WSJ: US Misses Target for Small-Business Contracts
We've done a lot of writing recently about the importance of giving small firms a level playing field to compete for government contracts, but according to the Wall Street Journal [...]
Sometimes It’s the Simple Things
Maybe because technology moves so quickly now—what some are calling the “ten year century”—we’ve come to anticipate the type of technology and innovations that once you have it, you can’t [...]
Pachyderm Prosthetics
As they say... And now for something a little different.We talk a lot in these parts about innovation. We even talk a little bit about healthcare IT. And sometimes we [...]
Great NY Times Article on Small Business and IP
The New York Times had a great article in last week's small business section, called "A Small Business Guide to Intellectual Property." The article explores five common fallacies about intellectual [...]
Is 6.44% of GDP “Useful” Enough?
Yesterday, Tom Bell posted a piece on the Technology Liberation Front blog entitled, "Unconstitutional Copyrights?". Mr. Bell provided a passage from his upcoming book, Intellectual Privilege: A Libertarian View of [...]
Masnick’s Interesting Take on Microsoft/Yahoo! and What He missed.
TechDirt's Mike Masnick has an interesting post over at Forbes that suggests the Microsoft/Yahoo deal is much ado about nothing:Looking at Yahoo!'s new deal with Microsoft, it looks like it's [...]