September 29, 2003
Wired News: Indian Net Ban Overshoots Its Aim.
A government ban on an Internet discussion group run by an obscure Indian separatist movement has ended up blocking hundreds of unrelated Yahoo forums, preventing nearly all of India from using the popular online service.
LA Times: Law Won't Deter Spam, Experts Say.
That's the conclusion of a range of experts on the plague of electronic advertising known as spam. They say the new law, touted by state politicians as the toughest in the country, is at best a toothless, feel-good measure and at worst might spur frivolous lawsuits.
NY Times: In Handling Innovation, Patience Is a Virtue.
For a time-honored company, breakthrough technologies can be as disruptive inside the company as they are externally. Too many companies are not structurally prepared to handle them, said Professor Roberts of M.I.T.
Wired News: IBM Examines How Inventors Invent.
On a bright, warm morning at IBM's research center here, seven of Big Blue's scientists gathered around a conference table to consider a nonscientific question: What helps inventors invent things?
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