Jaron Lanier discusses important digital economy issues. The further we go into the digital economy, the greater the need to develop a better system of property rights for intellectual property. The information economy will not thrive where information must be free.

Center for Democracy & Technology Online Behavioral Advertising: Industry’s Current Self-Regulatory Framework Is Necessary, But Still Insufficient On Its Own to Protect Consumers December 2009 You can read the full report here. The Center for Democracy & Technology indicates that it understands the importance of advertising in the marketplace.  “Consumers clearly benefit from a rich [...]

One of the technologies that everyone has been raving about is Pixel Qi‘s transflexive hybrid display that gives you the benefits of a traditional fast responding and vivid LCD screen and a low power low eye strain reflective e-paper display.  The technology can be manufactured on existing LCD fabrication plants which means it can easily [...]

FCC Chairman Genachowski is being interviewed at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.. I must confess, while he’s being responsive to every question, he isn’t going very far beyond the basic things he has said for months. He spends some time talking about making the FCC more open, responsive and transparent. The new Reboot.FCC.Gov [...]

A new study by researchers at the University of South Florida in Tampa found that radio waves from cell phones can prevent or reverse Alzheimer’s disease in mice.

In early December Representative Bart Stupak (D-MI) introduced the ‘Federal Communications Commision Collaboration Act’ (H.R. 4167). You can read the text of the Act in its entirety here. Essentially the Act is purposed for the increase of face to face time among commisioners, and would allow more than two commissioners to meet at any one time.

Technology, Policy, Law, and Ethics Regarding U.S. Acquisition and Use of Cyberattack Capabilities National Research Council William A. Owens 2009 You can find the full text of the document here. William A. Owens describes a cyberattack as any “dilberate actions to alter, disrupt, deceive, degrade, or destroy computer systems or networks or the information and/or [...]

See this fun and quite insightful discussion of the digital 2000′s (and beyond) with Esther Dyson, Jaron Lanier, and Paul Saffo (hat tip: Adam Thierer).

The rhetoric from the opponents of TV Everywhere has gotten downright bazaar.  Melvin Ammori and Free Press have decided to go on an all out assault on the TV Everywhere.  TV Everywhere is a new Internet Video on Demand service that Cable companies (and maybe other Multichannel Video Program Distributors) are looking to GIVE AWAY [...]

Google advertises a $200 Early Termination Fee (ETF) for the new Nexus One smartphone, but the fine print says the ETF is actually $550. Verizon accurately advertises a $350 ETF, but they’re being persecuted for it. Why the double standard?