Any Washington Beltway Bandit will tell you that money, power and a smart lobbying in the back offices are how bills get passed in the US Congress or Senate. Here’s a breakdown of the industry funding for the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA): Definitely, some pretty powerful support for this legislation. Add in the ...
Some of the major Internet brands are going “dark” Wednesday Jan 18 to protest the US Legislature’s “Stop Online Piracy Act” (SOPA) and “Protect Intellectual Property Act” (PIPA). Both bills are intended to stop copyright violations by foreign “rogue” web sites trafficking in everything from prescription drugs to illegal movie downloads. The drug and entertainment ...
I remember my Dad, sitting at the kitchen table with a pencil, columnar pad, cranking an adding machine. He literally spent days calculating prices for all the varied products his company sold. When I was older, we’d visit automotive trade shows stateside 2 or 3 times a year; if you wanted to import new products, ...
I’ve worked with a lot of different companies over the years — CTO for a national long distance reseller, Operations Manager for an Interconnect phone company, consulting on High Speed Internet Access and Services for Business, to name a few. What defines the good ones is how well they rise to the occasion during tough times… Do you know ...
A study by the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) states that large companies in the UK and France could cut their carbon emissions in half by 2020 by migrating two thirds of their data storage to the cloud. In the UK alone, for the 457 firms with revenues greater than $1 billion, this would mean an ...
The big, iconic brands I recall from my youth (before it had been misspent): Coke, Tide, Esso, GM, Ford and Chrysler. Coke’s easy to understand, Mom always used Tide, while Dad always filled his Buick with Esso gas. Most of you are too young to know how big a deal the “Big 3” automakers were. ...
Cellular costs are for many companies their fastest growing, and most uncontrollable, expense. Everybody wants a Smartphone and sometimes they want two, a Blackberry for the office and an iPhone or Android for personal use. They quickly become your primary communication tool at home and the office and your voice calls, text and data charges ...
Working in the high speed internet world means friends and acquaintances always assume I’m all over the latest trends, gizmos, apps and services. And to some extent I am — in fact I have to be, but… A New (OLD) Rule to Live By Only some of you will remember the TV series Banacek back ...
I try to maintain a certain level of anonymity when I’m browsing the web, and when I talk with friends or clients about privacy and internet security I encourage them to do the same. If I’m browsing to your web site and I’m intending to purchase a product from your business, you’ll need information like ...
Choosing a domain name extension was straightforward when I founded Skyway West in 1996 and has remained so until now. The introduction of the .xxx extension, to denote adult content, in December 2011 is proving a more complicated decision. Why are 900,000 companies considering a .xxx extension, and should we join them? We chose three ...
