TechBytes

The good news this week is that it appears that no binding treaty is going to come out of next month's Copenhagen conference on climate change.

In response to the FCC chairman’s comments and news reports that the agency is prepared to pursue comprehensive Internet regulation, a rising crescendo of voices has been heard expressing deep reservations.

Longmont, Colorado, will have a question on its November ballot asking whether city residents should be taxed to pay for and subsidize "telecommunications services, advanced services and cable television services.

While lately a number of people may have been left out of the policy making process, the FCC has opened up an opportunity for you to comment on its plans to bring good old fashioned heavy handed regulation of the Internet through “network neutrality” rules.

The Obama Administration has earned kudos for their vision of using of technology to be a primary part of the solution to policy challenges from improved healthcare to efficient energy usage.

Somewhere lost in all of the heated rhetoric about whether or not to move the country to a government health insurance plan are the patients—those who are and who will be ailing but who could be helped by advances in technology if that technology were deployed and not hindered.

It would be hard to imagine an industry today that is more “dynamic” than the wireless industry.

Late last week the new chairman of the Federal Communications Commission shared his view that it was critical for the Federal Government to start regulating the Internet.

I’ve just returned from an overseas trip, and once again I was reminded of how pervasive American entertainment media is around the world.

In just a few weeks a tax you pay will increase – by 36%.