Wednesday, November 12, 2008 6:07 PM/EST
Google CEO Eric Schmidt may have eliminated himself from the running to be Barack Obama's CTO, but Google is still going full-bore to influence the new administration's technology policy, no doubt to the telecommunications companies' annoyance that theirs is no...
Friday, November 07, 2008 9:31 AM/EST
The tech sector enthusiastically embraces the president-elect's technology-centric proposals for just about everything that ails America; Barack Obama's insistence that trade agreements include strong labor, environmental and safety standards, not so much so. So much not so that tech is...
Monday, November 03, 2008 6:53 PM/EST
In spite of the mounting evidence that has emerged since 2006 demonstrating that voter fraud committed at the polling place is extremely rare, there are still of plenty of ways to unfairly influence an election. Common Cause and the New...
Friday, September 26, 2008 4:17 PM/EST
These are not the best of times for Ralph Nader, the perennial and current Independent Party candidate for the presidency. Most newspapers and broadcast outlets have simply refused to cover his campaign. The thinking is that Nader has no influence...
Friday, September 19, 2008 10:20 AM/EST
Ike Brannon, a senior policy adviser to the McCain presidential campaign, will hold a private audience Sept. 19 with AeA (the former American Electronics Association founded in 1948 and soon to be part of the ITAA's orbit). His talk: John...
Thursday, June 19, 2008 4:08 PM/EST
The best part of having sitting senators as presidential candidates is that on occasion they have to, well, vote on issues. Instead of providing only hollow campaign rhetoric, they have to actually stand up and be counted. As early as...
Wednesday, June 04, 2008 6:35 PM/EST
With Hillary Clinton sent to the presidential sidelines June 3, Congress can now turn its attention to its most pressing issue: How quickly can lawmakers shut down the 110th Congress? They have campaign trails to hitboth their own and the...
Thursday, May 29, 2008 2:57 PM/EST
Let's slap a not so fast label on last week's report that John McCain is against granting immunity to telephone companies that participated in President Bush's warrantless wiretapping of American's telephone calls and e-mails. Chuck Fish, a former Time Warner...
Friday, May 23, 2008 1:12 PM/EST
No matter who wins the presidency this fall, telecoms like AT&T and Verizon should expect no White House immunity for the warrantless wiretapping of Americans' phone calls and e-mail. President Bush, by contrast, has promised to veto any legislation that...