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Amazon.com sues NY over sales tax law: Amazon.com sues NY over sales tax lawDouble taxationCorporations don't pay tax so we don't have to pay it twice.If you tax Ford for the steel they buy, Ford passes the increased cost to you. So you pay the tax for the steel as well as the tax for the completed...; Tags: Taxes, Free trade, Sales strategy, Wow!, tax, sales tax, Amazon.com Inc., sales tax law, sales; Discussion threads 2008-05-02

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What open source teaches publishers: I have a more in-depth analysis of today's C|Net news on my personal blog. But there are important comments to make about open source and what it implies to publishers. (What does this classic Geico commercial have to do with anything? Patience, grasshopper.) The...; Tags: C|Net, Profit Statement, Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn; Blog posts 2008-05-15
Bell Canada's packet inspection violates privacy law, group says: And you didn't like Comcast's TCP resets. Something far more egregious is going on in Canada, where Bell Canada has been engaged in deep-packet inspection of traffic. Bell is using DPI to find and limit the use of peer-to-peer applications such as BitTorrent, which it says are congesting its network,...; Tags: Bell Canada, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), 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
10 attributes of bad CIOs (self test): Chief Information Officers are responsible for both high-level business strategy and detailed technology decisions, making the job among the toughest in business. The high incidence of IT failure demonstrates the extreme difficulty of juggling business and technology goals that are sometimes in direct...; Tags: CIO, Information Technology, Indecision, Asset Management, Financial Management, Strategy, Recruitment & Selection, Operational Planning, Business Operations, Financial Planning, Finance, Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Michael Krigsman; Blog posts 2008-05-15

Virtualization and security: It's easy to spot market trends when many vendors call to schedule meetings and all of them want to speak about the same topic. The topic du mois is security in virtualized environments. Some of the suppliers are taking a very broad view of both security and virtualized environments. Others...; Tags: Network, Environment, Virtual Machine, Virtual Machine Software, Virtualization, Security, Hardware, Dan Kusnetzky; Blog posts 2008-05-15
News to know: Comcast-Plaxo; Icahn-Yahoo; Linux; Microsoft: Notable headlines: Larry Dignan: Comcast buys Plaxo: Will social networking and TV fly? Dennis Howlett: Comcast scoops up Plaxo: good move Dan Farber: Comcast goes social with Plaxo acquisition Techmeme EIC podcast: HP-EDS; Google; SaaS Adrian...; Tags: Plaxo Inc., Google Inc., Larry Dignan, Comcast Corp., Workday, Microsoft Corp., Zoho, Linux, Microsoft Windows, Desktops, Rootkits, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating Systems, UNIX, Software, Hardware, Security, Spyware, Adware & Malware; Blog posts 2008-05-15
What's wrong at OpenSolaris: The OpenSolaris community just released the first complete "Project Indiana" edition of the OS - and in that process demonstrated why community enthusiasm for the product seems to have weakened recently. It's a great product -everything from ZFS to a new package management system...; Tags: OpenSolaris, Intel X86, Developer Argument, Sun Solaris, Linux, UNIX, Operating Systems, Servers, Software, Hardware, Paul Murphy; Blog posts 2008-05-15
UC Law bans classroom web access: I love having Internet access during my grad classes. I can get additional references for any information presented with a quick bit of Googling, I can examine alternate viewpoints, or I can look at last week's homework. Of course, I can also check my email, write a blog...; Tags: Web, Professor, Student, University Of Chicago Law School, Law School, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Christopher Dawson; Blog posts 2008-05-14
Workday: a tipping point?: Larry Dignan is enthusiastic about Workday's 200,000 person deal it won to supply Flextronics with HR functionality, adding in the Chiquita 26,000 person deal as validation for what he suggests is a 'tipping point' for Workday. I'm a little more cautious. Next week, Workday will release update...; Tags: Workday, Dennis Howlett; Blog posts 2008-05-14
