The entertainment and so-called fair-use-dependent industries may be at odds when it comes to issues of copyright, but apparently they’re of a mind when it comes to hyperbolic claims about their contributions to the U.S. economy.
According to a new report [PDF] from the Computer and Communications Industry Association, industries that rely on copyrights to drive [...]
Given Microsoft’s espoused feelings about Google’s proposed acquisition of DoubleClick, is it really a surprise that the company has retained the services of some veteran lobbyists to make those sentiments known around the Beltway? According to a recent public-disclosure filing with the U.S. Senate, Microsoft has hired law firm Patton Boggs to highlight the competitive [...]
Come fall, Google’s lobbying and legislative operations in the nations capital will move from Pennsylvania Avenue to quarters much closer to the traditional K Street corridor of lobbying outfits. Not that they really need to – their presence is being felt in a big way even at a distance. To wit, the draft rules for an upcoming auction of wireless radio spectrum currently being circulated by FCC Chairman Kevin Martin, which could hand Google its first significant victory in a battle wrest some control over wireless broadband communications from incumbent telecoms.
Google is beginning to act like the $159 billion industry heavyweight it really is. The company, which until about 18 months ago had paid politics little mind, is ramping up its presence in Washington. Today Google has 12 lobbyists on staff in its Beltway offices and it’s adding more, among them a former high-ranking Justice [...]
John Paczkowski has been poking fun at the tech industry and the personalities that drive it since 1997. From 1999 to 2007, he wrote the award-winning tech news Web log Good Morning Silicon Valley for the San Jose Mercury News, Silicon Valley's daily newspaper. Read more »
Here is a statement of my ethics and coverage policies. It is more than most of you want to know, but, in the age of suspicion of the media, I am laying it all out.
12:58 AM: Breakfast: Two schools of fish from Tokyo Bay. Calories: 782,000. How I was feeling when I ate this: confused, irradiated, hating my size.
11:37 AM: Exercise: “Taxi Stomp” (alternating legs, for 30 blocks). Calories burned: 148,900,183.
1983. The Beatles announce their first tour in thirteen years, but likewise announce that Michael Jackson will be going on tour with them as a one gigantic mega-concert event.
Best video mashup ever.
A Facebook Memorial
Wow.
Worth it for the Rickrolling photo alone.
Excellent.
Flughumor!
… you vacuous, toffee-nosed, malodorous perverts
Stephen Fry and zoologist Mark Carwardine meet the kakapo — a fat, flightless and very randy rare parrot.
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