The New York Times has an interesting article on French Presiden Nicolas Sarkozy’s approach to economic policy.  The publication writes: “In a major speech outlining the next phase of his economic plans, the president vowed to make good on his campaign promises to adopt business-friendly policies to allow French companies [...]

The Financial Times reports that “Viviane Reding, the EU media commissioner, this week cited the decision to split the networks and services division of BT of the UK as a potential template for other former state-run telecoms operators.  Her controversial suggestion, which has been criticized by big telecom operators and [...]

According to the Register, a London-based security consultant has created a tool which proves that “that MySpace and other social networking sites can represent a gaping chink in an otherwise hardened corporate network.” With the PKI Book, created by Petko D. Petkov, you can “type in the domain name of [...]

The Wall Street Journal claims that “[s]ocial-networking Web site Facebook Inc. is quietly working on a new advertising system that would let marketers target users with ads based on the massive amounts of information people reveal on the site about themselves.” The Washington Post reports that “Microsoft Corp. has partnered [...]

CNetNews.com reports that “[i]n a blog posting Sunday, Adobe's top creative products executive, John Loiacono, made unflattering remarks about open-source alternatives whose free cost is offset by the time that creative pros have to spend fiddling.”  Loiacono points out that “what designers need is tightly-integrated workflows and high reliability right [...]