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- Appeals filed in The Pirate Bay case
- Pirate Bay defendant Peter Sunde's lawyer says he will appeal his client's conviction based on Judge Tomas Norstöm's undisclosed ties to the copyright industry, News.com reports. Attorney Peter Althin also says that Sunde has no liability for the alleged wrongdoing of The Pirate Bay, since he was...
- Tags: Trial, Manufacturing, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2009-05-10
- Pirate Bay judge is member of Copyright Association
- The Pirate Bay may have grounds for a retrial. It turns out that the judge in the case, Tomas Norstrom, might have a slight conflict of interest. He's a member of the Swedish Copyright Association and sits on the board of Swedish Association for the Protection...
- Tags: Judge, Peer To Peer (P2P), Business Ethics, Corporate Governance, Internet, Leadership, Management, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2009-04-23
- Bullish Cross: Apple is an undervalued stock prize
- Bullish Cross: Apple is an undervalued stock prizeuh... math skillz.8.23% of the internet using market has any mac.5.80 have intel2.43 have ppcit ain't half :Pheck its less than a third(29.5%)What absolute garbage...'objective' view?What absolute garbage, the only company which is “radically undervalued [company] in the tech sector on an objective...
- Tags: Investment, Financial accounting, Much More Important, Apple Inc., stock, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-10-30
- Ringleader of cybercrime group to be offered a job as cybercrime fighter
- Ringleader of cybercrime group to be offered a job as cybercrime fighter.....All this does is re-enforces that accountability for ones actions are almost non-existent and will only serve to encourage other miscreants to follow in this punks steps.As for the level of knowledge in the law sector... you seem about...
- Tags: Recruitment & Selection, Web browsers, cybercrime fighter, Ringleader, cybercrime group, job
- Discussion threads 2008-07-16
- Ringleader of cybercrime group to be offered a job as cybercrime fighter
- Owen Thor Walker, a 18 years old ringleader of an international cybercrime group, known as AKILL, part of the A-Team, a group of 8 script kiddies which were all caught in a operation called "Operation Bot Roast II" bust executed by the FBI and several international law enforcement agencies in...
- Tags: Job, Malware, Bot, Malware Bot, PRIVMSG, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Viruses And Worms, Security, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-07-16
- Demographics forging a new Net market: It's not your kids' Web
- It's easy and fashionable to talk about "digital natives" that have grown up online, but the demographics of the United States are shifting radically to the grey and Web services developers should heed that news and make changes in their products and plans as a result. Old coots, like me,...
- Tags: U.S., Web, Web Service, Advertising Age, West, Channel Management, Marketing, Mitch Ratcliffe
- Blog posts 2008-07-07
- SCO chief testifies: 'Linux is a copy of Unix'
- SCO chief testifies: 'Linux is a copy of Unix'there a few people that are out of realitymac bride is one ballmer is also a other one keep spinning idiot spinning .......They aren't dead yet? ]:)The sad thing is......I strongly suspect that he really believes it.Words right outta...
- Tags: Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Unix, SCO Group Inc., LINUX IS, SCO Chief
- Discussion threads 2008-05-02
- Making Things Safe for Business ByDesign II
- Following yesterday's post on the management changes at SAP and the pending departure of Peter Zencke, I got a call from SAP. Would I be available to discuss the issue with Peter ASAP? Here's some highlights from the conversation: As reported, Zencke is retiring from the...
- Tags: Peter Zencke, SAP AG, BBD, Team Management, Corporate Governance, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Management, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Enterprise Software, Software, Joshua Greenbaum
- Blog posts 2008-04-03
- If the birthmark fits, Microsoft will wear it
- When Jason Perlow reported on last week's Microsoft Technology Summit, he sought to compliment the company by giving CEO Steve Ballmer a Gorbachev-like birthmark right. But Gorbachev was a Communist. He wasn't elected. He was the product of a dictatorial society which was rotting from the inside,...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., Baldness, Standards System, Iso standards, Process Improvement, Quality, Business Operations, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-03-31
- Why metered Internet is a really bad idea
- The above image from Lauren Weinstein's blog shows why metered Internet is a really bad idea and obnoxious. It shows Canadian ISP Rogers Internet altering web pages to warn you when you go over 75% of your 75GB cap. I checked on the Rogers website for...
