Anandtech has posted another thorough review and this time they give a detailed analysis of the iPhone 4.  There’s a lot of great information in the article and it’s worth reading, but I’ll list some of the notable highlights below. Squeezing the iPhone 4 can result in a 24 dBm loss in signal strength.  Holding [...]

National Journal’s Tech Daily Dose is reporting that Douglas C. Sicker will be the new Chief Technologist for the FCC.

It takes a stretch of imagination to regard Visa, MasterCard, American Express, and other giants of the digital commerce as small potatoes, but in the context of the financial reform bill, they are. All the attention is on the banks, the credit markets, the $19 billion proposed and then un-proposed special tax, the squirming executives [...]

Screening and Simplifying the Competition Arguments in the NBC/Comcast Transaction Technology Policy Institute James B. Speta May 5, 2010 Speta examines the NBC – Comcast merger.  The merger will bring two large corporations that have significant control in their own sectors together with Comcast being majority owner.  Because the combined company would have both production [...]

Michael Weinberg of Public Knowledge demonstrates for us the problem with ignorance based policy by claiming that games and VoIP “works just fine” on a dumb and neutral network. I don’t know how Mr. Weinberg defines “works just fine”, but 150 to 1000 millisecond latency is not “just fine” when half your words are cutting out in a phone call or when you’ve been fragged a whole second before you even see it. The fact that Mr. Weinberg perpetuates this shows how ignorant the hard line Net Neutrality proponents are.

Content & Copyright TechDirt, ACTA Negotiators Respond To Questions About ACTA; More Of The Same (June 28): TD is not a fan. City Journal, A Media Welfare State? We need a WPA for the press, Robert McChesney and John Nichols insist (June 28): Adam Thierer reviews The Death and Life of American Journalism: The Media [...]

I’ve spent much time debunking the notion that all applications should be treated equally by the network. I’ve also published data showing the harmful effects of BitTorrent which was supposedly “network friendly”, but I haven’t talked about the harmful effects of video streaming from popular services like Netflix, YouTube, and Hulu up until now.

The Supreme Court addressed major issues of patentability today in Bilski, and left things — about where they were. Rather than try to master the issues, I will simply refer you to the estimable Patently-O, which says that the Court: [A]affirmed that Bilski’s risk-management method was not the type of innovation that may be patented. [...]

YouTube, Inc has qualified for the safe-harbor protections of the DMCA (Digital Millennium Copyright Act). This has occurred even in light of the fact that it was stated in court that YouTube founders, “not only were generally aware of, but welcomed” piracy.

The term “the writing on the wall” is applied to any portent of doom, based on the words Mene Mene Tekel Pharsin that appeared spectrally during King Belshazzar’s feast in the Book of Daniel. Congress has been writing on a lot of walls lately, most recently in the financial reform bill which, buried on pages [...]