Regulation

Since Microsoft Corp. approached Yahoo! Inc. in early February with an offer of $44.

Erlanger, Kentucky Police Chief Marc Fields is torn. He's concerned his city's recent decision to start collecting payment from out-of-town drivers at fault in traffic accidents will hurt his city's image. On the other hand, he's seen the numbers.

The Antitrust Religion By Edwin S. Rockefeller Washington, DC: Cato Institute, 2007 124 pages, $16.95; ISBN-13 978-1933995090 The Antitrust Religion, by Edwin S. Rockefeller, convincingly documents myriad problems with government antitrust policies.

With the deadline for issuing licenses that meet the criteria of the federal REAL ID Act of 2005 less than three months away, it appears few if any states are prepared to issue compliant licenses by then.

The European Court of First Instance in Luxembourg in September upheld a 2004 European Commission (EC) decision finding Microsoft illegally leveraged its dominance in PC operating systems (OS) when it bundled its Windows Media Player application with its

With the emergence of next-generation networks (NGN), regulators must decide whether to implement an ex post regulatory model or maintain ex ante regulation.

Microsoft's attempts to compete for state contracts took a hit in early September when it failed to win an open standards designation from a major international standards body for a file format used with its latest line of office software.

The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) is at the center of controversy for its selection of committee members charged with reviewing the nation's Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards.

Contending Microsoft still is in position to abuse its dominant position in PC operating systems, six states and the District of Columbia pressed the federal judge overseeing the 2002 antitrust consent decree to extend the terms past November 12, the

Fuel economy standards are being vigorously debated in Congress. Competing corporate average fuel economy (CAFE) standards threaten to reduce consumer choice among family vehicles and impose significant new financial and safety costs on U.S. consumers.

President George W. Bush announced on May 14 a plan to force U.S. consumers and businesses to reduce gasoline consumption by 20 percent over the next 10 years. Five percent of that reduction--8.

An executive order signed by President George W. Bush on January 18 will make it more difficult for federal agencies to issue policy guidances that critics have described as back-door attempts to impose regulations.

As of January 1, most retail prices for electricity in Texas will be completely deregulated, solidifying the state as the national leader in deregulating electricity markets.

(October 13, 2006 - Chicago, Illinois) The FCC announced today it will delay making a decision on whether to approve the merger of AT&T and BellSouth. The proposed deal has been controversial throughout the country since its announcement last year.

This summer, European Commission (EC) regulators fined Microsoft Corp. €280.5 million ($356 million), adding to the €497 million ($630.7 million) the company has already been forced to pay.

The Competitive Enterprise Institute's "Ten Thousand Commandments: An Annual Snapshot of the Regulatory State," issued in June, found: Regulatory costs hit an estimated $1.127 trillion in 2005.

After years of taking flak for refusing to support open standards, Microsoft recently announced it would do so ... and promptly got threatened with another antitrust lawsuit. Adobe v. Microsoft?

The European Court of First Instance (CFI) buzzed with energy in late April as Microsoft and the European Commission (EC) squared off over a 2004 ruling that, along with a fine of €497 million ($613 million), creates a new Microsoft product and exposes

The Bush administration on August 23 announced the first significant tightening of corporate average fuel economy (CAFE) standards in 30 years.

(Chicago, IL) Earlier today, both the Wall Street Journal and New York Times reported that SBC and AT&T are considering some sort of merger.

Last month, the two largest membership organizations for state elected officials in the U.S.

Maryland's Department of Transportation announced in early May it may establish a statewide system of express toll lanes, which department officials believe would help ease congestion on the region's highways.

Jim Johnston—a founding donor to The Heartland Institute and charter member of its Board of Directors—has prepared a “free-market walking tour” of downtown Chicago.

Much has been written over the past few months about the revolutionary potential of Internet telephony, or voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) service.