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The Beijing Olympic Games have ended in a blaze of fireworks, with the largest share of gold medals going to the host country.

Chinese citizens and state media said that their success in holding the games for the first time would make China a more confident and open country.

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Google clearly wants the FCC to make sure that other private companies’ networks are open equally to all Internet services.

Now, it will be interesting to see if that applies to networks in which Google is involved.

Jeremy Zawodny, a programmer who helped launch the Yahoo Developer Network and promoted the philosophy of openness now in vogue at the company, is leaving.

All the major social-networking players recognize that the walls separating them are crumbling, but they haven't agreed on how to implement global openness.

The openness of the Internet could fall to nationalism. That’s just one of the side effects from nationalism and its impact on global trade, according to the Wall Street Journal.

The Journal in its Monday edition zoomed out to look at the rise of nationalism. After all, talk of free trade has been shouted down.

Yahoo on Thursday drove home the point that its open-search strategy will add more value to its operations, but some analysts say it's unlikely to add more dollars to Microsoft's unsolicited buyout bid.

Speaking at the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco, Yahoo's chief technology officer ...

Google says it participated in the recent wireless spectrum auction not with the goal to win, but to help drive bidding high enough to ensure that open-access rules it had pushed for would be adopted.

"Google's top priority heading into the auction was to make sure that bidding on ...

Reuters - Iran has shown new openness about nuclear advances earlier off-limits to U.N.

I've taken some flak from the anti-Microsoft crowd for my positive report on Microsoft's openness pledge.

I stand by my position but think it's also worth taking a deep breath (all of an hour later :-) and recognizing Microsoft's position for what it is.