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[Editor’s Note: The statements below are from an e-mail correspondence with Johnny Ryan on issues facing the Internet and changes it may soon undergo.]

Competitive Creativity

Countries slow to benefit from the industrial age may have better fortunes in the digital era. In the past, nations needed ore in their hills, a good geographical location, strong armies, etc. to prosper. In the digital age one thing only is key: talented, entrepreneurial individuals.

But to achieve this, governments must inculcate digital instincts through farsighted educational reform, promoting revolutionary talent early in life, and producing a generation capable of competing with their global peers. D

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AMD today announced revenue for the second quarter of 2011 of $1.57 billion, net income of $61 million, or $0.08 per share, and operating income of $105 million. The company reported non-GAAP net income of $70 million, or $0.09 per share, and non-GAAP operating income of $114 million.

In the first half of 2011, AMD brought to market the most competitive client offerings in our history, reinforcing our position as a design and innovation powerhouse, said Thomas Seifert, CFO and Interim CEO. Todays computing experience is increasingly being defined by the ability to deliver brilliant multimedia and video content with all day battery life. Find more…

Network World — If Verizon thought it could swoop in and take AT&T’s iPhone market share overnight, it thought wrong.

Slideshow: The iPhone Quiz

For the second quarter in a row AT&T has reported activating 3.6 million iPhones, roughly 56% greater than the 2.3 million iPhones activated by Verizon in the same quarter. Of course, AT&T has a natural advantage over its rival because it sells multiple versions of the iPhone, including the iPhone 3GS, while Verizon subscribers can only purchase the iPhone 4. A

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Remember the strange boxy cameras that were spotted on Samsung’s website a couple months ago? Turns out they were in fact digital medium format cameras, but were developed for “internal purposes” only. In an interview with Megapixel, a Samsung Regional product manager states,

We have the technology to develop a medium format cameras but we are not going to do that because this is not our market. Samsung is a manufacturer that focuses on a broad market – we are not a niche manufacturer like Hasselbald or Lieca [sic]. What yo

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Just Posted: Our group test of the Canon Pixma MG8150, Epson Stylus Photo PX720WD and HP Photosmart Premium C310 multifunctional printers. Although we may not be able to publish printer reviews with the same frequency as camera reviews, we will be expanding our printer coverage significantly over the coming months. This group test, which kicks off our newly expanded printing content, was produced in collaboration with Vincent Oliver of Photo-i.co.uk.

A new ultra-powerful Russian space telescope has been launched into orbit by a rocket that blasted off from Kazakhstan on the 18th of July.

The 3.8 tonne RadioAstron uses a 10 metre antenna to send back high-resolution images to a series of ground-based stations.

Russian scientists say the pictures are of much better quality than those of the Hubble space telescope. Nikolai Kardashev is the head of the Astro-Space Center at the Physical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

“Hubble allows us to see very remote objects, but the angle resolution and details are not very high. N Find more…