11 January – Five Stories You Need to Read
InfoWorld reports that “[o]ffshoring of software development by software companies is not costing Americans jobs, according to a report being announced Thursday by the Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA).” [...]
200+ Patents on the iPhone, but Does Apple Really Need Them?
Over on the Tech Liberation Front, the Show Me Institute’s Tim Lee is questioning my post on the role patents played in the development of Apple’s new iPhone. Unfortunately, it [...]
10 January – Five Stories You Need to Read
The Washington Times reports that “[t]he U.S. Supreme Court yesterday made it easier to challenge the patents of drug maker Genentech Inc. and other companies that receive royalties on their [...]
What makes a gadget so cool the world salivates in unison?
That is the big question on the day the world awoke with a technolust-at-first-sight hangover. How did Apple create a device so utterly cool and innovative that geeks, hipsters, and soccer mom's alike are now counting the days until they can buy one?
9 January – Five Stories You Need to Read
CNetNews.com reports that “Quaero, the pan-European search effort intended to rival Google, has seen the German government withdraw its support. At the same time, the EC has promised $11.05 million [...]
8 January – Five Stories You Need to Read
Yahoo!News writes that Apple “CEO Steve Jobs and other Apple execs [are] facing a New Year’s hangover of antitrust lawsuits, software holes, and a nagging SEC investigation into stock-option irregularities” [...]