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...
SOURCE: CNET NEWS.com Security pro: Windows easier to 'own' Published: August 13, 2004, 12:47 PM PDT By Robert Lemos Staff Writer, CNET News.com Microsoft has been waiting for security researchers to say that its Windows operating system has a lower total cost of ownership. One finally has, but that's not good news. On Friday, David Aitel, a noted security professional and managing director of vulnerability assessment firm Immunity, published a paper stating that "owning" a ...
SOURCE: NY Times Controversial Overtime Rules Take Effect By STEVEN GREENHOUSE Published: August 23, 2004 The Bush administration's new overtime rules go into effect today, but the Kerry campaign has already begun attacking the overhauled regulations, saying they will hurt millions of American workers. Urging President Bush to scrap the rules, the Kerry campaign and organized labor say the regulations will exempt up to six million additional workers from receiving overtime ...
SOURCE: NY Times Google's Offering Proves Stock Auctions Can Really Work By FLOYD NORRIS Published: August 23, 2004 It worked. Google's auction process, both criticized and feared on Wall Street, could have gone much more smoothly, and investors might yet regret putting money into a company that plans to go its own way regardless of what others think. But the fact is that Google managed to go public at a very attractive valuation - many times higher, for example, than the ...
SOURCE: NYTIMES An Oil Shock That Could Be an Economic Stimulus in Disguise By EDUARDO PORTER Published: August 21, 2004 How much will expensive oil hurt? Over the last 30 years, the United States has been driven into recession three times by abrupt surges in the price of oil. As the price of crude has surged over the last two weeks, reaching new heights almost daily, some economists have begun to worry that the current "oil shock" will slam the brakes on the nation's econom...
SOURCE: CNET NEWS.com A billion PC users on the way Published: August 2, 2004, 4:00 AM PDT By Michael Kanellos Staff Writer, CNET News.com By the end of the decade, a billion people will be clicking away at computers, but generating a profit out of newly wired portions of the world is going to take a lot of work. The number of PC users is expected to hit or exceed 1 billion by 2010, up from around 660 million to 670 million today, fueled primarily by new adopters in develo...
SOURCE: CNET NEWS.com Offshoring: A view from both shores June 29, 2004, 5:51 AM PT By Ed Frauenheim Staff Writer, CNET News.com Vivek Paul occupies a unique vantage point in the controversy roiling the technology industry over offshore outsourcing. An American citizen, Paul also is a native of India and chief executive officer of Wipro Technologies, one of that country's largest IT service companies. Many American techies are increasingly bitter about the pickup in the stre...