Recently, The 463: Inside Tech Policy blog did a post on a new music service called Muxtape. Muxtape is undeniably cool. It brings us back to a time when creating a mix tape was a work of art we all practiced. As John Cusack proclaimed in High Fidelity: [...]
Over at the Open Source Blog, IBM's Savio Rodriguez discusses a presentation by Spring Source's Rod Johnson at EclipseCON. Rod and Savio come to the same conclusion that we at ACT has been discussing for years: Innovation takes a Bazaar and a Cathedral. As Savio writes: Rod challenged the notion [...]
There's a lot of hoopla surrounding Bain Capital's buyout of beleaguered 3Com Corporation, due to the fact that one of the buyers is Huawei, a company from China. Or "communist China" (gasp!) according to today's press release from Rep. McCotter: News circulated today Bain Capital and communist China's Huawei plan [...]
The European Parliament has a department called “Scientific Technology Options Assessment” or STOA. STOA has recently announced a report on the European patents system, outlining policy options for improving the system. As readers know, patent systems tend to be a controversial issue and theSTOA’s preliminary report was therefore the hotly [...]
I'd like to commend the new report from Rob Atkinson and ITIF, Boosting European Prosperity Through the Widespread Use of ICT. The report finds that information and communications technology (ICT) is essentially the vitamin D for supporting the kind of productivity growth that stimulates economic prosperity. It prescribes 5 five [...]