Oct 21, 2007 | broadband, business, Internet
Advocates of “network neutrality” have trouble conveying the real world implications of an arcane-sounding technical issue. Two items in the news help illustrate why it’s an issue to fight about.”Network neutrality” is the underlying...
Oct 10, 2007 | business, law
Electronic discovery – production of electronic data in litigation – is increasingly common, and often difficult and expensive. Amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure were intended to make electronic discovery more predictable but the effect...
Sep 23, 2007 | business, games, Microsoft
Halo 3 will be released for the XBox 360 on Tuesday. I know, you don’t play games, but this is one of those cultural events that are worth knowing about to keep from feeling old and out of touch.It’s likely that the sales during the first 24 hours will be...
Sep 8, 2007 | broadband, business, Internet
The press occasionally notices that Comcast limits the amount of bandwidth that a cable subscriber is allowed to use. The Washington Post just published an article about the Comcast bandwidth caps.The idea is that a handful of people download a huge amount of data...
Sep 3, 2007 | broadband, business, wireless
In January, Google and Earthlink signed a contract to set up free high-speed wireless Internet access for the entire city of San Francisco. The deal provided that EarthLink would pay the city $2 million for the right to build, install and run a free Wi-Fi network that...
Aug 30, 2007 | audio, business, DRM
Sony is killing ATRAC, its proprietary format for music files. Here’s a brief news article about today’s death notice.This isn’t important – no one every downloaded any files from Sony’s store in the ATRAC format. (The store is being...
