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President Trump thinks he can shut down WeChat: It won’t work

Forty-five days from now, we’re told, President Trump will shut down TikTok and WeChat. TikTok, maybe, but WeChat? Impossible. Everything Donald Trump understands about the Internet could fit in a...

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2021 Prediction #4: WiFi 6 is a bust (for now) as Bufferbloat returns thanks...

Remember Bufferbloat? It’s a subject I was among the first to write about a decade ago, starting with a prediction column just like this one in 2011. The problem at the time was that every video or...

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Starlink is a global ISP built at ZERO COST to SpaceX, enabling NASA’s...

There is lots of good news lately for SpaceX, especially NASA choosing the Torrance, CA-based company to build a $2.89 billion lunar lander for NASA’s Artemis Moon landing slated for 2024. Key to that...

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Apple’s Space Ambitions are Real

Last summer, a couple weeks before the iPhone 13 announcement, Chinese market analyst Ming-Chi Kuo wrote that the iPhone 13 would include satellite communication capability. Huh? This was a bolt from...

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What yesterday’s Apple satellite announcement really means

I took the summer off to move with my family from California to Virginia, thus escaping the inevitable fires of doom. I deliberately left my Apple/Globalstar column up so it would be still staring at...

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