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Unfit to Print

NEWS By RICHARDBENNETT14 YEARS AGO

Spectrum policy is one of the most difficult policy issues that Congress has to deal with, and for that reason the Communications Act of 1934 established the FCC as a non-political technical expert to handle the implementation of Congressional policy in the …

Spectrum Reality

NEWS By RICHARDBENNETT15 YEARS AGO

Now that a detente of sorts has been reached with Congressional efforts to muzzle some of the most egregious criminal sites on the Internet, attention came resume on some of the other pressing tech policy issues.The spectrum crunch was at the top …

Why Did Vint Cerf Say That?

NEWS By RICHARDBENNETT15 YEARS AGO

Vint Cerf, one of the primary designers of TCP/IP and a man who’s among the “fathers of the Internet” has an Op-Ed recently in The New York Times arguing that Internet access is not a “human right.” This has a lot of …

Giving Android a Chance

NEWS By RICHARDBENNETT15 YEARS AGO

A little less than a month ago, I wrote some effusive praise for the iPhone 4S on this blog and chronicled my buying experience. The 4S is a very impressive device in many respects, but my experience with it on a day-to-day …

Verizon Takes a Step Forward

NEWS By RICHARDBENNETT15 YEARS AGO

PC Magazine broke a very interesting piece of news Saturday about a new system Verizon has developed for their wireless network. Briefly put, this system presents an API that allows applications to signal their bandwidth and latency requirements to the network, and …

Get Ready for Metered Wi-Fi

NEWS By RICHARDBENNETT15 YEARS AGO

There’s a story in today’s New York Times on the impact the iPad is having on hotel Wi-Fi networks. Conclusion: Expect hotels to implement volume-sensitive pricing for Internet access via Wi-Fi. The typical plan will give you enough data for e-mail and …

Landmark Study Finds That Cell Phones Do not Cause Cancer

NEWS By RICHARDBENNETT15 YEARS AGO

A group of researchers at the Danish Cancer Society’s Institute of Cancer Epidemiology in Copenhagen and at the International Agency for Research on Cancer in Lyon have concluded the first serious prospective study of a large population of both cell phone users …

The iPhone 4S Buying Experience

NEWS By RICHARDBENNETT15 YEARS AGO

I bought my first iPhone Friday after bucking the trend for lo these many years. This was an upgrade from the Blackberry Bold 9000 that I’ve carried for nearly three years. The iPhone isn’t my first Apple product – I’ve got an …

Remaking the Internet

NEWS By RICHARDBENNETT15 YEARS AGO

The Time Warner Research Program has published my essay on the Internet architecture, . The essay examines the issues that make it difficult if not impossible for the Internet to continue to grow and meet the challenges that innovation throws at it. …

Reacting to the Broadband Speed Data

NEWS By RICHARDBENNETT15 YEARS AGO

Over on the Innovation Policy Blog I take a look at the FCC’s broadband speeds report and some of the reactions to it: The results are surprising to some because they contradict a widely-circulated myth to the effect that America’s residential broadband …

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