When the technology histories are written, this will be called the Gadget Decade. It is the first time in 30 years that client hardware has been the trend: The 1950s were about mainframes. The 1960s were about minicomputers. The 1970s were about PCs. The 1980s were about local networks. The 1990s were about the Internet. […]
The 1960 election was decided, in part, on the idea that a "missile gap" existed with the Soviet Union. Sen. John F. Kennedy used this phony issue to portray VP Richard Nixon, who had made his name as a Cold Warrior, as being "soft on communism." Ambitious politicians now have an extraordinary opportunity to do […]
The following was originally published yesterday in my weekly newsletter, A-Clue.Com. I would be delighted to have you subscribe. Always free. Do We Need To Care About The Internet? No. (This is what the Internet looked like, within the African nation of Togo, back in 2000. It is much, much bigger now.) Caring about the […]
Recently there was a thread on Dave Farber’s Interesting People list concerning a report (later shown to be false) former German Chancellor Helmut Kohl had said something minimizing the Holocaust. I responded. The item was not posted to the list, so you get it. (Lucky you.) I’m not a Holocaust denier, but is it wrong […]
In the open spectrum world interference is the only issue. Equipment makers compete to create new markets
We need a practical answer to patent trolls. The end of the RIM-NTP patent war, on terms very favorable to NTP ($612.5 million favorable) has many people wringing their hands over the issue of patent trolls. Carmi Levy of Info-Tech Research says this creates an open season for patent trolls to go after manufacturers and […]
Moore’s Law of Growth is an inverse law. The bigger the number, the harder to multiply it. Over the last few years Intel has learned this version of Moore’s Law to its sorrow. The ship has become enormous, and enormously hard to turn. Even if new CEO Paul Otellini knows what must be done (and […]
The trouble with software filters is they are controlled by others. Schools and libraries, which after a long struggle are now usually mandated to install filters, find that the judgement of librarians is replaced by that of software companies. The catalog of what is on the Internet is too large, the software is too opaque, […]
Visicalc co-founder (and freelance Internet analyst) Bob Frankston has written a great piece about today’s AT&T-BellSouth deal. This was originally posted to Dave Farber’s Interesting People list, with plans to post it soon at SATN, a blog he runs with David Reed and Dan Bricklin (the other VisiCalc co-founder). Given the importance of the issue, […]
Glenn Fleishman, who edits WiFi Networking News, is a national treasure. I was sitting around this morning, terribly depressed over the prospect of AT&T gobbling up BellSouth, when along comes Glenn, on Dave Farber’s list, looking on the bright side. I hope he doesn’t mind if I copy his entire post: I don’t want to […]
