TechBytes

How many times have you been driving along talking on your mobile phone (with a hands free device, of course) and suddenly the call drops? Often enough that perhaps the most ubiquitous advertising phrase today is “Can you hear me now?” Immediately the mobile phone carrier gets cursed for the problem as we redial.

Before the financial mess, Congress was debating a bill that would establish new rules for an incredibly promising field of medical technology.

So you thought Congress may have learned its lesson about creating huge entities that will need to be bailed out at taxpayer expense? If you did, you were wrong.

On September 25 the Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee held a hearing to learn about current practices by broadband providers to protect a person’s “privacy.

New York Times columnist Thomas L.

Amidst the headline grabbing economic crisis a bipartisan group of senators, led by Pat Leahy (D-VT) and Arlen Specter (R-PA), is fighting to enact The Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights Act (S.

“The world's intellectual property system is broken, stopping lifesaving technologies from reaching the people who need them most in developed and developing countries, according to a report released in Ottawa today by an international coalition of experts.

Technology continually makes new products and services available to consumers.

There is a growing tendency for federal agencies to make policy through the antitrust merger review process whether at the Federal Communications Commission, Federal Trade Commission, or the Justice Department—extracting policy commitments from companies while they are at the mercy of a regulatory agency during a merger review.

Going to meetings, to class, or engaging customers in person has gotten much more expensive—to the tune of $4.