斯科特·布拉德纳（Scott Bradner）
Bradner is a consultant with Harvard University's University Information Systems. Reach him at sob@sobco.com. Bradner forum Get Bradner in your inbox.
If the Internet is magic, why can't we vote on it
作为发条的常规 - 在选举产生了太多故事之后，人们等待太久而无法投票（而且太多的地方选举官员说，一切都很好，没有问题） - .....
The personal computer tifosi
A few weeks ago I wrote about the potential impact of the verdict in the Apple v. Samsung patent case. The reaction from many readers who took the time to comment was, let's say, not supportive of the position I took in the column....
When does free mean none?
The International Telecommunications Union is scheduled to meet in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, for two weeks in early December to revise the international treaties that define the ITU's role in the world. Many organizations have...
Apple vs. Samsung: innovation vs. clones
There has been a lot of speculation as to how a jury could have come up with such a one-sided verdict in as complicated and long a case as Apple vs. Samsung. I doubt anyone directly involved in the case would have predicted an outcome...
Rewriting Internet history
Rewriting history for political purposes used to be a favorite pastime in the old Soviet Union. In a neat turn of events we now see the Wall Street Journal doing the same thing.
Purposeful pollution: An Apple patent, but not an Apple idea
It would be nice if Apple were going to implement the technology in U.S. Patent No. 8,205,265, which was issued to the company in June. There's no reason to think that it will, but I hope Apple at least won't block others from doing...
Apple: Great new products, but secrecy as a religion
Apple CEO Tim Cook, along with a few friends, Monday performed the annual Apple Worldwide Developers Conference keynote. The show must go on, even without Steve Jobs, and it sure did go on -- two well-packed hours of Apple mantra and...
Usage-based Internet service: Sometimes competition in name only
The National Cable and Telecommunications Association (NCTA) held its annual Cable Show in Boston at the end of May. The opening remarks by Michael Powell, ex-chairman of the FCC and current head of the NCTA, were quite good, but he...
SMS a killer app at 20; irrelevant at 25?
The first SMS-capable mobile phones were approved for sale in Europe 20 years ago this month. By any measure, SMS has become a huge success, at least for the telephone companies, with more than 6 trillion SMS messages sent worldwide...
NBC, the Olympics and the Internet
I have been far from nice when it comes to my opinion of NBC's understanding of the power of the Internet when it comes to Olympic coverage. Six years ago I had the Pollyannaish view that NBC would stumble on the Internet when it next...
Is Apple destroying the Internet?
When The Guardian recently interviewed Google co-founder Sergey Brin as a teaser for its weeklong series of articles about the "Battle for the Internet," the publication got a good headline out of it: "Google's Brin: threats to web...
Are Facebook passwords fair game for employers?
The Associated Press in late March reported on the issue of employers asking job applicants for their Facebook passwords, citing new and old incidents. The story apparently hit a sore point because it was all over the press within a...
Abusive websites and customer retention
为什么应该知道更好的公司在应该停下来像客户一样思考的公司，至少要持续几秒钟？这是一个小故事，说明了一家公司正确，然后制作三个...
Apple's "new iPad": Too late to be corporate game changer
It's been a hard few years for we-control-everything corporate IT departments as well as for the "Microsoft is the answer, what was your question?" approach to corporate computing. It has also been a while since corporate IT...
Apple's Gatekeeper: A low cost for partial security
Out of the blue, Apple just announced Mountain Lion, the next generation of its OS X operating system. By the time Mountain Lion ships sometime next summer, Apple says it will have lots of new features, some transported from its iOS...
Europe cares about privacy, so you must too
In late January, the European Commission published a proposal "on the protection of individuals with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data."
Is vulnerability an objective?
I ended last year with a death-of-the-Internet column, and I'm starting off the new year with a death-via-the-Internet one.