A white plastic “cube”* that is slightly bigger than a thumb tip protrudes from the …

Editors’ note: This is a guest column. See Lawrence Spiwak’s bio below. Despite his protestations to the contrary, Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski is about to reverse a 25-year bipartisan tradition of removing heavy-handed public-utility-type regulations over new technologies and services. Although Genachowski maintains that such regulatory interventions will be “modest,” Genachowski’s proposed approach is entirely disingenuous. Instead, for …

For the next two days, Google geekdom will gather at the Google I/O developer conference in San Francisco, bringing with them an opportunity for publishers to spread their products’ influence by getting developers on board–and maybe line their own corporate pockets in the process. Take PayPal, for instance. At the conference opening on Wednesday, the online payment giant announced a …