TechBytes

Some of today’s biggest tech breakthroughs are small, so small that a tiny dust mite is enormous by comparison.

The self-appointed consumer advocates don’t like it, but the Federal Communications Commission has correctly ruled that a year from now Internet service providers can no longer squat on telephone companies’ property.

It’s a shame, really, that more people don’t understand that the benefits of intellectual property rights extend far beyond the companies and people who own them.

We are in the first stages of the broadband revolution.

(Note: This week’s techbyte reproduces, in part, IPI President Tom Giovanetti’s recent “intervention” (i.

What would the cyber world be like if an international body took over Internet management of the World Wide Web? Can you say, United Nations? It’s alarming to think that such a key factor in the global economy and information network could go the way of the United Nations, where corruption, incompetence and negligence are often winked at.

The theft of intellectual property through copyright piracy and counterfeiting is costing U.

The best pharmaceutical science ever created is of little value when patients don’t take their medication.

The Supreme Court last week decided in the case of Kelo v.

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