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- Amazon shows us why DRM is a bad idea
- Amazon shows us why DRM is a bad ideaYou're very forgivingIf they can remove the feature, what stops them from putting it back?What will stop them from violating the terms and conditions? Companies have done it before and will continue to do it.No Kindles for us...Well, that does it for...
- Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Government, Taxes, Free trade, Amazon.com Inc., big business, tax, property right, illusion, digital-rights management
- Discussion threads 2009-07-18
- In an economic downturn, prepaid mobile is big business
- In an economic downturn, prepaid mobile is big businessPhone serviceI'll be 60 next year and last week I FINALLY decided to buy a cell PHONE because I have an older car that breaks down sometimes.He is talking about the Swiss-Army-knife type phones. A lot of people just want an actual...
- Tags: Advertising & Promotion, big business, mobile
- Discussion threads 2009-07-09
- Would you give up pay or benefits for someone's job?
- Would you give up pay or benefits for someone's job?I would take a pay freeze or cut.Of course, I'm not a CEO right now either... :)Interestingly, it's usually the non-union people......who willingly give up some pay and/or benefits to help keep their co-workers employed. Nearly every time...
- Tags: Benefits, MGP2, Big Business, benefit, job
- Discussion threads 2009-04-22
- Should big brands fear or revere the mommybloggers?
- Should big brands fear or revere the mommybloggers?Fear or revere?I'd say there's no need to fear mommybloggers, or put them on some type of pedestal.All you need to do easier said than done, is to treat them with the respect you should give any group of people who are potentially...
- Tags: Branding, Mommybloggers, Big Business, Motrin, mommyblogger, big brand, brand
- Discussion threads 2008-11-18
- OMG! texting is so expensive
- OMG! texting is so expensiveSeems ReasonableI don't understand the allure of texting, but that's beside the point. The price increase seems perfectly reasonable to me, if texting is too expensive folks can stop texting.RE: OMG! texting is so expensiveIn America people just buy liabilities. Without them I wouldn't be...
- Tags: Telecom & Utilities, Government, Big Business, phone, allure, Object Management Group
- Discussion threads 2008-07-02
- Will You Standardize the @#$%! Chargers Please
- Will You Standardize the @#$%! Chargers PleaseI don't know about other bluetooth headsetsbut mine would be to small for a micro-USB port to fit in nicely. That's why it and probably most others have a thin, almost needle-like end on its adapter. I like micro-USB too, and most of my...
- Tags: Digital music, Cable, Digital media, Media players, Big Business, charger, adapter
- Discussion threads 2008-03-24
- Fear Factor in BitTorrent debate
- Fear Factor in BitTorrent debateAmenDuopolies are a poor substitute for a free market and government has to own up to the anticompetitive consequences of its own actions.This is a republic and not a true...democracy. Therefore the few elected to represent the many are easily bought off by big business...
- Tags: Vertical industries, cynicism, duopoly, government, Comcast Corp., democracy, big business, BitTorrent
- Discussion threads 2007-12-04
- Enterprise 2.0 IT governance: Whole Foods bans execs from blogs and chat
- Enterprise 2.0 IT governance: Whole Foods bans execs from blogs and chatWell that will get me to write a letter to Whole FoodsThe policy is illegal on its face. But Whole Foods is a US company started in Texas, where Bush was Governor, so I will cut them a bit...
- Tags: Blogging, Whole Foods, blog, company policy, big business, Enterprise 2.0
- Discussion threads 2007-11-07
- EU ruling deals setback to Microsoft
- EU ruling deals setback to MicrosoftQueue the WinZealots...]:)Queue the PatriotsThis article is incorrect on the ruling having nothing to do with the USA - which has "settled". The USA is very much trying to reform Microsoft which is viewed now as a transnational big business rather than an American company...
- Tags: Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft Corp., EU ruling deals setback, deals setback, EU Ruling, American company, big business
- Discussion threads 2007-09-17
- An anxious wait for EU court ruling on Microsoft
- An anxious wait for EU court ruling on MicrosoftThis will be very interesting to watch. Really though, nothing they do willhave much of an effect in and of itself. The biggest thing here is all of the negative publicity that Microsoft has been getting and that has contributed to a...
- Tags: Digital music, Vertical industries, Digital media, Microsoft Corp., EU Court, big business, democracy, public relations
- Discussion threads 2007-09-14
- Germany arrests 10 in global Internet scam raids
- Germany arrests 10 in global Internet scam raidsPrivateersPrivateers have backing. In the Caribbean, privateers were useful to those who wished their enemies harm. Once authorized, the privateers could take from any enemy what ever they could get their hands on. They were not considered criminals. They were not considered pirates....
