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The FCC is now seeking comment on the transition from the legacy circuit switched voice network to a future all-IP network. This announcement is the beginning of a long and arduous process that will have profound financial and regulatory implications […]
Is the FCC ready to look at renovating the beachfront property? The folks at the CommLaw Blog think so. They are daring to ask the question “What is more in the public’s interest? Using the beachfront spectrum for more broadband […]
The Comcast/NBC partnership is good for Net Neutrality. Why? Because it provides the clearest possible example to the greatest number of people of the dangers of a walled internet without the neutrality principle. Owning NBC, Comcast now has a clear […]
Two areas of policy that I don’t ordinarily touch are Education and Healthcare. I just don’t know enough about the economics or deep underlying theories to have as informed opinions as I would like. However, with Healthcare reform once again […]
Henry Blodget boldly writes the obituary for the latest Google competitor, the Wolfram Alpha Computational Engine, this morning in the Business Insider. Blodget is absolutely right as is this commentator that Google has too much of a head start and […]
Lively post this morning on Tech Crunch about the coming debut of paper sized e-readers, including a new Kindle, and whether these devices will save newspapers. Internet journalists have their long knives out more than ever for print journalists. It […]
With the internet economy clearly in only the strong survive mode, I think it is helpful to review the internet business model at its most basic. Those executing this plan well will make money and survive. Those executing it poorly […]
An interesting post in the Insider, highlights an issue with Google that I believe will not go away. The rules behind Google’s Page Rank are completely non-transparent and must be ferreted out by SEO deep-divers, who spend their careers trying […]
I have been making predictions in private that Google is likely to come under Justice department scrutiny for anti-trust in the next year or two. Regardless of their intentions Google has achieved a de facto monopoly on search and search […]