Archive for the ‘politics’ Category
Thursday, November 29th, 2007
As reported in Computerworld:
In a brief submitted to federal court, state antitrust regulators dismissed companies such as Google and Mozilla Corp. and technologies such as AJAX and software as a service as piddling players that pose no threat to Microsoft's monopoly in the operating system and browser markets.
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"In spite ...
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Monday, November 26th, 2007
A few weeks ago, Her Indoors made an off-hand comment about how I should do more for good causes. At the time I grunted as my attention was elsewhere but the statement didn't leave me and I've been mulling it over for the last few days. The outcome of this ...
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Saturday, November 24th, 2007
Stephen Fry gets into an argument about global warming (which is a good read in itself) but also starts off with this gem of an observation.
when I get into a debate I can get very, very hot under the collar, very impassioned, and I dare say, very maddening, for once ...
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Tuesday, November 13th, 2007
A couple of years ago Mac-Sys got a commendation for their working practises with regards to work/life balance and teleworking. We did bend over backwards to assist employees who had children and also in some cases were able to allow people to work from home. It's something that I valued ...
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Tuesday, October 30th, 2007
BBC News LinkMore than 900 workers losing their jobs at a County Londonderry computer company are to receive details of the redundancy terms being offered to them. Staff at Seagate in Limavady were told on Monday they were losing their jobs. Seagate, which has received £12m from Invest Northern Ireland ...
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Tuesday, October 30th, 2007
Yeah, there's a certain "Duh!" about the headline...
The UK computer agency Becta is advising schools not to sign licensing agreements with Microsoft because of alleged anti-competitive practices.
The government agency has complained to the Office of Fair Trading.
The article is on the BBC News site. The reasons being:
a spokesman for ...
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Thursday, October 11th, 2007
I know it's an odd diversion but I was reading "A Walk on the Wild Side of New Age Finance from Financial Armageddon this morning.
They detailed the concept of Level 3 Assets:Level 3 assets are those that trade so infrequently that there is virtually no reliable market price for them, ...
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