Last week, I wrote the first part of this article, about public interest groups that focus specifically on technology. I introduced Public Knowledge and the Electronic Frontier Foundation. As I said last week, "These public interest groups are in a constant battle to fight against laws that restrict our freedom or threaten our privacy, or to alter aged laws and policies that don't keep current with rapidly evolving technology. Their victories???and there are many???have improved the lives of everyone who's ever owned a tech toy."

pubblicato il: 21/03/2012 - 20:56

The Republican congressman's fiscal plan airily promises both trillions of dollars in tax cuts and a nearly balanced budget within a decade, but he never says how he'd get there.

pubblicato il: 20/03/2012 - 22:57

Finally! There's a movie version of Kirk's leadership lessons.

pubblicato il: 20/03/2012 - 22:47

Forbes staffer Alex Knapp runs down the five lessons from Captain James T. Kirk.

pubblicato il: 20/03/2012 - 23:18

The numbers are in and Oracle is doing just fine, thanks. The company's third quarter GAAP total revenues were up 3% to $9.0 billion. This is in line with the Factset consensus of $9.02 billion. New software license revenues were up 7% to $2.4 billion, while software license updates and product support revenues were up ...

pubblicato il: 20/03/2012 - 23:04

Domino's Pizza (DPZ) was downgraded today by Bank of America/Merill Lynch (BAC) from neutral to [...]

pubblicato il: 20/03/2012 - 23:00

Adobe Systems (ADBE) today had its estimates and price target raised to $38 by Jefferies (JEF), [...]

pubblicato il: 20/03/2012 - 23:00

Porsche has announced the name for its newest SUV: The Macan.

pubblicato il: 20/03/2012 - 23:25

How are governments around the world planning for and adopting cloud computing, and how much progress have they made? A recent study by Forbes , in conjunction with KPMG , ?Exploring the Cloud: A Global Study of Governments? Adoption of Cloud,? examines those questions. The study surveyed 429 government executives in 10 countries???Australia, Canada, Denmark, ...

pubblicato il: 20/03/2012 - 23:25

A while back a contemplated writing a book called Lethal Generosity. Essentially, it is the art of performing an act performing a public good in a way that screws your competition. I abandoned the project because I could not find enough examples, but I keep looking for new ones. Lately, I?ve been thinking about , ...

pubblicato il: 20/03/2012 - 23:25