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Affirm Today’s Holocaust

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 […]

Stop Patent Trolls Now

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 […]

Intel Learns Moore’s Law of Growth

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 Filters

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, […]

Frankston on the AT&T-BellSouth Deal

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 Makes Me Sane

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 […]

A Vital Call to Action

AT&T and Verizon are the enemies of America. That is the reluctant conclusion today of Gordon Cook, in The Cook Report, a vital piece of work you owe it to yourself to read. Because in just a few minutes, Cook will tell you why that is so. In this he quotes Vint Cerf, now with […]

More of My Stuff

When I first launched my blog at Corante one of my regular obsessions was what I called "The World of Always-On." By this I referred to wireless networking used as an application platform. In 2002 I was writing extensively about possible medical applications, inventory applications, home automation applications of Always-On technology. Well, there is an […]

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