Those of you who follow my blog should have noticed a new look and feel today!  If you receive this missive in your email box via an RSS feed, I encourage you to stop by www.ThePhoenixPrinciple.com to see the new look. As most of you know, I'm quite serious about helping organizations realize that ...

Luckily, my job has not yet been affected by this nightmare that is our current economy; I count myself very fortunate to be among the still-employed (knock on wood, or fake wood stickers, as the case may be).  But for those of you who have been shit-canned, here's something cool to set yo...

Lately, in my work at NPR, I have become more aware than ever how important good typography is. My main project right now is as lead designer on NPR.org's redesign, which will go live sometime in 2009.  Luckily, I have inherited a beautiful typographic and grid structure from Schematic, th...

Or, how bad typography made me miss my goddamn flight. So, last week was Thanksgiving and on Thanksgiving Day, I took a flight to Seattle. As you can see from this itinerary (sent by Expedia and viewed in my Mobile Me account), I was scheduled to arrive in Seattle at 11:52 am, giving me plenty of ti...

Two weeks ago, I wrote an article entitled "White Space – A Connected Future" that explored the kind of world we might live in if White Space devices found their way to market. What’s "white space?" On February 17, 2009 American television stations will stop broadcasting ...

The conventional Beltway wisdom would be that net neutrality legislation should have a real chance now with the election of President-Elect Barack Obama and strengthened Democratic majorities in the Senate and House. But there are two recent developments which make the case for net neutrality regula...

This could get very interesting. The Federal Communications Commission has opened up so-called wireless white spaces–unused spectrum between broadcast channels–in a move the agency hopes paves the way for ‘Wi-Fi on Steroids’. You might be surprised at Larry Dignan's predictions regarding the...

Posted by Larry Page, Co-Founder and President of Products All eyes are on the presidential election today, but another important vote just took place at the Federal Communications Commission. By a vote of 5-0, the FCC formally agreed to open up the "white spaces" spectrum -- the unused airwaves bet...

Filed under: Wireless At this point all the snazzy new websites and re-focused marketing efforts in the world aren't going to get Google, Microsoft, and the other members of the White Spaces Coalition anywhere if they don't actually demonstrate the broadband-in-between-TV-signals tech in action -- a...

An RCR Wireless article reports: Sprint Nextel Corp. and T-Mobile USA Inc. urged the Federal Communications Commission to embrace a plan to allocate vacant TV channels -- known as white spaces -- on a fixed-licensed basis for wireless backhaul services. And quotes Sprint & T-Mobile from their FC...