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Recently Google announced a 10% pay increase across the board for all employees effective January 1st, 2011 in a private company-wide email. The email was promptly sent out of the company to some very eager news organizations to expound upon (I admit, I am no exception). For this the engineer was promptly fired. Further news [...]
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Earlier this year was a lot of news and hubbub about the battle between Time Warner and News Corp over Fox channels. Time Warner made a big show of the cost hikes, and they made sure to openly blame News Corp for their service fee hikes. They even setup a website asking people to “Get [...]
Continue reading about The New Age Of TV, My Experiment In Moving Away From Cable
I recently read an article on Forbes.com where the reporter attempts to talk about Embryonic Stem Cell research (or ES) and its supposed dirty little secret. In this article the author, Michael Fumento, asks when will ES be ready for clinical applications and suggests that ES is not worth pursuing because end results that involve [...]
Continue reading about Forbes.com Apparently Doesn’t Understand How Research Works
Years ago, at the dawning of the internet, news outlets broke from the norm by offering the news online at no addition cost. It has been almost two decades since then and several things have changed. First, the number of sources of news online has grown exponentially. Second, the technology has changed and improved, giving [...]
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As some of you (anyone that has read the about me section) know, I am a web developer and as such I have become involved in open source projects (the PHP that runs this website for starters). One of the most frustrating things about open source is finding a way to monetize it. So far [...]
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After the last few articles that I have written I thought that things couldn’t get much worse. I thought they would at least give it a couple weeks before taking another shot a stomping on consumer rights. Boy was I wrong. Today we received news about a small town in North Carolina called Wilson. This [...]
Continue reading about Apparently The Cable Broadband Industry Hates Consumer Rights
Last week was a busy one for not only Time Warner, but also the cable industry. First Time Warner released a statement about the new national broadband initiative to which the FCC has taken on a “consultative role”. In the statement they essentially tell the FCC that the nation needs to stick with worrying about [...]
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