Tomorrow morning at 930am CET, it will all be over. Months of waiting. Months of speculating. Months of worrying. Tomorrow Europe's Court of First Instance will put a rest to it all in what many expect to be five minutes in Luxembourg followed by a mad dash to read through [...]
SME Concerns about the Commission’s Case against Microsoft Many Are Worried About What the CFI Decision Means for Them The European Commission’s case against Microsoft is often described as an attempt to protect the David’s of the software world from Microsoft’s Goliath. The reality, however, is not so clear cut. [...]
10 Years After U.S. v. Microsoft New Technologies, New Competitors, and a New Microsoft Abstract It’s been 10 years since the U.S. Justice Department launched its antitrust investigation of Microsoft. In the past decade the world of personal computing changed in so many ways that today’s dizzying array of choices—handheld [...]
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 [...]