SAN FRANCISCO, November 8, 2006 (PodTech News) — Vint Cerf, vice president and chief internet evangelist for Google and one of the “founding fathers” of the modern-day Internet, says a free and open network is crucial to the Internet’s continuing unimpeded development. PodTech’s Catherine Girardeau talked with Cerf at the ...

MENLO PARK, September 18, 2006 (PodTech News) — Google filed paperwork Thursday to register a new political action committee, Google NetPac, with the Federal Election Commission. Alan Davidson, Google’s Washington policy counsel, said the political action committee will “support candidates who promote a free and open Internet for our users.” The company will also be reaching out to congressional Republicans, via former Republican senators Dan Coats of Indiana and Connie Mack of Florida, whom it’s hired as outside lobbyists. This is a far cry from Sergey Brin’s “sightseeing” trip to D.C. last June in which he stopped in, wearing jeans, to lobby for network neutrality. PodTech’s Catherine Girardeau spoke with Larry Gerston, a political science professor at San Jose State University and a frequent commentator on tech policy.

SAN JOSE, August 9, 2006 (PodTech News) – Google CEO Eric Schmidt talked with the press about search, network neutrality, the recent AOL search term privacy debacle, and more at the Search Engine Strategies conference at San Jose’s McEnery Convention Center today. “The development to me that’s most ...

MENLO PARK, August 8, 2006 (Podtech News) — Sprint Nextel today announced plans to develop and deploy a nationwide wireless broadband mobile network using WiMAX. Sprint said it will work with Intel on mobile WiMAX-enabled chipsets and with Motorola and Samsung on devices. PodTech’s Catherine Girardeau talked with Chris Thomas, ...

MENLO PARK, July 20, 2006 (PodTech News) – “People don’t believe us when we say this, but we really care about net neutrality not for Google as a company, but for all the small Internet companies out there. We remember back in ’98-’99 when we were a little company, and ...

MENLO PARK, July 18, 2006 (PodTech News) – Net neutrality supporters have pounced on Senator Ted Stevens’ (R-Alaska) less-than-tech-savvy description of the Internet as a “series of tubes” and “not a big truck” in a speech.The senator’s words were fodder for The Daily Show and in techno remixes across ...

MENLO PARK, June 30, 2006 (PodTech News) — “We certainly want the (telecoms) to recover their investment,” said Art Brodsky, communications director of Washington D.C-based public advocacy group Public Knowledge. “The way to get the money is to let ...

MENLO PARK, June 22, 2006 (PodTech News) – “If we want people and entrepreneurs and companies to invest the billions of dollars to get true broadband, then we cannot put restrictions on that in effect are price controls that ...

Menlo Park, CA, June 8, 2006 (PodTech News) — Google’s co-founder and President Sergey Brin was in Washington Tuesday to push for stronger provisions on “network neutrality.” Internet companies like Google fear that without network neutrality rules, the telecommunications and cable companies will create a two-tiered network – a network ...