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- New majority loses nerve on net neutrality
- Now that Democrats have a majority in Congress, they are losing their appetite for direct confrontation with the phone monopolies over network neutrality. HR 5353, introduced by Rep. Edward Markey, carries no enforcement provision on network neutrality, and even carries the co-sponsorship of a neutrality opponent, Rep....
- Tags: Chip Pickering, Democrat, Network, Majority, Edward Markey, Net Neutrality, Networking, Telecom & Utilities, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-02-13
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- 'Spam King' escapes from federal prison
- [ UPDATE: Davidson was found dead, involved in an apparent murder-suicide that involved his wife and 3-year-old daughter. ] Edward "Eddie" Davidson, a notorious e-mail spammer who was sentenced to jail time in April, has escaped from a federal prison camp in Florence, Colorado. Davidson...
- Tags: Internal Revenue Service, Restitution, Davidson, Federal Prison Camp, E-mail, Security, Online Communications, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-07-23
- NebuAd: Galileo or pariah?
- So, it would seem we have found the outer limits of user tracking and ad-serving. At a House hearing yesterday, NebuAd ran into universal condemnation for its plans to monitor broadband customers' web visits and deliver targeting advertising, reports News.com's Declan McCullagh. Contemptible. Goes against everything...
- Tags: Web, Advertisement, Cable Company, Internet Service Provider, Notice, NebuAd, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Cable, Channel Management, Network Technology, Internet, Telecommunications, Personal Technology, Marketing, Networking, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-07-18
- Reiser leads police to wife's body, gets 15 years
- Hans Reiser was sentenced to 15 years to life in jail for strangling his wife to death in 2006. As part of a deal reached with the Alameda County DA, Reiser received a reduced prison sentence and conviction on a lesser charge -- second degree murder --...
- Tags: Project, Linux, Open Source, UNIX, Operating Systems, Software, Paula Rooney
- Blog posts 2008-07-09
- NY Times and USA Today weigh in on iPhone 3G
- Last night I reported that Walt Mossberg has posted his review of the iPhone 3G. Following in his footsteps are Apple's other preferred journos David Pogue from the New York Times ("For iPhone, the ‘New' Is Relative") and Edward C. Baig from USA Today ("Apple's new iPhone 3G: Still not...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, USA Today, New York Times Co., Apple Inc., David Pogue, Apple PR, 3G, Cellular Phones, Wireless, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Jason D. O\'Grady
- Blog posts 2008-07-09
- MSM Apple iPhone reviews are up and may just have saved me some cash
- I was 90% sure I was going to buy an iPhone 3G on Friday, but a couple of things changed my mind tonight and I decided I will not be buying the device on Friday. One of my main motivations for buying the iPhone was to be able to write...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Apple Inc., MSM Apple iPhone Review, 3G, Cellular Phones, Wireless, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Matthew Miller
- Blog posts 2008-07-08
- Calling out lawyers on their own FUD
- Last week I did a little legal snark, suggesting that the BusyBox settlements do not, as attorney Edward Walsh wrote, add to the legal risks run by enterprises using open source. Now the Software Freedom Law Center has weighed in on this, and they agree with me....
- Tags: Edward Walsh, Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-06-10
- Risking Another Frontline Disaster
- The Wall Street Journal says in an editorial that FCC chair Kevin Martin is about to screw things up again on the public wireless Internet front. The first time around Martin tried to rig the D block auction to hand 700MHz spectrum over to Frontline Wireless, formed by former commissioner...
- Tags: FCC, Auction, Journal, M2Z, Federal Government, Government, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-06-06
- Do the Busybox cases change anything?
- The GPL violation cases known collectively as the BusyBox cases never went to court, but they do seem to have settled the question of whether the license is enforceable. It is. So why is Edward Walsh, an attorney at Wolf Greenfield in Boston, trying to...
- Tags: Software, GPL, Open-source Software, Compliance, Open Source, Tools & Techniques, Management, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-06-04
- The value in name patients
- The value in name patientsYour assuming of course ....... that the surgery is successfull. What if he dies on the table or within 60 days after? Will people still want to use Duke?Probably won't make any difference unless...Dr. Friedman severely blunders. According to this article:http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/02/AR2008060200926.html?hpid=moreheadlinesthis is very...
