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President Announces $3.4B in Recovery Funds for Smart Grid
Oct 27, 2009 | Speaking at a solar energy facility in Florida earlier today, President Obama announced that the federal government had awarded over Read More
Calling More Attention to Distracted Driving
Aug 13, 2009 | If you live in Silicon Valley or D.C., it's already against the law for you to text while driving (same goes Read More
Happy Sunshine Week
Mar 16, 2009 | Yesterday marked the start of Sunshine Week, a nationwide initiative by the American Society of Newspaper Editors (ASNE). Accordinging Read More
NTIA/RUS Seek Comment on Broadband Grants
Mar 12, 2009 | The National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) and the Department of Agriculture's Rural Utilities Service (RUS) have issued a notice Read More
Spending the Broadband Stimulus Dollars
Mar 10, 2009 | As might be expected, there were more questions than answers during today's inter-agency meeting on the broadband stimulus programs. Still, Read More
Stimulating Broadband Growth
Mar 10, 2009 | The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) issued a notice today inviting suggestions on how the FCC and U.S. Department of Agriculture Read More
Are You Ready for Some Stimulus?
Feb 10, 2009 | Now that the U.S. Senate has voted 61-37 to pass the economic recovery legislation, the Senate and House of Representatives Read More
Pew Report on the Stimulus Plan and Broadband Adoption
Jan 22, 2009 | What will it take to increase broadband adoption in the United States? It looks like the economic recovery bill will Read More
Divvying up the Stimulus Dollars
Jan 16, 2009 | The Wall Street Journal described the economic recovery package released by Democratic House leaders yesterday as a "potential bonanza for Read More
New Year, New Laws
Jan 1, 2009 | Now that 2009 is officially here, there are a number of new state laws that go in to effect today Read More
Join Us for the TPS: Eco-Innovation Conference
Dec 15, 2008 | Introducing the newest Tech Policy Central conference... One of the policy priorities that will be addressed at the 3rd annual Read More
Calif OKs 'Sweeping Plan' to Fight Global Warming
Dec 11, 2008 | California's Air Resources Board (ARB) has approved a monumental, comprehensive plan to cut the state's greenhouse gas emissions approximately 30 Read More
Announcing the Tech Policy Predictive Market
Dec 10, 2008 | As we first mentioned on Twitter, we have been working on a new project in partnership with the Information Read More
PRI Fellow: The Future of Broadband Looks Bright
Nov 24, 2008 | This post has been weeks in the making, in the sense that it's about an event that I attended in Read More
Better Place Launches in Bay Area
Nov 20, 2008 | On Tuesday, I wrote about Better Place, the Silicon Valley startup that is working on an electric car network to Read More
Call for Nominations: People to Watch
Nov 18, 2008 | We are excited to officially announce the launch of the first 2009 Tech Policy Who's Who: People to Watch Read More
Michigan Governor Visits Better Place (The Startup)
Nov 18, 2008 | Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm is currently on a week-long jobs mission to the Middle East. It's the seventh international investment Read More
Closing the Broadband Divide: MA's Approach
Nov 12, 2008 | At last week's FCC-NARUC meeting in San Jose, Sharon Gillett (Commissioner for the Massachusetts Department of Telecommunications and Cable) gave Read More
Bringing Broadband to the Least, the Last and the Lost
Nov 7, 2008 | As we announced earlier this year, in addition to the 3rd annual Tech Policy Summit, we will hosting a Read More
Will CA's Video Game Ban End Up In Supreme Court?
Oct 29, 2008 | According to the GamePolitics site, which is run by the Entertainment Consumers Association, the legal dispute over a 2005 California Read More
Turning Parking Lots Into Power Plants?
