How neutral and unbiased can the search for information be if a de facto monopolist is conducting it? That is the question posed today by German newspaper Sueddeutsche Zeitung in an article [in German] on Google. […]
The blogosphere has been all aflutter with the analysis that Tom Kemp at Centrify has done of the draft protocol-patent mapping provided by Microsoft for its Microsoft Communications Protocol Program (MCPP) and the Work Group Server Protocol Program (WSPP). Many people find it interesting and surprising that 80% of the [...]
Inc.com writes that “Federal officials and business leaders this week dismissed calls by the Democratic presidential candidates to renegotiate NAFTA, saying free trade deals help American small businesses and the U.S. economy grow. ‘All the trend lines before and after NAFTA are positive,’ U.S. Trade Representative Susan Schwab told small-business [...]
NJ.com reports that “[t]he Supreme Court of New Jersey became the first court in the nation yesterday to rule that people have an expectation of privacy when they are online, and law enforcement officials need a grand jury warrant to have access to their private information. In state proceedings, the [...]
Slashdot reveals that “[m]any participants in OLPC's 'Give 1 Get 1' program of last November are now encountering what has come to be known as the 'stuck key' problem, in which one or more of the keys on their XO-1 laptop's built-in keyboard become stuck in an activated position, or [...]