SOURCE: Netscape Money and Business Google's Challenge of 'Froogles' Rejected WASHINGTON (AP) - Google Inc.'s right to use the name ``Froogle'' for its online shopping service came into question Friday when an arbitration panel rejected the company's challenge of a Web site named Froogles.com. Two of the three judges on the panel of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, or ICANN, rejected Google's argument that Froogles.com was ``confusingly similar'' to Google...
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...
In today's world of computers, calculations, bosses, managers, knowledge workers and leaders what someone might say is how the heck do you keep all that together? (You try really hard using this sticky glue called Community Poop) There is an answer and it has allot to do with the people that surround you. if anyone has ever stayed on the message board of any site, you find that you learn something at one time or another sooner or later. I have been on the net hard core for about 2 - 3 year...
Source: CNET Tech, studio giants team on new DVD locks Last modified: July 14, 2004, 11:37 AM PDT By John Borland Staff Writer, CNET News.com A group of high-profile technology companies and movie studios have joined forces to create a new copy protection standard for DVDs that could allow high-definition movies to be copied and used inside home networks. Dubbed Advanced Access Content System, or AACS, the technology--which has yet to be created--would replace the antico...
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...
For me, TextBanners (Run by Stardock) is one of the best ideas to come out. Similar to Google text ads, yet in allot of ways more localized to a community. For example, TextBanners is the New York Daily News while Google is the New York Times. One is more local while the other is more national (or international). How do you use both at the same time? My solution is simple... I guess. I am actually carrying out this solution on my knowledge-base site I am creating for myself joeKnowledge ...
Is JoeUser ever going to allow a user to have multiple blog groups? Like at least 4? I know having too many can be bothersome as one person will have all these groups. Me, I need it for fun and for personal business. I want to use the blog technology for some things (like weddings, parties and way more other stuff) Is there a pay feature coming soon? Is Blog Navigator that feature?
I have wondered about the vote many months ago after the bombings in March. Did the Spanish really vote the way they did out of fear or out of disfavor of there countries participation in Iraq?
If you have the Google Toolbar you can search for words by highlighting them to look for specific topics I have collected around the net over the course of almost a year. In RAW Format means its just a list of links in no order and with no description. 1) Most of the links are on current/past events, science, technology, art, business, political/social, and education. Basically things I am interested in. 2) Future links will be posted here in RAW format and some chosen links w...
If you have the Google Toolbar you can search for words by highlighting them to look for specific topics I have collected around the net over the course of almost a year. In RAW Format means its just a list of links in no order and with no description Most of the links are on current/past events, science, technology, art, business, political/social, and education. Basically things I am interested in. Links with dates on them will be on my website as news stories (Only Dates ...