Okay, so it’s just a catchy title but an irony of this ridiculous debate about corporate responsibility just the same. Here at IGF in Athens, there’s a discussion of how corporations should use their “massive bargaining power” to influence the internal policies of repressive regimes. As discussed in my previous [...]
Under the heading “let me just assert this and maybe people will believe it,” I keep hearing this argument about “open standards” being the metaphorical cure for cancer in the IT sector. Of course, no one is really sure what they mean when they come out with this rhetoric. In [...]
The U.S. has a reputation of being entrepreneurial relative to other countries. The AEI event I attended yesterday was a book forum for Carl Schramm's new book The Entrepreneurial Imperative. The event focused on why entrepreneurs are important (they spur innovation) and how Washington policy helps and hurts entrepreneurial activity [...]
Last week I was in Richmond to participate in a focus group to help the Virginia courts system run better through IT (it's good to see governments using information technology to help citizens--I'm for limited government, not Luddite government). Virginia recently created a commission to look 10-15 years into the [...]
Microsoft to Ship Windows Vista On-time in Europe. SMEs can breathe a sigh of relief. Brussels – The thousands of small and mid-size information technology firms throughout Europe and the United States welcome today's confirmation that Microsoft will deliver Windows Vista on time worldwide, according to the Association for Competitive Technology (ACT), which [...]