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Imposing a tax on Internet downloads — including pornography — may provide some small satisfaction to those who are still angry over former governor Eliot Spitzer’s scandalous behavior while in office. However, it’s a wrong-headed approach to solving New York’s

Regulators must avoid knee-jerk reactions to the case of the octuplets born to a mother who reportedly already had six kids. Such a case is an extreme anomaly, and placing too many restrictive rules on reproductive technologies will hamper innovations

When Barack Obama was sworn in as the 44th President of the United States this week, he promised that his administration would “restore science to its rightful place.” Whether reality will fit the rhetoric remains to be seen, and there

The desire to freely network online competes with the desire to maintain a semblance of control over one’s image. It’s common for individuals to adopt different personas for different situations.  Will that behavior translate into the adoption of multiple digital

The FCC has problems with transparency, so now is the time to open things up to greater public scrutiny. It is also questionable whether the FCC should have as much power as it does over the marketplace. At a time

Japanese consumers are known to be ardent gadget lovers, but that doesn’t mean that technology development is thriving in Japan. In fact, the country has been surprisingly inhospitable to entrepreneurs, as I recently discovered when I traveled to Tokyo for

Successful U.S. technology companies have a target on their back and competing interests around the world are amassing a growing stockpile of antitrust weapons to use against them.

Which presumptive major party candidate for U.S. president is likely to be friendlier to the tech sector? This article examines the views of John McCain and Barack Obama on several important tech issues.

Consumers don’t need a government body like the FCC to rescue them from practices like those of Comcast.  Such developments make the future of the Internet look a lot like the regulation-heavy telecommunications past. Market forces, not slaps on the

When it comes to the Internet, Republican presidential candidate John McCain recently said that he’s “an illiterate who has to rely on his wife for any assistance he can get.” In an era where the Internet is playing an ever