Archive for the 'Financial' Category
Welcome back!That’s right. Micro$oft is now showing how desperate they are in their war with Google.
They’re actually paying people to search in the form of a “cashback service” that gives users discounts of from 2% to 30% on products purchased as a result of doing the search through it’s “Live Search” service.
Frankly, I think [...]
June 4th, 2008 | Posted in Business, Financial, Internet, Misc, Opinion | Comments Off
That’s right. The Los Angeles county board of supervisors has taken anti-piracy efforts and jacked them up on bodybuilding supplements, creating a monstrosity of a legal situation.
This is going to allow them to close down a property for up to one year for violations of this anti-infringement ordinance and the owner can be hit [...]
May 18th, 2008 | Posted in Business, DRM, File Sharing, Financial, Movies, Music, Networking, Opinion | Comments Off
EZUnsecured.com is a business finance Consulting Firm that specializes in unsecured Small Business Loans and Lines of Credit for Small Business Owners. Their service is to help prepare an application package and then send it on to the lenders that their experience shows will be most likely to approve the loan.
This streamlined application process [...]
May 16th, 2008 | Posted in Business, Financial, Misc, Websites | Comments Off
The price of crude oil and therefore gasoline are continuing their monstrous rate of increase and Congress is busy arguing their various pet plans for what to do about it. Thing is, While both the Democrats and the Republicans have several options in mind, they’re apparently not getting the severity of the situation. [...]
May 12th, 2008 | Posted in Business, Energy, Financial, Opinion, Tech, news | Comments Off
At least for the time being, the RIAA’s Boston University subpoena has been quashed until the judge in question can examine the university’s terms of service for student internet access. This is another in a growing list of roadblocks, setbacks and outright defeats that the RIAA is suffering more and more in their persecution [...]
April 19th, 2008 | Posted in Business, File Sharing, Financial, Internet, Misc, Movies, Music, Opinion, news | Comments Off
Tanya Anderson, originally sued for copyright infringement by the RIAA in 2005 and has since been fighting back, has filed an amended complaint against the RIAA. This case is getting more interesting as it continues. The latest move is no doubt going to have the RIAA and their lawyers squirming in whatever furniture [...]
April 6th, 2008 | Posted in Business, Computers, File Sharing, Financial, Internet, Misc, Movies, Music, Networking, Opinion, freenet, news | Comments Off
Since everybody seems to be offering opinions about the current financial crisis going on I figured that I’d jump in and offer some of my ideas just for the heck of it. From what I know, the whole thing that’s led up to the fire-sale of Bear Stearns can be traced back to a [...]
March 19th, 2008 | Posted in Business, Financial, Misc, Opinion, news | Comments Off
Now that this case as been granted class action status, Microsoft is of course flailing away at this latest development. Now they’re trying to get the legal process of discovery halted while it appeals the decision to make the case a class action.
This process is where each side finds out all of the information [...]
March 15th, 2008 | Posted in Business, Computers, Financial, Internet, Misc, Opinion, Programming, news, software | Comments Off
Rep. Howard Coble of North Carolina, a member of the House Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet, and Intellectual Property, recently wrote something recently with the sensationalist title “Share your music — lose your identity”, which shows that in my opinion there is a more than probable chance that he’s pretty much in the pockets [...]
March 12th, 2008 | Posted in Business, Computers, DRM, File Sharing, Financial, Freedom of Speech, Internet, Opinion, Privacy, news, software, surveillance | 1 Comment
For a long time now the MPAA has been jumping up and down screaming bloody murder about how the nasty evil pirates are destroying their ability to make a profit. They spend a lot of time and money trying to convince people that we need to have special anti-piracy laws to target whole herds [...]
March 9th, 2008 | Posted in Business, DRM, File Sharing, Financial, Internet, Movies, Music, Opinion | 1 Comment