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- Wall Street: Too much sway over the tech sector?
- Wall Street: Too much sway over the tech sector?Yes butThis is a constant refrain. The short termism we see dominates the way tech companies behave.. It's dark side is what happens when companies get over awed eg i2. I'm glad so many of the newbies are not looking for exits...
- Tags: Investment, Financial accounting, sway, technology sector, shareholder, stock
- Discussion threads 2008-05-09
- MSFT walks away from YHOO: The antitrust connection
- MSFT walks away from YHOO: The antitrust connectionMonkey Boy knows all about anti-trustSo he would be banging THAT drum.RE: MSFT walks away from YHOO: The antitrust connectionBallmer was right. As soon as Yahoo started talking with Google antitrust played a very big part of this deal. Yahoo is dealing...
- Tags: Corporate law, Mergers & Acquisitions, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Yahoo! Inc., antitrust, uninvention, antitrust connection, MSFT, Google Inc., Microsoft Windows, Monkey Boy, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-05-05
- Yahoo's Yang gives his 'don't crush our stock we're ok' address
- Yahoo's Yang gives his 'don't crush our stock we're ok' addressLet the pigs have their lunchas they will do anyway (it's only a correction from a rise due to short term greed, so it's kind of their own vomit that they're eating), then everybody who isn't convinced that Steve Ballmer...
- Tags: Investment, Financial accounting, knowledge economy, Yahoo! Inc., Yang, stock, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-05-05
- Microsoft walks away from Yahoo: Assessing winners, losers and Plan Bs
- Microsoft walks away from Yahoo: Assessing winners, losers and Plan BsOther winners include1) Office chairs producers2) The free marketsRE: Microsoft walks away from Yahoo: Assessing winners, losers and Plan BsGoogle is a winner? Uh no. Google has been intefering with this deal from the beginning and should be put...
- Tags: advertisement, audio track, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Plan B
- Discussion threads 2008-05-04
- Amazon.com sues NY over sales tax law
- New York's new online sales tax law applies a novel way to get revenue out of online retailers. It's ready-made to tax Amazon.com and the Seattle-based company doesn't like it one bit. Amazon sued New York this over the law. Here's the theory, as the Times explains:...
- Tags: New York, Amazon.com Inc., Taxes, Free Trade, Sales Strategy, Financial Planning, Finance, Sales, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-05-02
- SCO chief testifies: 'Linux is a copy of Unix'
- Open-source fans have dismissed Darl McBride's court comments in the lawsuit brought against SCO by Novell Troubled software maker SCO's chief executive has claimed the Linux operating system includes Unix source code, during a court case in which Novell is suing SCO for royalties on Unix. ...
- Tags: Novell Inc., Linux, SCO Group Inc., Unix, Court Case, Open Source, Peter Judge ZDNet.co.uk, Novell, SCO, lawsuit
- News items 2008-05-02
- House committee passes 'gluttonous' Pro IP Act
- So, we have a credit crisis, a foreclosure crisis, a full-blown recession and no plans on how to get out of Iraq or how to create a regional solution. So what do we need? How about an intellectual property czar and stiffer penalties for unauthorized music downloading? ...
- Tags: Damage, CD, IP, Piracy, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-05-01
- Judge decisively rejects RIAA legal theory
- Judge decisively rejects RIAA legal theoryNiceOK so if I buy a CD and let strangers walk in my house and listen to them I'm infringing on copyright! hahahaha!This judge probablydissented just to get his name in the paper. Because hundreds of other judges have upheld the theory, because it's pretty...
- Tags: Peer to peer (P2P), Copyright-Infringement, theory, legal theory, RIAA, music
- Discussion threads 2008-04-30
- RIAA sues Project Playlist
- Is Project Playlist legal? The site allows users to build playlists of music found on other websites (whether they got there legally or not the site claims disinterest) and then streams them to listeners. They pay the relevant performance royalties. A WikiAnswer claims, "It is 100%...
