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Will a Lawsuit Today Keep Apple Away?
By: Daniel R. Ballon, Ph.D on 9.3.2008
Last week Psystar, an obscure Miami-based company, launched a legal attack on Apple that could cripple one of California’s key high-tech innovators. The case offers lessons for entrepreneurs and gives the courts an opportunity to end a legal scam that hurts consumers.
Tech Titans or Political Pinatas: How Global Antitrust Laws String Up, Beat Down, and Hold Back America’s Leading Innovators
By: Daniel R. Ballon, Ph.D on 8.8.2008
America’s leading tech companies are increasingly under fire from antitrust laws that are being used to crush competition, according to this new report by the Pacific Research Institute, a free-market think tank based in California.
Lessons for Sacramento from San Francisco’s High-Tech Heist
By: Daniel R. Ballon, Ph.D on 8.6.2008
For nine days last month, San Francisco’s state-of-the-art new computer network was held hostage by a convicted felon. Even a team of Silicon Valley’s best and brightest engineers working around the clock could not crack his code. Finally, in a secret midnight meeting at the Hall of Justice, the mayor himself convinced the perpetrator to relinquish control.
Impact - July 2008
7.31.2008
PRI Ideas in Action - July 2008
Policy Update and Monthly Impact Report
Turning POTS into PANS: California Regulators Slam the Phone on Price Controls
By: Daniel R. Ballon, Ph.D on 7.2.2008
The California Public Utilities Commission on Tuesday proposed relaxing 13-year old price caps on basic phone service. Yielding to the demands of public interest groups, regulators currently force telecommunications companies to offer the cheapest basic rates in the nation. But if artificially low prices are necessary to protect consumer welfare, why are consumers abandoning these plans in droves?
Impact - June 2008
6.30.2008
PRI Ideas in Action - June 2008
Policy Update and Monthly Impact Report
Letter to Senators Feinstein and Boxer regarding (S. Amdt. 4983) amendment to H.R. 3221
By: Daniel R. Ballon, Ph.D on 6.27.2008
As the Senate prepares to vote on the current housing legislation, I would like to bring to your attention a dangerous hidden provision that will burden several innovative Bay Area companies and threaten the civil liberties of all Americans.
Bye Bye Nerdy! Congress Slams the Door on California’s Scientists and Engineers
By: Daniel R. Ballon, Ph.D on 6.11.2008
On Thursday, the House Judiciary Committee will consider a proposal by Silicon Valley Congresswoman Zoe Lofgren to end restrictions on the most critical resource driving technological innovation. This resource is human talent, and with the greatest public university system in the world, California should be fertile ground. Due to arbitrary and inflexible boundaries imposed by the federal government, however, California’s most innovative companies are forbidden from tapping into this abundant talent pool.
California Lawmaker Says Speech Should be Free on the Internet ... After Taxes?
By: Daniel R. Ballon, Ph.D on 4.9.2008
Next week California lawmakers meet to consider a new $500-million tax on Internet commerce. Some have dubbed this the “iTax” because of its application to Apple’s iTunes digital music store, but Assemblyman Charles Calderon (D-Whittier) is targeting more than just songs. In reality, AB 1956 is a “free speech tax” imposing fees on something most Internet users take for granted: the free and unfettered exchange of ideas.
Wireless with Strings Attached: Net Neutrality and the Grounding of Wireless Innovation
By: Daniel R. Ballon, Ph.D on 4.2.2008 8:00:00 PM
In the digital age, Americans are more “connected” than ever before. As a result, a movement is taking shape to give the government blanket authority over how Americans connect, interact, and innovate. This regulatory movement marches under the banner of “network neutrality.”
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