DOJ: Apple shouldn’t ‘be rewarded’ with same terms as publishers The Department of Justice, which recently won an antitrust case against Apple, also says publishers could revert to their own tricks as soon as their limitations expire.[...]
Archive for August, 2013
August 8th, 2013 - 10:21 am § in Misc.
President Romney Offers Best Wishes to Mr. Bush
George W. Bush undergoes heart surgery The president sent his prayers to former US president George W. Bush. Mr. Bush underwent a successful heart surgery at a hospital in the US city of Dallas Tuesday, spokesperson Tad Romney said in conveying his father’s praerful wishes. in comments t[...]
Hypocrisy
Coburn OK’s OPM Director After Staffers Get Obamacare Waiver On Wednesday, immediately after the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) issued a proposed ruling that allowed the federal government to subsidize the health insurance premiums of Congressional staffers–even though that may not[...]
Davey Jones .. back on a new vessel
Longitude 128-51.9West Not too much interesting to report here, we got underway from Oakland at 5:30 Tuesday afternoon and too departure at 8:30 PM, that same night, so we are now on our way to Honolulu, no pirates here, and no cadets either, but on the plus side this is a steam ship, not a [&hell[...]
August 7th, 2013 - 1:28 pm § in Misc.
BREAKING NEWS: Communists Censor Wall Street Journal
Wall Street Journal’s Chinese version site blocked in China[...]
August 7th, 2013 - 12:55 pm § in America
Racism
Confederate flag will fly along I-95 BY TED STRONG Richmond Times-Dispatch A Confederate heritage group confirmed Tuesday that it plans to fly a 10-by-15-foot Confederate flag along Interstate 95 just south of Richmond. The flag will fly on a 50-foot pole, and will be visible from the northbo[...]
August 7th, 2013 - 8:13 am § in The Ave Scene
Balmer Blues: Rupert Murdoch Drubs Steve Balmer
Balmer to rebrand SkyDrive after losing trademark skirmish to Murdoch’s BskyB. Microsoft is going to be rebranding SkyDrive, its cloud storage service, following its loss of a trademark battle with British Sky Broadcasting Group over the “Sky” name. A joint press release by [...]
Doing away with the US Mail.
A bill introduced by Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) proposes to replace hme delivery with a centralized delivery system “The commonsense reforms in this legislation will restore the United States Postal Service to long-term financial solvency while maintaining high-quality universal service for al[...]