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| Mar 26, 2009 | Death of magazines - Bye bye Blender | Another magazine shutters amid advertising recession
Tough times for print publications continue.
Alpha Media Group shuttered its entertainment magazine, Blender, on Thursday. It's one of the many magazines that have folded this year a... |
| Mar 14, 2009 | Happy 22nd Pi Day | Today is Pi Day; the day the first three digits of Pi, 3.14, match the calendar date, March 14, and this year it’s official according to Congress, which last week voted 391-10 to designate today as National Pi Day in an attempt to raise the... |
| Mar 4, 2009 | Think Tanks Grease The Skids | Policy papers rarely break new ground, but they often help policy-makers justify their actions. The technology trade group IEEE just published one of those, 'Ten Ideas for Policymakers to Drive Digital Progress," that reads very m... |
| Feb 25, 2009 | EC to Microsoft: We may still fine you | In a statement earlier today, European Commission spokesperson Jonathan Todd is quoted by two sources, the International Herald-Tribune and the AFP, as having publicly renewed the EC's warning to Microsoft that it could impose more fin... |
| Feb 13, 2009 | Music Copyright ‘Pension Extension’ Moves Forward | There is little doubt that the the current ‘hot topic’ in copyright circles is the upcoming Pirate Bay trial. The trial, which has been termed ‘the Political Trial of the Decade‘ has been covered extensively by most news sites, including he... |
| Jan 13, 2009 | Lesson From Jailed South Korean Blogger: Don't Be Too Good With Your Predictions | There’s been a fascinating story coming out of Korea over the past few months, concerning the (formerly) anonymous online commentator who went by the name Minerva. He accurately forecasted some of the early days of the financial collapse la... |
| Nov 26, 2008 | Analysts differ on holiday consumer electronics spending | reader comments with 0 posters participating
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The global economic downturn has already been felt in the consumer electronics arena, with Circuit City closing 155 stores and ... |
| Nov 26, 2008 | Bank Of America Rewrites Its 'We-Don't-Need-No-Stinking-America' Patent Application | theodp writes "Bank of America has taken steps to cover up the original we-don’t-need-no-stinking-America sentiment of its patent application for Country Assessment, which described BofA’s innovative way of dealing with the problems of... |
| Nov 20, 2008 | Europe's ambitious 'single access point' for cultural media provides porn | In an effort to build national and multi-national pride in the cultural, artistic, and literary products of Europe throughout its vast history, the EC this morning cut the red ribbon around Europeana, its central online library.
Problem is,... |
| Nov 13, 2008 | LG, Sharp, Other Accused Price Fixers Need Courage, not Nerve | It's been an interesting time for accusations of price fixing. Late in August, a class action was filed in California claiming that AMD and Nvidia were fixing prices of GPU processors and graphics cards -- just before Nvidia settled a ... |
| Nov 11, 2008 | European Union checking to see if wireless carriers are blocking VoIP | The executive branch of the European Union is investigating whether wireless carriers there are illegally blocking VoIP calls from being carried over their networks. You know you can’t use Skype-like applications over 3G using your iPhone? ... |
| Nov 9, 2008 | Marketing lessons from the U.S. election | Regardless of nationality or political leanings, there are lessons to be learned
It turns out that one way you learn about marketing is by analyzing it. (The other way is to do it). Yet people hate analyzing three really useful but emotiona... |
| Oct 14, 2008 | Let’s face it: We’re socialists! Bank bailouts to proceed | The Treasury Department is expected to announce tomorrow that it will invest $250 billion in U.S. banks, according to the New York Times. It is also expected to announce it will guarantee loans for up to three years, a measure aimed at rest... |
| Sep 29, 2008 | Classmate PC gets a boost with million-unit Venezuelan order | reader comments with 0 posters participating
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The government of Venezuela has announced plans to order more than one million Classmate PC laptops from Portugal as part of a ... |
| Sep 28, 2008 | What is the "ultimate" netbook? | Whether you call them ultraportables, subnotebooks, netbooks, or tiny laptops, you’re talking more or less about the same thing: small and light form factor, limited capacity and capability, and (hopefully) less than or around $500. There a... |
| Sep 22, 2008 | Arrested Malaysian Blogger Freed Following Public Outcry | It’s hard to figure out what the government of Malaysia is thinking in its ongoing trouble in dealing with critical bloggers (some of whom were so powerful that they got elected). Last week, we noted that one of the more popular bloggers, w... |
| Sep 15, 2008 | Brain scan good enough for murder conviction | Damn, that’s harsh. A woman in India has been convicted of murder because her brain scans said so. If that sounds like a pretty shaky conviction to you, you’re not alone.
