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Yelp's bad press lesson: Squash the allegation, not the reporter

There are valuable business lessons about bad press that I hope Yelp is taking away this week, following a pretty scathing and really long report that accuses the popular reviews site of manipulating reviews for money. The first thing you should know is that the report appeared...

Tags: Allegation, Yelp, Engineering, Blogging, Business Structures, Purchasing & Procurement, Internet, Finance, Business Operations, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-02-20

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Did Yahoo provide Iran with names of 200,000 users?

disgracefulthis is certainly one of the more irresponsible actions on behalf of a corporation in modern times. Why is it that these media centric .com's .. grouping in Google noting some of their more recent activity seem to lack the controls, privacy and humanitarian fibre that their more traditional bricks...

Tags: Government, Blogging, Yahoo! brand, Yahoo! Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-10-09

Anonymity exposed, part deux: Google, ISPs ordered to expose academic dissidents

Freedom of anonimityWell done to the judge, everyone has the freedom of speech, where freedom of anonimity doesn't exist in any constitution.If people are going to make damaging remarks, make personal attacks on people and harm others and calim it as freedom of speech, then they should do so publicly....

Tags: Internet service providers (ISPs), E-mail, SECURITY, Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-09-14

Google to compete with LendingTree soon?

LendingTree says they know that Google is about to launch a competing service that will allow you to get offers from lenders, directly from search results. This information was revealed during a lawsuit between LendingTree and one of their partners. They say they have screen shots...

Tags: Google Inc., LendingTree, Mortgages, Finance, Capital Structures, Garett Rogers

Blog posts 2009-08-26

WSJ wrongly blames AT&T for Google Voice iPhone app rejection

A guest opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal this week is getting some attention. In a nutshell, it alleges that AT&T was behind the death of a Google Voice app for the iPhone and suggests that, in a world where data is bigger than voice, that we need a...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Google Inc., Wall Street Journal, Voice, AT&T Corp., Exclusivity, App, Smart Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-08-19

Will the Chrome OS make Google more loved or hated in OS world?

Will the Chrome OS make Google more loved or hated in OS world?Chrome OS and Google DominationHow does one compete against a "free" product?As much as I like and enjoy using its products though I have been using Bing faster and Ask more relevant a lot more lately, Google is...

Tags: Microsoft Windows 7, Operating systems, Netbooks, nettops & MIDs, Google Inc., Chrome, operating system, Chrome OS, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-07-08

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

Craigslist CEO demands apology

Craigslist CEO demands apologyAnd he desrvers it...NTWe must constantly be vigilant.Whenever a politician or anyone looking to gain power holds up a vile affront to our moral foundation and proposes a means to control or eliminate it, it's just ruse to rid our society of some of its freedoms.No one...

Tags: Craigslist, child pornography

Discussion threads 2009-05-18

Show me how you beat Microsoft in patent fight

Show me how you beat Microsoft in patent fightDid ya see thishttp://www.cnn.com/2009/US/03/31/bridge.microsoft/index.htmlI was told in another blog that the patent is long filenames in FAT. If that is the case then we need to sue the US Patent office for giving out false patents. If they can patent...

Tags: software movement, patent, Microsoft Corp., TomTom, GPLv2

Discussion threads 2009-03-31

News to know: Microsoft payback; Satyam; Yahoo re-org; Twitter

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily.  For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage Sam Diaz: Microsoft to laid-off workers: Give us back our money Brian Sommer: A shrinking Satyam ...

Tags: Larry Dignan, Yahoo! Inc., Dana Blankenhorn, Satyam, Microsoft Corp., Twitter, Sam Diaz, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Public Relations, Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Hardware, Marketing, Corporate Communications

Blog posts 2009-02-23

Prosecutor drops a charge in Pirate Bay case

Prosecutor drops a charge in Pirate Bay caseNapster only "made available" copyrighted works, too......and they were found guilty.RE: Prosecutor drops a charge in Pirate Bay caseMy goodness. The number of charges is getting smaller each day this farce continues. I think the only reason they're continuing it on...

