Last week’s Financial Times had a series on Internet search that was chock full of interesting tidbits. One of them was about a new business model – a firm tracks what users are searching for, and then commissions a starving free lance writer to bang out an article incorporating the appropriate terms, lifting any actual [...]

Wallsten analyzes the vertical merger of NBC-Comcast. Because Comcast will retain free over-the-air broadcast of NBC, the horizontal merger areas are not of major concern. “The vertical aspect is the combination of a video producer (NBCU) and a video distributor (Comcast),” which is the area Wallsten focuses. He is of the opinion that vertical mergers can have both pro-competitve and anti-competitive effects.

Wireless mesh networks have never been practical for commercial deployment and they never will be. This article explains why mesh networks have such poor coverage and poor throughput performance.

As frustrated iPhone users are coming to hear the news today that Apple will give away free cases to iPhone 4 purchasers between the original launch date and September 30th. That means if you have already purchased a case from Apple you can receive a refund. Apple reports there will be a place on the Apple.com site toward the end of next week to request a refund or a free bumper if you have yet to purchase one.

Washington’s Parasites Take Aim at Apple Cato Institute David Boaz July 11, 2010 Boaz looks at the politicians that are making noise about Apple’s trouble with the iPhone.  He believes there is a trend of innovative companies that have come under fire by “Washington’s ‘parasite economy’” that has included government watch dogging of Microsoft and [...]

In October 1517, Martin Luther nailed a paper with 95 theses to the door of a church in Wittenberg, Germany, an event often characterized as the start of the Protestant Reformation.

In a discussion taking place over on Jon Henke’s “The Internet Has Not Changed Everything” post, the topic of sales and use taxes has come up.  Based on the discussion, it’s clear that there is a misconception of what exactly the issues are in an online context.  So I thought I’d provide this short, but [...]

A senator criticized the FCC last week saying that the FCC’s National Broadband Plan was leading us to second tier status, but there are a few problems with this. For one thing, it’s based on the grossly exaggerated broadband speeds and prices of other nations. The other problem is that the FCC doesn’t control the purse strings.

Not surprisingly, it would seem that the software update isn’t going to fix the antenna issues on the iPhone 4 and the bad P.R. keeps piling on.  The pressures are mounting as Consumer Reports issues a warning against buying the iPhone 4 and even the late night TV hosts are getting a few laughs at the [...]

Karl Bode seems to want it both ways when it comes to TV service prices and he’s annoyed that AT&T is fighting Cablevision over the price of AMC, IFC, and the WE tv channel.  Bode says: “consumers shouldn’t be fooled. Were AT&T to negotiate slightly better rates for these channels than they would have otherwise, [...]