1 March – Five Stories You Need to Read

There is an interesting post on IP on Matusow’s blog today.  The post mentions a study by U.C. Berkeley Professor of Law and Technology Robert Merges which "found that even after 10-plus years of software patenting 1) the software industry remains far less concentrated than the average American industry; 2) the number of small software startups entering the industry is even greater than the number of new entrants a decade ago; and 3) the software industry continues to grow so rapidly and robustly that it now represents over 10% of all U.S. R&D, compared to only 1% of R&D in the days before software patenting first emerged."

According to CNetNews.com, “Yahoo’s e-mail service is not infected with a computer virus, despite a warning from Symantec that says it is.”

Mercury News wonders if Silicon Valley’s shift towards green technology will create the same kind of bubble, bust and lasting change as the Internet itself.

CNetNews.com claims that the tech industry commands less influence with America’s political class than it should and than its size might suggest. 

The Register reports that “Microsoft isn’t the only one taking an interest in Open ID. AOL, Yahoo! and Digg have all announced they’ll accept Open ID credentials as a way of identifying users online