Innovation
TPS '08 Follow-up: PolyFuel Readies Prototype
Jul 17, 2008 | If you attended Tech Policy Summit '08 in Hollywood earlier this year, hopefully you had a chance to hear PolyFuel Read More
Sciencedebate's 14 Questions on Innovation
Jul 7, 2008 | Sciencedebate 2008 hasn't been able to convince Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) and Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) to face-off in Read More
Bamboo Laptops?
Apr 22, 2008 | Dell chairman and CEO Michael Dell was among the speakers at Fortune's new Brainstorm: Green conference, which was held this Read More
Global IT Rankings Out: Denmark Keeps Top Spot
Apr 9, 2008 | The World Economic Forum (WEF) and INSEAD have released the results of the 2007-2008 Global Information Technology Report, its seventh Read More
Tech Policy Summit '08 Podcasts Available
Apr 8, 2008 | We're happy to report that the podcasts from the 2008 Tech Policy Summit, which took place at the Renaissance hotel Read More
Sciencedebate 2008: Moving to May?
Apr 7, 2008 | With it looking less and less likely that any of the presidential candidates will accept the invite to participate Read More
Latest Coverage of Tech Policy Summit '08
Mar 27, 2008 | Day two of Tech Policy Summit is well underway, with Summit emcee Steve Wildstrom of BusinessWeek interviewing Verizon EVP and Read More
Bill Gates' Visit to Capitol Hill
Mar 13, 2008 | During his testimony yesterday before the U.S. House of Representatives' Committee on Science and Technology, which celebrated its 50th anniversary, Read More
Survey Says: U.S. Morally Opposed to Nanotech
Feb 20, 2008 | Even though the U.S. is a global leader in nanotech research and development, a recently released survey by Arizona State Read More
Big Thinkers Tackle Big Challenges
Feb 15, 2008 | What would you pick as the most significant engineering challenge on the planet? Would it be making solar energy affordable? Read More
Dueling Press Releases
Feb 12, 2008 | The rift between the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) and the Wireless Innovation Alliance (WIA) over use of the so-called Read More
Sparring Begins in Bid for Yahoo
Feb 4, 2008 | While the tech world continues to react to the news of Microsoft's unsolicited $44.6 billion bid for Yahoo, top legal Read More
NTIA's Report on Pres. Bush's Broadband Pledge
Jan 31, 2008 | According to the Associated Press, the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) is releasing a report today called Networked Nation: Read More
OLPC Wants to Bridge Digital Divide in U.S.
Jan 14, 2008 | The One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) program continues on its mission to get low-cost computers into the hands of children Read More
Testing to Begin on LTE, 4G Mobile System
Nov 29, 2007 | Though the news surfaced on engadget earlier this year, Verizon has confirmed that it will begin testing of LTE in Read More
Who's Advising the Candidates on Innovation?
Nov 19, 2007 | The effort to figure out where the candidates stand on the issues is intensifying as we get closer to the 2008 Read More
The Year in Innovation
Nov 9, 2007 | The editors of Popular Science magazine have named their picks for the top 100 innovations of 2007, and the No. Read More
Can Silicon Valley Get Muni Wi-Fi Right?
Nov 5, 2007 | Ars Technica has an excellent piece on Silicon Valley's not-so-successful plans to launch its own municipal Wi-Fi network. Led by the nonprofit Read More
U.S. Ranks 1st in Overall Global Competitiveness
Oct 31, 2007 | Earlier today, the World Economic Forum, the international nonprofit known for its annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland, released the results of Read More
Software Entrepreneur Turns to Electric Cars
Oct 29, 2007 | Silicon Valley is famous for its innovation, and a key part of its culture of success is a willingness to Read More
CTIA's Largent Responds to Mossberg
Oct 23, 2007 | Steve Largent, President and CEO of wireless industry association CTIA, has written an open letter to Wall Street Journal columnist Read More
Walt Mossberg: "Free My Phone"
Oct 22, 2007 | Walt Mossberg takes aim at the cell phone industry in his latest blog post at AllThingsD.com, the companion site to Read More
TechNet Leaders Gather at Summit in Berkeley
Oct 12, 2007 | Industry group TechNet held its annual Innovation Summit on the UC Berkeley campus yesterday. As in previous years, PBS Read More
Internet2's High-Speed Network Gets Speedier
Oct 10, 2007 | While many of us hope for ever-faster connections to the "commercial Internet," the researchers and students with access to Read More
Senate Hearing on Small Businesses and Broadband
Sep 27, 2007 | The U.S. Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship, chaired by Sen. John Kerry (D-MA), held a hearing yesterday on Read More
How Big Are Investments in Clean Tech?
Sep 26, 2007 | Big. Very big. According to a press release issued today by Ernst & Young and Dow Jones VentureOne, worldwide venture Read More
Google and UK Wireless Auction
Sep 21, 2007 | As the Federal Communications Commission prepares for the January auction of the 700 MHz spectrum here in the U.S., regulators Read More
What's the Impact of the EU's Ruling Against Microsoft?
Sep 19, 2007 | According to reports in the International Herald Tribune and Computerworld, Monday's ruling by the European Court of First Instance against Read More
Apple in the Spectrum Auction?
Sep 10, 2007 | BusinessWeek has raised the intriguing, if improbable, possibility of iPod/iTunes/iPhone maker Apple joining the upcoming 700 MHz spectrum auction that Read More
Innovation and Net Infrastructure
Aug 29, 2007 | Last Friday, outspoken blogger/entrepreneur/NBA team owner Mark Cuban published a post called "The Internet is Dead and Boring" that declares Read More
Will an "Exaflood" Slow Net Traffic?
