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The intellectual property at stake in the Microsoft European interoperability case does not act like a language, as competitors and regulators claim, but rather like DNA. Free access, then, would give Microsoft’s rivals the ability not to talk with them,

If aging is a disease instead of a normal phase of life, that implies that something must be done to stop it — politically a lost cause in many cases, especially when applying for a federal grant. That makes it

Very soon, the FCC will auction off valuable spectrum licenses that can be used to provide high-speed wireless Internet access. Up until recently, everyone thought that the spectrum would be allocated to the highest bidder, as is usually the case

Google argues that its Street View photos are “no different from what any person can readily capture or see walking down the street.” That’s true if you can see the image for a few minutes and then it disappears, or

Activity to push old proposals may be depressing for those who seek progress, but there is at least one bright idea on the scene. Cable franchise reform, which was already passed in California and at least nine other states, sheds

Net neutrality sounds nice, but belongs more properly on the ash heap of failed ideological theories. In the real world, the net is not neutral. Some Web site operators spend more than others to make their sites more appealing to

LORRY LOKEY, the founder of Business Wire, recently donated $33 million to build a stem cell research center at Stanford’s medical school. “The important thing to me is that stem cells might not only extend life, but also improve the