Dell: We're greener than HP: Dell said Wednesday that it is designing its laptops and desktops to consume up to 25 percent less energy by 2010 compared to today. Welcome to the latest in the "we're greener than you" game where green technology intersects with marketing-speak. Green IT is fashionable, but increasingly...; Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Power Management, Hewlett-Packard Co., Green Technology, Desktops, Hardware, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-05-14
UK warned of China, India software threat: Key UK industry figures believe Britain should forget any hopes of matching China and India in the low-cost end of the software market, and instead carve out a high-end niche. UK software sales are on course to lag almost $60 billion behind China this year, fuelling high-level calls for...; Tags: Revenue, China, India, U.K., Tools & Techniques, Management, Nick Heath silicon.com, software, Inda, services; News items 2008-05-14
Dell Inspiron desktop now $300: Dell has cut the price of its budget Inspiron 530 by $140. The $300 configuration includes a 2.0GHz Pentium E2180 dual-core processor, 1GB of memory, a 320GB hard drive, Intel GMA 3100 graphics, and Windows XP. The deal is part of a Dell tax rebate marketing gambit...; Tags: Desktop, Hard Drive, Dell Computer Corp., Memory, Microsoft Windows Vista, Rebate, Graphics, Dell Inspiron, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Notebooks, Processors, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Semiconductors, Components, John Morris; Blog posts 2008-05-14
MySpace's big spam win: Will it really be a deterrent?: MySpace won statutory damages of more than $230 million against spammers Stanford Wallace and Walter Rines, but the big question is whether this ruling--delivered in the Federal District Court in Los Angeles--will act as a deterrent. To be sure, MySpace's win see court order PDF has some...; Tags: MySpace, Stanford Wallace, User Engagement, Cyberthreats, Spam, Phishing, Viruses And Worms, Security, Spam And Phishing, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-05-14
Google grabs for billions in pharma gold...: Google has asked all hacks to assemble at the Googleplex Monday 19th to hear about the state of search and also Google Health. That sounds like hearing about the health of Google and also its new service Google Health. Health is a tricky area for Google. I remember chatting...; Tags: Google Inc., Pharmaceutical Company, Health Care, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Tom Foremski; Blog posts 2008-05-13
Microsoft: Office '08 sales skyrocket, SP1 released, VBA coming back to Mac: According to CNet Microsoft is selling copies of Office 2008 for Mac at a clip three times higher than the former 2004 version. "The company wouldn't disclose sales numbers, but said the sales are the highest in the 19-year history of the unit. That continues a trend that has been...; Tags: Apple Macintosh, Microsoft Visual Basic, Microsoft VBA, Microsoft Corp., Sales, Mac BU, Desktops, Microsoft Office, Hardware, Office Suites, Software, Jason D. O\'Grady; Blog posts 2008-05-13
It's official: Adobe GoLive is GoDead: I just received the following email notice from Adobe that they've discontinued development of GoLive so that they can focus on DreamWeaver. Dear Adobe software owner: Please take note that Adobe has discontinued development and sales of Adobe® GoLive® web authoring software. This decision — effective...; Tags: Adobe Systems Inc., Adobe GoLive, Macromedia Dreamweaver, Sales Strategy, Sales, Jason D. O\'Grady; Blog posts 2008-05-13
A U.S military botnet in the works: Make botnets, not war? In April, last year, I asked the question "Why establish an offensive cyber warfare doctrine when you can simple install a type of Lycos Spam Fighting screensaver on every military and government computer and have it periodically update its hit lists?" A year...; Tags: Distributed Denial Of Service, Military, Attack, U.S, Security, Dancho Danchev; Blog posts 2008-05-13
Oregon says its law is copyright: Carl Malamud at resource.org and Tim Stanley at Justia are fighting off cease and desist letters from the State of Oregon. The state is asserting a copyright interest in the state code, even though the law is by definition public domain. After a conference call in which...; Tags: Oregon, Richard Koman; Blog posts 2008-05-13
Microsoft's plan to block Linux on laptops: Details of Microsoft's recently announced plan to extend the life of Windows XP for ultra low-cost PCs are trickling out. IDG News got its hands on what it says are Microsoft documents outlining the program for PC manufacturers. Until now, the big question was: What exactly defines...; Tags: Linux, PC, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., Laptop Computer, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows XP, Operating Systems, Software, John Morris; Blog posts 2008-05-13