by Elizabeth Jacobson
October 26, 2009 @ 1:17 pm
The New York Times reports that several cell phone manufacturers are turning to Google’s free operating system, Android, to run on their upcoming smartphone models. The switch to Android is likely to hit Microsoft and its clunky Windows Mobile platform the hardest, as companies that previously used Windows for their high-end PDA-phones seek to cut costs and offer consumers a more customizable product.
With Google joining the ranks of Nokia, Research-in-Motion, Apple, and Microsoft developing in mobile phone operating systems, the big…
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by Ryan Young
October 05, 2009 @ 5:18 pm
Here is a letter I sent recently to The Wall Street Journal:
September 22, 2009
Editor, The Wall Street Journal
200 Liberty Street
New York, NY 10281
To the Editor:
Your article “Bad News for Broadband” (editorial, Sept. 22) hints at, but does not make, a key point: net neutrality proposals are driving a wedge between service providers like AT&T and content providers like Google.
Strange, is it not? Their interests are actually closely aligned. If AT&T upgrades its network, Google benefits from the increased bandwidth. If…
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by Greg Conko
August 20, 2009 @ 2:26 pm
Today, CEI filed comments (link to PDF format) on a draft FDA guidance document advising prescription drug manufacturers on how to comply with regulations requiring the presentation of risk information in drug and medical device advertisements. Although we disagree in principle with the current regulatory regime that requires almost encyclopedic presentation of risk information any time a manufacturer communicates the name of a drug and any mention of benefits in promotional materials, these comments focused on the FDA’s failure to treat the Internet and…
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Your host Richard Morrison welcomes back returning guest co-host Jeremy Lott and distinguished special guest David Mark of the Politico for Episode 55 of the LibertyWeek podcast. We start with reports of unrest over health care in the provinces, the U.S. Postal Service’s death spiral and the globe trotting ways of members of Congress. We continue with some sadly familiar antitrust murmurs regarding Apple and Google, a classic union corruption scandal out of New York City and some inspiring and heroic…
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by Gary Howard
July 23, 2009 @ 12:19 pm
Below see CEI President Fred Smith’s comments on Jonathan Hillel’s piece in the San Jose Mercury News:
Hillel’s piece raises the very interesting question of whether the use of copyrighted materials must forever remain out of reach of most people. The vast majority of creative works disappear from public view within a very short time of their release. Few books or records are best sellers, many magazines (especially specialized magazines and journals) go out of existence in a decade or so. Yet,…
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by Gary Howard
July 23, 2009 @ 11:05 am
In yesterday’s San Jose Mercury News, CEI Policy Fellow Jonathan Hillel talks about the Justice Department’s antitrust investigation into the Google Search Settlement. Read it here.
Afraid of Google taking over the world? The Justice Department seems to be. It recently confirmed its antitrust investigation into the Google Book Search Settlement, citing “public comments expressing concern” as impetus for the inquiry. European Union officials have also started sniffing around.
These concerns are misguided, and outmoded antitrust regulation will stunt the growth of…
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If you’re a fan of professional print journalism, you may be a little worried as of late. Denver’s Rocky Mountain News just closed its doors after nearly 150 years in the news game. Meanwhile the San Francisco Chronicle and the Seattle Post-Intelligencer are both on life support. Even the New York Times, the largest newspaper in America, has cut its dividend and mortgaged its headquarters for $225 million.
It seems clear that the age of broadsheet newspapers is coming to an end,…
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Welcome to Episode 33 of the LibertyWeek podcast, with your hosts Richard Morrison and Cord Blomquist and technical producer (and this week’s special guest) Ryan Young. After bidding our friend Thor Halvorssen a very happy birthday, we get a fresh recap from Ryan Young on the events of the Free State Project’s recent Liberty Forum in Nashua, New Hampshire (photos). Google’s CEO spurns Twitter (transcript via TechCrunch) in Technology News, John McCain and Richard Shelby say that the government should end the bailouts and…
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by Wayne Crews
December 15, 2008 @ 2:45 pm
Net neutrality has long been a threat to Internet users. Despite the rhetoric and appeals to “openness,” it was always an anti-consumer enterprise, irretrievably and irrevocably set against the concept of infrastructure wealth creation (as if content and infrastructure companies in free markets were somehow sworn enemies). It smacked of “infrastructure socialism.”
Now Google, neutrality’s chief proponent in Washington, FCC and policy circles, wants to secure for itself its own “fast track” on the Web, in conjunction with telecom and cable…
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by Ryan Lynch
October 31, 2008 @ 7:01 pm
The Yahoo-Google ad deal looks like it’s dead. The deal announced in June, would have allowed Google ads to appear on Yahoo search results. Yahoo estimated an $800 million profit during the frist year of the Google ad partnership and would have allowed Yahoo to continue its transion from search to content provider, making it a much more competitive company.
What has likely killed the deal? As stated in a Reuters article:
The two Internet companies have so far failed to reach an…
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Prepare yourself for the latest episode of the best free market podcast around, LibertyWeek.
Your hosts Richard Morrison and Cord Blomquist discuss the looming presidential election, Halloween, the conviction of Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens, the continuing economic unease, tough times for the U.S. Postal Service, American companies react to Internet censorship abroad, Cox’s new wireless service, Microsoft’s new web-based OS Azure, and all the finest Olympic News.
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by Wayne Crews
October 15, 2008 @ 11:05 am
As an indicator of how perverse wealth-draining antitrust policy has become, have a look at the “concessions” being squeezed out of Google and Yahoo on their proposed advertising collaboration.
In the communications realm, it used to be that the heavy-metal infrastructure companies were regarded as monopolistic or potentially so. Then, wise regulators feared the Windows desktop surely was an essential facility to which competitors deserved access. Now, “mere” content companies are the monopolies.
Think about it; websites–code!!–are being regarded as something regulators…
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