Internet Hysteria – Are We Losing Our Edge?
Scott Wallsten and Amy Smorodin From Anthony Wiener’s wiener to the FCC’s…
Antitrust and Competition
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The AT&T/T-Mobile Merger Conundrum: Increase Efficiency AND Create Jobs?
How did the proposed AT&T and T-Mobile merger, which many viewed as…
Event – Online Search, Antitrust and Google: In Search of a Pro-Consumer Policy
Tech companies that become dominant inevitably come into the antitrust cross-hairs. Google is the latest example and is now the subject of investigations in both the U.S. and Europe over allegations it has abused its dominant position in online search and other businesses. At “Online Search, Antitrust and Google: In Search of a Pro-Consumer Policy,” hosted by the Technology Policy Institute, a distinguished group of experts will discuss the complex issues the antitrust agencies must address in their review of Google. Topics will include market definition, market power, existence and effects of “search bias”, the availability of effective remedies, and, ultimately, what is in the consumer’s best interest.
Event – Online Search, Antitrust and Google: In Search of a Pro-Consumer Policy
Tech companies that become dominant inevitably come into the antitrust cross-hairs. Google is the latest example and is now the subject of investigations in both the U.S. and Europe over allegations it has abused its dominant position in online search and other businesses. At “Online Search, Antitrust and Google: In Search of a Pro-Consumer Policy,” hosted by the Technology Policy Institute, a distinguished group of experts will discuss the complex issues the antitrust agencies must address in their review of Google. Topics will include market definition, market power, existence and effects of “search bias”, the availability of effective remedies, and, ultimately, what is in the consumer’s best interest.
TPI Antitrust Articles Published in the Review of Industrial Organization
Revised articles from the recent TPI conference, “Antitrust and the Dynamics of Competition in High-Tech Industries,” have now been published as a special issue of the “Review of Industrial Organization.” The issue (Volume 38, Number 4) also includes an introduction by Technology Policy Institute President Thomas Lenard.
Revised articles from TPI conference “Antitrust and the Dynamics of Competition in High-Tech Industries” Review of Industrial Organization
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Penalizing Success – The FTC’s Google Investigation
In theory, the antitrust laws do not penalize size, but it seems…
The Google-ITA Merger Review Approaches the Finish Line
The Department of Justice appears to be in the final stages of…
Cloud Computing: Architectural and Policy Implications
Cloud computing has emerged as perhaps the hottest development in information technology. Despite all of the attention it has garnered, existing analyses focus almost exclusively on the issues surrounding data privacy without exploring cloud computing�s architectural and policy implications. This Article offers an initial exploratory analysis in that direction. It begins by introducing key cloud computing concepts, such as service oriented architectures, thin clients, and virtualization, and discusses the leading delivery models and deployment strategies being pursued by cloud computing providers. It then analyzes the economics of cloud computing in terms of reducing costs, transforming capital expenditures into operating expenditures, aggregating demand, increasing reliability, and reducing latency. It then discusses the architectural implications of cloud computing for access networking (focusing on bandwidth, reliability, quality of service, and ubiquity) and data center interconnectivity (focusing on bandwidth, reliability, security and privacy, control over routing policies, standardization, and metering and payment). It closes by offering a few observations on the impact of cloud computing on the industry structure for data centers, server-related technologies, router-based technologies, and access networks, as well as its implications for regulation.