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Monthly archive June, 2008

Goodbye Bill Gates and Windows XP. Hello…?

It's all yours, Steve Ballmer. The Bud Abbott of Redmond, and perhaps the tech world's most famous sidekick, has officially taken the reigns of the world's most important technology company at Read More →

PDL board spreads around more cash to top execs and themselves

The board at PDL Biopharma, which has sold more than a half billion dollars' worth of assets to assuage disgruntled investors, has decided to spread some of the cash around. On Friday, Read More →

A follow up to my column on carbon offsets

I'm cross posting this from Matt Nauman's Green Tech Beat blog: On Sunday, I wrote a column for the Mercury News called: "What's the value of a redwood tree? How carbon offsets work in one forest." In the Read More →

Time and money spent improving governance doesn’t improve shareholder value, says Stanford study

In a study titled "Who's Watching the Watchdogs?'' that "is likely to be controversial,'' Stanford said Monday it has found evidence that "questions the value of the Read More →

Bad reviews prompt Netflix to rewrite “Profiles” script with happy ending

Here's one of those cases where an idea percolates through a company and seems very reasonable and logical until it's released into the wild, whereupon it is quickly set upon and ripped apart by angry customers. Video-rental-by-mail pioneer Netflix thought Read More →

For your next challenge, you must cross the fair-use tightrope before the DMCA projectiles knock you into the mud

Before there was ABC's "Wipeout," the new series featuring contestants competing in slapstick physical contests in the style of a Japanese game show, there was "MXC," a cult hit on Spike that used original footage from one of Read More →
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