Via IP/Updates: According to a paper by systems analysts at George Mason, the biggest culprit for the USPTO's consistent and growing delinquency in processing patent applications is that they refuse to make decisions on applications. As summarized by Bill Heinze over at IP/Updates, the queuing theory-based analysis found that: "the [...]

The Los Angeles Times has an interesting article on the tech boom that the inflow of venture capital into Southern California has created. The Register reports that “[t]he [UK] government claimed today that its red tape reduction drive is already saving UK businesses £800m a year.  The savings were detailed [...]

Yahoo!News reports that Microsoft today made “online office document-sharing available to all. Office Live Workspace was released today as public open beta available to anyone with a Windows Live ID.  […]  Microsoft approaches the document collaboration project from the opposite side of Zoho and Google, adding choices in installed office [...]

Net Security writes that “[m]ore than half of computer users who think they are protected against online threats like spyware, viruses and hackers actually have inadequate or no online protection, according to an independent research study conducted for Verizon. Verizon's study, conducted with 545 U.S. Internet subscribers by the independent [...]

CNetNews.com has dug up the “Silicon Alley 100” list for 2007 before its official debut.  You can view the list of NY’s 100 most important tech influencers here. In a different article on CNetNews.com, iMEGA chairman Joe Brennan today discusses the “recent antagonistic stance that government in the United States [...]