by William Dutton | Apr 29, 2015 | Blog
Gary Reid and his colleagues at WKAR put together a wonderful video montage for a tribute to Professor Steve Wildman, Founding Director of the Quello Center, which was shown last week at a celebration of this career with other retiring faculty. It is short,...
by William Dutton | Apr 28, 2015 | Blog
The implications of the digital age for the quality of information generally, and journalism in particular, has been a major issue for the study of communication technology, policy and regulation. The Quello Center has been interested in this issue, and one of its...
by Mitchell Shapiro | Apr 26, 2015 | Blog, Uncategorized
Over the past several days I’ve seen a number of post-mortems on the decision by Comcast to drop its bid to acquire Time Warner Cable after it became clear regulators weren’t going to approve the deal. Two items in particular caught my attention over the weekend: a...
by Mitchell Shapiro | Apr 23, 2015 | Blog, Uncategorized
Yesterday Google officially announced Project Fi, its much anticipated wireless service, which I’ve previously blogged and tweeted about during its pre-announcement rumor/leak phase. Now that more details, including pricing, are available directly from Google, an...
by Mitchell Shapiro | Apr 21, 2015 | Blog, Uncategorized
In my last post I described Boston’s recently-launched Wicked Free Wi-Fi as a new generation of municipal wireless networks likely to be more successful than the first generation of projects launched a decade earlier. Another member of this new generation is LinkNYC,...
by Mitchell Shapiro | Apr 17, 2015 | Blog
In my last post I briefly reviewed the less-than-stellar history of municipal Wi-Fi networks that were deployed roughly a decade ago. As I noted in that post, these projects employed earlier generations of technology and often-poorly-conceived “public-private...
by Mitchell Shapiro | Apr 15, 2015 | Blog, Uncategorized
So far, this series of blog posts has focused on what private companies are doing in the unlicensed spectrum space—including startups, cable operators, Google and mobile carriers. In the next few posts I’ll consider what cities and local neighborhoods have done, are...
by Mitchell Shapiro | Apr 10, 2015 | Blog
On April 1 the Information Technology & Innovation Foundation (ITIF) held an event to discuss its new report entitled “How Techno-Populism Is Undermining Innovation.” The thrust of the report was to contrast the dangers of what it describes as “tech...
by William Dutton | Apr 7, 2015 | Blog
Dear Friends and Colleagues of the Quello Center: Much has progressed at the Quello Center since I was last in touch, and more is on the horizon. I’d like to bring a few events and other news to your attention. Forthcoming Quello Lectures Professor Steve...
by Mitchell Shapiro | Apr 7, 2015 | Blog
In a post yesterday I discussed the disruptive potential of Google’s Project Nova. Having just discovered an article by Christopher Williams published last weekend in the UK’s Telegraph, I thought I should add an update on international aspects of Nova’s ambitions and...
