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Verizon is setting up a Wild West-style telecom showdown by expanding its FiOS network further into territory traditionally held by rival AT&T, says a new report from Information Gatekeepers.
According to IGI, a telecom consulting firm, Verizon’s recent FiOS expansion into areas of northern Texas could mark the first time that one [...]
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One of the great insults
December 30th, 2008 Richard Bennett
Brzezinski says to Scarborough: “You have a such stunningly superficial knowledge of what went on it’s almost embarrassing to listen to you.”
I know just how he feels. Larry Lessig’s opinion in Newsweek about a government ministry to make sure “innovation” happens is along the same lines. “Innovation”, which is neither good nor bad, happens [...]
The People’s Movement (for Google)
December 22nd, 2008 Richard Bennett I did a podcast with the folks at The Technology Liberation Front on Google’s edge-caching system:
This week we saw a new kerfuffle of sorts develop over the revelation in a Monday front-page Wall Street Journal story that Google had approached major cable and phone companies and supposedly proposed to create a fast lane for its [...]
Holy Moly
December 18th, 2008 Richard Bennett Hilda Solis is Obama’s labor pick:
WASHINGTON (AP) — A labor official says Rep. Hilda Solis of California will be nominated as labor secretary by President-elect Barack Obama.
The Democratic congresswoman was just elected to her fifth term representing heavily Hispanic portions of eastern Los Angeles County and east L.A. She is the daughter of Mexican and [...]
Virgin Media serves the people, not the pirates
December 16th, 2008 Richard Bennett The Register broke a story today about the plan by the UK’s cable company, Virgin Media, to dump neutrality and target BitTorrent users
The UK’s second largest ISP, Virgin Media, will next year introduce network monitoring technology to specifically target and restrict BitTorrent traffic, its boss has told The Register.
The move will represent a major policy [...]
My Google piece in The Register
December 15th, 2008 Richard Bennett Thanks to the miracle of trans-Atlantic collaborative journalism, here’s my quick take on Google’s caching scheme:
Network Neutrality, the public policy unicorn that’s been the rallying cry for so many many on the American left for the last three years, took a body blow on Sunday with the Wall Street Journal’s disclosure that the movement’s sugar-daddy [...]
Google Gambles in Casablanca
December 14th, 2008 Richard Bennett I’m shocked.
Google has been caught red-handed negotiating deals with ISPs to host servers inside the building, just like Akamai does. The semi-technical press thinks this is some sort of a game-changing event:
The celebrated openness of the Internet — network providers are not supposed to give preferential treatment to any traffic — is quietly losing powerful [...]
Bye bye G1
December 12th, 2008 Richard Bennett After suffering with the Google phone for 4 weeks, I took it back to T-Mobile yesterday (the contract says you only have 14 days, but I live in California where the time limit on an upgrade return is 30 days.) Jeff Turner describes the G1 appropriately: Like Windows 2.0, it’s good enough that you can [...]
Illinois
December 9th, 2008 Richard Bennett The Illinois auction is simply amazing in its ineptitude. In Alaska, they would have put the Senate seat on eBay.
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Why Kevin Martin was throwing things and cussing today
December 8th, 2008 Richard Bennett A cable guy saved a few lives today:
When Jorge Rivera saw thick, black smoke force a woman to drop a young girl from the top floor of a Silver Spring apartment building, he did not hesitate to act. The Comcast repairman pulled over, yanked the ladder off his truck and ran to rescue those still [...]
