I’m here in Geneva at the Open Forum Europe conference, listening to discussions about the problem with standards bodies today. More specifically, listening to IBM’s take on the problem with any standards body that would approve Open XML (like ECMA). […]
AFP reveals that “Pakistan has ordered all Internet service providers to block the YouTube website for containing ‘blasphemous’ content and material considered offensive to Islam. […] An inter-ministerial committee has decided to block YouTube because it contained ‘blasphemous content, videos and documents,’ a government official told AFP. ‘The site will [...]
According to the New York Times, “EU and U.S. senior officials said on Friday they would crack down on counterfeiting of computer components after they seized over 360,000 fake items in just two weeks in a joint operation at the end of last year. Integrated circuits and computer components of [...]
3COM a Warning Sign to All Foreign Investors; Could Limit Investment in American Startups WASHINGTON — The Association of Competitive Technology released a comprehensive report today on the importance of foreign direct investment, particularly to innovative technology startups. In light of recent political moves to block foreign investment in 3COM [...]
According to InfoWorld, “[o]ver the past two years virus writers have increasingly targeted their malicious programs to users in different regions of the globe, creating programs that are specially designed to infect users in countries like Japan, Brazil, China or Germany. Take the taunting Trojan, which goes after users of [...]