At The American, my one-time PFF colleague Garland McCoy and I ruminate on Tea Party Tech Policy. The question that sets the piece in motion: In the iconic ending of the 1972 film The Candidate, Robert Redford, just victorious in his Senate race, turns to his staff and asks, “What do we do now?”  If [...]

If you thought forcing SSL would protect you from Firesheep, you’d be wrong. Even running SSL on Google, Facebook, and Twitter still leave you vulnerable to account hijacking because they have javascripts that leak authentication cookies in the clear.

As I’ve mentioned before, I am skeptical of “the Internet has changed everything!” analyses.  It’s great for the imagination, but it has a tendency not to provide much useful guidance.  I bring that up because of an exchange I saw between Jeff Jarvis and Andrew Keen on Twitter the other day.  Andrew Keen had asked [...]

Part 4 of 4 in this series looks at the recent 9th Circuit Court of Appeals decision in the case of Vernor v. Autodesk, Inc, what the fall out of the case may have on video game resells and part 4 will also take a look at the future of gaming and resells.

Mashable posted a story late in the day on Wednesday about Facebook spending $6,600 lobbying against a social networking bill in California. The California bill, which can be found here, was set to make it illegal for any social networking site user from the state of California to post their personal home address or telephone number if the user is under the age of 18.

Part 3 of a 4 part series on the video games used market and how publishers and developers are dealing with it. Part 3 takes a close look at Online Gaming.

This is the picture of your Google accounts, Facebook accounts, Twitter accounts, Flickr accounts being hijacked by anyone running a simple point-n-click Firefox plug-in called “Firesheep”. A complete novice in computer hacking would be able to go into your Facebook page as you and do anything they want as you.

Earlier this year, it was reported that VDSL2 technology using noise cancellation technology can go up to 300 Mbps at 400 meters loop length.  Vendors like Alcatel-Lucent have managed to test 910 Mbps over 4 pairs of copper phone lines.  Since most homes have 2 pairs, that likely means half of that 910 Mbps figure.  One [...]

The WSJ this morning reported that “several popular online travel companies are joining forces to oppose Google Inc.’s proposed $700 million purchase of ITA Software Inc., the leading provider of flight data, saying the deal would give it too much sway over the travel sector.” At the AEI blog, Nick Schulz coupled a link to [...]

Part 2 of a 4 part series on the video games used market and how publishers and developers are dealing with it. Part 2 takes a close look at Downloadable Content.