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A rational debate on Net Neutrality

The subject of Net Neutrality has become so politicized that it's almost impossible to have a rational debate on the subject. Even the term "Net Neutrality" has become a political slogan that is often deliberately vague to hide its true meaning. Is it even possible to have a rational debate...

Tags: Vint Cerf, Google Inc., Legislation, Tim Berners-Lee, QoS, Network, Prioritization, Customer, Net Neutrality, Service, Carrier, Ed Whitacre, Snowe-Dorgan, Internet, George Ou

Blog posts 2007-06-04

Hey did you hear what Ed Whitacre *just* said?

Hey did you hear what Ed Whitacre *just* said?It's just stunning...Eddie must be on crack... I can just imagine Ed standing before the FCC and spouting this dribble with Senators nodding approval... Why should the the BIG Bell/Pipefitters be any different from BIG Oil...? It's all Monopoly money to them...

Tags: Telecom & Utilities, bandwidth, Ed Whitacre

Discussion threads 2006-08-02

Hey did you hear what Ed Whitacre *just* said?

Just in case you think that AT&T and the other greedy broadband monopolists are starting to feel the urge of the common good and are starting to guilt-trip over a net that ain't neutral- I have news for you. Yesterday, AT&T CEO Ed Whitacre put the gauntlet...

Tags: network operator, Ed Whitacre, Internet

Blog posts 2006-08-02

EXCLUSIVE: AT&T CEO's political donations to net neutrality opponents

As AT&T continues its battles with net neutrality proponents on Capitol Hill this week, I thought it would be interesting to see where AT&T CEO Ed Whitacre has been spending his own money this campaign and election cycle.I went to Opensecrets.org, and checked under "Whitacre." I found several donations,...

Tags: Ed Whitacre

Blog posts 2006-06-26

Hey, Osama, be very afraid. Here comes the NSA AND Ed Whitacre's AT&T

AT&T Inc. (that's their CEO, Ed Whitacre) says that starting tomorrow it will revise the language of its privacy practices, letting customers know that AT&T owns their phone records and can hand them over to law enforcement on request. Not coincidental that these changes come at...

Tags: AT&T Corp.

Blog posts 2006-06-22

Ed Whitacre's turnaround: I know spin when I see it

Ed Whitacre's turnaround: I know spin when I see itno interference, *but*....I'm sure AT&T will be happy to provide bandwidth for the search sites; *enough* bandwidth for users to get decent performance, well that's another matter....I'm paying my $nn/month for cable broadband, that's *supposed* to be paying for them to...

Tags: Regulations, Cable, Network technology, Ed Whitacre, regulation, Internet

Discussion threads 2006-03-22

Ed Whitacre's turnaround: I know spin when I see it

Yesterday at the TelecomNext, the same AT&T CEO Ed Whitacre at right who has been calling the idea that his company does not have the right to charge extra carriage fees for high-bandwidth Web content "nuts," sounded like he's mellowed out."Any provider that blocks access to content is inviting...

Tags: Ed Whitacre, Net Neutrality

Blog posts 2006-03-22

My analysis: what will the AT&T-BellSouth merger mean?

That's AT&T CEO Ed Whitacre, superimposed on a Google Earth map of territory that for the most part,will fall under his company's domain if a blockbuster acquisition of BellSouth goes through.We have lots of details here, as well as my FAQ-style explanation and vision of what is going to...

Tags: AT&T Corp.

Blog posts 2006-03-05

AT&T's Whitacre not backing down about carriage fees

A few months ago, when SBC (now AT&T's) CEO Ed Whitacre made statements endorsing his company's right to extract carriage fees from high-bandwidth sites and applications running across their networks, advocates for "net neutrality" raised a ruckus. At the same time, Whitacre's corporate public relations department issued statements attempting to...

Tags: AT&T Corp.

Blog posts 2006-02-03

With telco mergers approved, greed factor can't be discounted

I've been processing my thoughts this morning on what happens next in light of the Federal Communications Commission's unanimous approval yesterday of the Verizon-MCI and SBC-AT&T mergers.My opinion is a conflicted one. From the standpoint of telecommunications infrastructure, these deals work. AT&T's able business services infrastructure meshes well with SBC's...

