US at Risk of Internet Leadership Loss - Second Shooter

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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Written by Tom Nolle

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Argument Over Top-Level Domains Is 'Stupid'

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Locked Handsets Aren't the Problem – Subsidies Are the Problem

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Firefox OS Points to Possible New Directions for Google

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Terrorists Attack Our Refrigerators!

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It's Not Tablets That Threaten the PC

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YouTube Payment Plan Could Get Complicated

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Google's Larry Page: We Are Living in Uncharted Territory

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Graphing Facebook Graph Search's Success

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Europe Considers One Network to Cover them All

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Content Wars Will Define 2013

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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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Rural Areas Still Lack Broadband
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Many enterprises view high-speed broadband connections as ubiquitous. Yet in about 20 percent of the country, businesses and their employees do not have access to even DSL connections. This shortcoming diminishes enterprises' ability to support their employees.

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Moratorium on Internet Regulation Could Be Dangerous
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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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Legitimizing Virtual Office Visits
7|5|12 | 1:44 | 5 comments

Healthcare providers have been moving to telemedicine treatments, where the patient and doctor can meet online, but insurance carriers are not required to pay for such treatments. This may change, though, as Maryland recently passed a law mandating that insurers pay up.

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Reaping the Benefits of Software-Defined Networks
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Software-defined networks, which deliver virtualization functions to enterprise networks, have the potential to dramatically change network design and significantly reduce costs and maintenance.

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Wells Fargo Sales Get Social Business Boost
1|16|13 | 2:30 | 2 comments

Wells Fargo uses social software to replace email chains and help its sales team collaborate more effectively to land deals, according to Kelli Carlson-Jagersma, VP Collaboration Strategy for Wells Fargo. Mitch Wagner spoke with Carlson-Jagersma at the E2Innovate conference

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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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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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