Scott Bradner

Google Inc. recently strengthened its untouched-by-human-hands news service, news.google.com, and it's quite good. Maybe too good.

Peer-to-peer networking has developed a very bad reputation in the last year or so, mostly because it's a term that has been applied to ad-hoc music distribution networks.

I've been increasingly depressed about the sorry state of what passes for innovation in the network world these days.

I'm an unabashed Unix geek. I recently installed about the best version of Unix I've ever worked with on all the computers I regularly use. At the same time, I installed the best window-based operating system I've ever used on the same machines. Obviously the only way I could have done both at the same time was to install the new Mac OSX 10.2 on my home and office computers, and that is what I did.

Internet telephony is beginning to take off. It might be on a sometimes-imperceptible angle of ascent, but things are happening.

Internet telephony is beginning to take off. It might be on a sometimes-imperceptible angle of ascent, but things are happening.

You have to admit that the copyright folk are consistent as well as persistent. Their latest idea, introduced in U.S. Congress by four of their water boys, is to legitimize copyright people hacking into your computer on a whim.

Just when the telecom end-of-world experience seems to be ratcheting up to yet another level of pain comes word that the Internet is not the guaranteed way to lose money that most people thought. It is actually possible for something other than eBay Inc. and pornography to make money on the Net.