Keep track of the issues that matter to innovative small businesses and what ACT and its members are saying about them.

Commentaries and Op-Eds

• WIPO Creating New IP Rights Over Web January 18, 2007
  Slashdot | 18 Jan 2007 http://politics.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/01/18/1827231&from=rss
• Vista Could Be an Economic Windfall January 18, 2007
• EBay heightens security precautions January 18, 2007
  MSNBC | 18 Jan 2007 http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16686937/
• Cisco’s iPhone violates GPL January 18, 2007
  Computerworld | 18 Jan 2007 http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;435863114;pp;1
• GPL 3.0: A bonfire of the vanities? March 9, 2006
  CNET | 09 Mar 2006 I often find myself comparing the strife and pathos of the information technology industry to Greek and Shakespearean tragedies. Yet, the current debate on GPL 3.0 has me thinking back to my high school European history class. http://news.com.com/GPL+3.0+A+bonfire+of+the+vanities/2010-7344_3-6047707.html?tag=carsl By Jonathan Zuck, President of the Association for Competitive Technology I often [...]

News Coverage

• A wish-list from innovative SMEs January 28, 2010
  European Voice | 28 Jan 2010 Members of ACT’s Board describe the specific steps they would like to see the Spanish EU Presidency take in order to encourage innovation and entrepreneurship in Europe http://www.europeanvoice.com/article/imported/a-wish-list-from-innovative-smes/67003.aspx
• The Cost of Being Too Good August 7, 2009
  Solid State Technology | 07 Aug 2009 At a time when many companies are struggling to stay profitable, Intel, the world’s largest computer processor manufacturer, recorded a net profit of $1 billion in its second quarter. Despite this impressive feat, however, the corporation reported a quarterly loss of $398 million, the first loss it has [...]
• Intel verdict “protectionist” July 24, 2009
  Technology Magazine News | 24 Jul 2009 American technology advocates and legal experts have roundly condemned the EU’s decision to fine Intel nearly a billion pounds for breaking anti-trust laws. Jonathan Zuck, President of the industry advocacy group the Association for Competitive Technology notes, “For the past 20 years, the microprocessor industry has delivered more [...]
• E-government vision will take work December 12, 2008
  PC World | 12 Dec 2008 U.S. President-elect Barack Obama has used Web tools to solicit donations and hear from his supporters during his campaign, but it’s still unclear how many of those methods will translate into electronic government, a group of e-campaign and open-government experts said at a conference on technology and participatory government, [...]
• EU patent system impedes innovation December 9, 2008
  EurActiv.com | 09 Dec 2008 The lack of a Europe-wide Community patent poses “incredible challenges” for small businesses and undermines the EU’s goal of becoming the most competitive knowledge-based economy in the world, according to a new study. The existing intellectual protection (IP) system, under which companies have to file a patent in every EU [...]