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Copyright czar is born: Prez signs Pro-IP law

Copyright czar is born: Prez signs Pro-IP law"This law will dramatically move the priority of IP enforcement up..."I certainly hope so, because we all know that IP enforcement is much more important than the minor issues like counter-terrorism, border patrol, organized crime and the thousands of unsolved murders committed...

Tags: Copyright Czar, Pro-IP, Prez

Discussion threads 2008-10-13

FBI turns to broad new wiretap method

FBI turns to broad new wiretap methodFBI BROAD NEW WIRETAPGEO ORWELL's 1984...BIG BROTHER...."LET THE PUBLIC BE DANMED" DITTO FOR THE U.S. CONSTITUTION AND CONGRESS's "OATH OF OFFICE".ISP should be in charge of any data interceptionAfter all it's ISP's network, and they've got no vested interest in any particular legal...

Tags: Internet service providers (ISPs), Federal government, Government, Internet, FBI, Internet Service Provider, warrant, prez

Discussion threads 2007-01-30

Additional Resources

Controversy over Obama's student address? Gimme a break!

Beats the hell outa me, Chris!I agree wholeheartedly that there should be no controversy over this. Next thing you know, the other party (sadly, the party I once called home - now I feel homeless) will want "equal time". becauseHe's an activist. All he is doing is...

Tags: Recruitment & Selection, bad parent, GIMME, Obama

Discussion threads 2009-09-03

Apple claims jailbreaking will destroy cell towers

Apple claims jailbreaking will destroy cell towerscome on keep politics out of it"It?s good to know not every scare tactic from the Bush Administration has been eradicated. Things like companies yelling ?terrorism? to protect their bottom lines are still in good stead."Yada yada. Don't care. Bush isn't President...

Tags: Apple Inc., cell tower, Bush, Obama

Discussion threads 2009-07-30

Rosso pitches Pirate Bay to Hollywood - and the cloud

Last week, Sweden-based Global Gaming Factory announced it would buy bad-boy torrent site The Pirate Bay. Now, the company has hired Wayne Rosso, former prez of Grokster and founder of Mashboxx, News.com reports. His job includes negotiating with music and movie execs and cutting distribution deals for a company once...

Tags: Movie, RIAA, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Internet, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2009-07-16

The $17.5 million hard drive

Some employers think they own you when all they're doing is renting your time. It cost 1 company $17.5 million to learn that stealing an employee's hard drive is really, really stupid. It's about time. Wha' happened? An RV sales manager was hired...

Tags: Hard Drive, Sales Manager, Punitive Damage, Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Notebooks, Sales, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Robin Harris

Blog posts 2009-05-25

BSA says piracy cost $50 billion, awaits its IP czar

Supposedly, the software industry lost $50 billion to international "piracy" last year, $9 billion in the U.S. That's according to the Business Software Alliance's latest study. And although piracy in the U.S. is the lowest in the world, BSA bemoans: "A fifth of PC software in the...

Tags: Software, Business Software Alliance, IP, Piracy, Tools & Techniques, Security, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Management, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2009-05-12

Guest blog: Presidential BlackBerry means mobile revolution

Guest blog: Presidential BlackBerry means mobile revolutionPrez BlackBerryI see one of only two different things hapeening here:1. Some gummint critter somewhere actually does understand IT a bit, and this will be great for the whitehouse and public both, OR2. It'll end up being the typical bit of bungling which...

Tags: Blogging, Advertising & Promotion, Presidential BlackBerry, mobile revolution, blog, mobile

Discussion threads 2009-02-02

Why the Obama Blackberry battle mattered

Why the Obama Blackberry battle mattered"If they're going to make you be first beta tester, be a good one."Sure...just what the country/world needs. The President beta testing software. What are you smoking today?RE: Why the Obama Blackberry battle matteredHow exactly does forcing in some rhetoric about open source even apply...

Tags: Obama Blackberry

Discussion threads 2009-01-23

Salesforce.com Powers Obama's Change.gov Citizen's Briefing Book

Consider this a followup to yesterday's entry - and one that shows the power of CRM 2.0 too.  Big time. This morning, as part of the larger announcement of salesforce.com's ServiceCloud applications to be covered at a later date  I found out that salesforce.com's Ideas social application...

Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., CRM, Briefing Book, MyStarbucksIdea, Citizen, Sales Force Management, Advertising & Promotion, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Sales, Marketing, Enterprise Software, Software, Paul Greenberg

Blog posts 2009-01-15

CES 2009: Liveblogging Palm's press conference [day 3]

Scroll down for newest info -- wireless is spotty! PALM IS ALIVE AND WELL Here's the whole press conference, from start to finish: 1:36PM EST: I'm sitting in the second row of Palm's very crowded press conference in a large ballroom...

