ICANN Takes Wrong Turn on New TLD Contracts
When ICANN Chairman Peter Dengate-Thrush, an accomplished attorney, said last year that he wouldn't let one of his own clients agree to a contract that could be unilaterally changed after it was signed, the Internet community breathed a sigh of relief. But when the Chairman backed away from that stance earlier this week in Nairobi, it became clear that we should have held our breath a little bit longer.
Free Press forgets Day Job, Decides to become Small Business Advocacy Group
Today, Free Press, an organization dedicated to free speech and media on the internet, decided to take on the mantle of a small business advocacy group, without bothering to look what small business actually needs. Free Press called for the FCC to "take immediate action to solve to competition problem", but what they want would not result in a single new piece of dark fiber being lit, or even one new rack of edge caching servers being bought. Instead, more lawyers will be paid to argue about new ways to regulate an industry that is already regulated.
This Week in Antitrust
The third in a series of round ups of the tech industry's various antitrust cases and related topics, this week's entry focuses on Apple's use of the ARM microchip in its coming blockbuster, [...]
This Week In Antitrust
Here is the second in a series of weekly round ups of the tech industry's various antitrust cases and "potential" antitrust concerns. Recent antitrust news has increasingly focused on European Union moves to curb [...]
What happens to the art when the artist can’t make a living from his or her work?
Why do we choose the products we choose, when there are so many alternatives? Viewers gravitate to the music, movies and art of professionals so it behooves us to allow those professionals who simply work harder and for longer on their craft to enjoy the fruits of that labor.
The New Question is: who DOESN’T have a new CPU?
A while back we did a paper looking at the CPU marketplace and how new chips help to foster new software sales. A chart from Gizmodo sums up one of our points: Every chip manufacturer is playing in the iPad/Slate/tablet game.