BEOS begins with a silent suspect and an EEG. When details of the cri... |
| Sep 4, 2008 | Tale Of Two Economies | Which energy stocks are ready to rebound? Stay informed with a free trial subscription of Block Traders' Oil and Gold Monitor. |
| Aug 25, 2008 | Change in Iraq Would Have Tech Industry Impact | One of the potentially clear areas of change in the face of a presidential election is foreign policy. As BusinessWeek pointed out, these are unpredictable times for military deployments and for the defense contractors that provide equipmen... |
| Jul 9, 2008 | Siemens announces massive worldwide job cuts | German electronics and engineering company Siemens was rumored end of June to be preparing a large-scale workforce reduction. Today the company announced the precise number who will be affected.
Over 16,750 jobs will be cut worldwide, shrin... |
| Jun 10, 2008 | Bertelsmann looks to get out of Sony BMG a year early | An agreement first signed in 2004 called for Sony and Bertelsmann music groups to continue their joint venture Sony BMG through 2009. Now media reports indicate Bertelsmann is ready to exit early.
Indications that the German publishing gian... |
| Jun 6, 2008 | Antigua Doesn't See Settlement With US Over WTO Plan To Let It Ignore US Copyrights | The back and forth battle between the US and Antigua is long and involved. You can read the background if you want, but the short version is that the US suddenly claimed that Antigua-based online gambling sites were in violation of US anti-... |
| Jun 3, 2008 | The Latin American social networking wars: Market leader Hi5 has been growing, but so has Facebook — and Sonico? | Latin America is a growing online market, with monthly unique visitors in the region growing from 53.6 million unique visitors last June, according to comScore’s first report covering the entire region, to 61.6 million this past April.
More... |
| May 26, 2008 | Can FON create a worldwide, wireless Internet? | Ready for worldwide, wireless Internet access? Keep dreaming!
You remember FON, right? There’s a small piece in the International Herald Tribune that tries to explain why the hippie-sounding service hasn’t taken off yet. Whereas, to be succ... |
| May 22, 2008 | Can You Own Stripes? | We’ve discussed over and over again how companies misuse trademark law, believing that it gives them total ownership over the mark, rather than the fact that it’s really designed to prevent consumer confusion. Joe Mullin has the details on ... |
| May 17, 2008 | As Long As We Are Rethinking Yahoo's Board | Carl Icahn has suggested a new slate of directors for Yahoo! as part of his proxy fight with the company. The International Herald Tribune has a list of the current ten directors and Icahn’s proposed slate. The morning Icahn’s slate was ann... |
| May 1, 2008 | Ballmer Has 'Nothing To Say' on Yahoo Deal | News Ballmer Has 'Nothing To Say' on Yahoo Deal
Leaks from unnamed sources to The Wall Street Journal constitute the only "news" so far this week about Microsoft's unsolicited takeover bid for Yahoo. By Kurt MackieM... |
| May 1, 2008 | Ballmer Has 'Nothing To Say' on Yahoo Deal | News Ballmer Has 'Nothing To Say' on Yahoo Deal
Leaks from unnamed sources to The Wall Street Journal constitute the only "news" so far this week about Microsoft's unsolicited takeover bid for Yahoo. By Kurt MackieM... |
| Apr 23, 2008 | Young 'uns getting in on the mobile banking thing, oldsters opting out | One out of five 18-35-year-olds has used their cell phone for a banking transaction – twice as many as the general population, according to a study done for IBM. Now, I’ve moved almost exclusively to online banking, but my balance transfers... |
