Glassman hosts Downes and Manne who discuss the Internet over the next decade. Both have contributed to the book The Next Digital Decade, published by Tech Freedom. A major point of conversation is whether or not the Internet needs government regulation and oversight, or should the Internet continue to evolve on its own.

Ookla, the company behind the popular speedtest.net broadband performance testing service, has released a new edition of the service this week with a few new features.  The already useful service is now even more useful with user accounts that allow users to save and share their test history data which is extremely useful for performance [...]

The House Communications and Technology Subcommittee is currently streaming live video of the hearing on H.J. Resolution 37, “Disapproving the rule submitted by the Federal Communications Commission.”

Conversations With America: A Discussion on the State Department’s Internet Freedom Strategy DipNote Bloggers Michael Posner, Assistant Secretary of State for Domcracy, Human Rights, and Labor Leslie Harris, President and CEO of the Center for Democracy and Technology Moderated by P.J. Crowley, Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs P.J. Crowley moderates a discussion between [...]

ITIF is putting on a forum tomorrow on The Obama Administration’s Innovation Policy. The cast is, as Hollywood would say, star-studded,  with Austan Goolsbee (CEO Chair), Phil Weiser (NEC Senior Advisor), & Aneesh Chopra (US CTO), to list only Federal government people, plus reps of state governments and several high tech companies. The background document [...]

Pigs have apparently begun to fly as Google and AT&T seem to agree on something.  Both companies expressed a desire to get rid of the legacy analog phone network so in December 2009, AT&T wrote a letter to the FCC advocating the abandonment of the old telephone system. Google is adding a feature to their Google Voice software that [...]

Following the announcement of the sale of the Huffington Post to AOL for $315 million, all of which will, apparently, be kept by a few founders, some of its writers are organizing a strike to protest the level of their wages, which is zero. The leader wrote that “it is unethical to expect trained and [...]

Netflix doesn’t actually compete with subscription TV services from cable and Telco operators because their services are very different. Netflix is lobbying the Government to stop higher broadband prices when they’re also lobbying to have consumers subsidize the Netflix’s delivery costs.

Larry Downes has a good piece on the hunt for 300-500 MHz of mobile Internet spectrum and how the FCC is working to complete an inventory check on spectrum allocation.  When it comes to mobile Internet, physics and practical engineering and usability requirements limits us to frequencies between 300 MHz and 3700 MHz.  Less than [...]

It appears that Ashton Kutcher has become a high profile victim of Twitter’s negligence when someone at the TED conference hijacked Kutcher’s Twitter account using tools like Firesheep.  The Twitter PR account @TwitterGlobalPR twitted that Kutcher should have enabled SSL by typing HTTPS in front of twitter.com, but that deflects from the fact that it’s [...]