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April 25 to May 1, 2005
"The Wal-Mart 'Foundation' is nothing more than a front
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for Wal-Mart Stores Incorporated, and should not be confused for a real charitable non-profit"...
April 18 to 24, 2005
There was some to-do about Apple's environmental practices, and Steve Jobs pimp-slapped an environmental
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for talking trash...
April 4 to 10, 2005
A immediate flurry of inventive activity was sparked by the release of the Google Maps satellite imagery feature last week. People started making "memory maps" at Flickr...
March 28 to April 3, 2005
Also, industry
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s are trying to figure out just how long CDs and DVDs should last...
In 2001 Poland hired a marketing firm to rebrand themselves. Focus
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s said Poland made them think of the words gray, cold, vodka, poor, white, unsmiling, sad, and car-stealing...
March 21 to 27, 2005
Rock
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Franz Ferdinand's music video "Take Me Out" won the "Breakthrough Video" award at the 2005 MTV Video Music Awards. It uses high-tech techniques to create dense living collages patterne...
Finally, indie rock
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the Decemberists released a high-res version of their music video "Sixteen Military Wives" via file sharing. They are among the first musicians to release a music vide...
March 7 to 13, 2005
Meanwhile, a
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of tech CEOs went to Washington warning that "profound changes in the global economy put America's competitiveness at risk" and offered a 10-point plan...
February 14 to 20, 2005
I went to the last meeting of 106 Miles, a new Silicon Valley entrepreneur's
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organized by Joyce Park, my colleague at CommerceNet. If you'd like to get your finger on the pulse of the Valle...
January 31 to February 6, 2005
A new industry
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has been formed for holographic discs, which may store up to 1TB - that's one terabyte, or about 1,000GB...
October 18 to 24, 2004
A pro-evoting industry
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blames humans for errors. Along these lines, it's your fault every time your PC crashes, too...
August 30 to September 5, 2004
Dates of public hearings on the sale of Verizon Hawaii to The Carlyle
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Jewish
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s are up in arms about the Christian cross-like podium at the Republican National Convention...
June 21 to 27, 2004
Second, the Carlyle
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is looking to buy Verizon Hawaii - this is just part of their recent massive purchases of telecoms in the Pacific region. The deal is "complex", as it involves a number o...
If you've seen Fahrenheit 9/11, you know who the Carlyle
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is - the largest private defense contractor in the world and one of the most powerful companies that most people have never heard of...
Here's a 48-minute show called "Exposed: The Carlyle
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", which aired on TV in the Netherlands...
June 14 to 20, 2004
A section of the film explores the need for corporations to be more democratic. How about introducing software that enables companies to make better
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decisions? This isn't polling and it isn'...
This has been popular, but I love the quote: "[Defense] firms are about to pitch "a frightening new breed of stun gun" to police in America and Europe that has left human rights
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s appalled abou...
March 15 to 21, 2004
"The Dunbar Number as a Limit to
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Sizes...
March 1 to 7, 2004
An influential Washington policy
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released a report stating that the entertainment industry's pursuit of anti-piracy laws is bad for business and for the economy...
February 23 to 29, 2004
Face recognition technology will be incorporated into the MPEG-7 standard, allowing one to retrieve a scene with a specific person in a 24-hour video in one second. Of course, this has far-reachin...
February 2 to 8, 2004
A new art form! Combine caroling with shouting - and you have this Finnish
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of men that wears black suits with ties made of car tires...
January 26 to February 1, 2004
"There has been a dramatic rise in the number of people detained or sentenced for internet-related offences in China, according to the London-based rights
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Amnesty International"...
January 19 to 25, 2004
Along similar lines, the Frito-Lay corporation would like to substitute one of the "food pyramid"
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s with its products...
September 22, 2003
Evidence that large
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s of people learned to live in a sustainable fashion in the past...
September 8, 2003
"Don't Rely On Microsoft, Trade
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Urges Homeland Security...
July 28, 2003
When nothing gets done in
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s the way people want that's perhaps more often due to an inability to manage agreement than manage conflict - read about the Abilene Paradox...
July 8, 2003
I personally believe that RFID will happen in some form whether consumers like it or not - it's just a matter of when and how it is implemented. As with any revolutionary technology, there are grea...