Even if we ignored the fact that “Culton-gate” was all just a big mistake and that Viacom was licensed for using Johnathan Culton’s content all along, it was never the “teachable moment” that Harold Feld would have us believe. “Culton-gate” at worst was a small violation of intellectual property and was never the moral equivalent of the sustained, deliberate, and systematic piracy of content perpetrated by YouTube.

A Broadband Internet Technical Advisory Group could be a substantial solution to the net neutrality problems. At least, that is what some net neutrality supporters have argued in the past.

ABI Research discusses issues inherent in the current design of Radio Access Network architecture (RAN) and the current increase of mobile Internet traffic due to smart phones. They investigate a new architecture that will effect the micro-, pico-, and femtocell- layers of existing cell sites.

From my estimates, FaceTime video conferencing on iPhone 4 will take 667 Kbps to 2 Mbps. If my assumptions about the resolution and frame rate of FaceTime is correct, it explains why FaceTime is limited to Wi-Fi operation.

Matt Hamblen of Computer World wrote about Steve Jobs’ lofty goals for the iPhone 4′s video conferencing feature “FaceTime” to become an open standard.  Open standards are always welcome, but the industry generally looks at these invitations with suspicion and for good reason.  Just because a standard is “open” doesn’t mean it is royalty free. [...]

Steve Cheney of business insider has a very interesting article on how Apple’s hardware design choices for the Apple iPhone are also to blame for AT&T’s wireless congestion problems. More importantly, iPhone OS 4 will make this even worse with the addition of multitasking.

Silicon chips are one of those things that we simply assume will continually drop in price as time goes on, but that is more of a general trend which isn’t immune to temporary upward trends. Over the last year, I thought it was my imagination that computer memory prices were rising. Unfortunately for technology lovers, it wasn’t my imagination.

With the announcement of the iPhone 4 yesterday at WWDC, we finally got an inside look at the workings of the device and the upgrades to the OS.

Of the new features, two things were of particular interest to me:

1. Netflix; and,
2. FaceTime

Content & Copyright Comments From The Copyright Office On GAO-10-428R (GAO-10-707SP) (June 7), an E-supplement to GAO-10-428R (Feb. 26): The Performance Rights Act issue. A final GAO report “will include more extensive quantitative analyses of the relevant issues.”  Ars technica reviews the bidding at Performance Rights Act might shut down some radio stations (June 8). [...]

Apple claims that 300 Pixels Per Inch (PPI) is the limit of the human eyes when viewing something approximately 11 inches away from the eyes, and that the iPhone’s 326 PPI beats competing Smartphones with only 252 PPI. 252 PPI is the eye’s limit at 13 inches, but do people really hold their phone less than 13 inches away?