The Association for Competitive Technology has long supported the protection of intellectual property as a critical element of small business. Representing over 4,000 small business software developers we understand the damage that piracy poses to the innovation economy and recognize the role that government and industry must play in stopping [...]
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The computing industry is going through a mobile revolution as svelte, powerful, and power-sipping devices are freeing users from their power cords. On the heels of the smartphone, notebook, and netbook booms, tablet computers are changing the dynamics of the computing industry. And now we have ultrabooks emerging, combining some [...]
Google Chairman Eric Schmidt appears to be playing a brilliant, but dangerously duplicitous game. The difference between Schmidt’s testimony before the Senate Antitrust subcommittee last month and the written answers he provided today suggest a daring PR strategy to avoid an embarrassing video moment. Last month, the committee chairman, Herb [...]
Mike Godwin and others have been saying it, but Steve Jobs was more than just a CEO to me. He quite literally shaped my life. From the day my dad, who was teaching computer science at the time, brought home one of the first Apple II computers, to today when [...]