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Google must demand open spectrum

Our own Michael Kanellos has an insightful piece on Google's mobile telephony plans which begins Can Google grovel? In it he correctly identifies the gatekeepers in the present mobile market, and expresses concern that Google and its Android unit will be unable to break through them, despite...

Tags: Google Inc., Mobile, Network, Spectrum, Cleland, Advertising & Promotion, Internet, Government, Marketing, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2007-11-12

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The FTC's guidelines raise ruckus, but are (mostly) unenforceable

The Federal Trade Commission published controversial guidelines for bloggers and Facebook and Twitter users, but they are largely unenforceable. The FTC's rules are an encroachment on free speech, absurd in parts and far reaching. On the surface, the FTC's laws boil down to disclosure: ...

Tags: FTC, Blogger, CNet News, Blogging, Internet, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-10-06

With clouds license arguments become fog

With clouds license arguments become fogBrilliant insightWhile we most often disagree, your insight that clouds and fog are the same thing and in the eye of the beholder is a brilliant insight. Kudos!Scott Cleland Precursor LLCRE: With clouds license arguments become fogMaybe; seems like if I use the cloud, 4...

Tags: Tools & Techniques, AGPL, Dana

Discussion threads 2009-07-03

Adaptec v. the lithium-ion battery

5Z RAID controllers with NAND flash memory, courtesy Adaptec. Adaptec is coming out with a product for datacenters that is so obvious, so simple, so why-didn't-we think-of that. Flash memory that is constantly updated rather than hard-drives that need battery power to allow data retrieval. Why...

Tags: Lithium-ion, Adaptec Inc., Battery, Lithium-ion Battery, Adaptec Series 5Z Product, Engineering, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-06-24

Payola bloggers, FTC is watching you

A few years back, the blogosphere was gnashing its teeth about blogger payola -- taking perks and payments from advertisers and PR firms. Many bloggers justified the practice with "I take their money and write what I want anyway!" and "Hey, this is my meal ticket and by the time...

Tags: FTC, Blogger, Blogging, Internet, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2009-06-22

PR firms battle over Google's inside track to White House

The Washington Post takes a look at Google's complex relationship with Washington. For starters, CEO Eric Schmidt was closely tied to the Obama campaign, and is part of Obama's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology. But with three Google executives having left the...

Tags: Google Inc., White House, Public Relations, Corporate Law, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Business Operations, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2009-06-05

Study: Google uses 21X more bandwidth than it pays for

Google is by far the largest user of Internet bandwidth, its share of bandwidth usage is rising rapidly, and its bandwidth use is orders of magnitude greater than its payment for its cost, according to a new study by NETCompetition.org, a site committed to Net Neutrality "pro-competition Internet forum funded...

Tags: Consumer, U.S., Cost, Google Inc., Bandwidth, Study, Broadband, Precursor LLC, Internet, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2008-12-04

Big telecom acquiring a Google fixation

Big telecom acquiring a Google fixationPlease clarify.I don't understand your conclusion.Quoting:What Google, and all of us, most need to do is work that problem, finding business models through which content owners can profit while the end-to-end integrity of the search-and-find Internet is preserved.That will break the link between the content...

Tags: Strategy, Telecom & Utilities, telecommunications, Google Inc., content delivery

Discussion threads 2008-11-10

Google gets business from Yahoo and heat from Microsoft

Google gets business from Yahoo and heat from MicrosoftThis is just too funnyHow is MS wanting to acquire Yahoo any better than Yahoo 'partnering' with Google.Seems to me Yahoo will loose its openness once MS gets their mits on them, yes?Nothing new hereThis was an ancient strategy when Nixon went...

Tags: Financial accounting, Yang, Yahoo! Inc., Google Inc., Microsoft Corp., Google gets business, Google Get

Discussion threads 2008-04-09

New majority loses nerve on net neutrality

Now that Democrats have a majority in Congress, they are losing their appetite for direct confrontation with the phone monopolies over network neutrality. HR 5353, introduced by Rep. Edward Markey, carries no enforcement provision on network neutrality, and even carries the co-sponsorship of a neutrality opponent, Rep....

