Over the past decade, the lightly regulated wireless industry has produced price reductions far greater than we could expect under even the most enlightened, efficient, and perfectly operating regulation.
September 2009
Last Wednesday, Holman Jenkins penned a column in The Wall Street Journal about net neutrality (Adam discussed it here). In response, I have a letter to the editor in today’s The Wall Street Journal: To the Editor: Mr. Jenkins suggests that Google would likely “shriek” if a startup were to mount its servers inside the [...]
Here in Washington, DC we’re finally experiencing a changing of the seasons. The summer heat is retreating as cool , autumn air invades. It’s a changing of the guard–just like what’s happening to ICANN with today’s expiration of its oversight by the U.S. government. Only its a spring-like blossoming for ICANN. The Department of Commerce [...]
I noticed on Twitter that Google Wave was a trending topic, so I went looking to see what the hell it is. Many of you already know, I’m sure, but for those of you who don’t: It’s a hosted/’cloud’ communications platform that could supplant email, IM, chatrooms, wikis, word processors, and a few other things. [...]
Stacey Higginbotham at GigaOm conducted a great interview with Verizon CTO Dick Lynch, in which he endorsed broadband metering: We believe that you have to be allowed to have a level of service that is not on a public Internet. What you’re suggesting is different kind of IP service that’s not delivered over the public [...]
Americans often quote, or allude to, the French expression “Le Roi est mort, vive le Roi!” But few realize that this apparent paradox was meant quite literally by the French:From its first official proclamation in 1422 upon the coronation of Charles VII to 1774, when Louis XV finally died, the term expressed the abstract constitutional [...]
Technological change confers enormous benefits, even for those of us who do not rush out to buy the latest neat new thing. My collection of surprisingly free barbecue grills and smokers is one example.
I had some time cooling my heels in airports and a hospital over the latter part of last week and the weekend, so I thumbed a long (too long) response to Julian’s recent post discussing privacy notices. It’s over on Cato@Liberty.
Testifying in a Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee hearing today, Trey Hodgkins of technology trade association “TechAmerica” offered some pretty bogus excuses for resisting transparency in government contracts. [I]f disclosure included posting to a public website the unredacted contract, a number of critical elements would be exposed. Something as simple as identifying the [...]
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