12 posts and columns on records

CEO Says Sorry to Yahoos for Borked Bio “Distraction” — But Will Mea Culpa Work Without an Apology for Error? (Memo)

in News on May 7 at 4:59 pm PT

He’s sorry. Deeply regrets. Apologizes. Takes full responsibility for the distraction. You know the drill.
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Loeb Lobs Lawsuit, as Expected, at Yahoo’s Borked Bio Mess

in News on May 7 at 9:23 am PT

Botched CEO bio. Activist shareholder. Screwy board of directors. Mix it all together and what do you get?
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Yahoo Should Expect Incoming Lawsuit Lobbed by Loeb Tomorrow on CEO Hiring

in News on May 6 at 9:01 am PT

Add another log to the wildfire.
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Silicon Valley’s Tom Perkins — Who Quit HP Board Over Phone Hacking — Backs News Corp. Execs in New Scandal

in Media on July 19, 2011 at 12:02 am PT

Last time, the legendary VC dumped his directorship in indignation over HP’s spying of reporters’ phone records. This time, the News Corp. board member has a different view.
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Mark Hurd Really Wants to Keep the Jodie Fisher Letter Private

in Enterprise on December 28, 2010 at 1:45 pm PT

Shareholders suing HP want to make public the letter that cost Hurd his job as CEO. He disagrees, and has asked a judge to let him become a party to the lawsuit.

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“We’ve gone through a period where everyone downloaded everything for nothing and we’ve gone into a grey period it’s much easier to pay for things–assuming you’ve got any money….People only made money out of records for a very, very small time. When The Rolling Stones started out, we didn’t make any money out of records because record companies wouldn’t pay you! They didn’t pay anyone!

Then, there was a small period from 1970 to 1997, where people did get paid, and they got paid very handsomely and everyone made money. But now that period has gone.

So if you look at the history of recorded music from 1900 to now, there was a 25 year period where artists did very well, but the rest of the time they didn’t.”

– Rolling Stones front man Mick Jagger on music downloads

Cloudy With a Chance of Computing: BoomTown's NPR Debate With Harvard Law Prof Zittrain

in News on August 10, 2009 at 3:00 pm PT

This morning, BoomTown was on the very terrific National Public Radio talk show, “On Point,” along with Harvard law professor Jonathan Zittrain. The program, moderated by Tom Ashbrook on Boston’s WBUR station, was titled “From Desktop to the Digital Cloud” and dealt with the increasing move of data of all kinds online and into the so-called “cloud.” In other words, eventually, a completely virtual life for music, photos, records and more, and the end of packaged software.
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The Mystery of the Vanishing Videogame Boom Solved: Gamers Reduce, Reuse, Recycle

in Media on July 6, 2009 at 9:47 am PT

Videogame players are spending more time playing videogames than ever. But that won’t do the videogame business much good unless those players actually start buying new games again.
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Google’s YouTube White House Privacy Policy: “Trust Us”

in Media on June 22, 2009 at 3:00 am PT

How do we know that Google isn’t tracking the viewing records of people who watch YouTube videos at the official White House Web site? Because Google says so. The Electronic Frontier Foundation says that’s good enough for it, but Google’s answer may not satisfy everyone.
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Ministry of Love. How May I Detect Your Call?

in News on July 2, 2008 at 9:24 am PT

Is the government tracking us through our cellphones? Of course it is. If the National Security Agency hopes to create an accurate “database of every call ever made” within the nation’s borders, it needs to know the locations from which they were made, right?