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“Since passage of the Patriot Act, many companies based outside of the United States have been reluctant to store client information in the U.S.,” said Marc Rotenberg, executive director of the Electronic Privacy information Center in Washington. “There is an ongoing concern that U.S. intelligence agencies will gather this information without legal process. There is particular sensitivity about access to financial information as well as communications and Internet traffic that goes through U.S. switches.”

Les plaignants étaient quatre entreprises anti-contrefaçon basées dans la capitale chinoise conduites par la Zhaoxin Information Technology Co., Ltd.. Ils ont insisté sur le fait que l'Administration générale de supervision de la qualité, de l'inspection et de la quarantaine (AGSQIQ), régulateur de l'industrie, avait violé deux lois chinoises, dont la loi antitrust, par ses efforts à généraliser un réseau en ligne connu sous le nom de Système de traçage, d'authentification et d'identification des produits (PIATS).

The 2008 edition of the WKCI compares 145 regions across 19 knowledge economy benchmarks (full data for all indicators across each of the 19 benchmarks is contained in the accompanying Excel spreadsheets). This represents an increase of twenty regions compared to the last edition in 2005: nine from Europe, eight from North America, and three from Asia Pacific. These new regions were selected on the basis of a survey of a wide range of regions appearing to be become more internationally competitive. This year’s report also contains a special chapter on economic development in the three leading Chinese regions.

It's the information and email overload studies that trip my BS detector the most. While I agree that an overstuffed inbox and constant email monitoring can kill your day, this $700 billion a year cost to the American economy makes me raise one eyebrow high in doubt. Did researchers factor in how much time email actually saves people who use it?

The Android software looks, feels and works a lot like the iPhone’s. Not as consistent or as attractive, but smartly designed and, for version 1.0, surprisingly complete. In any case, it’s polished enough to give Windows Mobile an inferiority complex the size of Australia; let’s hope Microsoft has a good therapist.

A story treats the material like a complete whole, and it has context. While a blog offers schizophrenic, just-in-time information to help me tell my own story somewhere else, a book is, or should be, a story about me, using the technology, encountering challenges, overcoming them, and emerging the hero.

A Finnish Internet community is seeking to apply the collective approach taken by online collaborators like the authors of Wikipedia to start a mass movement toward electric cars. The plan is to encourage the conversion of used gasoline-powered cars to run on electricity, with the first rollout due this year. The Finnish-language forum, eCars - Now!, claims to be first of its kind in the world, and is working in the tradition of the open source projects used in information technology -- like the Linux computer operating system, which was also started by a Finn.