"With great power comes great responsibility" is an oft-quoted line from the first "Spider-Man" film. Without torturing the "web" metaphor beyond its breaking point, it also applies to your friendly neighborhood Internet service provider. A maze of legislation, regulations and business practices dat...

BOSTON, MA (MARKET WIRE) In a world in which traditional sources of business advantages like scale and customer knowledge can be easily replicated, Intellectual Property (IP) stands as the main source of sustainable competitive advantage. But because IP is hard to see and generally ignored by establ...

Format wars are commonplace in the modern history of electronics. Even Thomas Edison had to deal with political and corporate wrangling for the format of his early wax audio cylinder records invented in 1877.  The dispute over which audio recording format would become the standard continued until 1...

This weekend the Syrian blogosphere warmed up for a new confrontation. A group of bloggers launched a campaign against the spread of blogs advancing LGBT rights, and the response came quick. LGBT is controversial everywhere, but within a society that is conservative in its majority, the topic gets m...

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Continuing its effort to get by with a little help from its friends, Nokia released a new version of its Qt user interface framework and Qt Creator, an integrated development environment (IDE). The new software is offered under the Lesser GPL for the first time, as well as the main GPL and two comme...

The Wall Street Journal yesterday reported on efforts of Tim Nulty, a former World Bank and Senate economist and 35-year veteran of the telecom industry, to bring fiber-based broadband to a rural section of Vermont using an innovative business model that combines private sector dollars and a non-pro...

Turbulences pour Air France-KLM et Airbus réunis, les deux groupes semblant être pris dans la tourmente de la crise économique. Si les retards de production du nouveau géant des airs avaient pu impacter le devenir de certaines commandes de l'appareil,......

Following one Guyana blogger's reporting of alleged economic fallout over the CL Financial failure, mainstream media are reporting that Guyana police are looking for the person (or people) behind the now-defunct blog Living Guyana because of “a false report that a commercial bank in the So...

Two UK mobile operators are reportedly fuming at Nokia for including a mobile version of Skype on its N97 handset. Both Orange and O2 are so terrified that the popular VoIP service will siphon away profitable cell minutes by allowing users to make free calls that they are supposedly threatening not ...