At Business Insider, Henry Blodgett is at his snarkiest in dismissing Microsoft’s forthcoming Mobile Windows Phone 7 operating system as “a fantasy,” with no chance of making a dent in the market. (And when the mood is on Blodgett, he sets a high standard of snark.) Blodgett’s reasoning is simple: Microsoft will charge $15 per instrument for the OS; Android is free. QED.
Not so fast, Henry, because Microsoft’s entry sets up a fascinating natural experiment in business models, as varying approaches compete with each other, and pre-judging the outcome is …

Sunlight Research is sponsoring a Webinar (paid) on the Oracle-Google case on Sept. 8.  Note the business model here – an Internet session put on by a patent expert, complete with background materials distributed in pdf, for a charge, as a commercial venture.
Will the Larry Lessig/Tim Wu/Free Press crowd react with horrorified cries of how information should be free, and urge the BitTorrent users of America to capture and re-stream the session and pirate the materials? Why should people be allowed to pay to get information from an expert when …

Proponents of a dumb First In First Out (FIFO) “end-to-end” Internet architecture are typically lawyers and non network engineers who don’t understand the actual usage and context of FIFO in the paper “End-to-end arguments in system design”. That paper actually argued against a FIFO enabled network.

I believe that it is only appropriate to start out this post by saying that I do not support government broadband expansion lest anyone be confused by the title. Government broadband expansion is not something that we have supported at Digital Society either as you can both see in our Issue Statement on Internet…

When news broke last week that the cable industry saw a net decline of some 711,000 subs in the second quarter, the news was met with near hysteria.  Oddly, though, the hysterics weren’t in cable board rooms, but on blogs.  The chattering class, it seems, was more than eager to proclaim this the work of “cord cutting” consumers, fed up with paying for cable, shedding the shackles of their captor.
As is always the case when someone bangs their gong so loudly, the noise drowns out the real story.
Yes, cable saw …

AT&T presents its evidence in support of priority network services but Free Press goes on the attack. Unfortunately, Free Press doesn’t address any of the substantive arguments in favor of priority network services which have always thrived on the Internet.

From the Associated Press’ AP History — 1846-1900:

1875
Over objections from Western Union, AP secures its first leased telegraph wire, a 226-mile circuit between New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington, enabling AP to move news unencumbered by delays and competition for the wire.

It is a good thing that the FCC did not exist then, or AP would probably be in its 50th round of hearings as to whether this proposal was in the public interest.

Disney and Time Warner are suing a company called Triton Media, in an effort to expand the definitions of “contributory copyright infringement” and “inducing infringement.” [Note: There is more than one Triton in the US media world, unfortunately. The defendant here is Triton Media of Scottsdale, AZ. Triton Digital Media of Sherman Oaks, CA, is NOT involved.]
The gist of the Complaint (and thanks to Eriq Gardner of The Hollywood Reporter for posting a PDF) is:
Defendant has owned, operated, provided advertising consulting and referrals for, and/or provided other material assistance to …

Does cable really cost $100/month or are tech geeks misrepresenting the costs compared to Internet alternatives? By the time the equipment leasing is factored out and premium channels are factored in, the online alternatives won’t be priced much differently.

Sameer Soleja like so many other Net Neutrality proponents completely misrepresents the issues surrounding Net Neutrality. They want to scare the public into supporting restrictions on voluntary and beneficial business agreements by misrepresenting them as extortionist agreements.