Senior citizens take to the Web
Yahoo!Tech writes that, according to experts at the World Wide Web conference currently taking place in Madrid, “[y]oung people largely drove the early stages of Internet growth but in recent years the sharpest rise in Web use in developed nations has been amongst people aged 70 and over. […] ‘Older adults are the fastest growing demographic on the Internet,’ said Professor Vicki Hanson of the School of Computing at Scotland's University of Dundee on the opening day of [the conference]. [...]
Obama Makes The Right Choice With Chopra for CTO
This weekend, President Barack Obama announced that he will be appointing Aneesh Chopra, Virginia’s Secretary of Technology to be the nation’s first Chief Technology Officer. We at the Association for Competitive Technology (ACT) are pleased President Obama picked a CTO who recognizes the link between innovation and intellectual property. Mr. Chopra gets it. He not only understands the importance of the IT industry to the American economy, but also how it can help improve the transparency and efficiency of [...]
ACT Joins the Party: Recognized as Interested 3rd Party in EC Browser Case
The European Commission has recognized the Association for Competitive Technology (ACT) as an interested third party in opposition to the Commission's Statement of Objections regarding Microsoft's actions in the browser market. While we're happy that the Commission granted us the opportunity to represent our 3000 members in this process, we are concerned about this case and the effects some of the remedy proposals might have on our membership.First, there is something surreal about the entire concept of this complaint. Not [...]
Even If It Doesn’t Move… Regulate It
I can’t believe that I’ve let a whole week go by without posting this article from the Wall Street Journal. I hadn’t seen this reported elsewhere, but Treasury Secretary Geithner apparently said before Congress that VC firms should be registered with the SEC, submit regular reports on investors and portfolios, and that data should be assessed to ensure that VC firms aren’t “a threat to financial security.” As Mr. Freeman points out, this is confusing news since VC work doesn’t [...]
Good Riddance, Pirate Bay! Long Live BitTorrent!
The Pirate Bay guys are going to jail (well, maybe… if and when they lose their legal appeals to today’s ruling). As to be expected, the content people are cheering and the Free community is jeering. Both, of course, are probably making too much of the verdict. Mike Masnick over at TechDirt is (of course) one of those criticizing the decision. In his analysis, he says:The trial did certainly include plenty of theatrics, but the core question was an important [...]
Will CNN-Kutcher contest lead to Twitter business plan?
Internetnews.com has an interesting article on how the battle between CNN and Ashton Kutcher for Twitter followers may spur Twitter to “adopt its long-awaited business plan.” The Register reports that “the four defendants in The Pirate Bay versus entertainment industry trial have been found guilty in a Swedish court of being accessories to breaching copyright laws. The verdict was handed down to four men behind the notorious BitTorrent tracker site this morning in a court in Stockholm. ‘The Stockholm district [...]