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- US Congress Ready to Act on Human Rights Crisis in Tech Industry Supply Chains
- US Congress Ready to Act on Human Rights Crisis in Tech Industry Supply ChainsGood newsAnd you don't get enough talkbacks.I can think of a number of reasons why people might oppose such a thing, though, starting with the possibility that it could be considered undue interference with free trade.Lots of...
- Tags: Supply chain management (SCM), Tech Industry Supply Chains, supply chain, U.S. Congress, Human Rights
- Discussion threads 2009-05-21
- US Congress Ready to Act on Human Rights Crisis in Tech Industry Supply Chains
- Following on from yesterday's riff on traceability technology for Vietnamese fisheries, it turns out Silicon Valley may yet be its own best customer. Despite common knowledge of serious human rights abuses relating to the mining of cassiterite in the Democratic Republic of Congo the industry has not gone far enough to guarantee...
- Tags: Enterprise Software, Finance, Financial Accounting, James Farrar, Mineral, Software, Supply Chain Management (SCM), U.S. Congress
- Blog posts 2009-05-21
- Google to Congress: We can help news publishers - if they embrace opportunities
- Google to Congress: We can help news publishers - if they embrace opportunitiesit sounds like the media should do more online advertisingmore popups, add words or go in some sort of paid subsription for the clean text/video.Truth is we have too many journalists trying to make a living selling the...
- Tags: INTERNET, news publisher, Google Inc., U.S. Congress
- Discussion threads 2009-05-06
- Google to Congress: We can help news publishers - if they embrace opportunities
- When did the news industry become like the music industry - a group of finger-pointing businesses trying to find someone else to blame for their woes? In both the music and news industries, the adoption of new technology completely disrupted a long-standing business model. But whose fault...
- Tags: Google Inc., U.S. Congress, News Industry, Strategy, Management, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-05-06
- Congress eyes LimeWire over inadvertant P2P breaches
- Congress eyes LimeWire over inadvertant P2P breachesHey, why would you allow these thingsOn 'national security critical' computers or judicial computers in the first place. Secondly, LimeWire and Shareaza ask you what YOU WANT TO SHARE as part of the initial installation... and won't allow you to just share the entire...
- Tags: Peer to peer (P2P), LimeWire, P2P breach, U.S. Congress, P2P
- Discussion threads 2009-04-22
- Congress eyes LimeWire over inadvertant P2P breaches
- LimeWire is in the hotseat as the flagship P2P application. This time the issue is not music filesharing but security breaches through inadvertant file sharing. A House committee has sent letters to Lime Group chairman Mark Gorton, the FTC and the Justice Department, announcing that it would reopen a previous...
- Tags: LimeWire, P2P, U.S. Congress, Social Security Number, House Committee, Peer To Peer (P2P), Social Security, Operational Accounting, Internet, Government, Finance, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2009-04-22
- Feedback on federal contracting
- Readers respond. Reforming IT acquisition and purchasing will be hugely difficult. by Richard Koman
- Tags: Information Technology, U.S. Congress, Financial Crisis, Government IT, Government, Vertical Industries, Enterprise Software, Software, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2009-03-09
- Silicon Valley seeing green
- Here's a close look at what Silicon Valley hopes to gain from the Recovery Bill and its promise to increase spending on green tech. The San Jose mahyor sounds disturbed that he encoungtered Neanderthals in Congress. He expectedc someting else? OK, I apologize. Neanderthals really...
- Tags: Silicon Valley, U.S. Congress, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-03-05
- News to know: Congress; Newser; Apple; VMware; High-speed rail
- Harry Fuller: Confronting Congressional hypocrisy The U.S. is losing it Tom Steinert-Threlkeld: Newser Versus The New York Times, Revisited: Who's Copying Whom? Andrew Nusca: Apple director: 'no change' in Jobs' plans Sam Diaz: No Twitter blasts...
