How can we use IT to improve financial companies’ risk management?
How can we make sure we have the right information technology to avoid, in the future, the delayed reaction by firms to problems with their balance sheets that was partly [...]
ACT Submits Response in EC Browser Case: Why Independent Software Developers Care
Yesterday, the Association for Competitive Technology submitted its official response to the European Commission’s Statement of Objections regarding Microsoft’s integration of Internet Explorer into the Windows operating system. While the [...]
What Jimmy Stewart can teach us about the US tech industry
Last week, I presented at the inaugural Ignite DC. The event, which took place in the Artomatic building in Washington DC’s Capitol Riverfront neighborhood, featured 17 speakers who each had [...]
Microsoft to debut new search engine at All Things D?
According to Yahoo!Tech, Microsoft is likely to show a new version of its Internet search engine publicly for the first time next week. It remains to be seen, however, whether [...]
Do You Mean to Say That We’ve Reached the Pinnacle of Human Success?
Our pals at Third Way had a nice event on Wednesday with Dean Kamen (inventor of the Segway) and Ralph Eckhardt and Mark Blaxill (authors of the new IP-centric book, [...]
What the EU Doesn’t Get: Competitor Harm Does Not Equal Consumer Harm
The European Commission is a loose cannon when it comes to antitrust and competition law. It's record $1.45 billion fine is emblematic of what the Commission just doesn't get: there's [...]