- Tags: Internet, privateer, big business
- Discussion threads 2007-09-13
- China shuts 205 Web sites in piracy crackdown
- China shuts 205 Web sites in piracy crackdownSo not getting it"Piracy of intellectual property on the Internet has seriously harmed the interests of copyright owners, leading to a large number of disputes--and thus disrupting the orderliness of the Internet," Yan Xiaohong, deputy director of the National Copyright AdministrationDon't get me...
- Tags: Big Business, Web site, Internet, orderliness, Web
- Discussion threads 2007-02-08
- Court upholds copyright law on 'orphan works'
- Court upholds copyright law on 'orphan works'It's a poor legacy that it leavessad Sony had such a hand in it, but politicians do not make such grand artists but better businessmen. Oh well, time to travel to a foreign country so you can perform Happy Birthday in a restaurant...
- Tags: Big Business, useful Art, copyright law, U.S. Senate, Constitution
- Discussion threads 2007-01-23
- Net neutrality push expected to resume in Congress
- Net neutrality push expected to resume in CongressBSI just answered to this story in another forum.See: [url=http://talkback.zdnet.com/5208-1035-0.html?forumID=1&threadID=28736&messageID=535927]More Net Neutrality BS?[/url]eBay signed? What a bunch of hypocrites!!!!I am so infuriated with eBay I want to shout it from the roof tops! Their new policies this year keep average people like myself...
- Tags: Vertical industries, U.S. Congress, TalkBack, government, big business, Net Neutrality
- Discussion threads 2007-01-02
- Net neutrality advances on Capitol Hill
- Net neutrality advances on Capitol HillI guess Microsoft paid more than VerizonDon't get me wrong, I'm all for consumer protection and against corporate powers. However, this is just another example of "money talks" and corruption.The key phrase is "bowing to pressure from Microsoft and Yahoo", not "bowing to consumers' pressure".And...
- Tags: Telecom & Utilities, telecommunications company, Big Business, big company, network, Net Neutrality
- Discussion threads 2006-04-05
- Democrats attack new bill over Net neutrality
- Democrats attack new bill over Net neutralityRep. Barton who gave oil companies a $20-80 Billion present"'There is no cost,' declared Representative Joe L. Barton, a Texas Republican who was presiding over Congressional negotiations on the sprawling energy bill last July." NYTimes, 3/27/06. Then see NYTimes article on 3/29/06, reporting...
- Tags: Free trade, big business, Barton, Net Neutrality
- Discussion threads 2006-03-30
- HP to cut 6,000 jobs in Europe
- HP to cut 6,000 jobs in EuropeBig BusinessHP has found that they can get rid of the unwanted step-children and keep the technology they have stolen from the premerger companies. Dump the employees with longevity benefits and hire new employees and give them no benefits. This what the big business...
- Tags: Recruitment & Selection, Hewlett-Packard Co., Big Business, job
- Discussion threads 2005-09-09
- New tax for broadband customers?
- New tax for broadband customers?Waiter...Check Please!Who's being left out?My parents, living in rural Pennsylvania, where the dairy cows outnumber the residents, had both DSL and cable broadband available to them a full year before I had cable broadband available to me in a suburb of a 100K person city. ...
- Tags: Taxes, Network technology, Broadband Internet, Free trade, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, taxpayer, Big Business, broadband, tax, DSL, cable, rural area, phone, government, Verizon Communications Inc.
- Discussion threads 2005-07-01
- Indian software, service exports on upswing
- Indian software, service exports on upswingDarn, where's the fake memo on WMDs when you need one..No babies being taken out of incubators and left to perish? C'mon, no ambassador's kids want to pretend to be nurses? The next president should start wars over outsourcing instead of oil!If these were cars...and...
- Tags: outsourcing, big business
- Discussion threads 2005-06-02
- Bush signs law targeting P2P pirates
- Bush signs law targeting P2P piratesNT Next up, summary execution for littering.:o)It's about time !Ya gotta just laugh at the azzholes who rationalize the theft and distribution of copyright protected works. These morons come up with the wildest excuses for their criminal activity. They seem to believe the laws of...
- Tags: Lipton, P2P Pirates, MPAA, big business, P2P
- Discussion threads 2005-04-27
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