Source: CNET SCO sees loss on legal fees Last modified: December 22, 2003, 6:07 AM PST By Matt Hines Staff Writer, CNET News.com update Controversial Unix software company the SCO Group reported a loss for its fourth quarter on Monday based largely on hefty legal fees the company has accrued in waging its intellectual property war against Linux. The Lindon, Utah-based company said it had a fourth-quarter net loss of $1.6 million, or 12 cents per share, compared...

Source: CNET Judge rules Microsoft infringed on Eolas patent Last modified: January 14, 2004, 5:40 PM PST By John Borland Staff Writer, CNET News.com A Chicago federal judge on Wednesday upheld a $521 million patent verdict against Microsoft that could ultimately force major changes in many of the most common Internet software products. Judge James Zagel said he saw no reason to overturn an August jury verdict that said Microsoft's Internet Explorer Web browsin...

Source: New York Times ECONOMIC SCENE What Goes Abroad Usually Comes Back, With Benefits By HAL R. VARIAN Published: March 11, 2004 THE Jan. 31 issue of The Economist described the consequences of high-tech jobs moving overseas. According to the story, "with the trans-Atlantic shift in R&D goes many high-value jobs, as well as a greater share of the industry's profits." This trend has led to an "increasing concern" in the industry, with some executives speaking out again...

Source: New York Times ABC Under Disney: Kingdom, Yes. Magic, No. By BILL CARTER Published: March 8, 2004 "The Apprentice," the new NBC reality program celebrating the corporate wisdom of Donald J. Trump, is a "total game changer," in the words of Jeff Zucker, the president of NBC Entertainment. Averaging 20 million viewers a week and pulling in more high-income viewers than any other series, it has saved NBC's once-invincible Thursday night lineup, turned around its seas...

Source ZDNET SCO suits target two big Linux users By Stephen Shankland CNET News.com March 3, 2004, 1:14 PM PT The SCO Group is targeting lawsuits at auto parts retailer AutoZone and automaker DaimlerChrysler in its continuing legal battle over the Unix and Linux operating systems. The software company alleges that AutoZone "violated SCO's Unix copyrights by running versions of the Linux operating system that contain code, structure, sequence and/or organization from SCO...

Source: Harvard Business School: Working Knowledge How Hot is the "Hot Spot" Business? May 12, 2003 Wi-Fi hot spots and the future of broadband were on the minds of attendees at the Bandwidth Explosion colloquium at Harvard Business School. by Sean Silverthorne and Martha Lagace, HBS Working Knowledge Telecommunications and Internet pioneers looked at everything from Wi-Fi “hot spots” to the future of broadband at a recent telecommunications conference at Harvard Busine...

SOURCE: Netscape Careers and Jobs Job Burnout: Symptoms and Remedies By Kate Lorenz, Careerbuilder.com editor Today's work culture of heavy workloads, longer days at the office, less time spent at home and fewer vacation days taken is causing rampant job burnout. In fact, 68 percent of workers report feeling burned out at the office, according to a recent CareerBuilder.com survey. So what are some symptoms you're suffering from job burnout? Mary Rose Remington, author of Career ...

Source: Village Voice Generation Debt: The New Economics of Being Young by Solana Pyne One Sick Fall With health insurance out of reach, a generation braces itself for the worst July 13th, 2004 11:30 AM If they're not outright poor as a class, young adults in this country are at least very, very broke. The average collegian graduates with more than $20,000 in debt, headed for a job market where real hourly wages have kept pace with neither inflation nor the cost of living. Yo...

Source: Netscape News eBay Flirts With Digital Music Downloads By RACHEL KONRAD SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) - Online auction giant eBay Inc. will allow some customers to buy and sell digital music files as part of a pilot program that could piggyback on the success of Apple Computer Inc.'s iTunes service. San Jose, Calif.-based eBay said an unspecified number of ``preapproved'' users could conduct digital music transactions in eBay's new ``Digital Downloads'' category for the next 180...

Source: Village Voice You can't say that on TV—but Bill Cosby can Mushmouth Reconsidered by Ta-Nehisi Coates July 13th, 2004 11:00 AM In 1988, Bill Cosby elevated himself from black middle-class ambassador to bona fide Race Man. And he did it the old-fashioned way—with cold cash. That year, the entertainer donated a mind-numbing $20 million to his daughter's historically black alma mater, Spelman College. Cosby's largesse, toward the end of the greed-and-grab '80s, occasioned much ...

Source: New York Times Television's Most Persistent Taboo By KATE AURTHUR Published: July 18, 2004 TWO 14-year-old girls are talking. One, named Manny, says to the other: "I'm just trying to do the right thing here. For me. For everyone, I guess." The speaker is a character on "Degrassi: The Next Generation," a popular Canadian soap opera for kids, who is telling her best friend why she's decided to have an abortion. The two-part episode was shown on CTV in Canada in Januar...

Source: New York Times You Can't Do That on Television! By SCOTT ROBSON Published: July 18, 2004 STEVEN BOCHCO is a little anxious. In a few weeks, the multiple Emmy Award-winning writer-producer will start sending scripts for the coming season of "N.Y.P.D. Blue" to ABC executives for their input. It's something Mr. Bochco has done for years, a first step in every episode's journey from writing room to living room. But Mr. Bochco is still smarting from lost battles with net...

Source CNET Apple: 99 cent music price tag staying Last modified: May 7, 2004, 12:56 PM PDT By John Borland Staff Writer, CNET News.com Apple Computer dismissed rumors Friday of rising single-song prices at its iTunes online music store, saying that it planned to maintain the price tag of 99 cents per song. Reiterating comments made by Chief Executive Officer Steve Jobs last week, an Apple spokeswoman said the company is maintaining its single price tag fo...

Source CNET MTV wants its online-music store Last modified: May 7, 2004, 6:10 AM PDT By Reuters MTV Networks is expected to launch an online music service powered by MusicNet later this year, making it the latest big brand to enter an increasingly crowded market for online music, according to people familiar with the plan. Both MTV, a unit of Viacom, and MusicNet, a joint venture of RealNetworks and three labels, Bertelsmann's BMG, EMI Group and Warner Musi...

SOURCE: CNET NEWS.com eBay looks to go local with Craigslist stake Published: August 13, 2004, 1:56 PM PDT By Jim Hu Staff Writer, CNET News.com eBay's announcement on Friday that it took a 25 percent stake in online classifieds site Craigslist illustrates how the Web's biggest players are putting a heavy focus on going local. Craigslist, launched in 1995, is a bare-bones classifieds site for people looking for almost anything, such as apartments, dates or baseball tickets, i...