As someone who forks over real cash each year for an Apple developer license, I am pretty pleased with today’s Apple iPhone SDK announcement. Without question, the iPhone has moved the state of the art, and the SDK will make others work even harder to catch up. We’ve known the [...]
The Washington Post reports that Microsoft today said “it was opening to the public a test version of its ‘Office Live Workspace,’ a service that allows users to save Office documents such as memos and spreadsheets online so that they may be accessed by other users connected to the Web. [...]
Last week, the European Commission laid out its position on sovereign wealth funds, saying that EU nations should avoid ‘uncoordinated responses’ that could scare off investors. In spite of this, Germany said on Wednesday it would push ahead with its own legislation aimed at shielding companies from unwanted foreign takeovers. [...]
According to the International Herald Tribune, “[a] Japanese government panel is proposing to govern ‘influential, widely read news-related sites as newspapers and broadcasting are now regulated.’ The government is also seeking to rein in some of the more unsavory aspects of the Internet, leaving in its wake, critics say, [...]
The Mercury News reveals that “[o]nline advertising revenues exceeded $21 billion for the first time in 2007, although preliminary data compiled by an industry trade group also suggests growth is slowing. The Interactive Advertising Bureau said its estimates show ad revenues grew 25 percent last year from nearly $17 billion [...]
