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Lately many technology stories, from search engines to telecommunications, include a discussion of a company’s ability to “control” some marketplace—in other words, lots of talk about “monopolies.

Backed into a corner by Republican demands for severe spending restraints as a condition for an extension of the debt ceiling, President Obama has attached a few conditions of his own, among which are eliminating some corporate tax breaks for corporate jets, tax breaks for oil companies, and the like.

The FCC just released its wireless report, and for the second year in a row this FCC has declined to come to a conclusion as to whether the wireless industry is “competitive.

One of the many problems with our tax system in the United States is that we are schizophrenic on the question of whether or not taxes affect decision-making.

Really? So asserts Mohamed Cheriet of Montreal's Ecole de Technologie Superieure.

During one of the 1980 presidential debates with incumbent President Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan famously asked the American people whether they were better off than they were four years earlier.

The announcement that AT&T plans to acquire T-Mobile USA is now nearly three months old and yet it seems that the FCC regulatory machine is sputtering, without a real timetable, and without a clear path for quality policy making.

The pace of technological innovation in communications is mindboggling; it’s almost impossible to keep up with the proliferation of better handsets, an increasing number of services, the multiplying apps on better networks, and all costing less—a lot less.

Washington is beginning to buzz about a reported push by the White House and Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner to reform corporation taxation.

Thousands of Americans use services such as Texas-based Hotels.