| Apr 21, 2008 | Genetically engineered food gains popularity during food crisis | Not anymore, you don’t
Who benefits from the food shortage that’s causing riots in developing countries and hoarding in America? Why the biotech crowd, of course. Since the increase in price of certain foods, consumers and companies have st... |
| Apr 18, 2008 | Samsung CEO faxes tax charges, goes down [not at all] like Al Capone | Gollum is led off to fake-jail
They send one of yours to the hospital, you send one of theirs to the morgue. Lee Kun-hee, CEO of Samsung Group, has been indicted for evading taxes on billions of dollars he hid in the name of aides and famil... |
| Apr 14, 2008 | Shockingly, YouTube NOT Blamed For Teen Web Attack | Last week, there was plenty of news about a group of eight Florida teenagers who purposely lured another teen into someone’s home and then beat her while filming the attack — which they specifically planned to put on YouTube in an attempt t... |
| Mar 5, 2008 | Censoring The 'Net Is Hard | Over the last few months, I’ve been doing research on a forthcoming paper for the Cato Institute on the network neutrality debate. In the next few weeks, I’ll be doing a series of posts on the major themes of my paper. My goal will be to hi... |
| Mar 3, 2008 | Double-whammy for Qualcomm as Nokia wins two rounds | Last November, trade courts effectively neutralized many of Nokia's key weapons against Qualcomm in a long-running patent dispute. In the past few days, though, the same courts have deflated Qualcomm's strategy in turn.
In the Nok... |
| Feb 28, 2008 | Microsoft: The EU's ATM Machine | The European Union just bought every one of their citizens a cup of coffee. Or at least, they’re giving them the equivalent. Their most recent fine against Micrsoft – a whopping $1.35 billion, will go directly into the EU’s budget. It works... |
| Feb 27, 2008 | Great Firewall Of Japan? Japan Proposes Regulating The Internet | It appears that the Japanese government is growing a bit jealous of China’s ability to censor anything the government doesn’t like online. The Japanese government has proposed new internet regulations that would effectively do the same thin... |
| Feb 18, 2008 | UK ISPs To Start Tracking Your Surfing To Serve You Ads | For years now, ISPs have been searching for alternative revenue streams to avoid just being “dumb pipes.” A few years ago, they picked up on the fact that they have a tremendous amount of data about what you (yes, you!) do online. A bunch o... |
| Feb 12, 2008 | Google Sued Over User-Generated Google Earth Content In Israel | A few years back, there was a bit of a controversy after Taiwanese officials got upset with Google for including Taiwan as a part of China in its Google Maps offering. When it comes to disputed maps and sovereignty, it’s no surprise that th... |
| Jan 29, 2008 | German police consider surveillance through Skype | Leaked classified documents could point to a Skype and SSL intercepting system that could be launched in southern Germany next month.
In the wake of a foiled terrorist plot against U.S. installations in Germany in September, discussions beg... |
| Jan 28, 2008 | Yet Another Report Of Free Label Music That Isn't | Last week, we noted that the press couldn’t stop talking about Last.fm’s supposed effort to offer “free” music, when the details showed it was a lot less than the press made it out to be. You’d think that maybe they would be more ...... |
| Jan 22, 2008 | Publicis’ creative talent to make Google ads more convincing, more lucrative | Publicis, a leading advertising conglomerate, and Google (stock ticker pictured, above)are planning to work together, the companies announced today.
