The next 4 years: a shift to &quot;ownership society&quot;
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President Bush is poised to pursue an aggressive &quot;ownership society&quot; agenda of Social Security privatization, new tax breaks for savings and investment and additional incentives
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Changes are bringing Americans closer to a checkless society -- changes that could be costly if you aren&#39;t careful. The first checks in the United States were
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When Wall Street&#39;s biggest firms settled with regulators in April 2003 over charges of fraudulent stock research, the industry promised a new era of independence.
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The company announces a huge four-year restructuring plan.
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Somewhere in the earliest part of  the 21st century, it became obvious that a profound paradigm  shift had taken place in the relationship of rock&#39;n&#39;roll and  music licensing. With the end of the rock era (1965-1994), the  rules began changing just as fast as the technology.
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Microsoft can change.  Just give it a few more decades.
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Management leads a $4.7 billion buyout bid. Are other bids on the way?
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More on the disappearing-public-companies phenomenon.
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In 2004 the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) stepped out into the world and took steps to engage it. This marks a watershed in the life of an organisation that has had to rely on its own devices.
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ÃÂ· When it would take effect: Model year 2011 (cars sold in 2010).
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Software licensing is entering a period of &quot;dramatic and fundamental change&quot; as publishers aggressively move to subscription models, newly unveiled research has claimed.
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Bill Gates remains keeper of top berth, while Waltons sweep list&#39;s fourth through eighth spots. By Madlen Read. NEW YORK -- It looks like the US billionaire&#39;s club isn&#39;t quite as exclusive as before.
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As long as I've been involved in the tech industry there's been the concept of The Year of X, where X has been artificial intelligence, personal information managers, local area networks, CD-ROMs, P2P. Proclaimed by tech pubs, most likely to help their ad sales reps sell space, they focused the attention on areas the industry was investing money, in hopes of being there when lightning strikes, when wealth is created, as it often is in the tech industry. Sometimes the "year of" prognostications are right, more often they're wrong.  In that sense, there's no doubt that 2007 is the year of the social network in Silicon Valley. This may not be the year when huge wealth is created, but I don't doubt that the area is fertile, and I don't say that lightly, because I'm often a contrarian when it comes to self-induced Silicon Valley euphoria. There are a couple of ideas I've been getting ready to write about, I'm not quite ready yet, but here they are anyway. 1. When people get together to discuss Twitter, and perhaps other social networks (and Twitter is that, a bare-bones social network), they often discuss as if there were a common user experience, but this is a misperception, there are many different experiences, they may group into large subsets of the users, and they may not. Some food for thought. On Twitter I try to keep a ten percent ratio of people I follow over people who follow me. For other people, maybe most, the ratio is 1-to-1, they follow approximately the same number of people as follow them. Scoble follows thousands of people. For him Twitter is like a very fast chatroom. For me it's like weblogs.com on a busy day in 2002. I've seen people who follow 0 people, for them Twitter is a publishing environment. Very different experiences. To each of them Twitter is a different product. Note that when reporters cover Twitter, before they've become users, they probably write about the home page at Twitter, where complete strangers report on the kind of spaghetti sauce they like. That may be why so many articles dismiss Twitter as useless.  2. Integration is so tempting, but elusive. The other day a friend on Twitter wrote about a movie he liked. I looked it up on the NY Times movie review site (a newly revealed location now that their archive is open and a very valuable one, another topic I plan to cover, the wealth of the NY Times archive). I would have then liked to have clicked over to Netflix to order it. And even better, I'd have liked to have looked at what other movies he likes. Now we're very close to having this, we just need a way to co-relate two identity systems, Twitter's and Netflix's. And think of the value in integrating Amazon with Twitter. The mind explodes at the possibilities. This is what I meant when I said earlier "they&#185;re not trivial problems, they&#185;ve been there since the Internet outgrew academia and started being used for commercial purposes." This issue is now coming to a head, as the users can see the next step clearly. How to integrate the systems is known technology, but it's not a solved problem economically and politically. We need to get clear on the opportunities, and feel free to dream when the barriers between the networks come down.
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Here's a bit of advice for those of you planning IT budgets. For the next five to 10 years, set aside 10 percent to comply with new government regulations, both from the United States and from other governments in your major markets.
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After some key changes, the company may be poised for growth.
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Renewable energy sources could fuel Rule Breaking returns in the next few years. Do you have the guts to invest?
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WASHINGTON - Amid signs that the economy is cooling, President Bush is showcasing initiatives for a second term under the banner of an "ownership society" in hopes of bolstering his economic stewardship credentials.    His platform includes initiatives to help people buy homes, start businesses, hone job skills and set up tax-free retirement and health care accounts - plus a still unspecified tax-code overhaul...