Updated: Senate Republicans last night backed off a plan aimed at popping the net neutrality balloon floated by the FCC on Monday, according to the Washington Post. This is smart thinking, as there’s still much to learn and a lot less to fear about the proposed regulatory rules than naysayers would have the average person [...] Continue »
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What to Expect From the New Net Neutrality Rules
Creating a formalized set of rules around net neutrality and applying them to all networks, a process announced today by Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski, isn’t as threatening a proposition as the major ISPs would have you believe. But the principles of net neutrality, basically allowing any device, any lawful application and any [...] Continue »
Startups Aim to Bring Personalization Back in Style
Morning panels at this year’s TechCrunch 50, which showcases 50 startups over two days, have wrapped up in San Francisco today, and so far we’ve seen big announcements from the non-startup world. Mint confirmed that it’s being acquired by Intuit, and Microsoft unveiled a visual search feature on Bing that lets users browse through web [...] Continue »
Will 4G Wireless Really Threaten Wires?
Later this year in Boston and Seattle, Verizon will test a wireless technology capable of delivering speeds that are comparable to those of basic cable modems and exceeding basic DSL. And the local Boston papers want to know if this means consumers should dump their wirelines and welcome the fourth-generation wireless technology as a [...] Continue »
The Battle for the Home Network Pits PCs Against Set-top Boxes
The other night I watched “Corpse Bride.” The Tim Burton flick was streamed from Netflix via my Time Warner broadband subscription, though my Linksys router to my Roku box, and from there through an HDMI cable to my television. But I could have watched a different movie on my TV using Time Warner’s video-on-demand [...] Continue »
Is the iPhone a Phone, a Computer? Or Both?
In explaining why SlingPlayer for the iPhone won’t include 3G support, AT&T broke new ground, equating the Apple device with PCs. “We consider smartphones like the iPhone to be personal computers in that they have the same hardware and software attributes as PCs,” the carrier told Engadget Tuesday night. The carrier defends its 3G [...] Continue »
iPod, Kindle, Facebook — and a Nomad Called Me
These days, we want to carry the contents of our homes with us wherever we go. Books, music, videos…they all represent the proverbial hearth. Of course, thanks to the availability of cheap wireless connections, we are getting rid of another fixture in our homes: the landline phone. Every quarter, there are roughly 3 million fewer landline phones. Now, a few changes of clothes and a computer, and suddenly home is not where the heart is, but where there’s a connection. Continue »
Welcome to Consumption-based Broadband
The all-you-can-eat broadband buffet appears to be at an end as ISPs implement caps and metered pricing for broadband services. The stated goal is network management, but the real reason is to cash in on the increasing value of the web despite being a dumb pipe. Today, Time Warner said it would expand its metered broadband [...] Continue »
Why BlackBerry Storm Is An iPhone (and G-1) Killer
Having followed activity in the BlackBerry ecosystem over the past few weeks, I have come to the conclusion that BlackBerry Storm should be called BlackBerry Stealth. Why? With little media coverage, its forthcoming launch is the sleeper play in the smartphone market; it is poised to make major market penetration on its launch later this fall. Continue »
The Perfect Apple for the Living Room
If Apple wants to dominate the living room, it will have to do better than the AppleTV. So with rumors abounding that the company is poised to launch a new consumer device, it’s time for a wish list as to what such a device would like like. Continue »
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