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When There Are So Many 'Human Errors' On Your E-Voting Machines, It's Your Problem
Date : 16 Sep 2008
TechdirtLast week, we wrote about yet another problem with Sequoia e-voting equipment where the company was vehemently denying the problem read more »
Best Buy 2Q profit slides 19 percent (AP)
Date : 16 Sep 2008
Yahoo! News: BusinessAP - Best Buy Co. said Tuesday that its second-quarter profit slid 19 percent as it spent money to boost cell phone sales by compl read more »
NBC Proud That It Made It More Difficult For People To Watch The Olympics
Date : 16 Sep 2008 TechdirtWe've already explained how screwed up NBC's Olympic coverage policy on the web turned out to be. Its use of proprietary technolo read more »
Hey, Didn't Taxpayers Pay For Those Patents NASA Is Auctioning Off?
Date : 16 Sep 2008 TechdirtReallyEvilCanine writes in to let us know that Ocean Tomo, the patent auctioning company has worked out an agreement to auction of read more »
European markets slide on Lehman, Merrill woes (AP)
Date : 16 Sep 2008 Yahoo! News: BusinessAP - World stock markets swooned again Tuesday as the global financial crisis caused investors to worry that asset prices have yet read more »
Big Law Firm, Jones Day, Abusing Trademark Law To Stop Website From Reporting Public Info
Date : 16 Sep 2008 TechdirtWe've seen all sorts of cases of companies abusing trademark law over the years, but this latest one may be the most questionable read more »
AIG shares plummet as cash crisis mounts (Reuters)
Date : 16 Sep 2008 Yahoo! News: BusinessReuters - American International Group Inc shares plummeted early Tuesday after the insurer's credit ratings were cut, heighten read more »
AIG jitters grip Wall Street (Reuters)
Date : 16 Sep 2008 Yahoo! News: BusinessReuters - Stocks fell on Tuesday as investors worried about insurer American International Group's ability to secure desperatel read more »
AIG tumbles, worsening financial carnage (Reuters)
Date : 16 Sep 2008 Yahoo! News: BusinessReuters - American International Group Inc shares tumbled 50 percent after the giant U.S. insurer's credit ratings were slashed, read more »
Best Buy 2Q profit drops 19 percent (AP)
Date : 16 Sep 2008 Yahoo! News: BusinessAP - Best Buy Co. said Tuesday that its second-quarter profit slid 19 percent as the consumer electronics retailer spent money to read more »
Barclays nears deal for Lehman U.S. unit: source (Reuters)
Date : 16 Sep 2008 Yahoo! News: BusinessReuters - British bank Barclays is near to a deal to buy Lehman Brothers' core U.S. broker-dealer business, a person familiar read more »
We Should Be More Worried About Our ISPs Than Google When It Comes To Abuse
Date : 16 Sep 2008 TechdirtWith the government gearing up to potentially go after Google for antitrust violations, we're seeing all sorts of press coverage o read more »
Consumer prices ease on cheaper energy (Reuters)
Date : 16 Sep 2008 Yahoo! News: BusinessReuters - Consumer prices dropped 0.1 percent in August, the first decline in nearly two years as energy costs fell in a sign th read more »
Is Firefox Missing The Point In Its Response To Google Chrome?
Date : 16 Sep 2008 TechdirtSeth Godin thinks Firefox is missing the point by launching new features in response to Google Chrome. He says the problem now is read more »
World stocks in freefall for second day (AFP)
Date : 16 Sep 2008 Yahoo! News: BusinessAFP - Global equities tumbled for a second day running on Tuesday as anxious investors waited to see if US insurance giant AIG wou read more »
Student Charged With Crime For Telling University Officials About Security Hole
Date : 16 Sep 2008 TechdirtFor many years, we've covered case after case after case after case after case after case after case of people being blamed, arres read more »
Is Stubhub Guilty Of Violating Anti-Scalping Laws? Not This Time...
Date : 16 Sep 2008 TechdirtWe've seen a few different lawsuits involving ticket reselling website Stubhub (owned by eBay). Last year, you may remember, a co read more »
AT&T Moves Away From 'Up To' Marketing
Date : 15 Sep 2008 TechdirtFor years, one of our pet peeves was the use of "up to" in telco marketing -- as in, "you get speeds up to 10 Mbps!" The "up to" read more »
Google On The High Seas
Date : 15 Sep 2008 TechdirtIt looks like Google has had enough of the taxes, rules, and regulations associated with hosting its data in various countries aro read more »
Baidu Expose Suggests That It's A Lot More Involved In Music Downloads Than It Lets On
Date : 15 Sep 2008 TechdirtMore than three years ago, when Chinese search engine Baidu first filed to go public, we noted that it's huge advantage over Googl read more »
Apple Now Banning Potentially Competitive Apps From The iPhone
Date : 15 Sep 2008 TechdirtYet another day and yet another odd attempt by Apple to arbitrarily control what's in the App Store for the iPhone. A bunch of fo read more »
Malaysia Stops Blocking Opposition Blog... But Arrests Its Founder
Date : 15 Sep 2008 TechdirtOver the last few years, we've followed the ongoing efforts of gov't officials to figure out the whole "blogging" thing. It start read more »
Napster's Next Chapter: Merged Into Best Buy
Date : 15 Sep 2008 TechdirtNapster, which now has almost nothing other than its brand to connect it to the revolutionary music sharing service Shawn Fanning read more »
Why Do The Police Call In The RIAA To Investigate Potential Crimes?
Date : 15 Sep 2008 TechdirtWe've long known that the boundary between US law enforcement and the enforcement wings of certain lobbyist organizations like the read more »
Making Results Better For End Users Isn't Acting Like A Monopolist
Date : 15 Sep 2008 TechdirtWith the Justice Department getting closer and closer to going after Google for supposed antitrust violation, we're going to see m read more »