MuniWireless

As promised, here is the new list of movers and shakers in the debate about network neutrality, an update from our previous rankings released earlier this summer. (In college football terms, the earlier was the preseason poll, while this one is near the end of the BCS process.) Since we are still waiting for names to be named following the Presidential election victory by Sen. Barack Obama, we’re sure this list will be updated again soon. But for now, here’s…

It’s hard to believe that it was just two years ago that Google co-founder Sergey Brin embarrassed himself and the company with a poorly planned attempt at lobbying Capitol Hill. Fast forward to last Thursday afternoon, when the chairman of the FCC uncharacteristically hung out with Google co-founder Larry Page, walking reporters and assorted policy wonks through the machinations that led to the FCC’s decision to open up television white spaces as unregulated spectrum, a ruling pushed hard by the…

If there was one clear point that surfaced in almost every interview and all the research we did for our new consumer report on WiMax, it was that the consumer appetite for a mobile Internet experience is apparently huge, and it’s just starting to grow. But in a thorough report about how Internet users are starting to ditch laptops in favor of phone-sized devices in the Wall Street Journal today, there isn’t a single mention of WiMax, probably because there…

No, we don’t have any official confirmation, shipping dates, or any other such data to hang our headline on. But from the reporting we’ve done leading up to this week’s WiMax World show in Chicago, we feel pretty confident to predict that laptops with WiMax connectivity embedded inside should be available for purchase sometime before Halloween, probably first from Asus and Lenovo, with other potential entrants close behind.

Why are the delivery, pricing and other details still fuzzy? Blame it on…