We expect more from Eric Schmidt. This is the guy who pushed antitrust regulators to get involved in the tech industry throughout his career at Sun and Novell. He wrote the book on how "tying" a new product to your existing technological monopoly should be considered an aggressive, anticompetitive act. [...]
The Association for Competitive Technology has long supported the protection of intellectual property as a critical element of small business. Representing over 4,000 small business software developers we understand the damage that piracy poses to the innovation economy and recognize the role that government and industry must play in stopping [...]
Google Chairman Eric Schmidt appears to be playing a brilliant, but dangerously duplicitous game. The difference between Schmidt’s testimony before the Senate Antitrust subcommittee last month and the written answers he provided today suggest a daring PR strategy to avoid an embarrassing video moment. Last month, the committee chairman, Herb [...]
Today the U.S. District Court issued a significant ruling that Google can be held liable for damages under the Wiretap Act because of its Wi-Spy program that collected usernames, passwords, whole emails, and other private data. The Wi-Spy program was a part of a Street View initiative in which Google [...]
At the ICANN Public Forum in Singapore yesterday, I likened the ICANN to a community garden: fertile, colorful and above all, worthwhile, but not without a few troublesome weeds. Today’s Board vote to adopt the recommendations of the Accountability and Transparency Review Team (ATRT) is a vote to pull those [...]