Although the availability of patents, in general, certainly provides great benefits to small- and medium-sized enterprises and can level the playing field vis-à-vis much larger entities, recent news stories highlight how small and medium sized entities can sometimes find themselves at a disadvantage when it comes time to enter the [...]
PCMag.com’s Tim Bajarin predicts that “weak markets” will mean “big tech bargains.” This is because, according to Bajarin, people stay in more during economic downturns, meaning that they will be more willing to buy home entertainment products such as HDTVs and gaming systems and software. “With that in mind,” Bajarin [...]
The Register reveals that “[t]he US Air Force will proceed with plans to create a large, dedicated cyber warfare force, it was confirmed yesterday. However, rather than being an independent ‘Command’ in its own right, the net battle formation has been downgraded in status and will now be subordinate to [...]
ZDNet.com predicts that if a Yahoo-AOL merger becomes reality, the “integration work is going to be ugly.” And in more bad news for Yahoo, the Mercury News reveals that “Yahoo Chief Executive Jerry Yang missed his chance to get top dollar for the firm’s stake in Asian Internet firms. The [...]
Yesterday a blogger who I respect immensely and agree with regularly, Paul Kedrosky, posted a story entitled "Tom Wolfe is an Idiot." Soon thereafter, a blogger that I read regularly, but agree with sporadically, hopped on to try to stir this tempest in a teapot out of control. Paul wrote [...]