Keeping politicians' hands off the Net & everything else related to technology
Sirius XM Satellite Radio—the company born from the merger of Sirius Satelllite Radio and XM Satellite Radio—has “been working with advisers to prepare for a possible bankruptcy filing,” according to the New York Times. Some may say that Sirius XM was never a fit business to begin with—many of their new subscribers came from the [...]
Mozilla Foundation chairperson Mitchell Baker believes that Microsoft’s bundling of Internet Explorer with Windows represents an “ongoing threat to competition and innovation on the Internet.” But as Adam explains in an earlier post, and Ryan Paul argues over at ArsTechnica, Baker’s portrayal of the browser marketplace is way off base. Perhaps the most interesting rebuttal [...]
. . . with calls to televise the conference committee on the economic stimulus bill. A good idea, with reservations which I discuss on the WashingtonWatch.com blog.
The WSJ reports on the intensifying economic pressure on local TV stations: declining viewership, ad revenue and the threat that national networks might go straight to cable. Many stations are looking to the Internet for salvation: Stations are scrambling to find new revenue streams. Some are testing out technology that will send their signals [...]
“Open government” can mean various things to different people, but a couple of articles I’ve recently read suggest that solutions for opening the government vault of information should focus on the “way” and not the “what.” Why is this distinction important? Well, it takes the initial focus away from vendors lobbying that their products are [...]
Seeing Adam’s recent post on the stimulus and its advocates, I had to toss in my two cents. 2008 was the year of Schumpeter. Creative destruction was doing its thing, getting rid of many unproductive old-economy companies that were simply creating economic waste by keeping inputs from going to their highest-value use. But this scared [...]
Sorry, this has nothing to do with tech policy, but I just had to comment on Eugene Robinson’s latest column in the Washington Post singing the praises of an unbounded stimulus plan. For those of you not familiar with Robinson’s work, you’re really missing a treat. Eugene Robinson and his colleague Harold Meyerson compete on [...]
Over at Ars, Ryan Paul has an appropriately sharp-tongued response to the Mozilla Foundation’s troubling move to become a cheerleader for the European Commission’s ongoing antitrust efforts against Microsoft. Apparently Mozilla will assist the EC’s investigation “by offering expertise about the browser market.” Paul focuses on what’s wrong with this in both a micro and [...]
On this episode of “Tech Policy Weekly,” we’re launching a new format called “Tech Book Corner” that will feature occasional conversations with the authors of important new books about technology policy and the other issues that we debate frequently at the Tech Liberation Front blog. On this debut episode of Book Corner, we are joined [...]
January 29, 2012
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