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- Judge: Possible 'manifest error of law' in Thomas case
- In a huge break in the Capitol v. Thomas case – in which Jammie Thomas right was hit with a $220,000-plus verdict for copyright infringement – the judge in the case said he may have made a "manifest error of law" in his instructions to the jury. ...
- Tags: Distribution, RIAA, Judge, Mr., Peer To Peer (P2P), Internet, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-05-15
- 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
- To Catch a Thief
- To catch a thief ... the high-tech way. Somone broke into Kait Dupalga's apartment and stole TVs, iPods, a set of car rims – and Kate's Mac laptop. The big break in the case came when a friend of Kate's sent her a text message congratulating...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, Mr., Friend, Photograph, Computer, Productivity, Desktops, Hardware, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-05-11
- ePals provides safe student collaboration tools
- Yesterday, I had the opportunity to speak with Ed Fish, CEO of ePals Corporation. I first heard about ePals through Intel, who recently announced that they would provide hooks to ePals' services on their Classmate PCs. While it's easy to describe ePals as "the world's largest social network...
- Tags: Collaboration, Mr., Collaboration Tool, Classroom, Teacher, Tool, ePals, Productivity, Social Networking, E-mail, Instant Messaging, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Internet, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-05-06
- mr. Blocko - Super Tournament Edition (rar)
- Mr. Blocko: Super Tournament Edition looks like Tetris at first glance, however instead of controlling the blocks, you control a little square guy who pushes them around. However, you only gain points for the blocks in your color, and the only way to turn blocks into your color is to...
- Tags: Mr., Block, Perfect Run
- Software downloads 2008-04-17
- That's a QED - on "odd internet risks"
- Back on February 12th of this year I had this bit in my blog for the day -dedicated the proposition that bad guys can abuse your internet access for their own purposes: To illustrate one of the worst but less obvious risks...
- Tags: Mr., Richard Warman, Internet, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Paul Murphy
- Blog posts 2008-04-06
- Wayback Machine: Microsoft's shot to kill Quicktime video
- Ten years ago, give a week or so, Apple CEO Steve Jobs introduced QuickTime 3.0 to the National Association of Broadcasters' convention. Behind the scenes in the months before the introduction, Microsoft was playing hardball with hardware and software vendors over its new A/V APIs along with demands to kill...
- Tags: Software, Apple QuickTime, Apple Inc., Mr., Video, Microsoft Corp., Compaq Computer Corp., Digital Music, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, David Morgenstern
- Blog posts 2008-04-03
- A geek's trip to Capitol Hill on Network Management
- I appeared before congressional and government staffers on Capitol Hill for a panel on Network Management sponsored by iGrowthGlobal. This was my first time in Washington DC and while it was a little cold for my Californian bones, it was a beautiful city and seeing the capitol of the nation...
- Tags: BitTorrent, Japan, Network, Comcast Corp., P2P, Mr., Video, DOCSIS, Geek, Wireless Network, Presentation, Network Management, Richard Bennett, Cable, Peer To Peer (P2P), Networking, Internet, Corporate Communications, Broadband Internet, Telecommunications, Personal Technology, Marketing, George Ou
- Blog posts 2008-03-03
- Clear Private Data (Add-Ons)
- This extension utilizes the "Clear Private Data..." feature that is part of Firefox version 1.5 and above. The extension adds and gives you the ability to clear private data via a right-click context menu and an optional toolbar button. This version is the first release on CNET Download.com.
- Tags: Mr., Clear, Extension, Web Browsers, Internet
- Software downloads 2008-01-23
- Has Nick Carr flipped? Or have we?
- Guest post: Chris Matyszczyk follows on my review of Nick Carr's new book with the saga of his own trying exegesis of the text. "You're obsessed with sex," said my ZDNet handler, looking angrier than a caucuser who had just switched his vote from Chris...
- Tags: Nick Carr, Mr., Workforce Management, Internet, Human Resources, Chris Matyszczyk
- Blog posts 2008-01-14
- Will you be having sex with a robot in five years' time?
- I will resist suggesting I am starting off the New Year with a bang when I reveal that a new and very important and/or disturbing depending on whether you have laced your cornflakes with a David Copperfield mushroom or two thesis has now been published as a book. ...
