David Coursey

Should Internet registrars be able to impose requirements on the sites that reside within the top level domains they organize? In general, Id say no, but if there were to be an exception, the .mobi top-level domain makes a good one. If you want a domain name ending in .mobi, you have to agree to […]

What do you sell when you cant sell applications anymore? You sell servers and hope that if the servers are interesting enough, customers will buy new versions of applications as well. If everything works out, you have new servers to sell and youre back in the applications business again, at least temporarily. That is the […]

This weeks most interesting quote comes from Bill Gates, who told a college newspaper that Blu-ray, Sonys HD DVD format, “is the last physical format there will ever be.” “Everythings going to be streamed directly or on a hard disk,” Gates added. “So, in this way, its even unclear how much [Blu-ray] counts.” Gates had […]

eBay CEO Meg Whitman, apparently still under the influence of whatever caused her to invest $4 billion in Skype last week, says that within years voice telephone calls will be “free”, subsidized by advertising and transaction fees. Further, there will be so much free service that it might become impossible to sell voice telephony minutes. […]

It was a week for strange bedfellows: Google and Comcast reportedly talking about buying a piece of AOL while Microsoft and Real were playing kiss-and-make-up to the tune of $761 million. And, oh yes, Apple released its overhyped video iPod and the underhyped iMac media hub. The big winner of the bunch was Real Networks, […]

Repeat after me: Companies dont commit crimes, people do. And people who commit crimes in the workplace should be prosecuted and jailed just like the thugs who commit crimes on the street. If the U.S. Department of Justice is really serious about fighting white-collar crime, it will exercise its option to bring individual charges against […]

Finally fed-up with the progress—actually, the lack of progress—toward a new wireless LAN standard, a group of 26 companies this week announced theyll push forward on their own. The Enhanced Wireless Consortium hopes to release a final draft of its 600M bps 802.11n standard sometime next month. This could put the new high-speed Wi-Fi flavor […]

AOL has embarked in a program to add “presence” features to as many blogging, media, and social networking sites as possible. People using these sites will be able to advertise their presence to other users, even if they arent logged onto the site at the moment, thanks to their AOL Instant Messaging client. These sites […]

The world was ready for Google and Sun to actually do something. Tuesday morning, reporters and editors around the world were ready for a big announcement. Alas, we were let down. With all the speculation that StarOffice was becoming GoogleOffice and that Google and Sun were jointly challenging Microsoft, I was ready to write a […]

I really shouldnt let the Internet get to me like this. But, right now I am ready to shut down my server and go live on an island someplace. Of course, Ill take a satellite phone and my radio gear—Im disenchanted, but Im not stupid. I dont know about you, but Im about ready to […]