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iPhone Killers, Blackberries and Chicken Parts

By Mark Sigal
October 28, 2009

While a steady stream of so-called iPhone Killers are filtering into the market, Apple's momentum continues unabated. Inspired by his own experiences upgrading to the Blackberry Tour, the author ponders why so many solution provides confuse delivering a bunch of 'chicken parts' with producing an actual, living, breathing chicken.

Verizon Mi-Fi2200 Intelligent Mobile Hotspot

By Brian Jepson
June 5, 2009

The folks at Verizon Wireless and Weber Shandwick Worldwide sent me a review unit of the Verizon Mi-Fi2200 Intelligent Mobile Hotspot. It's a great device that combines the broad coverage of EV-DO (the 3G cellular data system used by Verizon...

Will Open Mobile Access Benefit Book Publishing?

By Mac Slocum
March 21, 2008

If open access is truly embraced, the new spectrum could yield a host of mobile applications related to the book publishing industry.

Network neutrality: code words and conniving at yesterday's FCC hearing (Part 2 of 2)

By Andy Oram
February 27, 2008

Yesterday I summarized the public FCC hearing about bandwidth at the Harvard Law School, and referred readers to a more comprehensive background article. In this article I'll highlight some of the rhetoric at the meeting, which shows that network providers' traffic shaping is no more sophisticated or devious than the shaping of public perceptions by policy-makers and advocates.

Network neutrality: how the FCC sees it (Part 1 of 2)

By Andy Oram
February 26, 2008

The mere announcement of an FCC hearing on "broadband network management practices" was a notch in the gun of network neutrality advocates. Yet to a large extent, the panelists and speakers were like petitioners who are denied access to the king and can only bring their complaints to the gardeners who decorate the paths outside his gate. I wrote a major analysis two years ago that I really think still stands as an accurate representation of the issues. What we'll end up getting is a formal endorsement of non-discrimination as a policy that Internet providers must follow, leading to continual FCC review of current practices by telecom and cable companies.

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