From the monthly archives: October 2006
Ever since I read last week about EMI CEO Alain Levy declaring, "the CD as it is right now is dead," I’ve been trying to decide what I think about it. Do I agree? (Do I care?)
It’s certainly not a ridiculous thing to say. We’re always hearing about how CD sales [...]
The official Google blog today announced that it would release an
exclusive video from the makers of the incredibly popular Diet Coke and
Mentos act. Their new video is available for viewing and includes a
"thanks to Mentos and Coca-Cola" at the end while flashing the
companies’ website [...]
Reuters reports that out of the United States 220 million cellphone users, approximately 88
million send text messages frequently and about 46 million have
downloaded a ringtone. Accordingly,
65 billion
text messages were sent in the U.S. alone through the first half of
this year. That is nearly [...]
Not surprisingly, Hell.com failed to have any bids placed above the $2.3 million reserve set by the seller at a live auction on Friday. Bids were apparently above $500,000 but still a far cry from the $2.3 million minimum. Personally, I would have taken the $500,000, especially considering the site is only getting [...]
The Economist has an article (subscription required) about South Africans using cellphones as banks. About half a million South Africans now use their mobile phones as a bank. Apparently, while most South Africans do not have traditional bank accounts, most do have mobile phones. And a company called Wizzit (among others) is [...]
If you’ve been following the e360 v. Spamhaus case, you’ve probably heard that the Judge refused to order Spamhaus’s domain name suspended. If you haven’t been following it, here’s a short recap. American e360 filed suit against British Spamhaus for calling at least some of e360′s "opt-in marketing" activites "spamming" (you say "tomato [...]
The Wall Street Journal (subscription required) reports that Hell.com will go up for sale today, Friday, October 27, 2006. Through some sort of live auction format, the domain is expected to draw bids of more than $1 million or so they say. The organizers of these type of auctions claim that the supposedly [...]
The ACLU filed a suit Monday, the latest in its ongoing challenge of COPA, the Child Online Protection Act. Frankly, I’m surprised at how little attention this is getting–particularly in the tech world. (It hasn’t been completely ignored; here’s a helpful summary.) Maybe it’s because of how the issue seems to be framed: [...]
Google’s recruiting process is notoriously tedious. Experiences of job candidates range from those who had to pass through a dozen or more in-person interviews to those with years of work experience who were rejected after disclosing their less-than-stellar college grades.
But Google’s growth is causing the search giant to find talent faster. The [...]
Is Google the "government of the Internet?" So complains David Milman–chief executive of Rescuecom, a company that lost a lawsuit to Google over trademark and search terms–in this New York Times article. In terms of its seeming invulnerability from the consequences of living life on the Internet’s bleeding egde, fighting Google has indeed [...]
