Online sales outgrow brick-and-mortar sales
Inc.com reports that, according to the Commerce Department, “[o]nline retail sales grew by 3.6 percent to $34.7 billion over the third quarter, more than double the quarter-to-quarter growth of brick-and-mortar [...]
Internet providers confused by Gordon Brown’s plans for web terror talks
The Register writes that “Internet providers have reacted with confusion at Gordon Brown's announcement that the Home Office will summon them to Westminster for anti-terror discussions. The PM unveiled wide-ranging [...]
Technology leaders from Washington, DC, found investment firm that will fund local entrepreneurs
According to the Washington Post, “[s]everal leaders of Washington's technology community are creating an investment firm to back local entrepreneurs as they start up companies, the latest in a series [...]
Enlightening Some of the Closed Thinking about Openness
When and how does ICT interoperability drive innovation? This is the subject of a new paper on interoperability by the Harvard Berkman Center for Internet & Society (the webcast of [...]
Thomas “The Hammer” Vinje Abuses IGF
Thomas Vinje, the longtime legal hitman for anti-Microsoft front groups, used the forum of a United Nations conference on Internet Governance to try to re-launch a baseless campaign against Microsoft [...]
Study predicts “anemic growth” for IT spending in 2008
Internetnews.com reports that, according to research released this week by Computer Economics, “IT spending in 2008 will increase by only low single digit percentages and may be closer to flat. [...]