In February 2017, iMonster Apple (Market Cap: $970 billion) stopped paying Qualcomm for the patented technologies Qualcomm invented – and Apple used in their wireless devices. Please note: Apple had signed multiple contracts – in which they agreed to pay Qualcomm for permission to use the patented technologies Qualcomm invented. Please also note: Apple continued […]

The United States has spent the last half century-plus engaging in a titanic amount of very stupid policies. Plan-by-plan, decision-by-decision – we have been outsourcing our prosperity to the rest of the planet. Trade policy, tax policy, regulatory policy,… – we have spent decades going out of our way to be as dumb as possible […]

Born and raised in the Washington, D.C. area, I was almost certainly subjected to more frequent and intense political discussions – than the fortunate people in the likes of Peoria, Illinois or Panama City, Florida.  (Ahh…Florida.) One of the recurring DC themes – was people here seriously fretting the fact that most of the rest […]

Isn’t judicial activism great? I kid.  I’m a kidder. But our title is not an exaggeration. Qualcomm’s Fate In Judge Koh’s Hands As FTC Trial Wraps Who is Judge Lucy Koh?: “(A) United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California…. “On January 20, 2010, President Barack Obama […]

We are on the verge – and in the process – of making the wireless technology jump from Fourth Generation (4G) to Fifth Generation (5G). This is a quantum leap forward – arguably bigger than all the previous jumps combined.  5G will birth the Internet of Things.  Where your “smart” car talks to the “smart” […]

The world of politics – and political thought – is inhabited by many different subcultures. There is a broad Left-Right divide right down the middle of PoliticsLand – and there are more than a few encampments that straddle this border. Libertarianism is an…interesting such subculture.  Planted firmly on the border – with plenty hanging over […]