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The internet at a crossroad

August 13, 2010

This week, two dif­fer­ent views of the inter­net were unveiled: an opti­mistic one and one that could kill the inter­net as we know it.

In Google We Trust

February 11, 2010

Google announces a plan to test high speed inter­net access ser­vice to half a mil­lion home. Along the way, it shows lead­er­ship where the US gov­ern­ment appears timid.

2006 Predictions — The Review

December 31, 2006

It’s been a tra­di­tion on TNL.net to have pre­dic­tions for the com­ing year and I will soon have a set out for 2007 but before I move on to that, I need to ful­fill the other tra­di­tion on TNL.net, which is to look at the pre­vi­ous year’s pre­dic­tions and rate how suc­cess­ful (or not) I was in pre­dict­ing the year ahead. […]

Why the Boo.comeback makes sense

November 28, 2006

There has been much dis­cus­sion lately, most of it neg­a­tive (you can read more com­ments on Tech­no­rati), about the come­back of boo.com and once again, I find myself on the oppo­site side of the shared wis­dom. Before I go into rea­sons as to why I think a come­back by Boo.com (a boo.comeback?) makes sense, let me first go into my […]

Life After Net Neutrality

June 8, 2006

For the past few months, in the United States, a fight has been brew­ing over how the pipes that con­trol the Inter­net would be ruled. On one side, activists and large Inter­net com­pa­nies felt that access to the Inter­net should be neu­tral and that all sites should be accessed in the same fash­ion. On the other […]

Future Tense — Always On

May 11, 2006

Read­ers of this site know that I’m a pro­po­nent of liv­ing an always con­nected lifestyle. My pre­vi­ous views on the sub­jects looked to appli­ca­tions that lived partly on the edge of the net­work and partly off it, a class of appli­ca­tions I called Hybrid Com­put­ing. As broad­band access to the net becomes more preva­lent, those appli­ca­tions will increasingly […]

2006 Predictions

December 28, 2005

Since 1997, It’s been a long run­ning game here at TNL.net cen­tral to make wild pre­dic­tions about the upcom­ing year that have turned out to be only some­what off (and, as always, I promise to revisit them around the end of next year to assess how far off base I was) so here goes this year’s edi­tion. Broadband […]

2005 Predictions

January 3, 2005

Another year, another round of pre­dic­tions. As is now becom­ing cus­tom­ary on TNL.net, it’s time to project out the future year. As always, I’ll revisit those pre­dic­tions at the end of the year. Voice Over IP VoIP expe­ri­enced tremen­dous growth in 2004 but it was just the begin­ning. This year, much more will hap­pen in that space. Cable […]

Modular by Design — Cable TV

August 11, 2004

Hav­ing looked at how the mod­u­lar by design approach impacted broad­cast tele­vi­sion, let’s now look at its impact on cable TV. The FCC and the cable TV indus­try recently came head to head when it comes to à la carte pric­ing . The con­cept of à la carte pric­ing is that con­sumers would be able to […]

Apple: Cross Platform DRM

October 16, 2003

As pre­dicted, Apple intro­duced a ver­sion of iTunes for win­dows today. A lot will be writ­ten about how this solid­i­fies Apple’s lead in the dig­i­tal music player mar­ket but what many may be over­look­ing is how Apple is push­ing its own ver­sion of Dig­i­tal Rights Man­age­ment into a wider mar­ket. I sus­pect this is a strat­egy sim­i­lar to the one […]