Alex Goldman

As a law professor, Susan Crawford is better placed than most to warn of the dangers of allowing the government to make decisions instead of making decisions for ourselves. In her talk at the Freedom To Connect conference, she warned everyone invoved in the Internet that we all have to grow up (as ISPCON’s Jon […]

Hanover, N.H.-based Dartmouth College is well-known in wireless circles for being one of the first colleges to embrace Wi-Fi technology. Recently, the college went through a network upgrade. The original network, says Brad Noblet, Dartmouth director of technical services, cost $1.2 million. That covered 200 access points (APs) and the wiring they required. ”Now we […]

We heard Francis McInerney, co-author of Futurewealth and venture capitalist with North River Ventures, speak at the Stupidnet conference, where we also picked up a copy of the book. A few months later, having read the book, we called him to see what he might predict for the future of wireline and wireless telecommunications. Here’s […]

BALTIMORE — At a two-hour marathon session at ISPCON, Voice-over-IP (VoIP) vendors on Thursday representing all stages of deployment concluded that logistics and politics are the biggest hurdles holding up widescale adoption, not technology or cost. But ISPs still remain skeptical about deploying the advanced voice service for its customers. A slew of reasons have […]

BALTIMORE — Hans Peter Brondmo, a noted technology author and Digital Impact fellow, has announced a multi-year plan by the Network Advertising Initiative’s Email Service Provider Coalition (NAI ESPC) to change the architecture of e-mail in order to effectively block spam while protecting legitimate e-mail advertisers. “When we decided to address this problem, we had […]

Star Internet, a U.K.-based Internet service provider, last year spun off MessageLabs, its former in-house application development arm, to sell managed services and software independently. Who would have guessed that the spinoff, which specializes in e-mail content filtering at the Internet level, would become the first to debut a “100 percent virus protection guarantee”? While […]