Strategy+Business had a good profile about Charles Handy (reg.req). Especially I was taken by his view where the current form of shareholder capitalism has to give away. Handy has been successfully predicting future changes in the biz environment in the past and this time we are going back to village society. E-lance is relating to the same issue: "The Dawn of the Elance Economy"
The Economist had a survey about TelCo industry a few weeks back. Great issue with analytical articles. Unfortunately their web-edition is no more free of charge.
Russian democracy seems to be more like a joke. A free market economy where all the roads lead to Kremlin, again.
Some ISPs are slower than the snail mail: consumers and businesses are receiving more than 3 weeks old emails and most of the mails have not simply arrived at all. Excellent for all those businesses who have sent out orders, offers, contracts and meeting confirmations ;-) Another example how vulnerable we are if a few things are not working: electricity blackout, email out, mobile network down...
FT reported how mobile payment is taking off in South-Korea. Credit card companies formed a syndicate that enabled mobile users to pay their purchases simply by showing their handset close by a payment terminal. The purchases will show up in your monthly credit card bill. Looking forward in the old continent any time soon...
An outlook for next ubiquity applications by Ventureblog. Check also the "Beauty Contests and Venture Valuations".