As Blair Levin said upon exiting the FCC, people tend to see what they expect to see. Reaction to the Verizon/Google announcement reinforces his point.

The recent Verizon-Google recommendation to the FCC on net neutrality, and indeed the whole recent round of FCC discussions with various net neutrality players, are, in some circles, regarded as somehow illegitimate. In fact and au contraire, the idea that parties affected by rules should negotiate with the agency and with each other, and should [...]

Free Press and other strict Net Neutrality advocates have their facts backwards. The router prioritization that they claim is harmful to others is actually not harmful and the CDN “geographic prioritization” that they claim is harmless is actually the most harmful. Not only does it cause a lot more jitter, but it hogs bandwidth at the expense of other applications.

As many are aware there is a coming IPv4 address shortage. T-Mobile is making strides to move into IPv6 infrastructure in the coming months to sidestep any issues. Recently T-Mobile posted to their Google groups page that they intend to begin a IPv6 beta program called T-Mobile USA IPv6 beta service.

A couple of days ago, a post on Disabilities, Civil Rights, & the Kindle Letter recounted the story of the war that the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice is waging against university pilot projects that use the Kindle, with CRD taking the position that the projects  discriminate against the visually impaired in [...]

The science journal Nature reports on the project/game Rosetta@home. Based on the original 1999 project SETI@home which allowed multiple computers to be amassed to sift through radio telescope data in the search for extraterritorial life, the Folding@home project was created to allow individuals computers, along with the Playstation 3 to evaluate “how a linear chain of amino acids curls up into a three-dimensional shape that minimizes the internal stresses and strains-presumably the protein’s natural shape.”

Edward Wyatt has this sesational headline on the New York Times reading “F.C.C. Chief Opposes Fees for Internet Priority.” and it’s caught massive traction in the blogosphere.   But there’s one huge problem: Chairman Genachowski never actually said that.  The exact quote that Genachowski used was: “Any outcome, any deal that doesn’t preserve the freedom [...]

Edward Wyatt of the New York Times has sounded the alert to a possible deal on Net Neutrality between Google and Verizon and many in the blogosphere including GigaOm is decrying this as a betrayal of Net Neutrality. Aside from the fact that this story is based on many vague and undisclosed sources, the story is wrong on the facts, self contradictory, and incoherent.

On June 29, the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice and the Office of Civil Rights of the U.S. Department of Education sent out a general letter addressed to “Dear College or University President” expressing concern that “colleges and universities are using electronic book readers that are not accessible to students who are blind or have low vision,” and noting that this is “discrimination prohibited by the Americans with Disabilities Act.”

The OC Business Journal has stated that Uniloc is once again after several other big tech names after taking Microsoft to court last year. The company owns the patent on security software that is used to lock programs installed on a specific computer to that computer. The security software at that point disallows the program to be copied to any other computer.