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- Will Bells hijack the broadband stimulus?
- The issue is vital because without open access competition is limited to those large companies that can afford to build their own end-to-end networks. This is how the cellular world works, it's how cable works, and it's the opposite of the way the Internet works, where every network interconnects under...
- Tags: Network, Broadband, Bob Frankston, Stimulus, Internet, Network Technology, Broadband Internet, Networking, Telecommunications, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2009-01-28
- Frankston: Who's pirating bandwidth these days? You or AT&T (and peers)
- Bob Frankston (co-inventor of the electronic spreadsheet) has been tirelessly spending the last few years trying to shed light on the fact that there's plenty of network capacity out there and that anybody particularly the carriers and ISPs that tell you something different are full of it. They're just reserving...
- Tags: Bandwidth, AT&T Corp., Piracy, Bob Frankston, David Berlind
- Blog posts 2007-09-07
- Bob Frankston: No more monkeys jumping on the bed
- Bob Frankston, the guy who co-invented the electronic spreadsheet and who spearheaded Microsofts original home network strategies, routinely rants about allowing intelligence into the middle of the Internet. To paraphrase his many essays, "things were working fine when nodes could just talk to each other without a monkey in the...
- Tags: monkey, Internet
- Blog posts 2006-10-20
- Death by deregulation
- In David Berlind's latest Alice in Wonderland trip through the American telecommunications universe -- "Are Baby Bells abusing gov't granted right-of-way?" -- he credits Bob Frankston, the co-inventor of the VisiCalc electronic spreadsheet, for inspiring this tour-de-force of imaginative fact development. Mr. Frankston's VisiCalc allowed the computer owner to invent...
- Tags: natural gas, telecommunications
- Blog posts 2005-08-23
- Are baby bells abusing their gov't granted right-of-way?
- Look outside your window or check the manhole cover down the street. Not just anyone can hang a wire on that pole or drag one underground -- a wire that eventually connects to your house. The electric company can. The cable TV company can. And...
- Tags: Baby Bell
- Blog posts 2005-08-16
- Fishy e-mail reeks of phishing, or something worse
- Bob Frankston has encapsulated a very suspicious e-mail that he received or thinks he received from Bank of America in a longer expression to Dave Farber's List of his worries and concerns that his private communications with the financial institution were seriously breached. Being the technical guy that...
- Tags: Bob Frankston
- Blog posts 2005-06-22
- Frankston's Threadlogs (#1): Enter walled garden here
- OK, here's something new for Between the Lines. I'm calling it ZDNet's "threadlogs." Or maybe it should be called IMlogs. They're my private IM conversations with various industry movers and shakers. Why am I doing this? I'd rather you see the raw exchanges than my...
- Tags: orifice, carrier, telephone
- Blog posts 2005-05-26
- Bluetooth may not be able to handle EV-DO (3G) nets
- When Bob Frankston isn't busy figuring out how to fix the Internet (he loves to tell you what's wrong with it), he's tinkering with bleeding edge technologies, often to see how well they interoperate. Two wireless technologies Frankston has been playing around with are EV-DO and Bluetooth. Frankston has...
- Tags: Bob Frankston, Bluetooth, EVDO
- Blog posts 2005-04-11
Additional Resources
- Net neutrality debate re-ignites
- The recent blocking of BitTorrent by Comcast has re-ignited the network neutrality debate. Rep. Rick Boucher has called Comcast on the carpet, but AT&T has responded forcefully. They not only deny the need for network neutrality, they call it a positive harm, adding there is no...
- Tags: Phone, Network, Comcast Corp., Duopoly, Net Neutrality, MuniWireless, Telecom & Utilities, Wi-Fi, Networking, Wireless, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2007-10-25
- Phony choices in the net neutrality debate
- Phony choices in the net neutrality debateThe Internet has always had some level of intelligenceThe Internet has always had some level of intelligence. As the father of the Internet Robert Kahn says: "I'm against anything that bans intelligence inside the cloud". Even Vint Cerf tries to shy away...
