In yet another case of a made up conspiracy, OpenDNS founder David Ulevitch is misleading the public about Verizon Wireless supposedly blocking OpenDNS servers. I personally tested this accusation and verified that the Verizon Wireless network does not block OpenDNS.

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.

In Scientific American, Tim Berners-Lee seems to argue right past the important policy issues facing the Internet today. Instead of describing actual policy or technology problems, he suggests implausibly apocalyptic outcomes.

The FCC’s apparent about-face on Net Neutrality is really perplexing. Over the past few weeks it looked like the Administration had acknowledged economic reality (and bipartisan Capitol Hill criticism) and turned its focus to investment and jobs. Outgoing NEC Director Larry Summers and Commerce Secretary Gary Locke announced a vast expansion of available wireless spectrum, [...]

An interesting Broadband Breakfast is coming up on December 14 – a session on China and IP with Fuli Chen, Intellectual Property Rights Attache for the Chinese Embassy to the United States, plus other panelists. The event is free – details and registration at the link. Dragon image by Wendy Piersall.

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.

Today is the last day to respond to the Department of Commerce Notice of Inquiry on Copyright Policy, Creativity, and Innovation in the Internet Economy (Oct. 5, 2010), asking for comment on “the challenges of protecting copyrighted works online and the relationship between copyright law and innovation in the Internet economy,” as inputs to a [...]

Glassman looks at the hotly debated issue of Net Neutrality and asks the pressing questions of what’s going on, where have we been, and where are we headed with the issue.

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.