Through this partnership, Publicis could help Google make even more money out of its online... |
| Jan 22, 2008 | Apple could face hurdles in offering EU movie rentals | reader comments with 0 posters participating
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| Jan 15, 2008 | Defiant Amazon Will Pay Fines Rather Than Give Up Free Shipping In France | A month ago, we wrote about the somewhat bizarre ruling in France that Amazon cannot offer free shipping within the country, as it represents an excessive discount in a country where the price of books is strictly regulated. Amazon was told... |
| Jan 10, 2008 | Pixel Qi: Towards A $75 Laptop? | Amid all the rancor between One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) and Intel, which joined the not-for-profit project and then left it last Friday, a new for-profit startup has been spun off from OLPC to commercialize the technology inside the little ... |
| Jan 8, 2008 | Isn't P2P Venture Capital Just Going Public? | As there appears to be a growing market for p2p lending services, that has some wondering if there’s also a market for p2p venture capital as well. In p2p lending, a group of ordinary folks all team up to lend people money. The various play... |
| Jan 3, 2008 | If You Could Vaccinate Your Kids Against Drugs, Would You? | Researchers are working on a cocaine vaccine that uses the immune system to attack cocaine molecules, rendering them ineffective. The vaccine, which is currently in clinical trials, could be a boon to recovering cocaine addicts — approximat... |
| Dec 28, 2007 | Is Banning Internet Usage For Sex Offenders Reasonable Or Practical? | Over the years, there’s been plenty of talk about banning internet usage for criminals who used the internet in the commission of a crime. This has always seemed both excessive and totally impractical as the internet became a bigger and big... |
| Dec 19, 2007 | San Francisco mayor wants fat tax on soda, soda industry wants fat tax on video games instead | San Francisco mayor Gavin Newsom wants to add an extra fee to the sale of drinks containing high-fructose corn syrup in a two-fold effort to fight fat and help fund fat-fighting programs around the city.
Kevin Keane of the American Beverage... |
| Dec 19, 2007 | Why Would Any Company Trust Microsoft Over DRM Ever Again? | It really was just last week, right, that Microsoft was last seen totally screwing over all those partners who had signed up to use its misnamed “PlaysForSure” DRM? Apparently, bygones are bygones and other companies have no problem steppin... |
| Dec 17, 2007 | Sports Organizations Worldwide Using Copyright Claims To Fight Press Coverage | Various sports organizations seem to have taken a page from the RIAA and the MPAA over the last few years, stupidly thinking that it makes sense to try to cash in on every little segment of their events, even if it hurts the promotional val... |
| Dec 10, 2007 | Roundup: VC tax fails, Feedster folds, and more | Here’s the latest [updated] action:
1) NVCA thanks the Senate for blocking VC tax
2) Feedster goes belly-up
3) David Chao is new head of Doll Capital
4) Asian telcos may finally find a US toehold
5) Biofuels could be worse than gasoline
6) ... |
| Dec 4, 2007 | Small towns in the UK want to be removed from GPS databases | Several small towns in Britain have a problem with GPS. You know how when you’re using a GPS device and you program the shortest route? Many times, the shortest route between Point A and Point B runs right through these small towns, and the... |
| Dec 2, 2007 | Russian media company buys online community LiveJournal | SUP, a Russian media company, has bought online blog community site LiveJournal from San Francisco blog company Six Apart.
LiveJournal claims to have more than 18 million unique visitors per month, worldwide, with 28 percent coming from Rus... |
| Nov 30, 2007 | News Publishers Want To Change Robots.txt; Want To Make Sure Their Content Is Less Useful | Following on the speech given earlier this month by the head of the Associated Press, where it was made clear that the AP and news organizations still think that they can be gatekeepers of news, a bunch of publishers along with the AP are n... |
| Nov 29, 2007 | European mobile broadcast standard still up in the air | In an outcome that can best be described as quintessentially European, both sides in the debate over adopting DVB-H as Europe's official standard for digital mobile broadcasting have claimed full victory.
News of the outcome of today&#... |
| Nov 22, 2007 | Is Facebook Really Censoring Search When It Suits Them? | Earlier this month I wrote a blog post showing that a search for presidential candidate “Ron Paul” in Facebook Groups yields zero results. Facebook blamed the problem on a bug (unofficially, via comments by employees to that post), which wa... |
| Nov 19, 2007 | Unintended Consequences Of Technology On Distance And Global Communications | We tend to be in the camp that believes technology is neither inherently good nor inherently bad — but, rather, is a tool that can be used for both good and bad purposes. However, we are certainly big believers in the law of unintended cons... |
| Nov 8, 2007 | Google Only Ahead Of Microsoft In Search: Ballmer | Whilst spruiking the release of Windows Live in Tokyo Thursday, Microsoft’s Steve Ballmer told reporters that Google wasn’t ahead of Microsoft in any way online except with search.
