Over at TIME.com, (http://techland.time.com/2011/11/14/the-consequences-of-apples-walled-garden/) last week’s flap over Apple kicking out famed security researcher Charlie Miller out of its iOS...
https://techliberation.com/2011/11/14/the-consequences-of-apples-walled-garden/
On numerous occasions here and elsewhere I have cited the enormous influence that Virginia Postrel’s 1998 book, The Future and Its Enemies, has had on me. Her “dynamist” versus “stasis�...
https://techliberation.com/2011/03/14/virginia-postrel-takes-on-the-zittrain-thesis/
Pundits are foaming at the mouth about AT&T’s just-announced end to unlimited data packages for smartphones. Here is Jeff Jarvis calling the move “cynical,” “retrograde,” and “evil.�...
https://techliberation.com/2010/06/02/att-announced-prices-cuts-for-most-data-customers/
There’s been a lot of hand-wringing lately about Google’s recent acquisitions of Teracent (ad-personalization) and AdMob (mobile ads), as well as Apple’s response, buying AdMob’s rival Qu...
https://techliberation.com/2010/01/22/internet-consolidation-can-be-good-for-privacy/
Why do (most) stores have walls? Because, obviously, walls are generally (at least in the developing world) a cost-effective technology for enforcing the value exchange that stores offer customer...