The idea of getting all of your television content on your digital devices grows stronger every day. The latest startup to bring those dreams into reality is Aereo, a new service that allows you to get live television broadcast directly to your computer, mobile device, or Apple TV or Roku device. The concept isn’t dissimilar [...]

The follow opinion piece write by ACI’s Zack Christenson ran on 4/24/2013.  It can be downloaded at the Daily Caller website. Online Taxation to Crush Competition On Monday, the Senate voted to take up the Marketplace Fairness Act, the bill that would force Internet retailers to begin collecting sales tax on purchases made online. Currently, [...]

Last week, Google announced they would be bringing their high-speed Internet and television service, Google Fiber, to Austin, Texas. This comes on the heels of last year’ announcement that they would do the same in Kansas City, Missouri, making it the first city to get Google’s new fiber service. This new service promises 1 gigabit [...]

Most people know patents as tools to protect inventors and creators. Our patent system provides an incentive to follow through on a good idea or a new way of doing something. It ensures that inventors will be able to benefit financially from their invention, disallowing others from taking a product and selling it on their [...]

Last week, the Senate voted to repeal a controversial tax found within the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare. The tax was a 2.3% levy on medical devices, which, once in effect, is expected to generate almost $30 billion in tax dollars. The tax would hit nearly every medical device imaginable—pacemakers, syringes, CT scanning machines, and [...]

The Marketplace Fairness Act, which was reintroduced a few months back, is being attached to the Senate budget currently making its way through the Senate.  A vote on the bill, through a “reserve fund” proposal, is expected soon, forcing a decision on a bill that has been bandied about Congress for the past several years. [...]

Apple recently filed a patent on creating a digital marketplace where users could resell their previously purchased digital items (ringtones, music, movies, etc.) to other users, presumably at a discount price. As reported by PaidContent, this patent is similar to one filed by Amazon last month. Apple’s filing goes into great detail in how their [...]

Europe falling behind in broadband  There was a growing meme in some corners of the Internet and tech policy community that says the US is falling behind Europe when it comes to broadband deployment and implementation. One such indictment of America’s flailing broadband comes from Obama advisor and law professor Susan Crawford, who recently wrote a [...]

A new online sales tax bill has made its way to the floors of both houses of Congress, the latest in a long line of attempts to pass some sort of federal online sales tax legislation. The latest attempt is known as The Marketplace Fairness Act. The bill is the combination of three other bills [...]

A few days ago, an Australian app developer wrote about what’s become a big problem for Google—playing fast and loose with the privacy of consumers. According to this developer, Google provides the personal details of consumers to app developers when their app is purchased in the Google Play store. The developer, a man named Dan [...]