Archive for February, 2005

  • Unlicensed White Space Use as an Airwave “Freeze”

    Tuesday, February 8th, 2005

    Professors Tom Hazlett and Vernon Smith have an op ed piece in the Oct. 3rd edition of the Wall Street Journal entitled “Don’t Let Google Freeze the Airwaves.” Apparently advocacy by Google, Microsoft, the New America Foundation and others in favor of unlicensed access to unused broadcast television channels freezes out even better reallocation [...]

  • Exaggerating The Mobile Threat To Google

    Thursday, February 3rd, 2005

    There’s a Business Week article making the rounds saying that it’s not Microsoft or Yahoo that’s a real threat to Google, but the rise of the mobile web, which will somehow shrink ad inventory and cause headaches for Google. It’s a nice theory, but it’s hard to square with reality. Increasing use of [...]