Website TorrentFreak has made it an annual treat to declare an award for the most pirated game of the year. And this year, it is little to no surprise that Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 takes the cake as Most Pirated Game of 2009.

Oliver Chiang serves up a bunch of good metrics on the digital decade that was. Here are a few: – Number of e-mails sent per day in 2000: 12 billion – Number of e-mails sent per day in 2009: 247 billion – Revenues from mobile data services in the first half of 2000: $105 million – [...]

Neutrality slides down the slippery slope in search of new platforms to conquer.

After the FCC announces it is not interested in open access requirements, the Harvard Berkman Center appears to be dialing back the open access claims in its Broadband Study.

How Much Information? 2009 Report on American Consumers Global Information Industry Center University of California, San Diego Roger E. Bohn & James E. Short You can find this paper in full here. Bohn and Short investigate the total amount of data or information an average American consumed in an average day across the year in [...]

Consumerist reports that AT&T limited its online sale of new iPhones to New York due to insufficient cell tower capacity, but what do we expect when New York goes out of its way to block cell tower permits?

Over recent years (like most technology geeks), I’ve been getting my television in snippets online.  But I’ve noticed a interesting trend lately that I may be nudging back a little to traditional over-the-air (OTA) digital television broadcasts.  As I started to get into some TV shows that were introduced to me on Hulu.com (which I am [...]

It looks like Verizon’s explanation that it still loses money even after the increased Early Termination Fees (ETF) just won’t please some advocacy groups like Free Press and Consumer Union.  Verizon explained that while the increased ETF covers the raw cost of the phone, it does not cover other costs like marketing, commission, store costs, [...]

Bret Swanson posted a more detailed analysis of the Berkman Broadband study. “The heart of Berkman’s case – its regression model – used a small data set with observations from just two years, 2002 and 2005. Berkman ignored nine of the 12 major studies that showed either a negative relationship or no link between “open [...]

Tim Conneally of Betanews reports that Verizon responded to the FCC that it would still lose money even with the increased Early Termination Fee (ETF).  If a customer were to bail out of the contract at 12 months and paid a prorated $230, Verizon would still lose $460.