According to The New York Times, “Google, Microsoft and Yahoo have all trained their sights on cellphones, which they see as the next great battleground in the Internet search wars. They have thrown tens of millions of dollars and armies of programmers at the problem, seeking to develop tools that [...]
CIO Insight has an interesting article today on IT’s top 81 R&D spenders. Internetnews.com reports that Democrats and Republicans in the House and Senate introduced identical patent reform bills today. According to CNetNews.com, “[s]ocial-networking site MySpace is venturing into the increasingly crowded news aggregation business.” […] A test version of [...]
This latest blog from Dana Blankenhorn is the silliest thing I have read in a long time. He claims that "Open Source Needs Lobbyists" to defeat the evil proprietary firms in state capitols and Washington. He doesn’t seem to realize that they already exist…lots of them. I haven’t made any [...]
ACT Joins 26 other organizations in sending a letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee in support of the Intellectual Property Rights Enforcement Act. The Full Letter in PDF Format
VentureBeat writes that “ITerating.com, a New York company, has launched the first Wiki-based directory of software.” The directory covers “open source, commercial and hosted software.” The International Herald Tribune reports that “[t]he European Convention on Human Rights has just been updated for the Internet age to include the basic right [...]