Is telecom infrastructure peaking?

The basic telecommunications platforms will soon have been laid. Improvements will be in applications and in the devices used in networks and by users, writes Eli Noam

Google-itis: Beware of Class Action Settlements

The terms of Google settlement create unnecessary conflicts of interest between authors and publishers that cannot be easily papered over, writes Richard Epstein

Ronald Coase and the radio spectrum

Nobel Laureate Ronald Coase is still sending a clear signal after all these years, writes Thomas Hazlett

Net neutrality at the crossroads

The FCC should steer clear of the pricing swamp needed to figure out what speed preferences are allowed at what cost differential

Goodbye, Macroeconomics

Industrial age solutions can’t fix information age economic problems, writes Eli Noam

The broadband numbers racket

Cherry picking broadband penetration numbers to imply the US is slipping into Third World status is fine for a quickie term paper, but adults ought sort through the multi-dimensional complexity of the real world, writes Thomas Hazlett

Dissociated Press

To preserve quality news, we need a plan that knits together business models and not-for-profit initiatives, writes James Boyle

Will the Supreme Court stem the antipatent tide?

Reflections on In re Bilski from Richard Epstein

Coming soon: mobile, immersive, interactive entertainment

A letter to the new FCC chair, Mr Julius Genachowski

Obama in cyberspace