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Tech giants reveal their agenda

Tech giants reveal their agendaNational SecurityOr is that self-induced national paranoia?How many asking for patent lawsuit ...protection would turn around and sue anyone stepping on their patents? You can't have your cake and eat it too.They Only Listen to Cash and Hookers!Lobbying?Private suite with a beautiful girl is more...

Tags: Recruitment & Selection, amendment right, Tech Giants, H1B Visas

Discussion threads 2008-03-13

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Gartner in the dock over Magic Quadrant

Persona Non GartnerOver the years, I've watched, participated in researching and experienced the results of the positing of Gartner's disclosures. My analysis is as follows:On any given subject at any given time, there is a .90 probability that the opinions expressed by Gartner will be either flat out wrong or...

Tags: Gartner Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-10-20

Gartner in the dock over Magic Quadrant

Friday October 23rd will see Gartner argue a motion to dismiss a complaint by ZL Technologies Inc about the famed Gartner Magic Quadrant. According to court papers, Gartner will argue to dismiss based on First Amendment rights citing that the Magic Quadrant is not meant to represent statements of fact...

Tags: Quadrant, Analyst, Vendor, Gartner Inc., Vinnie, MQ, Blogging, Operational Accounting, Marketing Research, Internet, Finance, Marketing, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-10-20

IAB to FTC: Rescind blogger rules

Completely self-servingBy this rationale, why does anyone ever have to disclose anything? You can apply this logic to traditional media as well. Afraid to admit in the blog that you got the stuff you rave about was free? The real impact is it opens a channel for the vendor to...

Tags: Advertising & Promotion, blogger, free speech, traditional media, blog, blogging, Interactive Advertising Bureau, FTC

Discussion threads 2009-10-15

Republicans rail against FCC's new net rules

How They RollThis is just how the GOP rolls. When Bill Clinton left office we were number one or two in broadband. Now we're down around 17 behind some Eastern European countries. The GOP keeps saying they're about competition, but they keep passing bills to stifle real competition. Sort of...

Tags: Federal government, FCC, GOP, U.S. Congress

Discussion threads 2009-09-22

Would you march for Internet privacy?

We've seen it alreadyRemember the recent outcry from the right about "President Obama trying to take control of the internet"? With, I might add, assurances from the left that it's not so. No different really than the left's alarmism at President Bush trying to "personally eavesdrop on every telephone conversation...

Tags: Internet privacy, Internet

Discussion threads 2009-09-14

Why health care is not in the Constitution

Neither are food, clothing, and shelterThey're nowhere to be found in the constitution, yet are more important than healthcare. Without those 3 things you'll die real fast so you won't need healthcare. Those needs DID exist when the Constitution was written. There is no federal law making any...

Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Obama, health care, Constitution

Discussion threads 2009-08-31

Obama upholds Bush laptop search policy - with new safeguards

Never mindI was going to put something here, but I felt that I would simply be attacked for pointing out that Bush and Obama are more alike than they are dissimilar with regards to personal freedoms.It might just be possible...... that after Obama was sworn in he was shown classified...

Tags: Obama, Bush, new safeguard, laptop computer

Discussion threads 2009-08-28

Final thoughts on supermodel-blogger catfight

A few final thoughts on the "skank" blogger case. I was on The Jeff Farias Show Friday talking about this story. Jeff asked me if I was concerned about courts stomping on Internet anonymity and I said, generally, no, that courts must strike a balance between First Amendment rights of...

Tags: Court, Judge, Rosemary Port, Internet, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2009-08-23

'Skank' blogger talks, sues Google for $15m

Now the world knows: the "skanks of NYC" blogger is one Rosemary Port, a 27-year-old student at the Fashion Institute of Technology, and she is one pissed-off young lady. She not only has strong words for model Liskula Cohen, whose legal action outed her as the...

Tags: Google Inc., Duty, Lawyer, Port, Blogging, Internet, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2009-08-23

Defamation or free speech? U.S. court orders Google to hand over identity of blogger

If ordered by a judge...releasing the identity to the plaintiff is fair and necessary, otherwise you have no recourse.I will take issue with one statement however. You wrote "After all, it?s protected free speech to say that you believe someone is disingenuous or otherwise intolerable. It?s another thing to imply...

Tags: defamation, identity, Google Inc., What-If

Discussion threads 2009-08-20

The First Amendment rights of anonymous defamers

Actually, this is a 6th amendment issue.Namely, the right to face your accuser in a court of law. The anonymity was stripped because the woman intended to file criminal charges.Huh?The blogger was intending to sue the celebrity?The difference between free speech and defamationWhy do people think they can say ANYTHING...

Tags: First Amendment, defamation, perpetrator

Discussion threads 2009-08-20

The First Amendment rights of anonymous defamers

Photo posted on 'Skanks of NYC' blog Yesterday I wrote that a Manhattan federal judge has ordered Google to tell supermodel Liskula Cohen the identity of the blogger behind the "Skanks of NYC" blog, which brands Cohen "a psychotic, lying, whoring, still going to clubs at her...

Tags: Defamation, First Amendment, Cahill, Courts, D.C. Case, Internet, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2009-08-20

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

Will Twitter sue TechCrunch over doc release?

TechCruch published sensitive internal docs obtained from Twitter in a ballsy moves that could very easily see the sites locked in prolonged legal battles. One of the docs dealt with internal user base and revenue projections. One revealed a pilot TV show based on the popular service....

Tags: TechCrunch, Twitter, Operational Accounting, Blogging, Finance, Internet, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2009-07-15

Modern threats to American liberty

Modern threats to American libertyFreedom ain't free after all...That is why it is important to defend all of our freedoms, from the first to the last. Remember, the second amendment is the one that gives you the freedom to keep the others. It is all part of a pattern...Alexander Hamilton...

Tags: Vertical industries, Taxes, government, socialist society, tax

Discussion threads 2009-07-04

Modern threats to American liberty

Cash, currency and coins, is a store of value. In the US, "legal tender for all debts, public and private." Carry too much of it though and you are marked for suspicion (per the Wall Street Journal]: Steven Bierfeldt, treasurer for the Campaign for Liberty, a political...

Tags: American Civil Liberties Union, Transportation Security Administration, Government, ATM, Policies And Procedures, Storage, Internet, Networking, Human Resources, Hardware, Robin Harris

Blog posts 2009-07-04

Judge rejects telecom cases but Al-Haramain moves forward

Judge rejects telecom cases but Al-Haramain moves forwardI thought obama was going to kill this crap.I guess he is not. I am all for hunting down terrorists... but this "states secret" crap and other stupid laws that only stomp all over the constitution need to go.BTW, the next time...

Tags: Telephony, Telecom & Utilities, Al-Haramain, NSA, telecom case, telecommunications

Discussion threads 2009-06-04

NetApp ups ante for Data Domain; Not giving into EMC easily

NetApp on Wednesday upped its offer for Data Domain to $30 a share in cash and stock in a deal valued at $1.9 billion.  NetApp offered to buy Data Domain for $1.5 billion, but then was trumped days later by rival EMC, which offered $1.8...

Tags: NetApp Inc., Merger, Domain, EMC Corp., Mergers & Acquisitions, Storage, Investment, Finance, Hardware, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-06-03

Should broadband connectivity be a right?

Is it possible to achieve 100% broadband availability and penetration? Should it be a right? Vermonter, inventor, author and Fractals of Change blogger Tom Evslin recently wrote about the real-life challenge to bring broadband to the masses in the state of Vermont and the implications of such...

Tags: Broadband, Vermont, Tom Evslin, Broadband Internet, Network Technology, Telecommunications, Networking, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2009-05-31