Scott Bradner: 'Net Insider

Will Apple be forced to make more money?

Scott Bradner — 2008-10-07T00:00:00Z

Apple-AT&T iPhone agreement has gotten the court’s attention.

Is ignorance of the law a design goal?

Scott Bradner — 2008-10-01T00:00:00Z

Carl Malumad is pushing for more U.S. laws and standards to be Internet accessible.

This is not a Mac vs. PC column

Scott Bradner — 2008-09-23T00:00:00Z

Microsoft has sold a lot of copies of Vista; in May it reported it had sold 140 million. This statistic, along with the data points that 2007 was a record year for Microsoft and that 2007 Windows revenue was about $17 billion, should be seen as rather good news. Yet the press hardly ever has a good word to say about Vista and its adoption.

Fantasy numbers about fantasy football

Scott Bradner — 2008-09-16T00:00:00Z

Blazing headlines warning that American business will lose a billion or more dollars because of the college basketball playoffs have become a ritual of spring. Now such sports-related doom-saying is creeping into the fall. I just saw a headline that claimed fantasy football was going to cost American businesses $435 million per week during the upcoming NFL season. The basic premise that this kind of money is actually lost is more than a bit wacko, and this should be clear to just about everyone, so why do these fantasy numbers get so widely reported?

Life at 10 years AG (after Google)

Scott Bradner — 2008-09-09T00:00:00Z

A look back at 10 years of Google and the rise of moms surfing the Web.

Comcast: Unexplained bandwidth caps

Scott Bradner — 2008-09-02T00:00:00Z

Comcast is in the news again. Over the last few months it seems like a new Comcast-related story has broken every few weeks -- all of them quite bad news for the service provider. The PR people over there sure must be busy.

The last pre-Internet Olympics?

Scott Bradner — 2008-08-27T00:00:00Z

Expect to see a whole lot more Internet-oriented coverage of the Olympics next time around by NBC and others.

A hopefully terminal delay in enhanced advertising

Scott Bradner — 2008-08-18T00:00:00Z

NebuAd, an advertising service that tracks users' Web activities, is feeling the heat from Congress and others.

Transit officials don't understand publicity or security

Scott Bradner — 2008-08-11T00:00:00Z

Imagine you work for the transportation authority in a major U.S. city. Your organization deployed a fare collection system over the last few years that uses both prepaid mag stripe and prepaid RFID-based fare cards. Now imagine that one of your suppliers points out the agenda of a security conference where someone is going to give a talk whose description starts out with: "Want free subway rides for life?" The description goes on to say that the talk will show how to break your new fare cards. What would you do?

Unhappy the FCC supported net neutrality

Scott Bradner — 2008-08-05T00:00:00Z

A split FCC decided that Comcast had been a bad company when it interfered with specific customer traffic and told it to clean up its act in the future. As a proponent of network neutrality this should make me happy but it does not.