Tags: Ineptitude, Pirate Bay, TPB

Discussion threads 2009-02-17

Will Obama have a laptop? (Answer: No. Here's why.)

Will Obama have a laptop? (Answer: No. Here's why.)Then I guess we will seejust how secure/insecure these Google-ified email programs will be.Would people be a bit nervous if they realized that staffers might use unsecured, off-site servers (hotmail, gmail, ect) to conduct secure level business?RE: Will Obama have a laptop?...

Tags: Now Let, Obama, No., U.S. Senate, e-mail, laptop computer

Discussion threads 2009-01-23

RIAA drops mass lawsuits, recruits ISPs to crack the whip

The headlines across the blogosphere make it sound like the Recording Industry Association of America has thrown in the towel and decided to stop going after music pirates on the Internet. That's not exactly the case. Instead, the RIAA is teaming up with Internet Service Providers to...

Tags: Lawsuit, RIAA, Internet Service Provider, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Internet, Piracy, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-12-19

Psystar's revised counterclaim feels weaker than original

Psystar, the Mac clone maker, has filed a revised countersuit against Apple, though this time it reads more like a defense instead of an allegation. A few weeks ago, a federal judge tossed the original counterclaim back at Psystar and gave the company 20 days to file...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Operating System, Apple Inc., Psystar, Mac OS User, Apple Mac OS, Operating Systems, Desktops, Software, Hardware, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-12-10

ICANN terminates EstDomains, Directi takes over 280k domains

Following ICANN's notice of termination sent to cybercrime-friendly domain registrar EstDomains in October, on the 24th of November the termination became a reality and EstDomains is no more. Despite the public concerns of who will take the 280,000 domains, and that includes the cybercrime facilitating ones, Directi's ResellerClub is new...

Tags: Registrar, ICANN, Domain, EstDomains, Directi, Security Community, Domain Names, Security, Internet, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2008-12-03

Apple adds DMCA charge to Psystar suit

It appears that Apple is trying to put the final nail in Psystar's coffin, asking the court to accept an amended complaint against the Mac clone maker to add a charge of violation of the Digital Millenium Copyright Act to a long list of allegations, including trademark infringement, breach of...

Tags: Complaint, DMCA, Apple Inc., Psystar, Apple Mac OS X, Productivity, Operating Systems, Digital Media, Software, Apple Mac OS, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-12-01

Judge tosses Psystar's countersuit

A federal judge has tossed out a countersuit filed by Mac clone maker Psystar, which alleged that Apple was engaging in anticompetitive business practices by controlling both the hardware and software that makes up the Macintosh computer line. Psystar was given 20 days - until Dec. 8 - to amend...

Tags: Apple Inc., Psystar, Productivity, Desktops, Hardware, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-11-18

High-tech exec sent space info to China

The president of a high-tech company with offices in Beijing violated U.S. arms export control laws, he admitted in federal court. Shu Quan-Sheng, 68, a naturalized U.S. citizen, said that from 2003 through 2007 he assisted China with the design and development of a cryogenic fueling system for...

Tags: U.S., China, Government, Vertical Industries, Enterprise Software, Software, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-11-18

Apple sued over hairline cracks in iPhone 3G

Apple, meet lawsuit. Lawsuit, Apple. The company is facing another lawsuit, this time over the performance of its iPhone 3G on AT&T's network. But that's not the real news: what's notable are added allegations that Apple is ignoring the occurrence of hairline cracks in the handset's enclosure....

Tags: Apple iPhone, AT&T Corp., Apple Inc., Apple iPhone 3G, Avi Koschitzki, 3G, Cellular Phones, Wireless, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2008-11-14

Coming soon, but not really soon enough: A certification to weed out shady electronics recyclers

Just carved out a half-hour to sit on the teleconference for the Basel Action Network BAN, which is a watchdog on the problem of toxic waste around the globe. The issue about which BAN is truly up in arms this week relates to the export of containers full of computers,...

Tags: Certification, Electronics, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2008-11-10