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Europe hit Microsoft with a new $357 million fine to compel the release of more source code, while Microsoft released new "operating principles" for software design, aimed at release of its new Vista operating platform.

New technology has just become available that you believe is critical to the survival of your business.

The nation’s governors have decided they want to play a major role in ensuring the states are at the cutting edge of innovation.

Last year, when the government of India adopted its patent amendments as required by the TRIPS Agreement, health activists carried out concerted campaigns to try to avert what they characterized as a "public health disaster in the making.

When a state is trying to recover from one of the worst natural disasters ever experienced, it makes sense to streamline regulations so as to encourage rapid expansion and investment in new infrastructure.

Emerging technology often forces us to face difficult ethical decisions—and sometimes it exposes bad ethical positions.

In a June 21 announcement, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) said it—not Congress, mind you, but the FCC—was going to tax cellular and Internet phone companies on “only” a part of their total revenue: about 62 percent of a wireless phone company’s revenue, and about 35 percent of Internet phone companies that provide Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP).

Government is almost devoid of anything that could be called innovation or creative thinking—except when it comes to taxes.

Finally, both states and the federal government are coming to understand that government regulation was the biggest factor holding back the broadband rollout, and they are beginning to get out of the way.

When the country debates immigration, most of the discussion focuses on the poor and “huddled masses” entering the country illegally from Latin America.