Scott Bradner: 'Net Insider http://www.networkworld.com/columnists/bradner.html Scott Bradner's weekly observations on the Internet. Network World, Inc. Copyright(C) 1994 - 2009 Network World, Inc. Apple as an obsessive-compulsive case study http://www.networkworld.com/columnists/2009/110909bradner.html Apple's take-it-like-we-serve-it attitude hits close to home for columnist Scott Bradner in light of a friend's medical product research Scott Bradner 2009-11-09T12:00:00-04:00 Is a neutral net within the power of the FCC? http://www.networkworld.com/columnists/2009/102809-bradner.html Questioning whether new FCC network neutrality rulemaking process produces a legally supportable set of rules Scott Bradner 2009-10-28T12:00:00-04:00 Legally arrived at principles for ISPs? http://www.networkworld.com/columnists/2009/092809bradner.html About a year ago I lamented that the FCC supported neutrality on the Internet. Not that I thought carriers should be able to treat customers' traffic unfairly, but the FCC had acted without proper authority. The issue of a lack of authority may be about to be fixed, and if that happens the FCC will be faced with another question: If it can act, when should it do so? Scott Bradner 2009-09-28T12:00:00-04:00 Do Internet micropayments emit enough of a siren song? http://www.networkworld.com/columnists/2009/091509-bradner.html Google is offering a new micropayment scheme that purportedly will help newspapers. But will it really? Scott Bradner 2009-09-15T12:00:00-04:00 An Internet civics lesson? http://www.networkworld.com/columnists/2009/090809bradner.html The Pew Internet and American Life Project has just published the latest of its explorations on how the Internet is affecting us. The latest study confirms what many observers have assumed -- the Internet, or at least social Web sites, get more people involved in things political. Scott Bradner 2009-09-08T12:00:00-04:00 Human and computer viruses are both security risks http://www.networkworld.com/columnists/2009/083109bradner.html In any case there is likely to be a lot of additional employees wanting to, or needing to, work from home. Are you ready? Scott Bradner 2009-08-31T12:00:00-04:00 Apple App Store and Google Voice: move may not be as capricious as it seemed http://www.networkworld.com/columnists/2009/082409bradner.html A few weeks ago I wrote about the first round of fallout that resulted from the press reports that Apple had rejected a Google Voice application after Google tried to add it to the App Store. Scott Bradner 2009-08-24T12:00:00-04:00 U.S. broadband program - too much like old times? http://www.networkworld.com/columnists/2009/081709-bradner.html If I sounded a bit positive in my last column about the state of part of the U.S. government bureaucracy, I will make up for that this week. Scott Bradner 2009-08-17T12:00:00-04:00 The birth of an activist FCC? http://www.networkworld.com/columnists/2009/080309bradner.html The latest news out of the normally sluggish FCC is quite a change of pace. Just three days after The New York Times ran a story on Apple refusing to carry Google Voice in the iTunes App Store for the iPhone the FCC started asking questions about it. Yes, the FCC was looking to dance without even waiting to be asked. I'm a bit worried for the toes of its reluctant dancing partners. Scott Bradner 2009-08-03T12:00:00-04:00 Amazon fails to remember the physical http://www.networkworld.com/columnists/2009/072109bradner.html This column is not really about Amazon violating its own terms of service by deleting e-books that its Kindle customers had purchased. Most commentators are painting Amazon's actions as some sort of isolated brain fart, but I think it's not actually an Amazon-specific problem. Scott Bradner 2009-07-21T12:00:00-04:00