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Activists push city endorsements of open source

Activists push city endorsements of open sourcegreat for vancouver i hope that the rest of the country will follow ... neither fighting it nor joining it, yetbut rather, observing.A large-scale implementation should be interesting, see how it matures and what issues they face.Hopefully they have a good project manager that...

Tags: Operational accounting, Personal finance, DC Current, income, open source, goodbye, city endorsement, activist, OH WAIT, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-05-15

Can a no-star movie move the stem cell debate?

Can a no-star movie move the stem cell debate?"Hope" a movie around stem cell controversyI actually liked the trailer and I think it sends an important message across. Many Independent movies are low budget movies...why are you surprised at that. I think it is a creditable that a lone doctor...

Tags: stem-cell, embryonic stem cell, movie, embryonic stem, activist, cell

Discussion threads 2008-01-08

Backpacker turns Myanmar activist via Facebook

Backpacker turns Myanmar activist via FacebookAre you talking about Burma?If so, why don't you say so?RE: Backpacker turns Myanmar activist via FacebookIt would've been nice if the author would've bothered to include a link to Alex's campaign on FaceBook, instead of making people search for it.

Tags: Myanmar activist, Facebook, Myanmar, Backpacker

Discussion threads 2007-09-30

Photo: Lawrence Lessig at LinuxWorld

Prominent lawyer and activist takes the stage to say what content creators can learn from open-source programmers.

Tags: open-source programmer, activist, LinuxWorld, lawyer, photograph

Image galleries 2006-08-15

Photo: Chinese activists protest Yahoo

Members of a political party decry passing of information to Beijing that led to a journalist's jailing.

Tags: activist, Beijing, photograph, Yahoo! Inc.

Image galleries 2005-10-19

Photo: Chinese activists protest Yahoo

Members of a political party decry passing of information to Beijing that led to a journalist's jailing.

Tags: activist, Beijing, photograph, Yahoo! Inc.

Image galleries 2005-10-19

Homeland Security calls for tech industry involvement

Homeland Security calls for tech industry involvementCould that be becausethere is no credible threat to us!? Naw, not possible. Homeland security is a nothing more than smoke and mirrors to buffalo the free people into giving up thier freedoms. To allow themselves to be tagged and tracked at will.Did homeland...

Tags: Stealing Idea, homeland security, activist, security

Discussion threads 2005-08-01

Microsoft reverses position on gay rights

Microsoft reverses position on gay rightsJust a different capitulationSo, instead of caving to conservaitve pastors, MS caves to liberal homosexual activists.I think MS is just taking the path of least resistance, here. Conservative activists ten to hold prayer vigils. Liberal activists tend to riot.Alright all you conservatives ...Time for you...

Tags: Linux, Microsoft Corp., activist, gay

Discussion threads 2005-05-06

Additional Resources

Icahn to resign from Yahoo board

Billionaire Carl Icahn, who launched a proxy war for control of Yahoo after co-founder Jerry Yang rejected a Microsoft takeover last year, said he will resign from Yahoo's Board of Directors, according to reports. Noting that the board no longer needs an activist, Icahn said he is...

Tags: Board, Yahoo! Inc., Carl Icahn, Corporate Governance, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-10-23

Two Views of the Software Market

A Bridge Too Far? In a blogger briefing this week at SAP’s TechEd, SAP CTO, Vishal Sikka, drew a chart of the application software market and what new areas of technology are of interest to the firm. I’ve tried to reproduce his freehand drawing into the following...

Tags: ERP, Vishal Sikka, S-curve, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Enterprise Software, Software, Brian Sommer

Blog posts 2009-10-16

Controversy over Obama's student address? Gimme a break!

Beats the hell outa me, Chris!I agree wholeheartedly that there should be no controversy over this. Next thing you know, the other party (sadly, the party I once called home - now I feel homeless) will want "equal time". becauseHe's an activist. All he is doing is...

Tags: Recruitment & Selection, bad parent, GIMME, Obama

Discussion threads 2009-09-03

Justice says $1.9 million verdict is constitutional

Are there no restraints built into the constitution ...... concerning punishments fitting the crime when it comes to statutary law? Does this mean that it is perfectly legal for Congress to pass a law stating that it is e.g. okay to amputate a man's hands or even hang him, if...

Tags: Financial accounting, RIAA, activist judge, U.S. Congress

Discussion threads 2009-08-17

Did Russians attack Twitter over pro-Georgian blogger?

It was one year ago today that Russia invaded Georgia over the South Ossetia region. Yesterday someone unleashed a massive botnet DDOS attack on Twitter, Facebook and Google. The crash of Twitter under this onslaught was the big story yesterday. Now it seems the whole thing was an attack on...

Tags: Facebook, Twitter, Blogger, Attack, Security, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2009-08-07

James Hansen arrested, as promised

Environmental scientist and activist, Dr. James Hansen, got arrested as he intended. He was prominent among the protestors in West Virginia, where they were protesting mountaintop removal to get at coal deposits. Hansen has advocated banning coal burning within twenty years because of its greenhouse gas emissions. ...

Tags: Hansen, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-06-24

Will someone pull out the IE life support machine?

For those who don't live in the catchment area of the European Union, you're quite lucky. After spending a year of my academic career in a room for an hour each week with a bunch of highly politicised, fanatical and activist type students, constantly debating the point, need and will...

Tags: Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Tab, Web Browsers, Internet, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2009-06-18

Ireland: Shell's new Nigeria?

Just as Shell brings to a close a difficult chapter in its troubled relationship with the Ogoni people in Nigeria, its relationship with community groups in the west of Ireland appears to be reaching new lows. Shell is the senior partner with Statoil and Marathon in an effort to bring off shore...

Tags: Ireland, Community, Shell, Government, Vertical Industries, James Farrar

Blog posts 2009-06-17

SAPPHIRE and The Story of Stuff

Annie Leonard’s Story of Stuff sustainability presentation has been doing the rounds in American classrooms and has stoked up many on both sides of the political divide. On one side, parents tell of angst ridden kids now wondering about the ecological footprint of Lego and on...

Tags: Sustainability, General Motors Corp., Annie Leonard, Sustainability Question, James Farrar

Blog posts 2009-05-19

Sarkozy's Draconian downloading law to pass, then die

In an amazing example of government stupidity, the French Parliament is poised to pass a law that punishes illegal downloaders where it really hurts -- cutting off Internet access -- and would create the first government bureaucracy dedicated to hunting down serial copyright violators. ...

Tags: Law, Nicolas Sarkozy, Sarkozy, HADOPI, Government, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2009-05-13

Microsoft to issue bonds: Will it go shopping?

Microsoft on Monday said in a regulatory filing that it will issue bonds for the first time to raise and $3.75 billion of capital. And given that Microsoft doesn't exactly need the money you can't help but wonder what the software giant will do with the dough.  ...

Tags: Bond, Microsoft Corp., Investment, Finance, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-05-11

Economy killing off some polluters

Here's a piece looking at how many old and pollution-prone factories are being killed off, from Mexico to Russia and China. It's so bad n Russia right now that even many oligrachs are threatened with financial ruin. That woill put the ownership of the country rich oil fields and...

Tags: China, Russia, Government, Sales Strategy, Vertical Industries, Sales, Enterprise Software, Software, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-03-08