Jonathan Spalter

In a memo just released, President Obama announced a new one-year strategy for government agencies to harness the power and potential of digital technology platforms to better serve the American people, save taxpayer dollars, and make government more efficient. Driving the strategy, titled "Digital Government: Building...

As President Obama puts his re-election campaign into gear, one of his emerging themes is his refrain: ''we can't wait.' More than just a line on a campaign bumper sticker, it's a serious and timely call for American citizens -- and our politicians -- to take to heart as the...

In January of 2011, President Obama's vision for the State of our Union included a bold objective of digital inclusion that could help virtually all Americans more fully participate in our connected economy. "Within the next five years," he pledged, "we will make it possible for business to deploy the...

Wireless growth and usage show no signs of slowing as more Americans are increasingly using mobile to connect. In 2011 alone, wireless data traffic grew 133%, and with more wireless subscriptions than people in the U.S., it's no wonder. The hype around the new iPad and...

In the final minutes of Sunday's Superbowl, Eli Manning confidently led his team down the field and into the end zone. Tom Brady, under heavy pressure from the clock, was unable to do the same. One rose to the occasion and found glory. Time ran out for the other, leaving...

2011 was a banner year for mobile and wireless consumers. Among other things, this was the year when the number of mobile subscriptions surpassed the number of people. This is just one of the amazing developments highlighted in Mobile Future's annual video recap, The Mobile Year in Review 2011, that...

In the upcoming election year, virtually every American will be a 'single-issue voter,' going to the ballot box with the nation's economy and their own job prospects top of mind. It's critical that leaders on both sides of the partisan divide recognize that U.S. mobile policy is a poster-child for...

There's long been talk -- and a shared social commitment -- to 'going green' and reducing our carbon footprint. But as U.S. leaders talk about the clean energy future, there's also rising angst around how much progress we can make in today's economic climate. Against a backdrop of bad news,...

As the dust settles around the debt ceiling debate, there is broad hope that our nation's leaders continue to focus in a constructive way on getting our fiscal house in order. While recent debate centered around whether we raise taxes or cut government programs, too little discussion has focused on...

Official Washington already is slugging-it out in the inside-baseball of the next presidential election. But tech policy circles are pouring over the details of another closely watched horserace--the Federal Communications Commission's annual analysis of the competitive nature of the U.S. wireless market. With every manner of mobile device now bursting...

In the nation's capital we are beginning to see movement on a critical issue for U.S. wireless consumers with a voracious appetite for innovative mobile services, products and devices -- initial steps to address the coming mobile capacity crunch.

As the mercury rises in the nation's capital, it's not...

Part of what makes America a global leader--from innovation, to our economy to our democracy--is the notion that we can always do better. It's an important principle that keeps us on our toes and pushing the boundaries of progress. Currently in the world of mobile innovation, much attention is rightly...

Smartphones, tablets and an ever-expanding array of mobile gadgetry have become ubiquitous in society. In ways large and small, we all bear witness every day to the fact that modern life is being transformed by the power of the Internet in the palms of our hands.

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Washington has been predictably (and rightly) consumed by increasingly urgent warnings of an imminent mobile capacity crunch. The calls for timely action come from the highest levels of both technology and policy circles, and they have set off a classically byzantine inside-Washington debate over allocation of spectrum -- the invisible...

As Americans across the country turn to their mobile devices to track the final brackets of the NCAA college basketball tournament, technology policy circles are turning to a high-stakes game of their own: The need to move quickly and decisively to unlock additional spectrum to meet the fast-growing demands of...

I am truly amazed by the mobile technology that has been unveiled at this year's CTIA Wireless show in Orlando, Florida. It seems only fitting that in such close proximity to the Magic Kingdom, the innovation on display in the convention center has made a trip around the exhibit floor...

To help you keep track of all that's changing in the wireless space, Mobile Future highlights for you our top 10 must-read articles about mobile from the past week.

Smartphones, tablets and operating systems: see what was hot this year at the Mobile World Congress...

The mobile sector is constantly changing and it's hard to keep track of all of the new developments. To help you stay on top of the wireless evolution, Mobile Future highlights for you our top 10 must-read articles from this past week.

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President Obama made a powerful, affirming speech to the innovation community at Northern Michigan University, laying out a bold roadmap for how he plans to achieve his goal to connect virtually all Americans to the wireless Internet in the next five years.

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Winning the future, the theme of the State of the Union address, called for "out-innovating, out-educating, and out-building the rest of the world." President Obama rightly emphasized wireless broadband as a crucial building block for a winning economy.

After declaring this our country's "Sputnik moment," the president went on...