Which IT company is the biggest R&D spender?
CIO Insight has an interesting article today on IT’s top 81 R&D spenders. Internetnews.com reports that Democrats and Republicans in the House and Senate introduced identical patent reform bills today. [...]
OSS and ODF have plenty of help
This latest blog from Dana Blankenhorn is the silliest thing I have read in a long time. He claims that "Open Source Needs Lobbyists" to defeat the evil proprietary firms [...]
Coalition Letter on S. 522, the “Intellectual Property Rights Enforcement Act”
ACT Joins 26 other organizations in sending a letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee in support of the Intellectual Property Rights Enforcement Act. The Full Letter in PDF Format
A Wiki-based directory for software – but maybe Web 2.0 isn’t as hot as it seems
VentureBeat writes that “ITerating.com, a New York company, has launched the first Wiki-based directory of software.” The directory covers “open source, commercial and hosted software.” The International Herald Tribune reports [...]
Law makers active on tech issues today
The International Herald Tribune reports that the House of Representatives was scheduled today to vote on legislation that clarifies the law barring for-profit companies from using names that sound like [...]
British business leaders complain about the climate – for startups
In an article entitled “Business leaders say climate for startups worse than ten years ago”, the Guardian points out that, according to the British Chambers of Commerce, “British business thinks [...]