It's snowing in Boston and my American flight has been cancelled but Virgin America claims their 8:35am flight is going to leave on time.  So here I am in the Virgin gate area.  Wish me luck. At this point there are a ton of people I'm hoping to hook up with at eComm 2009.  The agenda looks reall...

Wall Street Journal columnist Gordon Crovitz writes that In Japan, wireless technology works so well that teenagers draft novels on their cellphones. People in Hong Kong take it for granted that they can check their BlackBerrys from underground in the city’s subway cars. Even in France, consum...

It has been suggested that the American wireless market is a “textbook oligopoly” in which the four national carriers have little incentive to innovate or further reduce prices. I’m more sympathetic to this argument than some libertarians, but over at Techdirt Carlo offers some evi...

PFF’s President  Ken Ferree wrote a great piece over on the PFF blog calling for Obama to stay the course on the DTV transition.  Always quick with the bon mot, Ken makes particularly apt use of a very funny anecdote from David Hackett Fischer’s excellent new biography of Samuel Cham...

I was about post something more regarding why Kevin Martin’s AWS-3 spectrum filtering plan will fail, but I can’t say it any better than Steve Schultze does here: Martin also recently leaked the fact that he is proposing that adults can verify their identity to avoid the porn filter init...

Back in June, Adam Thierer and I denounced (PDF) Kevin Martin’s plans to create broadband utility to provide censored (and very slow) broadband for free to all Americans.  The WSJ reports that this scheme is now at the top of Martin’s December agenda: The proposal to allow a no-smut, ...

I’ve just finished reading Blown to Bits: Your Life, Liberty, and Happiness After the Digital Explosion , by Hal Abelson, Ken Ledeen, and Harry Lewis, and it’s another title worth adding to your tech policy reading list. The authors survey a broad swath of tech policy territory — p...

A few days ago, I posted an essay about the recent history of “moral panics,” or “technopanics,” as Alice Marwick refers to them in her brilliant new article about the recent panic over MySpace and social networking sites in general. I got thinking about technopanics again to...

Global handset manufacturing giant Nokia has purchased the shares they didn’t already own in Symbian, Ltd., the company formed in 1998 as a partnership among Ericsson, Nokia, Motorola and Psion and the developer of the Symbian mobile operating system, by far the world’s leading OS for &#...

Americans have a love-hate relationship with their cellphones.   Consumers have adopted wireless telephony with a passion — with over 250 million subscriptions at last count.  Many would rather venture out without their pants than without their phones.  Yet,  at the same time,  America...