America’s technology sector can provide a wellspring of economic dynamism and new employment. As long as government doesn’t poison that potentially abundant font, that is. At a seminar yesterday entitled “Technology and Economic Recovery” hosted by Americans for Technology Leadership, panelists Shahin Kohan, Dr. Joseph Fuhr and Karen Kerrigan explained that our information technology (IT) [...]

With 600 anxious people forming a restless line outside a building in midtown Manhattan, it looked like a bank run from the 1930s. And given the state of the economy for the last three years, well anything was possible. But this crowd was waiting for the doors to open at Apple’s flagship store on 5th [...]

A lot has changed since that not-so-halcyon year 1934. So why are the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and “Net Neutrality” advocates attempting to regulate the Internet under laws drafted for the technology of that era? In 1934, World War I was not yet known as “World War I.” A short film featuring The Three Stooges [...]

Whom do you trust with the future of broadband? The same federal government that brought us public education, the Post Office and Amtrak? Or the innovative technology companies that have made the Internet the most vibrant and transformative sector of our modern economy in an atmosphere relatively free from federal overregulation? Public opinion is unequivocal [...]

by Timothy Lee When was the last time that a scientific survey reported 91% agreement on anything, other than that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D – Nevada) is a really creepy guy? Yet that’s precisely the consensus contained in a survey released by the very Federal Communications Commission (FCC) that continues to push so-called [...]

The stock market seems like a herd of easily-spooked cattle ready to stampede in any direction by a sudden gust of financial wind. We don’t usually try to make sense of the market’s day-to-day behavior, but the cause of the downward stampede that began last Friday was at least something we could all understand: jobs. [...]

In an effort to circumvent a unanimous federal appeals court ruling, the Federal Communications Commission (“FCC”) announced earlier this month that it will pursue a “third way” to obtain regulatory control over the Internet. Specifically, lacking the straightforward authority to impose burdensome and unnecessary regulations on the World Wide Web, the FCC is now seeking [...]

There was a time not too long ago when Google considered itself too hip and high-minded to wallow in the mud of Washington lobbying along with other, less enlightened corporate giants. That attitude has now changed. And, of course, Google is making up for lost time. Five years ago they opened a lobbying office in [...]

Last month, a federal court of appeals unanimously rejected the brazen campaign by Obama’s Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to regulate the Internet via so-called “Net Neutrality.” Meanwhile, over in the court of public opinion, the American electorate opposes Obama’s scheme to federalize the Web by a 2-to-1 margin. But just as we witnessed with healthcare, [...]