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- U.S. unemployment rate highest in 26 years, at 10.2%
- Misinterpreted numbers..."In October, the number of unemployed persons increased by 558,000 to 15.7 million."That's not 190,000. The 190,000 is non-farm payroll decrease, which doesn't include farm workers or self-employed persons who have hung it up.Maybe we need a NEW "New Deal?"Remember the 3 R's of Franklin Roosevelt's "New Deal?"...
- Tags: Operational accounting, Personal finance, FDR, Common-sense, unemployment rate, New Deal, Obama, Reagan
- Discussion threads 2009-11-06
- Big carbon emitters fighting two wars simultaneously in America
- I recently blogged about the EPA's move against major greenhouse gas emitters in the U.S. Well, the utilities, industrial air polluters, fossil fuel industry and their allies are fighting another, equally crucial war to maintain their current business models. This attack on Big Energy is led by a...
- Tags: Global Warming, Alaska, Kivalina, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-10-03
- Court stays ban on Microsoft Word sales
- Microsoft can keep selling Microsoft Word - at least until its appeal of a patent infringement verdict is heard. In a good call, the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals stayed a Texas federal court's injunction -- which would have been effective as of Oct. 10 -- against sales of...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Word, Word Processors, Sales Strategy, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Sales, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2009-09-04
- Word saved? Microsoft gets stay of injunction in i4i patent battle
- The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit gave Microsoft a win in its patent battle with i4i: A stay of an injunction that would prevent the software giant from selling Word. by Larry Dignan
- Tags: Patent, Stay, Injunction, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Word, Word Processors, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-09-04
- Third Circuit upholds online gambling ban
- s the 2006 ban on Internet gambling Constitutional? Online gaming interests have argued that the federal law is impermissibly vague and violates an individual's privacy rights when gambling in the privacy of home. But Tuesday, a three-judge panel of the Third Circuit Court of Appeals found the law is constitutional....
- Tags: Privacy, Internet, Games, Security, Personal Technology, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2009-09-01
- 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
- 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
- Shock jock faces charges for threatening judges
- So here is this wacko, Hal Turner, a shock jock and blogger, who advocated the assasination of three Seventh Circuit federal judges. He's being charged with threatening the judges' lives. The way The Washington Post spins this story, there's some interesting question of where free speech ends and criminality begins....
- Tags: Judge, Turner, Federal Government, Government, Blogging, Internet, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2009-08-16
- Wiretapping ruling protects carriers - not you
- Should companies be punished for letting the government wiretap your phone line? The courts don't think so. US District Court dismissed 46 civil suits filed against several of the major carriers, such as AT&T and Verizon, for allowing the National Security Agency to wiretap their networks without a court-issued wiretap....
- Tags: Electronic Frontier Foundation, Carrier, Government, Vertical Industries, Telephony, Telecom & Utilities, Telecommunications, Networking, Dave Greenfield
- Blog posts 2009-06-08
- Supreme Court to hear patent case with broad implications
- Weather-based risk in commodities trading. Is that too abstract for a patent? Maybe not. While the question may seem arcane, it actually has big import for high-tech. The Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit rejected the patent on the so-called business method patent because it...
- Tags: Patent, U.S. Supreme Court, Biotechnology, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2009-06-01
- Just stop plagiarizing!
- Turnitin.com, an antiplagiarism web service frequently used by college professors, won a major battle last Thursday when the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in its favor, as reported by Ars Technica. Although I'm usually one to come out in favor of students' rights, this one seems like a...
- Tags: Student, Turnitin, Intellectual Property, Word Processors, Productivity, Cloud Computing, Web Browsers, Web Services, Research & Development, Business Operations, Software, Internet, Enterprise Software, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2009-04-20
- First Circuit: Rule forbids webcasting. Judge: Time to change that rule.
- First Circuit: Rule forbids webcasting. Judge: Time to change that rule.The fact is that broadcasting a trialIs part and parcel with transparency of the legal system today. It is the EXACT SAME as going to a court, sitting down in the gallary, and viewing the case that way.Webcasting is not...
- Tags: webcasting, First Circuit
- Discussion threads 2009-04-17
- AdWords suit is alive
- The Second Circuit Court of Appeals has resurrected Rescuecom Corp.'s trademark case against Google, Bloomberg reports. The company sued in 2004, saying allowing advertisers to use the company's trademarked name as an AdWords search term violated trademark. A federal court had dismissed the case, but the...
- Tags: Brand Name, Brand, Google AdWords, Branding, Marketing, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2009-04-05
- Union: IBM layoffs accelerating as employees vent
- Union: IBM layoffs accelerating as employees ventSmiling Sam does it againIt seems to me that the government is overlooking one of the critical components of this economic meltdown - the offshoring of American jobs. IBM is one of the worst offenders in this regard. This one...
- Tags: Workforce management, Litigation, Financial accounting, Proskauer Rose, Madoff, IBM Corp., SEC, layoff
- Discussion threads 2009-03-26
- Closing time: Circuit City will liquidate
- Closing time: Circuit City will liquidateClosing time: Circuit City will liquidateCheap stuff! Oh boy!!! HDTV here I come.This is a bitter lesson for the corporate AmericaPutting Obama in charge of the economy led to this dire situation after many years of growth.The salvation can only come in 2012...
- Tags: Macy, Circuit City Stores Inc., Best Buy Co. Inc.
- Discussion threads 2009-01-16
- Patent wars: EchoStar cheers reexamination of Tivo patent; Tivo scoffs
- The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office will reexamine the claims of Tivo's "Time Warp" patent--again--at EchoStar’s request. EchoStar, which recently lost a lawsuit against Tivo over the patent, requested the reexamination. Tivo won an injunction against EchoStar and asked the U.S. District Court to hold the satellite...
- Tags: Patent, TiVo Inc., U.S. Patent And Trademark Office, EchoStar Communications Corp., Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-01-14
- Patent wars: RealNetworks wins; Global Crossing pays up
- RealNetworks defeated a patent infringement suit that was trying to come back from the dead. Meanwhile, Global Crossing licensed a portfolio of call center patents from Ronald A. Katz Technology Licensing, an outfit that collects dough from a who's who of corporate America. First, RealNetworks said on...
- Tags: Patent, Global Crossing Ltd., RealNetworks Inc., Ronald A. Katz Technology Licensing, Katz, Ronald Katz, RAKTL, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-01-13
- Free Software Foundation calls Cisco a leech, in court
- Free Software Foundation calls Cisco a leech, in courtDavid RavicherSurely, you mean Dan Ravicher? Unless he has a secret brother whom he's hired to work with him at SFLC.This is a test case ...Cisco understands the ramifications of what they're doing. There have been numerous rumors that Cisco plans to...
- Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Katzer, GPL, Cisco Systems Inc., Free Software Foundation
- Discussion threads 2008-12-12
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