Looking back at tech in 2008 – and predicting what might happen in 2009
NetworkWorld has a fun compilation of the “wackiest technology stories of 2008.” And, of course, what is almost as fun as looking back at what happened in 2008 is speculating [...]
Dreaming of EUtopia: Constructing a Vision of an Entrepreneurial Idyll
Dreaming of EUTopia: Constructing a Vision of an Entrepreneurial Idyll December 2008 Dr. John Round | University of Birmingham, UK Dr. Tim Vorley | University of Cambridge, UK This paper [...]
Technology for Opening Up Government
Today's event on "open" and "participatory" government at Google's DC office was interesting, if inconclusive. We all agreed that making government more transparent and ready for participation by the citizenry [...]
ACT, Cambridge University and Birmingham University dream of EUtopia
“What does the entrepreneurial idyll look like?” This is the question a new report by the Association for Competitive Technology, in conjunction with the University of Cambridge (UK) and the [...]
FTC bans companies from selling scareware products
Yahoo!Tech reports that “[a]t the request of the U.S. Federal Trade Commission, a U.S. district court has ordered two companies marketing supposed computer security products online to stop their efforts. [...]
Obama administration to roll our broadband and put more computers in schools
Yahoo!Tech writes that “[r]olling out broadband and putting more computers in schools will be pieces of a massive economic recovery package proposed by U.S. President-elect Barack Obama, he has announced. [...]