Steve Jobs turned up at Monday’s Apple earnings call to take some shots at his competitors. His heaviest guns pointed at Android, where he contrasted “the real difference between our two [Apple v. Google] approaches”:  “Android is very fragmented. Many Android OEMS . . . install proprietary user interfaces to differentiate themselves from the commodity [...]

New numbers from Cisco allow us to update our previous comparison of actual Internet usage around the world. We think this is a far more useful metric than the usual “broadband connections per 100 inhabitants” used by the OECD and others to compile the oft-cited world broadband rankings. What the per capita metric really measures [...]

In September 2009, I published a piece in The American on How to Think About Net Neutrality. Since the FCC has neither taken my advice nor answered my questions, I will, like the legendary Stonewall, repeat the lecture. (“His lectures were rather dry.  If his students seemed to fail to grasp a lecture, he would [...]

Matt Lassar of ArsTechnica argues why Traffic Pumping scams are a good thing by quoting the scammers.

Ezell and Atkinson discuss how innovation as a means to economic growth in a society can have positives and negatives because governments can implement policy in different ways that affects innovation and it’s ability to grow the economy differently.

ESPN has been blocking ISPs from ESPN360 for the last 4 years unless the ISP pays a per subscriber fee to ESPN and Net Neutrality supporters have always said that was legal. Now that News Corp tried the same thing as ESPN, Net Neutrality advocates want to make that illegal.

Advertising Age tells us that Vermont Telephone “has begun building out an aggressive and forward-thinking gigabit fiber network that will reach across its Vermont footprint, along with a state wide 4G/LTE network that promises 100 megabits throughout the crenellated peaks and valleys of the Green Mountains.” A recent letter to customers says they “should have [...]

When computer algorithms beat humans in the stock market, the developer gets a bonus. When humans beat computer algorithm, the human goes to jail.

If a single aggressive Instant Messaging application brought T-Mobile’s wireless network to its knees, imagine what BitTorrent with 50 aggressive communication streams would do to it.

UK based Internet Service Provider Demon has announced a new broadband prioritization service for gamers called “Game Pro”. The new package has raised concerns with Net Neutrality advocates.