The Latest Fallout from the Financial Crisis – Governments Want to Bail Out The Internet
Here at the United Nations' Internet Governance Forum (IGF) in Hyderabad, we saw yet another domino begin to fall in the growing financial crisis. Despite the lack of interest in [...]
On Copyright – Bad Assumptions lead to Bad Conclusions
Here in Hyderabad at the IGF I just got done listening to a panel titled “Overcoming Obstacles to Effective Digital Education” and while that is ostensibly a great idea for [...]
Live from Hyderabad! Alphabet Soup Conference Time!
ACT has two people who have flown to Hyderabad, India to participate in multiple events built around the United Nations Economic Development arm sponsored “Internet Governance Forum” Conference. In addition [...]
Facebook holds acquisition talks with Twitter
Yahoo!Tech reveals that “Social networking company Facebook recently held acquisition talks with Twitter, the micro-blogging company, the Financial Times said. The negotiations […] put a valuation of as much as [...]
Beware the Era of Financial Regulation and its Spillover onto Tech Companies
Remember being in grade school when a classmate’s rabble rousing would ruin it for everybody, and the teacher would hold back the class from going to recess? The other students [...]
Dot Com Archive helps SMEs avoid repeating the mistakes of the dot com bubble
The International Herald Tribune has an interesting article on the Dot Com Archive, an archive at the University of Maryland documenting “what did and didn't work during the flurry of [...]