It certainly is not every day that a major multinational corporation announces that it is considering pulling out of China, an enormously lucrative and growing market. For example, GM sells more Buicks in China than it does here. GM’s turnaround… Continue Reading
Last week, in the spirit of Copenhagen, my colleague Dan Wallach and I attended the Harvard Electricity Policy Group‘s regional meeting in Austin, Texas. While a number of items were discussed, including some rather complicated legislative changes regarding the regulation… Continue Reading
Black Friday, the biggest shopping day of the year, is upon us once again. As always, the big deals for the post-Thanksgiving sales extravaganza will include electronics. An expected top-seller is the netbook, a miniature laptop computer designed to be… Continue Reading
While sowing even more paranoia about the Internet is probably not needed, Jordan Robertson’s AP story this weekend, “Framed for child porn – by a PC virus” does merit attention. The idea here is simple. Personal computers connected to the… Continue Reading
Likely, just about everyone has now seen journalist Steve Croft’s recent 60 Minutes story, “Sabotaging the System.” Although the piece left me wondering “Where’s Richard Clarke?” he was not to be seen. The ostensible bombshell, however, was a claim that,… Continue Reading
The Baker Institute recently hosted The Honorable Dale Meyerrose, a retired Air Force major general and the former chief information officer and information sharing executive for the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI). Gen. Meyerrose is now head… Continue Reading
“The Chinese government is ratcheting up its cyberspying operations against the U.S.,” states the lead of the Wall Street Journal’s latest story on the cyber insecurity issue. Requested by the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission, the report is another… Continue Reading