Many in the blogosphere and advocacy groups are up in arms about Viacom and other television networks blocking Google from accessing their content on Google TV. But there are many good justifications for this because content needs to be supported by commercial entities and because Google is getting a taste of its own medicine.

Stacey Higginbotham of Gigaom reports that Verizon is launching a 150 Mbps downstream and 35 Mbps upstream FiOS broadband tier.  Not only does this give Verizon the “bragging rights”, but they can actually back it up with an all fiber network that has a lot more headroom to grow.  That might be an understatement since [...]

MG Siegler of TechCrunch reports that smartphones are threatening the point-n-shoot camera market. The proof cited by Siegler is the camera popularity data from Flickr, so the evidence is believable but not definitive.

Kim Hart reports that FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski is pushing ahead with his Net Neutrality plans next monthand might even cover wireless networks. This is despite a majority of congress objecting and a court with a long history of enforcing the “congressional tether” with an iron fist. This is despite a competitive wireless market with special requirements unique to wireless networks.

To clarify things, China Telecom did not hijack “15% of all web traffic” or “15% of all Internet traffic” but they did hijack 15% of all the IP routes. That means traffic hijacking could have easily occurred but we don’t know for certain. The real lesson here is that the potential exists for easy traffic hijacking and the Internet’s routing infrastructure is insecure.

Google CEO Eric Schmit slams network TV for blocking Google TV from accessing that content, but Google blocking of Syabas from YouTube makes him a hypocrite.  I’m not suggesting that Google is wrong to exercise control over YouTube and I’m a firm believer that content creators own their creations, but that right extends to all other content [...]

The fundamental building blocks of the Internet started off with no security and they remain that way today because it’s so difficult to implement change on a living system. The result is that anyone on the Internet can hijack anyone else.

Oliver Kreylos has produced one of the most amazing demonstrations of true 3D video I’ve ever seen using an off-the-shelf Microsoft Kinect. This is not the cheesy stereoscopic tacky “3D” moniker being affixed to recent movie titles but actual video footage that you can rotate in three dimensional space.

Netflix will switch from Akamai to Level 3 Communications for its CDN service, and Level 3 will have to double its storage capacity and add 2.9 terabits per second (Tbps) of bandwidth to accommodate Netflix. There is no such thing as “server neutrality” or “storage neutrality”, “IT neutrality”, or “Net Neutrality”.

Sophos security’s Chester Wisniewski offered a “solution” for securing Hotspots, but it isn’t secure because it uses WPA-PSK. Anyone can sniff the initial connection and derive the unique session key which makes the solution insecure. I proposed a more secure solution for a secure anonymous hotspot back in 2007.