Tags: Card, Facebook, Phone, Palm Inc., Ed Colligan, Sheryl Sandberg, Keyboards, Telecom & Utilities, Hardware, Peripherals, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2009-01-08

Verizon, AT&T provided cell towers for McCain ranch

Verizon, AT&T provided cell towers for McCain ranchWho Watches the Watchmen?Another example that goes against the idea of advocating no government by some....Not to worry......there will be no need for the temporary towers after November 4th anyway...when he LOSES the election. LOL LOL:-)Not a problem!You want free cell site service...

Tags: Verzion, Devilcrats, Verizon Communications Inc., cell tower, U.S. Secret Service

Discussion threads 2008-10-16

News to know: IT turbulence, Windows 7, Facebook, Apple HDTV

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Larry Dignan: IT warning: Turbulence ahead CEOs freak out; IT preps a do-over Gartner’s worst case for 2009 IT budgets isn’t so bad Sean...

Tags: Facebook, Larry Dignan, Microsoft Windows 7, Information Technology, HDTV, Apple Inc., Microsoft Windows, OpenOffice, Open Source, Strategy, Operating Systems, Software, Office Suites, Management, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-10-14

Copyright czar is born: Prez signs Pro-IP law

Get ready for the Copyright Czar. President Bush just signed the Pro-IP Act (the Prioritizing Resources and Organization for Intellectual Property Act of 2008), which provides for a new executive position dedicated to managing copyright protections. The bill also increases penalties for infringement...

Tags: President, U.S. Congress, Intellectual Property, Leadership, Strategy, Research & Development, Business Operations, Management, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-10-13

Microsoft says crisis will impact tech

Microsoft says crisis will impact techGround Control to L.E.M. Apollo13 Gemini has returned to Canada:Tom Hanks Impersonator,"Aren't we glad Houston didn't say San Fransico. That fire would wipe-out the SSA and put fourteen million Americans out of their homes."" I wonder how my trailer park is doing?"Wrong!!What's needed is NOT...

Tags: Government, Vertical industries, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft says crisis, MICROSOFT SAYS

Discussion threads 2008-09-30

'John McCain invented the Blackberry'

'John McCain invented the Blackberry'Dang. He and Al Gore must have the same speech writer...:D :D :D :D :DI don't think so....RIM is a Canadian company, and all Canadians know that it was, in fact, former Prime Minister Brian Mulroney who coincidently was also Conservative who helped invent the...

Tags: Handhelds, John McCain, RIM BlackBerry, e-mail

Discussion threads 2008-09-16

State Dept. sites in Russia hacked and distributing viruses

State Dept. sites in Russia hacked and distributing viruseserrori think you'll find that the proper word is eradicated, not irradicated. bob haringRepublicansBecause the Republicans supported Microsoft in government computers, we have government Windows servers serving up Windows malware.Well, to Russians, anyway.RE: State Dept. sites in Russia hacked and distributing viruseswell...

Tags: Cyberthreats, Viruses and worms, SECURITY, St. Petersburg, virus

Discussion threads 2007-09-14

Lotus Notes 8 due for Friday release

Lotus Notes 8 due for Friday releaseRead more about Expeditor here"IBM® Lotus® Expeditor software is IBM's universal managed client software to extend composite applications to laptops, desktops, kiosks and mobile devices and is the follow-on release of IBM WebSphere® Everyplace® Deployment and various IBM® Workplace™ Client Technology products. It can...

Tags: E-mail servers, Groupware, Enterprise software, IBM Lotus Notes, IBM Corp.

Discussion threads 2007-08-15

Congress yields to pass Bush spying bill

Congress yields to pass Bush spying billAnd the fascist dictatorship grows ...... because I sure as hell don't call unwarranted surveillence with "secret court" approval OR "you will stay here UNTIL YOU PASS THIS LEGISLATION" democracy.If that's what you Americans call democracy these days, the terrorists not only WON the...

Tags: Social Security, Operational accounting, Protecting America, democracy, U.S. Congress

Discussion threads 2007-08-06

Quality products are to blame for Linux/Mac popularity

Quality products are to blame for Linux/Mac popularityGood companion piece ...And a good point about the fact that MacOS X wasn't mature in 2001. It's strengths and Linux strengths come from UNIX underpinnings.Thanks, Chris!Those that resist changedie or fall behind the pack to be picked off by other predators....

Tags: Desktops, Linux, Operating systems, UNIX, Apple Macintosh, Microsoft Windows, software

Discussion threads 2007-07-18