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net.wars: Return of the browser wars

It was quiet, too quiet. For so long it's just been Firefox/Mozilla/Netscape, Internet Explorer, and sometimes Opera that it seemed like that was how it was always going to be.[more...]

net.wars: Bannedwidth

The news that Comcast is openly imposing a monthly 250Gb bandwidth cap for its broadband subscribers sounds, as many have noted, more generous than it is.[more...]


The great "mobile broadband" bubble inflates...

In the next few weeks (hint: CTIA is in three weeks) I'm expecting mobile operators to be offered a new tool, which will allow them to work out what on earth their mobile broadband customers are doing.[more...]

net.wars: Intimate exchanges

Ed Iacobucci Dayjet founder and CEOTalking of "software as a service" - a couple of years ago I did an interview with Ed ("Mr OS/2")Iacobucci, now CEO and founder of Dayjet, a new kind of airline.[more...]


net.wars: licence to kill

Yesterday, a US federal appeals court reversed a lower court ruling that might have invalidated open-source licenses. The case, Jacobsen v. Katzer, began more than two years ago with a patent claim.[more...]

net.wars: Broadcast of the Rings

Olympic TankThere's a certain irony in the International Olympic Committee's choice of YouTube as its broadcast platform for the Beijing Olympics, which started last night or this morning depending on your time zone.[more...]