Yahoo!Tech writes that, according to experts at the World Wide Web conference currently taking place in Madrid, “[y]oung people largely drove the early stages of Internet growth but in recent years the sharpest rise in Web use in developed nations has been amongst people aged 70 and over. […] ‘Older [...]
This weekend, President Barack Obama announced that he will be appointing Aneesh Chopra, Virginia’s Secretary of Technology to be the nation’s first Chief Technology Officer. We at the Association for Competitive Technology (ACT) are pleased President Obama picked a CTO who recognizes the link between innovation and intellectual property. [...]
The European Commission has recognized the Association for Competitive Technology (ACT) as an interested third party in opposition to the Commission's Statement of Objections regarding Microsoft's actions in the browser market. While we're happy that the Commission granted us the opportunity to represent our 3000 members in this process, we [...]
I can’t believe that I’ve let a whole week go by without posting this article from the Wall Street Journal. I hadn’t seen this reported elsewhere, but Treasury Secretary Geithner apparently said before Congress that VC firms should be registered with the SEC, submit regular reports on investors and portfolios, [...]
The Pirate Bay guys are going to jail (well, maybe… if and when they lose their legal appeals to today’s ruling). As to be expected, the content people are cheering and the Free community is jeering. Both, of course, are probably making too much of the verdict. Mike Masnick over [...]