You paid for the phone network, not them. You licensed the cable operators, and without your approval they would not, could not exist.

QoS will continue, regardless of the outcome of the network neutrality debate.

If you want real growth in wireless, the correct approach is to increase the supply of unlicensed spectrum. Cisco will make money, Microsoft will make money, and a host of new services will be created. New value will be created, and prices will be kept low.

The historical relationship between stock and bond prices is being re-established, historical patterns are being re-established, and if you thought the last five years were a bear market for stocks (as I do), well you haven't seen anything yet.

If AT&T decides to sell what are, in effect, private network services and call itself an Internet Service Provider, who will defend the Internet's meaning?

Those without demand a share in what others have, at minimum the chance to earn one. When their political and economic systems fail to deliver answers, where negotiation is rejected, arms are taken up.

Is the "net neutrality" debate irrelevant? It is, if you deny the idea — which is central to their initial statements on this controversy — that Verizon, AT&T and BellSouth only want rights to "their" property. The new argument is that their "last mile" — the network between your local switch and your home or […]

The Internet is not owned by anyone. It is simply an agreement to exchange bits. If you have a home network, which operates under TCP/IP, you own your own Internet, once you connect it to someone else who runs their network the same way. But this strength is also the Internet’s weakness. Who enforces that […]

Pets bring important lessons. Unconditional love. Living in the moment. The power of change. This was important in the case of Missy (right), whom our daughter Robin rescued from the PAWS shelter last summer. Missy had been partly-declawed, then abandoned. She was terribly frightened. I think it was her neediness that got to Robin. Robin […]

Realism alert. The funniest aspect of this whole immigration debate is the right-wing idea that a wall next to Mexico would "secure our borders." It won’t. Only about 23% of our undocumented or illegal (take your pick) workers are Mexican. We have a Free Trade Agreement (remember the giant sucking sound) that prevents us from […]