Tags: MCI Inc., cable, Ed Whitacre

Blog posts 2005-11-01

SBC chief: Vonage, other VoIP providers should pay to use our pipes

In a new Business Week Online interview, SBC Telecommunications CEO Ed Whitacre sounds a bit more than forthright about what he sees as his company's right to demand carrier fees from Internet telephony providers.Whitacre, whose company will take the AT&T name when, as expected, final approval is granted for SBC...

Tags: pipe, Ed Whitacre, Vonage Holdings Corp.

Blog posts 2005-10-31

Additional Resources

Are there really too many Windows editions?

Ask any Windows pundit about all the different versions of Windows Vista that Microsoft offers and you'll invariably get the same response. There are too many! Consumers are confused! It all needs to be simplified! To which I say: Be careful what you wish for. The case for reducing the...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., Edition, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Ed Bott

Blog posts 2008-10-10

News to know: Apple's $800 laptop; MS and Mac Patch Days; Vista Home for business

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Ryan Naraine: Mac OS X Patch Day: 40 security flaws fixed MS Patch Tuesday heads-up: 11 bulletins, 4 critical Ed Bott: Look who's buying...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Microsoft Windows Vista, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Laptop Computer, H-1B, Notebooks, Human Resources, Labor Relations, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, David Grober

Blog posts 2008-10-10

Look who's buying Vista Home Basic (hint: it's not home users)

Who's buying new PCs with Windows Vista Home Basic? Judging by the name, you'd assume those OS editions would be loaded on underpowered machines for starving students and penny-pinching families. But you'd be wrong. Based on my observations of the PC market over the past year or two, I think...

Tags: Dell Computer Corp., PC, Microsoft Windows Vista, Small-business Buyer, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Ed Bott

Blog posts 2008-10-09

Apple makes it official. Notebook announcement next week.

Apple makes it official. Notebook announcement next week.Expect some people to care.Do not expect me to raise an eyebrow.Not that old!"The current MacBook Pro design was introduced almost 3 years ago..."Lets be realistic about this, doesn't he mean almost 8 years ago? (and actually I thought the TiBooks came out...

Tags: Notebooks, Investment, notebook, Apple OSx, Apple Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-10-09

Forget about the name - The real question is how many flavors will Windows 7 come in?

Ed Bott's been sweating the small stuff, wondering what the next version of Windows will be called. To be perfectly honest with you, I couldn't care less what it's called. I'm far more interested in how many different flavors of the OS we can expect to have to deal with....

Tags: Microsoft Windows 7, Server, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Blog posts 2008-10-08

News to know: Clickjacking redux; SAP pricing; BlackBerry Storm; Windows 7

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Ryan Naraine: Webcam hijack demo highlights clickjacking threat Dancho Danchev: Atrivo/Intercage's disconnection briefly disrupts spam levels Adobe posts workaround for clickjacking flaw, NoScript releases ClearClick ...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Google Inc., Larry Dignan, Microsoft Windows 7, SAP AG, Apple Inc., RIM BlackBerry, Microsoft Corp., Pricing Strategy, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Microsoft Windows, Semantic Web, Linux, Operating Systems, Open Source, Software, Internet

Blog posts 2008-10-08

Forget the damn Linux netbooks. Can Windows replace Windows?

My esteemed ZDNet colleague Ed Bott, God bless him, wrote a very insightful piece in which he discusses Taiwanese PC mainboard and component manufacturer  MSI's challenges of selling Linux-based versions of their netbook, the Wind U90. Apparently, according to MSI, Linux-based versions of their netbook are...

Tags: MSI, Linux, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, UNIX, Open Source, Software, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2008-10-07

Will Windows 7 get a new name for its release?

I'm reading more and more about Windows 7 lately as PDC approaches and Microsoft begins revealing more snippets of information about its most secretive product ever. In most of that coverage, I've noticed an assumption that Windows 7 is going to be the final name of the product. I've been...

Tags: Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Ed Bott

Blog posts 2008-10-07

Scammers introduce ATM skimmers with built-in SMS notification

The bust of the notorious ATM scammer going under the handle of Cha0 in early September, once again puts ATM skimming in the spotlight. Among the main insecurities scammers face while embedding an ATM skimmer, is the retrieval process of the device that is now containing the credit card details...

Tags: Device, Credit Card, built-In, SMS, Scammer, ATM, Network Technology, Text Messaging/SMS/MMS, Networking, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Online Communications, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2008-10-07