BBC News has an interesting article today entitled “New boom-time for British tech?” The article’s author, Rory Cellan-Jones, raises the question whether Britain, despite its abundance of world-class scientists, is only “third-rate” when it comes to “giving them the money to turn their ideas into world-beating companies.” The Seattle Times [...]

The New York Times reports that, according to the International Labor Organization, “American workers are the world’s most productive, followed by the Irish, though productivity is rising fastest in China and much of the rest of Asia.  When productivity was measured by the hour rather than by the total number [...]

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 [...]