The International Herald Tribune has an interesting article today on the negative consequences of Internet outages in an age when “[c]ompanies like Google want us to store not just e-mail online but also spreadsheets, photo albums, sales data and nearly every other piece of personal and professional information.” The Seattle [...]
The Wall Street Journal reports that “International Business Machines Corp. said it agreed to buy Platform Solutions Inc. in a deal that eliminates litigation and a potential competitor for its lucrative mainframe business. IBM didn't disclose what it is paying for Platform, a venture-capital backed, Sunnyvale, Calif., company with about [...]
Internetnews.com reveals that “[t]wo Republican lawmakers have called on the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to drop the proposed conditions for a new spectrum auction that would require the winning bidder to provide free Internet access. In a letter to FCC Chairman Kevin Martin, Joe Barton of Texas and Florida's Cliff [...]
We've fallen horribly behind on our blogging over the past couple weeks, but this week we're officially back from travel/ICANN meetings/vacation/etc. and are ready to go. Not a moment too soon, either. Not only do we have a metric ton of news to cover from the past couple weeks, but [...]
STATEMENT BY JONATHAN ZUCK, PRESIDENT OF THE ASSOCIATION FOR COMPETITIVE TECHNOLOGY At a conference today, the European Commission presented a revised European Interoperability Framework, which defines the general rules and principles for collaboration on interoperability between Member States and EU institutions. Jonathan Zuck, President of the Association for Competitive Technology, [...]