March 31, 2008
Antitrust enforcers from Europe and the US pledge role reversal
The Seattle Times reports that, last week, “there were several interesting developments and comments in the world of antitrust regulation. Consider this a very early pre-race analysis [...]
Chinese main mobile phone company to start trial of homegrown TD-SCDMA standard
According to the Associated Press, “China's main mobile phone company said Friday it will launch trial service of the homegrown Chinese next-generation standard next week, possibly moving [...]
Gartner expects worldwide PC sales to still grow by double digits
The New York Times writes that “A new report released Tuesday from Gartner, the market research firm, predicts year-over-year PC sales to grow 10.9 percent worldwide. That’s [...]
ODF editor Patrick Durusau points out that ODF will suffer if OXXML’s standards bid fails
CIO reports that “[t]he editor of the Open Document Format (ODF) standard has written a letter that strongly supports recognizing Microsoft's Open Office XML (OOXML) file format [...]
Study shows that majority of open source developers don’t work for open source companies
Internetnews.com writes that “[i]f you thought that most open source developers work for open source companies, you might well be wrong. According to a survey from open [...]
How much value is there in the concept of long tail economics?
The Silicon Valley Watcher today has an interesting article on long tail economics, asking whether the concept is “bonanza or bogus.” The New York Times reports that [...]