“Google is not ahead of us” said Ballmer, “In the area of s... |
| Oct 29, 2007 | Hey, Icahn, Haven't You Heard Of Playing Hard To Get? | Despite having publicly pushed BEA to sell itself, Carl Icahn’s initial response to Oracle’s takeover attempt was to say that the offer was too low at $17 per share. BEA itself responded by counteroffering at $21 per share. However, Oracle ... |
| Oct 19, 2007 | AMD Fights Back, But Still Treads Water | It was a quarter where AMD shipped more product than ever in its history, with 68% more mobile processors headed for trucking than at this time last year, and graphics processors adding substantially to that mix. It regained a full eight po... |
| Oct 17, 2007 | Orange to sell unlocked iPhones in France (Updated) | reader comments with 0 posters participating
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| Oct 8, 2007 | GPhone not a phone, but a free software suite, due next year | Don’t call it a phone? Not even a GPhone? ‘fraid not, according to yesterday’s International Herald Tribune. Yes, Google is working on a mobile phone project, and has been for some two years now, but it’s not an actual phone. The GPhone, it... |
| Sep 25, 2007 | OLPC “Give 1 Get 1” initiative a sign of trouble for the project | reader comments with 0 posters participating
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| Sep 24, 2007 | Blyk launches ad-based mobile network | Blyk, the mobile virtual network operator offering free phone call minutes and messaging in return for sending customers advertising, launches in the UK today. Renting airtime from France Télécom’s Orange network and targeting only 16-to 24... |
| Sep 24, 2007 | Here Come the Ad-Powered Mobiles | Happy to get some free calls and texts on your mobile by clicking some ads? A new mobile network launches today offering free phone call minutes and messaging in return for sending customers advertising – except it’s in the UK. Blyk will ta... |
| Sep 24, 2007 | Blyk launches ad-supported mobile network | Blyk, the mobile virtual network operator offering free phone call minutes and messaging in return for sending customers advertising, launches in the UK today. Renting airtime from France Télécom’s Orange network and targeting only 16-to 24... |
| Sep 12, 2007 | Roundup: VC industry cut in half, Obama is LinkedIn, Google-Nasa and more | Summary:
*VC industry cut in half?
*Obama reaches out through LinkedIn
*Google internal docs on RSS strategy leaked
*Google to carry NASA equipment in jet
*Google Health loses executive
*Google about to bring Adwords to mobile search
*Nokia... |
| Sep 10, 2007 | Russia Cracking Down On Software Piracy… But Only On Gov't Critics? | It’s no secret that the US has been pressuring Russia to crack down on intellectual property abuses which are rampant throughout the country. And, in fact, there’s been some evidence that Russia is now trying to crack down on abuses in orde... |
| Sep 6, 2007 | Multiply, social networking for 30-somethings, raises $16.6M | Multiply, a social network aimed at 30-somethings, has just announced additional venture funding of $16.6 million
The Boca Raton, Florida-based Multiply struggled after launching in late 2003. It was part of the early pack of social network... |
| Aug 29, 2007 | US Says WTO Won't Let In Russia If Allofmp3 Comes Back To Life | With Allofmp3.com announcing that it plans to reopen the site now that (once again) the site has been found to be legal under Russian laws, it didn’t take long for the RIAA… er… U.S. government to make its unhappiness clear. A spokesman for... |
| Aug 29, 2007 | ‘Heroes’ Star Recognizes Benefits of BitTorrent | Currently in Hong Kong promoting the hit TV show ‘Heroes’, actor Masi Oka who plays Hiro Nakamura in the show, made some pro-BitTorrent comments.
