Japan scores top spot in Economist innovation ranking
Japan is the most innovative country on the planet, according to a report from the Economist Intelligence Unit, a sister company of The Economist. “[Japan] gets the top score in [...]
Executives dispute usefulness of Section 404 of Sarbanes-Oxley Act
The Wall Street Journal reports that a survey of corporate financial executives found that “[c]ompliance costs for [Section 404 of] the Sarbanes-Oxley corporate-governance law fell in 2006 for the third [...]
Microsoft Patents FUD Report: Who is Actually Slinging it?
My morning news review had me chuckling this morning. Following Matt Asay’s post on the InfoWorld Open Sources blog, I watched Eben Moglen’s passionate attack on the Microsoft/Novell deal and [...]
Environmental concerns will change the business landscape…sometime down the road
Reuters reports that, according to Sun Microsystems founder Bill Joy, “[a] global response to climate change will spur a business revolution bigger than the internet. “‘This is a much larger [...]
On the FII European Patent Conference
ON THE FFII EUROPEAN PATENT CONFERENCE BY JONATHAN ZUCK, PRESIDENT OF THE ASSOCIATION FOR COMPETITIVE TECHNOLOGY Today at a Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure (FFII) conference, participants discussed the [...]
CNET Editor’s Love Letter to IP Greeted with a Drink the Face
CNET's editor at large Michael Kanellos was brave enough to write a love letter to patents and copyright and publish it on the internet this week. In the piece, Kanellos [...]