Reuters reports that, according to the World Economic Forum, “
In a similar vein, the Mercury News points out that the AeA warns in a new report that “[t]he United States’ position of leadership in science and technology is steadily being eroded by a series of missteps.” Among AeA’s suggestions: “lowering barriers for high-skilled individuals to receive temporary work visas and giving green cards to all U.S.-educated students with master’s and doctorate degrees.”
According to the International Herald Tribune, “[a] group of large technology companies [including IBM, Oracle, HP, Microsoft and Xerox], universities and professional associations is creating a new organization to support and promote research into ways that technology can increase productivity and innovation in the economy’s service sector.”
In an article entitled “Red Hat should lighten up”, Jason Brooks at eWeek.com points out that “[e]ven though Red Hat has always been very nice about providing us with entitlements to test its products, entitlements are a major pain to mess with.” Jason says that “[f]rankly, from our perspective as a testing organization and as a group of people who often build up and tear down systems in different combinations, RHEL is actually more of a pain to work with than Windows, for which there were (until Vista, at least) volume license copies that we could use flexibly and without expiration.”
The Financial Times reports that “Hewlett-Packard, the world’s biggest personal computer maker, has moved to block sales of some Acer computers in the US, alleging its Taiwanese rival had violated several patents related to power management and other computing tasks.”