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More Votes Lost By Diebold; Discovered By Unique Voting Transparency Project
Date : 10 Dec 2008
TechdirtFor years and years Diebold Election Systems (now Premier Election Solutions) had always vehemently denied that its e-voting or op read more »
Can Concert Promoters Become The New Record Labels?
Date : 10 Dec 2008 TechdirtA little over a year ago, the recording industry was surprised to learn that Madonna wasn't signing a new record label contract, b read more »
Yet Another State Court Explores Right To Anonymity In Online Posting
Date : 10 Dec 2008 TechdirtWe've seen an awful lot of lawsuits over the years concerning the "right to anonymity" for online commenters. While other countri read more »
Do Google's Patent Lobbying Efforts Matter In Patent Infringement Suits Against The Company?
Date : 10 Dec 2008 TechdirtGoogle, of course, is on the receiving end of numerous patent lawsuits (and the number seems to keep growing). In one, brought by read more »
Cantor Fitzgerald Revives Hollywood Stock Exchange Plans To Let Studios Bet Against Movies
Date : 10 Dec 2008 TechdirtBoing Boing has a post that caught my eye about Cantor Fitzgerald's plan to offer bonds based on the performance of movies, basica read more »
Whether Twitter, Blogs Or Mainstream Media... Breaking News Can Get Facts Wrong
Date : 09 Dec 2008 TechdirtThere was a silly debate soon after the awful tragedy of the terrorist attacks in Mumbai last month, where people started question read more »
Online Watchdog Admits It Goofed On Wikipedia Ban; Reverses Decision
Date : 09 Dec 2008 TechdirtAfter being subject to widespread ridicule for forcing Wikipedia in the UK to block a page for an album cover graphic from 32 year read more »
Congress Slams Kevin Martin For Abuse Of Power
Date : 09 Dec 2008 TechdirtFCC boss Kevin Martin is nearing the end of his tenure at the FCC, looking ready to jump into a lucrative industry job or (some ha read more »
Regulators unveil new aid plan for credit unions (AP)
Date : 09 Dec 2008
Yahoo! News: BusinessAP - Federal regulators said Tuesday they are making more than $40 billion available to support several credit unions that suffere read more »
Using Amazon To Protest Products You Don't Like
Date : 09 Dec 2008 TechdirtThe main thing that kicked off all the negative attention over EA's use of SecuROM DRM in Spore was the avalanche of negative revi read more »
NY Times, McClatchy brace for tough '09 (Reuters)
Date : 09 Dec 2008 Yahoo! News: BusinessReuters - The New York Times Co and McClatchy Co said on Tuesday they will work to reduce debt in 2009, which is shaping up to be read more »
Wall Street fails to extend global stock rally (AFP)
Date : 09 Dec 2008 Yahoo! News: BusinessAFP - Wall Street shares fell hard Tuesday as investors locked in recent gains, while European stock markets extended their rally read more »
Wall Street stung by risk-aversion and bleak outlooks (Reuters)
Date : 09 Dec 2008 Yahoo! News: BusinessReuters - Stocks fell on Tuesday as profit warnings from FedEx Corp and others prompted investors to retrench after two days of b read more »
Wal-Mart suspends stock repurchase program (AP)
Date : 09 Dec 2008 Yahoo! News: BusinessAP - Wal-Mart Stores Inc. said Tuesday that it is temporarily suspending its stock repurchase program, citing the economic environ read more »
Panel to criticize U.S. financial rescue: report (Reuters)
Date : 09 Dec 2008 Yahoo! News: BusinessReuters - A congressionally appointed panel that oversees the Treasury Department's $700 billion financial rescue fund is expected read more »
Take Some Time Today To Watch Doug Engelbart's Demo
Date : 09 Dec 2008 TechdirtI have a presentation that I've done many times now for various corporate execs (usually from Europe) trying to understand just wh read more »
Why A Music Tax Is A Bad Idea
Date : 09 Dec 2008 TechdirtWe already had a post discussing how we find it troubling that Warner Music has not been more open in discussing its proposed "vol read more »
Warner Music: Where's The Conversation?
Date : 09 Dec 2008 TechdirtLast week, we broke the story about a presentation being given to various universities about a music "tax" plan. The plan present read more »
Dealing Virtual Drugs On The iPhone Seems Unlikely To Get People To Do Real Drugs
Date : 09 Dec 2008 TechdirtFor many, many, many years there has been a very popular application called Dope Wars. I used to have a copy of it on my Palm Pil read more »
New Zealand Hairdresser Gets Bill For Playing Music In Her Shop
Date : 09 Dec 2008 TechdirtFor years, we've questioned why it makes sense for various songwriters' collection societies to charge a license fee for playing m read more »
Sony to cut 16,000 jobs, slash costs (Reuters)
Date : 09 Dec 2008 Yahoo! News: BusinessReuters - Japan's Sony Corp said it will cut 16,000 jobs, curb investment and pull out of businesses to save $1.1 billion a year a read more »
FTSE 100 up 47.56 at 4,347.62 (AP)
Date : 09 Dec 2008 Yahoo! News: BusinessAP - Share prices on the London Stock Exchange were up at midday Tuesday. read more »
Former Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac execs to testify (AP)
Date : 09 Dec 2008 Yahoo! News: BusinessAP - Lawmakers are poised to trade barbs Tuesday about who deserves most of the blame for the collapse and government takeover of read more »
PlayStation Hurts Ronaldinho's Performance Once More
Date : 09 Dec 2008 TechdirtDuring the 2006 World Cup, Brazilian soccer star Ronaldinho made some headlines after his poor performance in the quarterfinal, wh read more »
AutoZone posts lower fiscal 1st-quarter profit (AP)
Date : 09 Dec 2008 Yahoo! News: BusinessAP - AutoZone says its fiscal first-quarter profit declined amid higher expenses and weak domestic same-store sales for the auto p read more »