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Monthly archive January, 2008

Waxman asks some big local names for pay-planning data

Henry Waxman, chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, sent out a letter today to the 250 largest public companies in the U.S. asking them to provide information about how executive compensation consultants are Read More →

Upon further review, replay confirms TiVo’s patent win

Shares of TiVo jumped almost 30 percent to a 52-week high today after a federal appeals court upheld both a patent infringement ruling that the DVR pioneer had won against Dish Networks (formerly EchoStar) and the $90 million Read More →

This is not your older brother’s Amazon

Between an acquisition announced today and some stats released yesterday, we're getting a good illustration of just how far Amazon has come in its transition from an online retailer of physical goods to a vendor of digital entertainment and Read More →

Green light for open-access spectrum

Well, now we know that somehow, in some fashion, we will see someone offer open access to a valuable swath of wireless spectrum at sometime in the future. Bidding for the C Block in the government's auction of 700Mhz spectrum Read More →

Quoted

"Any time you get a group of IT experts together, there's always a desire, 'Let's show them what we can do.' Whether its intent was embarrassment or a prank, we had to temper the enthusiasm of the players." -- Read More →

Off Topic

A few handy new tools today: Instapaper, a dead-simple bookmarking system for stories you want to read later; GreenPrint, which stops the annoyance of printouts with wasteful pages; and SiloBreaker, a site for news junkies that Read More →
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