Tags: Chip Pickering, Democrat, Network, Majority, Edward Markey, Net Neutrality, Networking, Telecom & Utilities, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-02-13

Is FCC destroying the open Internet?

The current net neutrality debate was caused by deliberate FCC policies which killed off three-quarters of the nation's ISPs during this decade, according to Bruce Kushnick of New Networks Institute. Kushnick says the pace of monopolization has accelerated since 2004, with 56% fewer wireline competitors, as FCC...

Tags: FCC, Internet, Net Neutrality, Temptation, Kushnick, Federal Government, Government, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2007-11-29

Google does not need a carrier partner

Google does not need a carrier partner...well...Perhaps Google doesn't "need" a carrier partner from a perspective of operations, but they do "need" a carrier partner from a perspective of the bid. In other words, if Google bids 4.6 billion dollars for the spectrum, Verizon will bid 5 billion. ...

Tags: Business structures, Google Inc., carrier partner, spectrum

Discussion threads 2007-11-19

Google must demand open spectrum

Google must demand open spectrumDana again THROWS the debate. Sigh, what a shameDana, when people hears you start with describing someone as a "shill" you just told them to stop reading and disregard any possible points you may have had. Do you open guys sit around talking...

Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Network technology, Dana, spectrum, url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/700_Mhz_wireless_spectrum_aucti, Google Inc., Red Hat Inc.

Discussion threads 2007-11-12

Google's open access challenge

You can have the money if you break the monopoly. That's the summary of Google's proposal for 700MHz, as laid out in a letter from CEO Eric Schmidt to the FCC. Google will bid up to $4.6 billion for spectrum if it gets open access rules on...

Tags: Google Inc., Network, Wireless, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2007-09-07

Congress hearings on Google-DoubleClick scheduled

Committees in the Senate and House are planning to have fall hearings on how the Google-DoubleClick deal will impact competition.CNN Money reports that the Senate antitrust subcommittee is planning a hearing to delve into how Google's acquisition of Doubleclick will impact Internet advertising. Meanwhile, the Wall Street Journal reported that...

Tags: Web Technology, Search, Government, Google, General

Blog posts 2007-07-19

Analyst: FTC could block Google-DoubleClick deal; Is there a case?

Scott Cleland, an analyst at the Precursor group, argues in a 36-page white paper that the Federal Trade Commission could shoot down Google's acquisition of DoubleClick. First a few notes: I've interviewed Cleland a few times mostly on telecommunications matters and find him very credible. He knows tech, telecom and...

Tags: Yahoo, Web Technology, Microsoft, Google, General

Blog posts 2007-07-18

Will Congress lift moratorium on Internet sales tax?

As the Internet increasingly becomes a place for people to shop and do business, the federal government wants a piece of the action. Several proposals are making the rounds of Congress that would undo a moratorium that blocks states from imposing their own taxes on Internet access, reports Wired NewsAt...

Tags: State &, Local Govt, Congress

Blog posts 2007-06-13

Telcos: Laws governing our industry OK. They just need to favor telcos.

So, there was a lot of important non-C3 Expo stuff that happened while I was in New York at C3 Expo wrestling with the limited connectivity (and it was wired, not WiFi.... go figure) to file something that was even remotely interesting (as you may have seen from my coverage,...

Tags: David Berlind, Luddite, Luddites, Microsoft Corp., Net Neutrality, Scott Cleland, telecommunications company

Blog posts 2006-06-30

Craig of Craigslists spars Net Neutrality with telecom lobbyist on NPR

Had Scott Cleland, Chairman at Netcompetition.org an outfit that is funded by the telecom industry, not forwarded me a link to his editorial on National Public Radio, I would have never heard it, and, quite frankly, would not have run for the Mylanta as quickly as I did. ...

Tags: government, Scott Cleland

Blog posts 2006-06-22