Reuters reports that, according to Sun Microsystems founder Bill Joy, “[a] global response to climate change will spur a business revolution bigger than the internet. “‘This is a much larger opportunity,’ he told Reuters, pointing to the scale of the problem and the profits to be made from simple steps [...]
ON THE FFII EUROPEAN PATENT CONFERENCE BY JONATHAN ZUCK, PRESIDENT OF THE ASSOCIATION FOR COMPETITIVE TECHNOLOGY Today at a Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure (FFII) conference, participants discussed the European patent system. The Association for Competitive Technology (ACT) believes it is important to have high standard patents to allow [...]
According to Yahoo!News, “[c]onsumers spent more money online for clothes than computers last year, the first time that's happened. A report by the National Retail Federation's Shop.org, out today, found apparel, accessories and footwear sales hit $18.3 billion in 2006, while computers were $17.2 billion. The group predicts 10% of [...]
Slashdot reports that “[a]t the annual shareholder meeting, Google put forth for voting a proposal for the company not to engage in self-censorship, resist by all legal means the demands to censor information, inform the user in case their information was provided to the government, and generally not to store [...]
The Seattle Times has an interesting article today entitled “Schools need to master Intellectual Property.” The article’s author, Brier Dudley, talks about spending time on Monday with computational biology pioneer Leeroy Hood, who warned that “universities aren't […] sophisticated [enough] about managing intellectual property”, resulting in them being “incredibly conservative, [...]