- Tags: Performance, RIAA, Music, Music File, Performance Management, Web Site Development, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Internet, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-04-29
- Inevitable, huh? Not in Ed Tech
- Inevitable, huh? Not in Ed TechYou're so right!The costs and trauma for moving to Vista make free and open source software that much more attractive for schools. In the US, issues with the credit crunch and real estate, both make money for schools more difficult to come by.There...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Linux, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Inevitability, Ed Tech
- Discussion threads 2008-04-29
- Is Google locking up historical works?
- Google provides funding to universities and researchers around the world who scan and digitize books for them. Many of these books have considerable historical significance, although Google's real goal, according to a CNN piece on the effort, is to create Google Inc.'s Book Search, a portal...
- Tags: Google Inc., Book Search, Portals, Channel Management, Internet, Web Technology, Marketing, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-04-28
- Another reason Microsoft should give up on Yahoo: Morale
- Another reason Microsoft should give up on Yahoo: MoraleCan you please point to the time(s)That Yahoo has made a loss in the past few years?And what makes you think any lawsuits against Yahoo is going to succeed? In the spirit of your cloud cuckoo land, I'd say it's more likely...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows, Investment, Financial accounting, Microsoft Corp., Yahoo! Inc., morale, Microsoft Windows Vista
- Discussion threads 2008-04-28
- Seagate patents Compact Flash - 10 years late!
- Seagate patents Compact Flash - 10 years late!Bogus Cat Toy PatentMy favorite is a patented method of using a laser pointer to excercise your cat (or any curious animal). Lawyers can turn anything into a pile of cat-box-contents.Title: Method of exercising a catDocument Type and Number: United States Patent...
- Tags: laser, Seagate Technology LLC
- Discussion threads 2008-04-25
- Vonage refinances debt; Off of deathwatch
- Vonage refinances debt; Off of deathwatchAnother Failed No_Ax PredictionAs I recall, No_Ax predicted Vonage would fall after Verizon sued it last year for patent infringement...Vonage is still kicking.Add another failed attempt at soothsaying from the resident psychic ding dong.RE: Vonage refinances debt; Off of deathwatchSo What will happen to "all...
- Tags: Vonage Holdings Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-04-25
- LendingTree insiders leak customer data
- LendingTree, an online loan referral service owned by IAC, has informed select customers that their confidential data has been leaked to "a handful of lenders" by company insiders. An email to customers that may have been impacted by the breach refers folks to an FAQ that's basically...
- Tags: LendingTree, Sales Channel, Social Security, E-mail, Financial Services, Identity Theft, Sales, Government, Online Communications, Security, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-04-23
- News to know: Microsoft Mesh; Microhoo; OLPC; Patents; Linked data
- Notable headlines: Mary Jo Foley: Ten things to know about Microsoft's Live Mesh Ryan Stewart: Silverlight and the future core of Microsoft Screen shots: Microsoft's Live Mesh (right) Images: Hands-on with Live Mesh Techmeme ...
- Tags: Patent, Dana Blankenhorn, Microsoft Corp., One Laptop Per Child Project, Digital Rights Management (DRM), Linux, Open Source, Security, Operating Systems, Software, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-04-23
- How much can Internet-powered consumers demand?
- I'm thrilled to report that Mitch Ratcliffe (right) is feeling much better. The author of our Rational Rants blog had some terrifying neck problems, but found relief (in the form of an experimental treatment) after blogging about it. It's a great example of the...
- Tags: Medium, Mitch, Internet, Blogging, Federal Government, Government, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-04-22
- Doing the Microsoft patent math
- Doing the Microsoft patent mathI fail to see your point?Is it that MS is doing like IBM and Sun (open source "supporters") has done for years?How Many Are good?I wonder how many of these patents would stand up to a concerted effort to challenge them?As long as the U.S. patent...
- Tags: Microosft, Microsoft Corp., patent, IBM Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-04-22
- Follow up on .edu blogs
- Last week, I posted a blog on the Pickering Institute's efforts to sell blogs with a .edu top level domain ("Shut down pi.edu"). Yesterday, Ars Technica posted a new article with some updates and additional information on the demise of the $50 .edu blogs. As the Ars article...
- Tags: Ars Technica, Blog, Blogging, Internet, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-04-22
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