According to the International Herald Tribune, the Emmy nominated actor noted that when they w... |
| Aug 27, 2007 | iPhone Supposedly Gets Unlocked, AT&T Apparently Freaks Out | There were several reports last week that the operator lock on the iPhone had been broken, meaning that people might be able to use the device with service from a company other than AT&T. The first to emerge was from a New Jersey teenag... |
| Aug 20, 2007 | Weekend update: The spinning of Baby Einstein, multiple-med confusion, and more | (UPDATED: See below.)
Revisiting a few life-science stories you might have missed over the weekend:
“Baby Einstein” creator’s defense: We were just kidding! — You have to feel at least a little sorry for Julie Aigner-Clark, the entrepreneur... |
| Aug 16, 2007 | For Sale! Crappy E-Voting System With A Horrible Reputation For Security! What? No Takers? | Last October, Diebold admitted that all of the bad publicity around the security problems related to their e-voting machines had the company thinking not about fixing those security problems, being more open with the security community and ... |
| Aug 10, 2007 | Roundup: Veoh sues, MySpace’s tiny profit, Nirvanix, Wikipedia’s color-coding, more | Here’s the latest action:
Veoh Networks files preemptive suit against Universal Music Group — Veoh, the San Diego video start-up we’ve written about, said it filed the suit to assert its rights as a copyright-compliant company after UMG thr... |
| Aug 10, 2007 | Veoh Sick Of Waiting For Lawsuit; Pre-emptively Sues Universal Music | Speaking of Edgar Bronfman and Universal Music being confused about the market, it appears that the company is being sued by online video site Veoh. This one requires going back a little and looking at the history to understand what’s happe... |
| Aug 9, 2007 | Trademark Law Gone Mad: J&J Sues American Red Cross Over Use Of Red Cross | Trademark law can do funny things, especially in this age where many IP lawyers and the popular press have misrepresented the purpose of trademarks. It’s reached a point where many people now believe that trademark law is about ownership an... |
| Aug 8, 2007 | Widening Credit Crunch Slowly Hitting Tech Vendors | By most accounts the tech industry continues to do well, but the rest of the economy is growing increasingly jittery about the long-term impact of the mortgage fallout. Of course, it’s silly to assume that tech is an island, unaffected by t... |
| Aug 2, 2007 | Two Airlines Move Ahead With In-Flight Internet Plans | One of the many modern tech myths seems to be the idea that in-flight internet access is guaranteed to be a success, even though this has proven not to be the case. The supposed demand for the service among travelers hasn’t been enough to o... |
| Jul 30, 2007 | VCs Starting To Figure Out There's Money In Online Sex Businesses | While venture capital funds have flowed into all sorts of internet-related businesses, they’ve largely ignored adult-oriented ones, despite the opportunities that market offers. But, the IHT reports, that may be starting to change as VCs ge... |
| Jul 22, 2007 | Privacy Is The New Black | After a week where Ask launched AskEraser, a product that allows users to erase their search history, and Google announced a reduction in retained data time from 2038 to 18 months, more privacy initiatives are on their way.
