts plucking up social startups it means it believes in its core business. If it grabs peripheral plays, it means the company thinks the opportunity for social networking may be fleeting.

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Internet’s Role in Rebuilding Governments
5|18|11 | 1:53 | 14 comments

Social media has broken news and torn down governments, but is it a force for good? Not until we can use the power of the Internet to build up something to replace what's been destroyed.

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Google Prepares a 'Life Fabric'
5|13|11 | 2:07 | 16 comments

Google’s Android@Home is the first step in its plans to create an Android-powered "life fabric," where appliances lead us through changing, controlling, and, yes, maybe monitoring our lives. Are we ready to sort out the bad from the good in this?

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