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Eric Schmidt made an interesting point about Washington, DC think tanks recently:
“I spend so much time in Washington now because of the work that I’ve been doing, I deal with all these people who make assertions without fact,” he said. Policy people “will hand me some report that they wrote or they’ll make some assertion, [...]
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Going Mobile: Technology and Policy Issues in the Mobile Internet
March 1st, 2010 Richard Bennett I’m presenting a report on the Mobile Internet at the ITIF Global Command Center in Washington bright and early Tuesday morhing:
The Internet is changing. In a few short years, Internet use will come predominately from mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets rather than traditional PCs using fixed broadband. A fully mobile broadband Internet offers [...]
Speaking of privacy
January 29th, 2010 Richard Bennett I went to the FTC’s second privacy workshop yesterday in Berkeley, and found it a generally interesting and worthwhile event, although it did exhibit some of the familiar patterns. Privacy, like net neutrality, isn’t as much a coherent issue as a grab-bag of grievances about a number of loosely connected concerns. Privacy is even more [...]
Open Internet Rules
January 20th, 2010 Richard Bennett Incidentally, ITIF filed comments with the FCC in the Open Internet rule-making:
The FCC should proceed with caution in conducting its inquiry into Open Internet rules, according to comments filed by the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation today. All the evidence suggests that the Internet is thriving: network operators are investing and new applications, devices, services, [...]
Pure Politics
January 19th, 2010 Richard Bennett OK, this has nothing much to do with broadband, but it’s certainly politics. CNN has called the Massachusetts Senate race for Scott Brown. Curt Schilling hasn’t made any comment on the outcome yet.
politics, Massachusetts Senate Race
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Chairman Genachowski Goes to San Francisco
January 6th, 2010 Richard Bennett GigaOm sponsored a conversation with FCC Chairman Julius Genachowki at their Intergalactic Headquarters in San Francisco today.
Watch live streaming video from gigaomtv at livestream.com
I asked the net neutrality question toward the end, and applauded the Chairman for the way he’s transformed the FCC. Genachowski brought some of his best staffers with him, and it was [...]
FCC Broadband Deployment Research workshop
January 2nd, 2010 Richard Bennett The long-awaited video of the FCC’s December 10 workshop Review and Discussion of Broadband Deployment Research is finally on-line. This workshop featured discussions of Yochai Benkler’s controversial Berkman Center report on unbundled DSL and Bob Atkinson’s report on current broadband investment dynamics in the US. As the FCC put it:
As part of the Commission’s development [...]
Blair Levin Hints at National Broadband Plan
December 24th, 2009 Richard Bennett Amy Schatz of the WSJ joined in the questioning of Blair Levin on this week’s installment of The Communicators. Here’s an interesting part of her story:
Mr. Levin also dismissed criticisms last week from public interest groups unhappy the plan may not propose some ideas for encouraging competition, such as rules that would require Internet providers [...]
The Communicators on Piracy
December 21st, 2009 Richard Bennett Thursday’s edition of The Communicators on C-Span featured MPAA CEO Dan Glickman and Washington Internet Daily editor Greg Piper talking about digital piracy. There’s a segment beginning 9 minutes in on the recent ITIF report on stopping piracy.
It’s very good to see people paying attention to the financial side of piracy.
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Steal These Policies
December 15th, 2009 Richard Bennett ITIF released a report today on digital piracy, Steal These Policies: Strategies for Reducing Digital Piracy co-authored by Dan Castro, Scott Andes, and yours truly. Here’s the blurb:
It is time for the U.S. government to take global theft of U.S. intellectual property, especially digital content, much more seriously. A new ITIF report finds that the [...]
