Today I wrote the FCC to express support for the AT&T-T-Mobile merger because it would greatly help app developers. The spectrum crunch is forcing carriers to throttle speeds for high data users. These are the kind of users that buy apps and contribute to the explosive growth in the apps [...]
Microsoft announced its long-awaited Windows Phone 7 will ship soon and early reviews are favorable. Their official announcement came last week, but some have been testing out pre-release prototypes and can’t stop talking about it. Apple blogger John Gruber of the website Daring Fireball called the unit a "real, credible [...]
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.
We all know those "hyper-users" that are constantly connected with their cell phones, smartphones, or other mobile device. Often, they're the person next to you on the metro or standing in line. Often, they're young. And according to a new Pew report, most of these young hyper-users are young Latinos [...]
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) today took a critical step toward achieving real accountability and institutional confidence by agreeing to a new “affirmation of commitments” with the U.S. Department of Commerce. The decision is very much in line with the recommendations I made in a piece [...]