You don’t get to remotely control a 10-foot tall alien but this is extremely cool and the future of online interaction.

The newly announced “Netflix Button” violates the spirit, and possibly the letter of the new “net neutrality” rules established by the FCC. At the very least, those who have lobbied so hard for “net neutrality,” should be up in arms about the dominant streaming video service’s plans to preempt a “fast lane” into consumer’s homes by paying for priority. We’ll see.

UPDATE – Looks like it’s no longer rumors, Microsoft will put Windows 8 on legacy-free x86 systems (I’m assuming something like Intel Moorestown) as well as ARM based systems.  I guess this is the shotgun strategy to cover every possibility in the hopes that one of them succeeds.  Sounds like a good strategy to have every [...]

Last summer saw a flurry of stories about a Broadband Internet Technical Advisory Group (BITAG) put together by a consortium of tech companies under the leadership of Dale Hatfield, former FCC Chief Technologist and current Executive Director of the Silicon Flatirons Center at the University of Colorado, “to bring together engineers and other similar technical [...]

Akamai and other content delivery networks (CDNs) “route around” “the Internet,” which “can’t ever figure . . . out” the fastest path needed for robust packet delivery. And they do so for a price. In other words: paid priority.

Taking a look at “bots” in popular MMO’s like World of Warcraft and the legal fall out from their creation and use.

If Microsoft actually launches a $200 Windows Media Center box, this could be the best news they’ve had in a while considering how poorly executed and overpriced the Google TV devices have been.

Nearly a year late to the party, Nate Anderson repeats the myth that the FCC concluded that higher speed broadband is turning into a Cable DOCSIS 3.0 monopoly outside of Verizon FiOS fiber to the home (FTTH) territory because the fiber to the node (FTTN) VDSL2 technology used by other Telcos can’t compete.  This is [...]

The Free Press’ view of Net Neutrality, as expressed on its website, is: We need to keep the Internet free, open and neutral. Network Neutrality is vital to ensuring that everyone can connect and share content freely, that we can access the information, visit the Web sites and say what we want online, free from [...]