Today’s tough economy creates fiscal pressures for state and federal government budgets. Resourceful policymakers are increasingly looking for ways to reduce or at least maximize their information technology (IT) spending, and utilizing free software and services is one possible direction. But what does “free” really mean?
For more than forty years, the software development community has leveraged huge increases in computer chip performance and steady drops in chip prices to give consumers what they want: better products at lower prices. In 1965, Intel co-founder Gordon Moore predicted that the number of transistors on a chip (essentially [...]
Then David said to Goliath, Thou comest to me with a sword and with a spear and with a shield but I come to thee with naught but a sling and stone. The story of David and Goliath is a familiar tale, but the modern retelling in the form of [...]
There seems to be some kind of misunderstanding. We have worked productively with PIN-SME on issues regarding ICT SMEs in the past, so we were very surprised to see the attack they launched against us today. For those who don’t know, PIN-SME is a recently created organization whose members [...]
According the BBC, Neelie Kroes joked that her record setting fine against Intel would be redistributed from the American-based company and its employees to European taxpayers.Ms Kroes joked in her own news conference that Intel would now have to change its latest advertising slogan from "sponsors of tomorrow" to "the [...]