With an overwhelmingly bipartisan 93-4 vote tonight, the Senate confirmed Mike Froman to be the next U.S. Trade Representative (USTR).  This step comes as we seek to advance several critical global trade issues that are certain to help define the strength of the U.S. economy for many years to come. Next month, we hope the U.S. and other global governments will reach agreement on the expansion of the [...]

A disturbing proposal in the U.S. House of Representatives could effectively freeze any productive discussion on cybersecurity issues between the U.S. and Chinese governments.   The proposal – by Rep. Ron DeSantis of Florida – is being considered as part of the House’s fiscal year 2014 defense authorization legislation.  It would block federal funds from being used for critical cybersecurity dialogues [...]

At the same time that the United States Senate was beginning its debate on S. 744, the comprehensive immigration reform bill, human resource (HR) executives from some of our nation’s most innovative technology companies – Adobe, Broadcom, CA Technologies, Dell, EMC, Intel, Motorola Solutions, Teradata, and Texas Instruments – came to Washington to meet with policymakers and make tech’s case for immigration [...]

New public opinion data show Americans are ready for the Senate to approve its bipartisan comprehensive immigration reform legislation.  A survey of people in 29 states found that nearly seven in ten Americans support comprehensive immigration reform and that almost nine in ten people don’t want this to drag on.  They want action this year. What this means, from a purely political perspective, is that [...]

In his blog on Thursday, ITI’s Dean Garfield quoted comments made by Google’s Eric Schmidt at the “How Green Is the Internet?” summit that we attended that day.  Now, you can view Eric’s full comments as well as all the plenary remarks from the event.  They are here, along with a two-minute overview video that gives testimony to the energy and intelligence that permeated the event.    We also produced [...]

On June 4, Texas Instruments chairman, president, & CEO Rich Templeton gave the keynote address at a National Academy of Sciences’ (NAS) event hosted by the University of Texas System at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center.  The event coincided with the release of a recent NAS study entitled, “Research Universities and the Future of America.”  The study identified ten steps to both [...]

Technology is a transformative force for good, and must be harnessed toward the challenge of environmental sustainability.  That is the reality of the moment as well as the opportunity for the future that we focused on today at “How Green Is the Internet,” held at Google’s Mountain View campus. There are two things that jump out at me coming away from the session.  One is the unique power and ability [...]

This week, ITI, will unveil the latest iteration of its STEM book, Moving Education Forward:  Strengthening STEM in Today’s Classrooms, spotlighting many of our member companies that are making serious investments to help build the skills America’s students and workers need to succeed in the 21st century workplace. The ITI publication promises to be an excellent resource detailing the high-tech industry’s [...]

For nearly a century, ITI has brought smart, effective policy advocacy to bear to advance technological improvements that have revolutionized the global economy.  From the office machines of the early 20th century to today’s mobile technologies, our members remain at the cutting edge of innovation and advancement.  We are enormously proud to represent the world’s most dynamic companies which, each [...]

How green is the Internet?  That’s a great question.   Not coincidentally, it’s also the name of a summit meeting today at Google headquarters.  (You can watch live at www.youtube.com/googlegreen.) Participants make up an intriguing mix of experts from industry, academia, government and NGOs.   For our part, ITI is helping to explore emerging questions around the environmental impacts and benefits [...]