According to the Guardian, British Chancellor of the Exchequer Alistair Darling told MPs today that “[a]round 80,000 [UK] business owners and investors will benefit from a new capital gains tax ‘entrepreneurs' relief.’  They will pay just 10% on capital gains up to the first £1m, instead of the 18% originally [...]

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 [...]