It is April now and that means the 90 day store return policy on Christmas merchandise just expired. So, if your game or movie disc is damaged now, are you out of luck? Nope, not necessarily. I think it may surprise most consumers to know that many entertainment companies have [...]
By mblafkin|2014-04-14T10:22:11-04:00April 2nd, 2008|Blog|
There's a lot of hoopla surrounding Bain Capital's buyout of beleaguered 3Com Corporation, due to the fact that one of the buyers is Huawei, a company from China. Or "communist China" (gasp!) according to today's press release from Rep. McCotter: News circulated today Bain Capital and communist China's Huawei plan [...]
It's been called a "virtual privacy time bomb" by a prominent Congressman, something that an FTC commissioner believes should "really trouble all of us" and to which one policy group believes we should have a legal right to examine, correct, and/or delete. What is it? Answer: Online behavioral marketing data. [...]
Friday came and went without the WTO delivering its expected ruling in the ongoing Internet gambling case between the US and Antigua/Barbuda. For those of you who aren't familiar with this case, here is the short summary: In their infinite wisdom, Congress and the Bush administration have made it essentially [...]
By mblafkin|2016-12-21T00:15:17-05:00December 17th, 2007|Blog|
I'd like to commend the new report from Rob Atkinson and ITIF, Boosting European Prosperity Through the Widespread Use of ICT. The report finds that information and communications technology (ICT) is essentially the vitamin D for supporting the kind of productivity growth that stimulates economic prosperity. It prescribes 5 five [...]
