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Is Florida Agency Price Gouging or Just Charging What the Market Will Bear?

Energy markets, Regulation, Telecom / By

Michael Giberson Last year thousands of Florida consumers called the state to complain about price gouging on gasoline after Hurricane Ike.  This year, hoteliers, gas stations, and other business owners are saying they are being price gouged by the Florida Department of Transportation.  The issue: the fee the state charges business owners who wish to …

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Shane Greenstein on Remote Connectivity

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Lynne Kiesling My colleague Shane Greenstein does very interesting work on industrial organization and networks in Internet-related industries. These insights also bubble up when he is reflecting on his personal experience in his recent family holiday travels, as related on his blog. Here he relates what they found on their recent travels to northern Wyoming, …

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Perennial Gale of Creative Destruction, Personal Wireless Division

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Lynne Kiesling Even if it doesn’t end up being the disruptive innovation that these articles suggest, Verizon’s MiFI personal wifi hotspot device makes my little Schumpeterian heart go pitter-pat. Released yesterday, the Verizon MiFi (device by Novatel) is a credit-card sized 3G wireless router that can provide wireless Internet connection for up to 5 devices. …

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“The First Widespread Pocket Desktop Computer”

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Michael Giberson David Pogue in the New York Times: I can’t tell you how huge this is going to be. There will be thousands of iPhone programs, covering every possible interest. The iPhone will be valuable for far more than simple communications tasks; it will be the first widespread pocket desktop computer. You’re witnessing the …

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Ip Rights and Complementary Products: the Economics of Apple’s Iphone Sdk

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Lynne Kiesling The palpable buzz around the release of the iPhone last year was exciting, and indicated some of the great design and functionality we can expect from mobile phones in the future (even if I won’t get one yet because I won’t give AT&T my business, and I haven’t seen a local vendor selling …

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Package Bidding Auction Design for the Fcc’s Upcoming 700 Mhz Spectrum Auction

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Michael Giberson I was wrong a few weeks ago when I wrote, “While the FCC has sponsored research and considered deployment [of package bidding and combinatorial auctions], so far they have been dissuaded by the complexity of the auction design and opposition from commenters.” The FCC has tried package bidding once before, in 2003, when …

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