The New York Times writes that “A new report released Tuesday from Gartner, the market research firm, predicts year-over-year PC sales to grow 10.9 percent worldwide. That’s down from a December forecast of 11.6 percent, and the reduction is due to the worsening world economy. While a further downturn could [...]

CIO reports that “[t]he editor of the Open Document Format (ODF) standard has written a letter that strongly supports recognizing Microsoft's Open Office XML (OOXML) file format as a standard, arguing that if it fails, ODF will suffer.  ‘As the editor of OpenDocument, I want to promote OpenDocument, extol its [...]

Internetnews.com writes that “[i]f you thought that most open source developers work for open source companies, you might well be wrong. According to a survey from open source services vendor OpenLogic, 50 percent of its respondents actually work for a proprietary vendor.  […]  The OpenLogic study was carried out by [...]

The Silicon Valley Watcher today has an interesting article on long tail economics, asking whether the concept is “bonanza or bogus.” The New York Times reports that “[a]n agreement in the stalled Doha round of World Trade Organization talks may be near, Brazil’s president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva , [...]

On February 26, the Politico published an article entitled "Realtors urge lifting Freddie, Fannie caps" which contained a reference to our paper "Encouraging Foreign Investment by Limiting Political Influences." Unfortunately, the article misrepresented our views regarding reform of the CFIUS process. […]