- Tags: Friedman, patient, Kennedy, surgery
- Discussion threads 2008-06-02
- The value in name patients
- In all the coverage of Sen. Edward Kennedy's brain tumor, one fact has gone little remarked. The surgery is taking place at Duke. Not in Massachusetts. In North Carolina. The surgeon is Dr. Allan H. Friedman (right, from Duke University Medical Center). He was...
- Tags: Patient, Hospital, Dr., Duke University, Healthcare, Branding, Marketing, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-06-02
- Will those with "brain cooties" find equality?
- A new mental health parity act is sailing through Congress and should be enacted this summer. I should be happy with this. As I've noted here previously, I have a family history of ADHD. But as with the previous such act, which passed in 1996, parity depends...
- Tags: Health Care, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-06-01
- Yahoo board of director resigns; Shareholder meeting delayed
- Yahoo said Thursday that Edward Kozel resigned from its board of directors. The company will reduce the size of its board from 10 directors to nine and delayed its shareholder meeting from July 3 to "around the end of July 2008." Investor Carl Icahn has proposed an...
- Tags: Shareholder, Board, Yahoo! Inc., Mr., Director, Corporate Governance, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-05-22
- A robotic brain-computer interface
- California Institute of Technology Caltech engineers have developed a robotic device able to act as a brain-computer interface. This is the 'first robotic approach to establishing an interface between computers and the brain by positioning electrodes in neural tissue.' According to the researchers, their approach 'could enhance the performance and...
- Tags: Algorithm, Electrode, California Institute Of Technology, Positioning, Telecom & Utilities, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-05-21
- Icahn launches Yahoo proxy fight; Mark Cuban's return?
- As expected, billionaire Carl Icahn launched his proxy war to turn over Yahoo's board of directors and one of his nominees is Mark Cuban, who sold Broadcast.com to Yahoo and then took those funds to buy the Dallas Mavericks. Just for entertainment value I may buy a...
- Tags: Shareholder, Board, Yahoo! Inc., Chairman, Mr., Mark Cuban, Microsoft Corp., Carl Icahn, Director, Yahoo Shareholder, Bebchuk, Corporate Governance, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-05-15
- Can Icahn bring Microsoft's Yahoo bid back?
- Updated: Billionaire investor Carl Icahn announced an alternate board of directors for Yahoo in a move that could revive a Microsoft bid. Will Microsoft chief Steve Ballmer bite? As expected Icahn announced his alternate slate, which includes Mark Cuban, who sold Broadcast.com to...
- Tags: Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Carl Icahn, Corporate Governance, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-05-15
- Another net neutrality bill, in a Comcast-charged atmosphere
- The latest net neutrality bill, offered by Reps. John Conyers (D-Mich.) and Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.), is a second try to treat neutrality as an antitrust issue, Ars Technica says. It's essentially the same bill that failed in 2006. The bill is intended to "promote competition,...
- Tags: Bill, Comcast Corp., U.S. Congress, Net Neutrality, Internet, Networking, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-05-09
- Oracle architect says there ought to be one Linux distribution: Red Hat
- One Oracle exec said there should be only one Linux distribution -- Red Hat -- and claimed there will be no fragmentation of that code base. In an interview with the Linux Foundation recently, Oracle's chief corporate architect said Oracle Unbreakable Linux is not a product but...
- Tags: Linux Distribution, Oracle Corp., Red Hat Inc., Linux, Open Source, UNIX, Operating Systems, Software, Paula Rooney
- Blog posts 2008-05-06
- Oracle developing grid management, chargeback features for Oracle VM
- Oracle is integrating virtualization management into its grid control product, the company's chief corporate architect said. Oracle VM, a server virtualization product based on the Xen open source virtualization hypervisor, made its debut last November. The VM software supports Oracle and non-Oracle applications. Oracle's databases, middleware and...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Virtualization, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Storage, Paula Rooney
- Blog posts 2008-05-06
- Oracle: 'We just don't care' about Sun-MySQL Merger'
- Oracle's Chief Corporate Architect predicts the Sun-MySQL merger will have little impact on his company or on Linux. In an interview with the Linux Foundation, Edward Screven, who reports directly to Oracle founder and CEO Larry Ellison, maintains Sun's patronage of its open source rival won't affect Oracle sales....
- Tags: Oracle Corp., MySQL, Sun Microsystems Inc., Linux, Open Source, UNIX, Operating Systems, Databases, Software, Enterprise Software, Data Management, Paula Rooney
- Blog posts 2008-05-06
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