In USA Today, Connecticut’s Attorney General Richard Blumenthal points out that “[i]n [their] milestone agreement with MySpace, the nation's attorneys general have marked a profoundly significant step toward social networking safety. The agreement includes more than 70 detailed specific changes to help purge predators, expunge inappropriate content such as pornography [...]
The New York Times this week has an interesting article on entrepreneurship in Ireland. According to the NYT, entrepreneurs in Ireland – such as our friend Brian Dean from Ceatec – “rank just below rock stars in popularity.” It is very encouraging to see that European countries are starting to [...]
CNetNews.com points out that “Microsoft has made changes designed to make it easier to access the technical documentation for its older Office binary document formats and will sponsor an open-source project to map those binary formats to Open XML. […] In a blog on Wednesday, Office program manager Brian Jones [...]
The Associated Press writes that “[w]e think a lot about getting new gadgets, but not so much about getting rid of old ones. The result: old cell phones, defunct laser printers and Pentium III computers gathering dust. A couple companies want to help us clear out those old gadgets, while [...]
The Washington Post reports that “[m]ore than 200 companies qualified to bid in the upcoming auction of public airwaves that could raise as much as $15 billion for the U.S. Treasury. But it's not clear whether any of those companies will fulfill one of the key goals of the auction [...]