Aug 15, 2007 | The Wall Street Journal (sub required) published a story yesterday about whether or not the Internet's infrastructure is reaching its Read More
FCC's Open Meeting Underway
Jul 31, 2007 | After a delay of about 3 1/2 hours, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) kicked off its meeting about the rules Read More
FCC Auction and Open Access
Jul 11, 2007 | Both sides of the open access debate have been making their case in the media, in front of Congress, in Read More
The iPhone and SW Design in Silicon Valley
Jul 6, 2007 | On Monday, News.com's Charles Cooper asked a rhetorical question in his column: "Could the iPhone have been invented anywhere but Read More
Follow-up Study on Immigrant Entrepreneurs
Jun 15, 2007 | In conjunction with the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, researchers from Duke University and UC Berkeley have published a follow-up report Read More
Leading Tech CEOs Issue Report on Competitiveness
Jun 15, 2007 | The Technology CEO Council, which consists of the CEOs of Motorola, Dell, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Applied Materials, Unisys, EMC and NCR, Read More
Senate Hearing on FCC Spectrum Auction
Jun 14, 2007 | The Senate Commerce Committee held a hearing this morning to discuss public safety and competition related to the Federal Communications Read More
Calculating the R&D Tax Break
May 30, 2007 | According to The Wall Street Journal (sub required), Sen. Max Baucus (D - MT), Chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, Read More
ITIF's Digital Prosperity Report
Mar 14, 2007 | The Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF), one of our 2007 event partners, officially released its latest report yesterday titled Read More
HP Labs Working on Innovative Chip Design
Jan 16, 2007 | According to News.com, researchers from Hewlett-Packard are working on development of a new chip design that would reduce size and Read More
IBM Announces University Collaboration
Dec 14, 2006 | In today's New York Times, Steve Lohr writes about a new collaboration between IBM and a group of seven U.S. Read More
Exclusive: Q and A with Rob Atkinson
Oct 23, 2006 | Earlier this month, we had the opportunity to spend some time speaking with Robert Atkinson, President of the Information Technology Read More
BW asks, "Is There an Innovation Drought?"
Oct 10, 2006 | While Google's acquisition of YouTube is certainly getting a lot of attention - and it means big bucks for YouTube's Read More
CRA Blog's Take on Competitiveness Legislation
Sep 29, 2006 | Earlier this week, the Computing Research Association's blog featured a post called "Innovation and Competitiveness: How'd We Do?" by CRA's Read More
ITIF Issues Report on R&D Tax Credit
Sep 7, 2006 | The Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF) -- one of Tech Policy Summit's event partners -- has published a new Read More
Brain Drain or Brain Circulation?
Aug 30, 2006 | As part of its Newsmakers series, News.com published a Q & A today with the Dean of UC Berkeley's School Read More
E-Learning Hit By Patent Dispute
Aug 28, 2006 | An interesting article in BusinessWeek describes the controversy surrounding a patent awarded to e-learning software provider Blackboard Inc. earlier this Read More
Patent Office Testing Peer Review Process
Aug 18, 2006 | Fortune magazine reports on the The Community Patent Review Project, a peer review system designed to help streamline and improve Read More
Tech Groups Urge Action on R&D Tax Credit
Aug 10, 2006 | Jim Puzzanghera wrote a piece in the LA Times last week about the tech industry's disappointment, to put it lightly, Read More
Boston's Non-Profit Wi-Fi Plan
Aug 4, 2006 | Like their counterparts in San Francisco and Philadelphia, local officials in Boston are working on a plan to offer municipal Read More
UK Prime Minister Meets with Tech Execs
Jul 31, 2006 | Cisco Systems hosted British Prime Minister Tony Blair at its San Jose headquarters yesterday. Prime Minister Blair met with Cisco's Read More
Microsoft Announces e-Health Investment
Jul 26, 2006 | ZDNet reports that Microsoft announced an alliance with MedStar Health today related to Azyxxi, a healthcare software system that compiles Read More
New Service Allows Legal Download-to-DVD Burning of Films
Jul 20, 2006 | Several major film studios, including Disney, Universal and MGM, are participating in a new download-to-DVD service from CinemaNow that allows Read More
First e-Health Record Products Certified
Jul 19, 2006 | According to Computerworld, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced yesterday that 20 e-health record products have Read More
HP's Memory Spot
Jul 17, 2006 | According to the Mercury News, Hewlett-Packard announced that it has developed a prototype for a wireless, self-adhesive microchip - called Read More
Senate RFID Caucus Holds First Meeting
Jul 14, 2006 | Senators Byron Dorgan (D-ND) and John Cornyn (R-TX) launched their bipartisan RFID caucus yesterday to demonstrate their support for RFID Read More
The "Sinofication" of Electronics?
Jul 7, 2006 | Reuters reports on the happenings at SINOCES, one of China's top electronics shows. The article begins, "Gone are the days Read More
Investing in (Clearwire's) WiMax
Jul 6, 2006 | Wireless broadband provider Clearwire, founded by cellular phone veteran Craig McCaw, announced a $900 million financing round led by Intel Read More
WIRED's Take on What's Driving the Global Economy
Jul 4, 2006 | The July issue of WIRED magazine features an article about six trends that are "changing the world," or at least Read More
Reflections on MGM v. Grokster
Jul 2, 2006 | A year after the landmark MGM v. Grokster Supreme Court decision, the heads of the Recording Industry Association of America Read More
The Secret to Silicon Valley's Success?
Jun 28, 2006 | USAToday takes a look at efforts to recreate the "entrepreneurial magic of Silicon Valley" in countries around the world, including Read More
Open the Airwaves for Innovation
Feb 23, 2006 | Several groups are calling for an increase in the available radio spectrum for the development of new technologies. Billed as Read More