- Tags: Web site development, Network technology, duopoly, Net Neutrality, Internet, phone, cable, streaming video, phone company, AT&T Corp.
- Discussion threads 2007-09-10
- Visicalc co-founder offers a modest proposal
- Essential to the open source argument is the idea that the basic infrastructure of the information age is just that -- infrastructure -- and the public interest demands it be treated as such. This argument is generally accepted in the software arena. It is at the heart of the Internet,...
- Tags: Jonathan Swift, Bells
- Blog posts 2006-05-30
- Knowledge/Information centricity vs document centricity
- Mentioning "knowledge centricity" is like using the word "paradigm." People really roll their eyes when the abstract terms slip off tongues as evidenced by the way my colleague Dan Farber characterized my usage of the phrase as a dropped bomb at the end of yesterday's Dan & David Show....
- Tags: David Berlind, knowledge, Wiki, Wikipedia
- Blog posts 2006-05-26
- Is T-Mobile taking the smart out of smartphone and the I out of ISP?
- Dana Blankenhorn (my fellow ZDNet blogger who one year ago saw promise in T-Mobile's Web N' Walk service), eat your heart out. The walled-garden is back. According to a ZDNet UK report, at the same time T-Mobile is rolling out super high bandwidth wireless broadband network,...
- Tags: T-Mobile, smart phone
- Blog posts 2006-05-12
- Telcos checkmate net neutrality. Bring on the mesh (or I'll move to France)
- Maybe now, the citizens of the US will recognize a largely overlooked 2005 FCC ruling for what it was: the clever positioning of a bishop in a high stakes game of chess that looks to have ended today with a checkmate of Internet neutrality (aka "net neutrality"). In...
- Tags: Internet service providers (ISPs), Network technology, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, Baby Bell, Internet, cable, cable company, Net Neutrality
- Blog posts 2006-04-06
- Boucher's route to network neutrality may run through the Judiciary Committee
- Rep. Rick Boucher of Virginia told the Freedom2Connect conference today he will try to get strong network neutrality language into the Telecommunications Act rewrite going before a House committee tomorrow, and failing that will go after the Whitacre Tiering plan through the House Judiciary Committee.In answer to a question from...
- Tags: Rick Boucher
- Blog posts 2006-04-04
- Dave Isenberg's rebel alliance fights for network neutrality
- A few hundred activists, technologists and Internet veterans are locked in a Silver Spring, Maryland movie theater today trying to create an alliance that will beat the Bells.The Freedom2Connect conference has a lot of Internet digirati star power. In addition to organizer David Isenberg, and sponsor Jeff Pulver, I spied...
- Tags: Internet
- Blog posts 2006-04-03
- Can Gordon Cook's little list change the world?
- For the last week I've been out of pocket, inhaling data through a firehose, trying to save the Internet.I was invited to a private mailing list by Gordon Cook, on behalf of a new e-book by Bruce Kushnick called the $200 Billion Broadband Scandal. The book describes how the Bell...
- Tags: Gordon Cook
- Blog posts 2006-02-02
- The bandwidth scarcity myth
- In one of his latest missives from CES, Bob Frankston reminds us of how bandwidth isn't nearly as scarce as some would lead you to believe and that it's just that some people are making up reasons for why most of what's there needs to be dominated by...
- Tags: bandwidth
- Blog posts 2006-01-11
- Is the Internet broken?
- Bob Frankston keeps telling me he's trying to fix the Internet. Ask him what's wrong with it. But sit down. The answer is complicated, you may not understand it all, but you'll walk away convinced that it is indeed broken. Venture capitalist Brad Feld Mobius Ventures...
- Tags: Internet
- Blog posts 2006-01-11
- Podcast interview of PC industry icon Dan Bricklin
- A lot of people don't realize that Dan Bricklin should be a household name in the PC business. Back in 1978, he and Bob Frankston came up with the idea of an electronic spreadsheet. Until then, spreadsheets were done on paper. The numbers in the boxes were...
- Tags: Dan Bricklin, David Berlind, PC, podcast, wikiCalc
- Blog posts 2006-01-06
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