According to the... |
| Jul 17, 2007 | VoIP provider SunRocket runs out of fuel, goes dark | reader comments with 0 posters participating
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| Jul 6, 2007 | Venture Capitalists Blame Private Equity For Possible Changes To The Tax Code | The outsize profits currently being made by private equity firms have drawn the scrutiny of the lawmakers who are looking to close a tax loophole that allows these firms to book certain profits as capital gains as opposed to income, which i... |
| Jul 5, 2007 | NBC Study Says DVR Users Do Pay Attention To Ads | For a few years now, advertisers and TV networks have been trying to figure out how to breathe new life into the standard 30-second TV ad — failing to realize in many cases that DVR users aren’t necessarily skipping over all the ads, just t... |
| Jul 3, 2007 | Baiting 419ers Is Pretty Amusing, But Doesn't Do A Whole Lot To Solve The Problem | The continuing battle with 419ers and other internet scammers lives on, as police around the world make periodic busts — including one that recently ensnared the singer of the 419er anthem “I Go Chop Your Dollar”. But the scam lives on, as ... |
| Jun 25, 2007 | Boingo Wireless Offers Unlimited WiFi Plan | Surely if you’ve ever traveled by plane with a laptop, you’ve used Boingo Wireless. Quite a few airports in the US uses Boingo for WiFi and shelling out $7.95 each time for access isn’t very fun. So to retain more customers and to please th... |
| Jun 12, 2007 | YouTube to Distribute Content to Mobile | You Third Screen? Is that the future for You Tube? According to AP that’s exactly what YouTube’s co-founder Steve Chen may have in mind. Bringing the video-sharing site to the mobile platform by next year could be the next frontier for the ... |
| Jun 5, 2007 | Circuit Court Delivers Blow To FCC's Push To Clamp Down On TV Cursing | Over the past few years, the FCC’s been increasing its efforts to regulate “indecent” programming — both in terms of what it wants to regulate on broadcast television, but also by expanding the scope of its regulation to include cable. The ... |
| May 24, 2007 | Who Are The Losers In SEC's SarbOx Rule Change? | Over the years, there have been a lot of complaints about the high cost of Sarbanes-Oxley compliance, although some have argued that these costs have tapered off as companies have gotten used to the requirements. Still, many are relieved ab... |
| May 9, 2007 | Professional Unions And The Labor Struggles Of The 21st Century | When one thinks of unions, a number of common conceptions will come to mind. Union members are typically thought of as blue collar industrial workers constantly engaged in some sort of zero-sum tug-of-war against management or shareholders.... |
| May 3, 2007 | After Getting Shut Out Of Google, Belgian Newspapers Agree To Do What They Should Have Done In The First Place | Google and a group of Belgian newspapers have settled part of their ongoing dispute, in which the papers alleged Google was violating their copyright by linking to their sites. In particular, they alleged that Google’s caching of articles —... |
| May 2, 2007 | June Issue Of Business 2.0 Deleted Before Going To Print | The June issue of Business 2.0 magazine was inadvertantly deleted from the editorial server on April 23, according to a number of sources. And the backup server wasn’t working properly. The result? An entire issue down the drain just two we... |
| May 1, 2007 | China’s large e-commerce company, Alibaba to go public | Alibaba.com, China’s leading e-commerce company, is planning to go public later this year in what could be the biggest initial public offering ever for a Chinese Internet company, according to the New York Times’ Shanghai correspondent, Dav... |
| Apr 26, 2007 | MySpace, armed with as much as $100M, goes to China | MySpace, the fast-growing social networking company, will enter China by launching a trial version of new local site as early as today.
The move comes after MySpace launched a Spanish edition of its site earlier this week. The move to China... |
| Apr 23, 2007 | Tin-Foil Beanies + 'Think of the Children!' = Newspaper Gold | The UK has seen its fair share of people freaking out over the health effects of WiFi, and a major newspaper there fanned the flames this weekend with its lead story saying children are at risk from “electronic smog”. It’s a strange article... |
| Apr 16, 2007 | Open Source… Sewing? | Apparently this is the month for the fashion industry to teach some lessons to other industries that you don’t need to focus on protecting your intellectual property when, instead, you can use it to promote products to sell. First there was... |
| Apr 5, 2007 | EU Wants To Copy US's Biggest Mistake With Patents: Specialized Patent Court | The EU continues its efforts to harmonize local patent laws — a controversial topic that has run into problems in the past (often over issues involving software patents). While making the process work across all countries, rather than havin... |
| Apr 5, 2007 | Nokia Draws (Another) Line In The Sand With Qualcomm | Ahead of Monday’s expiration of a significant licensing agreement between the companies, Nokia and Qualcomm continue to jockey for position in their ongoing patent spat. Earlier in the week, Qualcomm filed two more lawsuits, but Nokia annou... |
| Apr 3, 2007 | Sports Groups Follow Olympics' Lead On Stifling Speech And The Media | The Olympics are well known for representing high level of achievement. The sad thing is that these days, that achievement is more about how strenuously Olympic organizers protect the commercial side of the games, trampling anything that ge... |