TechBytes

If the FCC is going to be involved in mhealth, and broader health tech, expansion, then the agency must get out of its own way.

The threat of foreign governments taking over the Internet is real, and the U.S. government is helping those efforts.

Investment in tomorrow’s broadband infrastructure does not require federal stimulus, but rather requires elected officials and regulators to ensure the appropriate conditions for investment. 

An understanding of basic finance and math seem to be beyond the grasp of some broadband industry critics.

Congress and the White House pursued getting more people health insurance when they should have been removing barriers to better health.

The lodestone should be indicating danger—expansive taxation authority because of radically expansive government undermining our Union.

The administration’s effort to push electronic health records may have postponed their adoption for years.

The history of the cable industry is one of innovation, risk taking and investment. The proper reward for all the risk is best left to the marketplace.

A Tennessee legislative proposal would allow pole attachment rates to rise radically—effectively creating a broadband tax—to 371 percent of the national average. Justification for such a stunning increase is scant, since the electric company’s costs do not increase because of the pole attachments.

Doctors are increasingly seeing patients via computers or mobile devices, which may actually achieve some of the goals of health care reform.