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Network Neutrality: Pretty Much Just Socialism

NEWS By ANTON WAHLMAN16 YEARS AGO

Someone has to say it. The debate surrounding so-called net neutrality proposed policies reminds me of a heavily Marxist-influenced student protest from 1968. It’s all about keeping private property in name only, while regulating the product so that it can only be …

iPhone 4 Recall: A Really Dumb Idea

NEWS By ANTON WAHLMAN16 YEARS AGO

The rumors about an Apple iPhone 4 recall has to be one of the most useless ideas in recent technology memory. There is nothing about the design flaw that could be fixed in any recall, short of rebuilding the phone from scratch …

Did AT&T Just Give Their Wireless Data Business to Clear?

NEWS By ANTON WAHLMAN16 YEARS AGO

In a somewhat stunning about-face from the recently implemented unlimited data plan for the iPad, AT&T announced the effective end to unlimited data. Gone are the days when you could stream Netflix to your cellular device such as Apple’s iPhone or iPad …

Big Win For Clearwire With Beceem’s IPO Plans

NEWS By ANTON WAHLMAN16 YEARS AGO

On Friday after the close of market, Beceem filed its S-1, paving the way for its IPO in the coming months. The investors are mostly venture capitalists and some management participation, with Intel being the strategic investor at 20.3% (page 102 of …

Android’s Advantage Is WiMax At Least For Now

NEWS By ANTON WAHLMAN16 YEARS AGO

Sprint recently announced it will soon launch America’s first WiMax smartphone, the HTC Evo 4G. This smartphone looks much like the HTC HD2 now offered by T-Mobile, but it operates on America’s dominant WiMax network, built by Clearwire where Sprint is a …

iPhone on Verizon? Time for Some Logic

NEWS By ANTON WAHLMAN16 YEARS AGO

With the latest in a long line of Verizon iPhone rumors recently circulated by The Wall Street Journal, it’s worth commenting on the engineering logic and how it relates to a timeline for such a potential event. First of all, I have …

iPad Has User Log-In Flaw

NEWS By ANTON WAHLMAN16 YEARS AGO

Amazingly, nobody has yet pointed out a severe usage limitation on Apple’s iPad that surely will cause grief with the very first reviewers. I’ll get right to the bottom line: Just like the iPod Touch, the iPhone and most or even all …

Opinion: Abolish The FCC

NEWS By ANTON WAHLMAN17 YEARS AGO

Once upon a time, when I was a student of economics and foreign policy, we had to learn about government five-year plans to accomplish this or that. "The central government is marshaling the productive forces to build X, Y or Z for …

Please Rob Me: The Sky is Falling

NEWS By ANTON WAHLMAN17 YEARS AGO

If you’re active at all on the location based status update sites like BrightKite or Foursquare, then you’ve more than likely heard about the Please Rob Me website. A good friend let me know about the site and he’s stopped using both …

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