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Net leads in US venture capital funding boom
News The National Venture Capital Association and Venture Economics reported that investments increased to $24.5bn up from $12.5bn in the second quarter of 1999. Fuelled by the Internet, venture capital investments nearly doubled in the second quarter...
[August 7, 2000, 13:18]
2001: Protecting intellectual property
News When thousands of employees are laid off, the economics of the industry means it happens fast, with few people thinking what might be lost in the process. In 2001, there were tens of thousands of layoffs in the tech industry, with companies like...
[December 30, 2001, 6:31]
Digital Healthcare - more signs of things to come
Blog How can it not be - only the adoption of Internet and IT economics can save the health systems of the world, and only the creation of an integrated, end-user oriented market can make that happen. I remain utterly convinced that digitally assisted...
[March 25, 2008, 13:44]
Government attacked over ID card costs
News The Home Office's latest attempts to justify its calculations of the cost and benefits of the national ID card scheme have been branded misleading and inaccurate by the London School of Economics (LSE).
[August 8, 2005, 9:25]
Chips may be down for Transmeta manufacturing
News Transmeta will complete a "critical evaluation of the economics of its current business model of designing, developing and selling x86-compatible microprocessor products", the company said in a statement.
[January 5, 2005, 8:15]
Review of the Week, January 27-31
News It's almost impossible to discover whether the rises are caused by fear or hard economics but at least this time most PC vendors bought ahead so the effects should 't be so sharp. Tuesday's continuing reports of a Korean government decree to memory...
[January 31, 1997, 16:50]
Does Wi-Fi security matter?
News In a study of almost 2,500 access points in Indianapolis, presented at the Workshop on the Economics of Information Security at the University of Cambridge on Monday, researchers found that 46 percent were not running any form of encryption.
[June 27, 2006, 13:00]
Looking forward to 2003 review
Reviews So whatever 2003 holds in terms of economics, it's a fair bet that there will be more than a sprinkling of exciting new technologies and gadgets to keep us occupied. The last 12 months have not been the easiest for the technology sector, to say the...
[December 19, 2002, 15:43]
On challenging China with a tariff
News But Bergsten, director of the Institute for International Economics and a former US Treasury official, says a 50 percent tariff on Chinese products may be required to level the playing field and prevent an outright trade war, where the countries...
[June 15, 2005, 14:55]
ID card critic trashes government report
News Professor Ian Angell, of the information systems department at the London School of Economics, told ZDNet UK that the report issued to Parliament on Monday was a "political document" that dodged the complexity inherent in such a massive IT project.
[October 10, 2006, 16:10]
Akhbarakom for Pocket PC
Downloads Some of the Akhbarakom news categories are: World, Arabic, Middle East, Politics, Science, Sports, Economics, and Health News. AkhbarakomPPC is an Arabic newsreader for Pocket PC. It reads various Arabic news channels like Aljazeerah, BBC, CNN and...
[December 8, 2008, 12:13]
Tech bolsters Webcasting's new era
News Costs for the nascent Webcasting business shot up on Sunday when an online broadcast royalty scheme took effect, throwing a spotlight on the economics of an industry that is still struggling to prove its viability.
[October 22, 2002, 11:41]
UK tech industry faces recruitment crisis
News The 2007 National Management Salary Survey by the Chartered Management Institute (CMI) and Remuneration Economics shows an average salary increase of 5.3 percent across all industry sectors — down from 5.7 percent in 2006.
[June 27, 2007, 8:17]
Duopoly 'would mean price rises' - economist
News Key Department of Justice witness Kenneth Elzinga, a professor of economics at the University of Virginia and a leading authority on antitrust issues, said in a federal court that the resulting duopoly would give Oracle and SAP the power to raise...
[June 21, 2004, 9:15]
Economist testifies on Microsoft remedy
News Carl Shapiro, an economics professor with the University of California at Berkley's Haas School of Business, took the stand Thursday morning as the remedy proceeding of Microsoft's antitrust case stretched into a fourth week.
[April 12, 2002, 7:31]
HP introduces Nehalem-based ProLiant servers
News The ProLiant G6 range of 11 rack, blade and tower models targets datacentre capacity, virtualisation and datacentre economics, the company said. On Monday, HP launched a new range of ProLiant servers based on Intel's Nehalem-based Xeon processor...
[March 30, 2009, 20:00]
ID card bill could reach £30bn
News London School of Economics (LSE). The cost of an individual ID card could rise to almost £500 due to the cost of integrating the IT infrastructure with other government departments and public sector bodies, according to new figures from the
[November 1, 2005, 9:40]
Tories join ID card opponents
News Taking part in a public meeting on the proposed national ID card held at the London School of Economics, David Davies called for a much more disciplined approach to government databases. The public services should offer "serious protection" of...
[May 20, 2004, 12:10]
Outsourced jobs 'will return'
Talkback Economics rule #1: YOU CAN'T SELL TO PEOPLE WHO DON'T HAVE MONEY! Who's the "JACKASS" that came up with this idea that outsourcing these jobs is a good thing. The domestic demand that's to feed these corporations is made up of the people who they...
[January 27, 2004, 7:23]
Anti-snooping gurus converge on London
News The International Surveillance by Design conference to be held at the London School of Economics will see an international band of technical and political experts discuss how the average Internet user can fight back against laws like the RIP Act.
[September 19, 2000, 13:19]