- Tags: Robot, Mr., Technology, Robots, Emerging Technologies, Chris Matyszczyk
- Blog posts 2008-01-02
- mr. Hankey's Happy Holidays (zip)
- Mr. Hankey brings holiday cheer to your desktop with this South Park screensaver. Click on Mr. Hankey to hear his thoughts on the holiday season.
- Tags: Mr., Desktops, Hardware
- Software downloads 2007-12-18
- Telecom immunity bill advances in Senate; Dodd promises filibuster
- The battle over telecommunications immunity continued Monday with a Senate vote, 76-10, to advance for a floor vote a bill protecting the companies from lawsuits relating to cooperation with national surveillance efforts. The Times reports that most Democrats voted to move forward, as a bid by...
- Tags: Sen., Bill, Immunity, Mr., U.S. Senate, Telephony, Telecom & Utilities, Telecommunications, Federal Government, Networking, Government, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2007-12-17
- Santa's Super Friends (exe)
- Find out who Mr. Stink is and why he would steal all the toys right before Christmas. As you make your way from Candy Cane Cove to Santa's Workshop you'll meet some Super Friends along the way like Edmund the Elf and Gingerbread Jr. that will give you information about...
- Tags: Toy, Mr., Santa, Desktops, Hardware
- Software downloads 2007-12-14
- Saving Internet freedom - for users - from telcos
- Mighty Google is worried about getting the shaft from telcos. Shouldn't you be too? Larry Downes imagines the worst Larry Downes' arguments against net neutrality are button-pushing propaganda designed to inflame, not illuminate. I expect better from a University of Chicago trained lawyer. ...
- Tags: QoS, Internet, Network, Adobe PDF, Telecommunications Company, Broadband, Mr., Net Neutrality, Briscoe, Telecom & Utilities, Telecommunications, Robin Harris
- Blog posts 2007-12-13
- Apple's most valuable vendors; New campus on tap; Jobs raise possible
- Apple filed its annual report with the Securities and Exchange Commission Thursday and outlined a few notable items: A list of most valuable vendors, a second corporate campus on tap, component costs and a potential raise for Steve Jobs. Among the highlights: The company outlined its most valuable...
- Tags: Job, Steve Jobs, Apple Inc., Mr., Campus, Company, Research & Development, Benefits, Manufacturing, Business Operations, Human Resources, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2007-11-16
- Whistleblower calls on Congress
- Mark Klein, 62, the AT&T whistleblower at the heart of the Electronic Frontier Foundation's suit against the phone company, spent the day in Washington trying to convince senators and congressmen not to hand away citizens' rights to sue. At the urging of the White House Congress is...
- Tags: Electronic Frontier Foundation, U.S. Congress, AT&T Corp., Mr., Times, Internet, Telecom & Utilities, Government, Recruitment & Selection, Telecommunications, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2007-11-08
- Interview with Mandriva CEO, François Bancilhon
- I had the opportunity to speak Monday afternoon with the CEO of Mandriva, François Bancilhon. Recently, a deal with the Nigerian government to use and install Mandriva Linux on 17,000 Intel Classmate PCs was derailed when the government decided to overwrite the installed operating system with Windows XP. ...
- Tags: Emerging Market, Mandriva, Mr., Microsoft Windows, Tools & Techniques, Government, Linux, Operating Systems, Software, Management, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2007-11-05
- Why the titans of tech should start playing ball
- Guest post: Chris Matyszczyk yearns for the application of tech entrepreneurship to moribund sports franchises, following in the fancy footsteps of Mark Cuban. After all, sports is a social network of extraordinary proportions... "I'd run any company; it's completely irrelevant to me. It's really about this drive...
- Tags: Team, Gentleman, Bay Area, Mr., Champaign, Chris, Team Management, Management, Dan Farber
- Blog posts 2007-10-30
- Texas man to FCC inspector:I "told you to get off my property! Maybe the dogs won't bite!"
- Oh, this one plays into so many stereotypes that if a movie scriptwriter composed this, it would be laughed away. Seems as though Corpus Christi, Tex. resident Donald Winton not only decided to run a CB radio station on CB channel 19, but...
- Tags: FCC, Agent, Mr., CB, Federal Government, Real Estate, Government, Business Operations, Russell Shaw
- Blog posts 2007-09-18
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- MRV Communications
- MRV Communications designs, manufactures, sells, distributes, integrates, and supports communication equipment and services, and optical components. Co.'s networking group provides switches, routers, physical layer products...
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