Yahoo!News reports that “[t]he Virginia Supreme Court declared the state's anti-spam law unconstitutional Friday and reversed the conviction of a man once considered one of the world's most prolific spammers.  The court unanimously agreed with Jeremy Jaynes' argument that the law violates the free-speech protections of the First Amendment because [...]

RAPID, a database of press releases run by the European Union’s DG Communication, this week announced the “Practical Guide to EU funding opportunities for Research and Innovation” to help all stakeholders find their way around all the different existing EU funding mechanisms. As the RAPID press release points out, if [...]

Yahoo!News writes that “[a] thousand startups competed for the honor of launching their technology products—mostly software and web sites and applications, in the second annual TechCrunch50 event. The conference gave startups, some with no real funding to speak of, exposure to billionaire investors such as Marc Cuban and high-ranking officers [...]

The Register reports that “[t]he chair of the Antitrust Subcommittee in the Senate Judiciary Committee has written to the four largest US network operators demanding they explain why the cost of texting has doubled since 2005.  Text messages have been a nice little earner for European operators since cross-network connectivity [...]

“The coming few years will feature continued consolidation, financial pressures and changes to the hardware business, requiring different IT strategies for the future than what people have been using in the past.”  That’s according to IT consultancy Gartner, which made these predictions during its Hardware Insight conference in Redwood Shores, [...]