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Is UK broadband strategy on the right track?

Is UK broadband strategy on the right track?

...more joining-up of agendas at the national level while allowing more freedom to innovate locally, says Malcolm Corbett. While not unexpected, the recent decision... Read more

3 December, 2011 by Malcolm Corbett

Windows Phone 7 apps: an open and shut case

...software in general, which for all its failings and foibles encapsulates the freedom to innovate that drove the whole industry through its most astonishingly inventive... Read more

18 February, 2011

Economist testifies on Microsoft remedy

...1995 and 1996. "Microsoft's rallying cry in this case has been 'freedom to innovate'," Shapiro testified. "An effective remedy will ensure that Microsoft's... Read more

12 April, 2002 by Joe Wilcox

Microsoft takes lobbying campaign to Comdex

...show floor were a couple of External Affairs representatives staffing Microsoft's "Freedom to Innovate Network" counter. The staffers handed out to passersby brochures on... Read more

22 November, 1999 by ZDNet

Break IT with Kodak

...those whom it threatens. Remember this, when powerful people tell you about freedom to innovate. Remember Major Armstrong Read more

5 October, 2004 by Leader

Breaking up is easy to do

...laws, we got a lot of gum flapping from Microsoft about its freedom to innovate. Message to Bill Gates: Nobody believes you anymore Read more

25 April, 2000 by Jesse Berst
VMware and SpringSource: New deal or old battle?

VMware and SpringSource: New deal or old battle?

...for too much of your enterprise DNA, and your tactical and strategic freedom to innovate will be restricted — and the cost of changing sides becomes... Read more

11 August, 2009 by Leader

Outsourcing moves beyond cost cutting

...across the globe from their suppliers. In return, providers are given greater freedom to innovate in service delivery and even business strategy, with more emphasis... Read more

13 May, 2008 by Nick Heath
Linux crashes the mobile party

Linux crashes the mobile party

...wanted an open, competitive alternative to incumbent proprietary platforms, offering manufacturers greater freedom to innovate," a spokesperson tells ZDNet.co.uk. "The key advantages of... Read more

25 September, 2007 by David Meyer
The decline and fall of the roaming empires

The decline and fall of the roaming empires

...for the rest of the industry to follow. Small companies have more freedom to innovate – and less insulation from changes in the market. But while... Read more

16 January, 2007 by Leader

eBay tries email in net neutrality fight

...week's campaign ranks among the largest. Microsoft, for instance, distributed a "Freedom to Innovate" newsletter during its antitrust trial that ended with the exhortation... Read more

2 June, 2006 by Declan McCullagh

Linux: New graphics, old problem

Arguments over the proprietary nature of the drivers needed to run the latest graphics hardware are fuelling one of open source's most fundamental arguments Read more

19 April, 2006 by Stephen Shankland

Wiping the slate clean for Windows

...it continues to fight a losing battle. If Microsoft really wants the freedom to innovate and provide users with more choices it needs to go... Read more

25 November, 2005 by Jonathan Yarden

The patent poison spreads

...to fit the unique nature of software development, we will lose the freedom to innovate. What that reform should be is open to debate: that... Read more

14 April, 2005 by Leader

Software patents make a mockery of European ideals

...been bought by big business. For those of us who believe in freedom to innovate, this is a sad day. It is even sadder for... Read more

7 March, 2005 by Leader

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