- Tags: Electronic Frontier Foundation, BitTorrent, Comcast Corp., Internet Service Provider, Plan, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Internet, George Ou
- Blog posts 2007-12-10
- EFF wants to saddle you with metered Internet service
- Updated 12/8/2007 - The EFF Electronic Frontier Foundation last week publicly joined Free Press and Public Knowledge in recommending a metered Internet service as the alternative to Comcast's BitTorrent throttling. The extremist "Net Neutrality" crowd that wants to regulate the Internet with bans on per-user charges/contracts for Enhanced QoS are...
- Tags: Electronic Frontier Foundation, BitTorrent, Network, Comcast Corp., Problem, Internet Service Provider, DOCSIS, Internet Service, ACL, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Networking, Cable, Broadband Internet, Internet, Telecommunications, Personal Technology, George Ou
- Blog posts 2007-12-03
- Where is the new money in open source for 2008?
- The end-of-year predictions for open source are already starting to trickle in and one theme emerges clearly. The search is on for new money. Raven Zachary of The 451 Group expects that money to come from the usual suspects -- enterprise vendors. ...
- Tags: TechDirt, Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2007-11-28
- U.K. government reveals its 'biggest privacy disaster'
- U.K. government reveals its 'biggest privacy disaster'Not arrived in the UK yet?Where do you live? The disease has been here for much longer than anywhere else.What is a Government? Even if it is prefaced by Her Majesty's. Can any unelected government be wrong ever? Ask George W not Washington, Bush!...
- Tags: Biometrics, Financial services, privacy disaster, U.K. Government
- Discussion threads 2007-11-21
- D-Wave demonstrates latest quantum computer prototype at SC07
- D-Wave demonstrates latest quantum computer prototype at SC07Other researchers aren't convinced...It's good to see there was someone from ZDNet at the demo - I've been watching D-Wave from the UK for a while, and put something up earlier in the week, based on the publicity, and the reactions of the...
- Tags: D-Wave, quantum computer, patent
- Discussion threads 2007-11-15
- Watch out, RIAA's set a precedent
- Watch out, RIAA's set a precedentDownloading?You're doing the same thing the RIAA is doing when you say that "the downloading and sharing of copyrighted material is illegal." Actually, the sharing of copyrighted material is illegal, the downloading is not. Obviously the RIAA would like to blur this distinction...
- Tags: Digital media, court case, RIAA, copyrighted data, Copyright-Infringement
- Discussion threads 2007-10-09
- More on Linux vs Windows
- Last week's discussions on using Linux to catch Peter Principled bosses between rocks and hard places included a comment from ARyKaXaN in which he points out that Wintel's majority market position makes it the standard against which most people judge other products and then concludes that as long "as...
- Tags: Linux, Microsoft Windows, GUI, Unix, Paul Murphy
- Blog posts 2007-08-10
- Emissions from popular laser printers may be carcinogenic. How will HP respond?
- Two years ago, I pondered whether the bill cell phone companies were the next "big tobacco" after it had come to light that cellco's were over-meddling in the work of independent researchers at the University of Washington. Not only did cellco's look to discredit the research before it was...
- Tags: Printer, Hewlett-Packard Co., Laser Printer, Laser, David Berlind
- Blog posts 2007-08-02
- HTC Omni looks like one slick Windows Mobile device
- HTC Omni looks like one slick Windows Mobile deviceummmThe screen resolution sounds pretty impressive, and the built in GPS is an interesting feature... but 128mb ram? What's THAT all about?! And let's face it, the UI is SO important. Nobody does it like Apple does. And...
- Tags: Telecom & Utilities, PRODUCTIVITY, Keyboards, Operating systems, Handhelds, Monitors & displays, Microsoft Windows, mobile device, Apple iPhone, Omni, phone, Microsoft Windows Mobile, High Tech Computer Corp.
- Discussion threads 2007-07-04
- OH election workers sentenced for recount fraud
- People who suspect the 2004 presidential election was stolen got a boost recently when two Ohio election workers were sentenced to prison for rigging a recount of that states election. According to the AP, Jacqueline Maiden, the election boards third-highest ranking employee and ballot manager Kathleen Dreamer, each were...
- Tags: recount, worker
- Blog posts 2007-03-14
- Worried SAP rubbishes Salesforce.com's Apex
- Worried SAP rubbishes Salesforce.com's ApexSome more thoughtsHi Phil,A few thoughts on your post.1. I appreciate your qualifying my post as my personal opinion, as it's exactly that. So is this comment.2. Most of my post had less to do with Apex itself than with the lack of critical thinking...
- Tags: Sales force management, Apex, Salesforce.com Inc., Phil, SAP AG
- Discussion threads 2006-10-13
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