Oct 9, 2008 | In the midst of overwhelmingly gloomy news about the economy, the solar energy industry received a ray of hope last Read More
Calif. Bans Texting While Driving
Sep 25, 2008 | California has once again cracked down on the use of mobile devices while driving, becoming the latest state to ban Read More
CA Considers New Cyberbullying Law
Aug 12, 2008 | California's Senate voted yesterday in favor of a bill that would allow schools to suspend or expel students who engage Read More
Verizon Wireless Pays $21M To Settle ETF Case
Jul 10, 2008 | According to the Associated Press, Verizon Wireless has agreed to pay $21 million to settle a California lawsuit brought by Read More
ISPs Make Deal with NY to Fight Child Porn
Jun 10, 2008 | Internet service providers (ISPs) Sprint, Verizon and Time Warner Cable are the latest Net companies to respond to pressure from Read More
AP: FCC May Change Terms of Cellphone Contracts
May 21, 2008 | The Associated Press is reporting that the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is "quietly negotiating" with several wireless phone carriers to Read More
TX May Ask Amazon for Millions in Tax Dispute
May 9, 2008 | Amazon.com may have to pay the state of Texas millions of dollars in uncollected sales taxes. Federal law allows states Read More
Like MySpace, Facebook Strikes Net Safety Deal with AGs
May 8, 2008 | TechCrunch broke the news this morning that Facebook is adopting a set of "Key Principles Of Social Networking Safety" as Read More
Kentucky Bill Seeks Ban on Anonymous Content
Mar 10, 2008 | A Kentucky state legislator named Tim Couch is quickly making a name for himself on the Internet after introducing a Read More
REAL ID: States Buy Time With Extensions
Mar 4, 2008 | News.com's Declan McCullagh has written a follow-up to his February report on which U.S. states will and will not be Read More
Drafting Lessig for Congress
Feb 18, 2008 | Fans of Stanford law professor and Creative Commons founder Larry Lessig are organizing a "Draft Lessig" campaign in hopes that Read More
The Lowdown on REAL ID
Feb 7, 2008 | It's been less than a month since the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) issued its final rule on the Read More
MySpace's Net Safety Principles
Jan 15, 2008 | After being targeted by state attorneys general for not doing enough to protect minors following a series of high-profile cases, MySpace 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
Chertoff: Real ID Helps Fight Terrorism, Illegal Immigration & ID Theft
Jan 11, 2008 | Speaking at the National Press Club in D.C. earlier today, Department of Homeland Security chief Michael Chertoff announced that DHS Read More
Who's Responsible for Net Safety?
Dec 4, 2007 | Joe Brennan, chair of a newly-formed trade group called the Interactive Media Entertainment & Gaming Association, comes to the defense of Read More
Election Day '07
Nov 6, 2007 | While today is Election Day, the national media is clearly more focused on the 2008 elections that are now less than a Read More
ACLU's Criticism of Real ID Intensifies
Nov 4, 2007 | It's no secret that a number of states are opposed to the Real ID Act, the plan that would require them to revamp state-issued driver's licenses Read More
Internet Tax Bill Ready for President's Signature
Oct 30, 2007 | Earlier today, the House of Representatives voted 402-0 to extend the moratorium on Internet taxes for another seven years and Read More
DHS Secretary Talks to Congress about Real ID
Sep 6, 2007 | DHS Secretary Michael Chertoff was on Capitol Hill yesterday to speak with the House's Homeland Security committee, chaired by Rep. Read More
Survey Says: Should Texting While Driving Be Illegal?
Aug 6, 2007 | According to Reuters, a recent survey of 2,049 American adults found that 89 percent of respondents believe that sending text Read More
T-Mobile Appeals Class-Action Suit
Aug 6, 2007 | On Friday, WIRED reported on the status of a class-action suit against wireless carrier T-Mobile USA. The plaintiffs in the Read More
N.C. Age Verification Bill and MySpace
Jul 24, 2007 | While the Senate Commerce Committee held its hearing on Internet safety earlier today, the state legislature in North Carolina had Read More
Op-Ed Warns of RFID "Scare Tactics"
Jul 13, 2007 | Earlier this week, Jim Sheire of NXP Semiconductors wrote this op-ed in the San Jose Mercury News in response to Read More
Is Virgina's BB Strategy a Model to Follow?
Jul 9, 2007 | GigaOm's Om Malik points to the state of Virginia's ambitious efforts to deliver broadband to all state businesses by 2010 Read More
Need for Speed?
Jun 26, 2007 | Communications Workers of America (CWA), a labor union affiliated with the AFL-CIO, has issued a report on Internet speeds in Read More
Time for National E-Cycling Program?
Jun 21, 2007 | The Electronic Industries Alliance (EIA), led by interim president and CEO Matthew Flanigan, is calling for federal legislation to institute Read More
RFID Bill Is Back In CA
Jun 20, 2007 | The California legislature is again considering a bill to toughen security and privacy measures in government-issued identification cards that contain Read More
Texas Tackles E-Waste
Jun 12, 2007 | Computerworld reported yesterday that the Texas legislature has passed an e-waste bill that would require electronics manufacturers that sell computers Read More
Backlash Against RFID?
May 22, 2007 | In a recent CNNMoney.com article called "Backlash against RFID is growing," writer Chris Zappone takes a look at the concerns Read More
CA's Internet Predator Legislation
Apr 23, 2007 | According to a Mercury News article, California lawmakers may enact legislation requiring "registered sex offenders to report their e-mail addressess Read More
