April 20, 2007
The little screen promises big bucks
According to The New York Times, “Google, Microsoft and Yahoo have all trained their sights on cellphones, which they see as the next great battleground in the [...]
Which IT company is the biggest R&D spender?
CIO Insight has an interesting article today on IT’s top 81 R&D spenders. Internetnews.com reports that Democrats and Republicans in the House and Senate introduced identical patent [...]
OSS and ODF have plenty of help
This latest blog from Dana Blankenhorn is the silliest thing I have read in a long time. He claims that "Open Source Needs Lobbyists" to defeat the [...]
Coalition Letter on S. 522, the “Intellectual Property Rights Enforcement Act”
ACT Joins 26 other organizations in sending a letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee in support of the Intellectual Property Rights Enforcement Act. The Full Letter in PDF [...]
A Wiki-based directory for software – but maybe Web 2.0 isn’t as hot as it seems
VentureBeat writes that “ITerating.com, a New York company, has launched the first Wiki-based directory of software.” The directory covers “open source, commercial and hosted software.” The International [...]
Law makers active on tech issues today
The International Herald Tribune reports that the House of Representatives was scheduled today to vote on legislation that clarifies the law barring for-profit companies from using names [...]