- Tags: Google Inc., Dana Blankenhorn, U.S. Congress, Mary Jo Foley, Apple Inc., VMware Inc., Sam Diaz, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Cloud Computing, E-mail Providers, Strategy, Hardware, Internet, Management
- Blog posts 2009-02-26
- Confronting Congressional hypocrisy
- We all know that members of Congress live sheltered lives. Secure dining areas. Federally-paid staff with plenty of job benefits. Great health insurance and access to perks and junkets on "official" business. Now some anti-coal groups are going to bring home the hypocrisy of both political...
- Tags: Coal, U.S. Congress, Hypocrisy, Cable, Benefits, Healthcare, Insurance, Telecommunications, Personal Technology, Human Resources, Business Operations, Corporate Insurance, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-02-25
- Highlights From the 2009 GSMA Mobile World Congress
- Phones of the future on display in Barcelona, Spain. by CNET News.com
- Tags: Spain, Mobile, Barcelona, U.S. Congress, Advertising & Promotion, Telecom & Utilities, Marketing, CNET News.com
- Image galleries 2009-02-20
- GSMA World Congress show floor photos
- CNET brings you the sights from the show floor of the GSMA World Congress. by CNET News.com
- Tags: U.S. Congress, Photograph, Sight, CNET News.com
- Image galleries 2009-02-20
- GSMA Mobile World Congress - Barcelona
- It's CES for the mobile world from Barcelona. All the major carriers and manufacturers are there to show off their new phones, communications software, deals, and more.
- Tags: Mobile, Barcelona, U.S. Congress, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing
- Articles 2009-02-17
- Copyright battle over iPhone jailbreaks
- Nice piece from Saul Hansell in the Times around Apple's copyright claims on iPhone jailbreaking. The Electronic Frontier Foundation, in a filing PDF with the Copyright Office, urged an exception to copyright law that would allow customers to jailbreak the iPhone. Apple responded PDF, urging no exception. ...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Copyright Law, U.S. Congress, Apple Inc., Saul Hansell, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2009-02-15
- DTV delay bill clears Congress
- DTV delay bill clears CongressWorst is yet to come.The worst part about this is what it will mean to all the people who have held off from converting. Now they know the fed isn't serious and they will continue to wait and expect the date to be pushed back again...
- Tags: TVs, TV & Home Theater, digital television, TV, U.S. Congress
- Discussion threads 2009-02-04
- DTV delay bill clears Congress
- Reset those countdown clocks. The deadline for the nation's switch to digital TV has been extended to June 12 - assuming, of course, that President Obama signs legislation that was passed in the Senate last week and today in the House of Representatives. The president has already...
- Tags: U.S. Congress, Delay, Digital Television, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Service Management, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-02-04
- What goes around comes around
- What goes around comes aroundThe picture is wrong.It should be a group photo of Congress, with Barny and Nancy front and center holding up their book called "How to Destroy an economy in 9 short years"Chapter 1 starts with the Community Reinvestment Act. Introduce an enforced social program where...
- Tags: Financial services, Chapter 4, Chapter 11, Chapter 7, bank, U.S. Congress
- Discussion threads 2009-01-27
- Can we really have pre-emption without review?
- Can we really have pre-emption without review?Buyer Beware has replace Do No Harm for Drug and Device Mfg. and the FDADana,You can't argue with good old fashioned common sense! Everything about preemption, from the way it was initiated without public debate in Congress to its purpose (protection of corporate profits...
- Tags: Federal government, FDA, U.S. Congress, Buyer Beware
- Discussion threads 2009-01-17
- 7 parting thoughts from FCC chair Martin
- 7 parting thoughts from FCC chair MartinMartin is not a cogent thinker...nor are any of the people at the FCC. The FCC has been a blight on our government for far too long. It's time to get people who have a clue about technology, and are less worried about lining...
- Tags: Federal government, Martin, FCC
- Discussion threads 2009-01-11
- Lessig, Colbert in Copyright Smackdown
- Larry Lessig was on Colbert last night and it was a copyright smackdown. Stephen started the interview off demanding what Lessig means by "hybrid economy" in the title of his new book, Remix: Making Art and Commerce Thrive in the Hybrid Economy. The phrase refers to...
- Tags: U.S. Congress, Kid, SC, LL, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2009-01-09

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