Date: Sun, 27. July 2008 03:05:44

I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property writes "Senators Patrick Leahy (D-VT) and Arlen Specter (R-PA) have just sponsored a new bill, the Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights Act of 2008, which would combine the worst parts of the PRO-IP Act and the PIRATE Act. The basic idea is pretty simple: expand the Federal government to create something like the Department of Homeland Security for IP. The Copyright Czar then polices the internet and clogs the courts with thousands of civil lawsuits against individual infringers so the RIAA doesn't have to. Feel free to contact your representatives with your feelings about this bill. Right now, they believe the bill (PDF) will 'protect jobs.'"Read more of this story at Slashdot.

Date: Fri, 26. September 2008 02:47:00

HSBC Holdings PLC will cut 1,100 jobs from its global banking and markets division, or about 4% of the staffing in the departments, a bank spokesman said Friday.

Date: Sat, 8. November 2008 12:08:04

AP - The nation's jobless ranks zoomed past 10 million last month, the most in a quarter-century, as piles of pink slips shut factory gates and office doors to 240,000 more Americans with the holidays nearing. Politicians and economists agreed on a painful bottom line: It's only going to get worse.

Date: Tue, 5. August 2008 23:12:27

the iPhone BlogUPDATE: Apple Management Change After Rocky Start For IPhone ServiceCNNMoney.com - 3 hours agoBy Ben Charny SAN FRANCISCO -(Dow Jones)- Apple Inc. (AAPL) Senior Vice President Eddy Cue is now in charge of the computer maker's newly-overhauled "MobileMe" iPhone service, which had a rocky debut.With MobileMe, Apple Bites Off More Than It Can Chew Washington PostJobs: MobileMe "not up to Apple's standards" MacworldCNET News - Computerworld - ZDNet - GigaOmall 115 news articles

Date: Sat, 12. July 2008 15:04:49

Todd writes "I've been looking around at 'help wanted' advertisements for programming jobs, and almost all of them demand that you not only have professional experience, but also that you show samples of your work. This got me wondering; with the work product, trade secret, and non-disclosure laws/agreements, how exactly can you show work that you've done in a professional capacity to a prospective employer without violating the privacy of the company for which the code was written? For instance, I can't say I've written many BASH scripts (at least, not large ones) for myself personally, but the assortment of such scripts written for my current job is wide and varied indeed. I can't very well just deliver these scripts, or even small portions thereof, to third parties to help demonstrate my scripting prowess. With that in mind, what am I supposed to show them?"Read more of this story at Slashdot.

Date: Fri, 29. August 2008 15:05:27

blackbearnh writes "It may make you feel very, very old, but the Macintosh will be turning 25 in January. As we approach this momentous anniversary, O'Reilly News had a talk with Andy Hertzfeld, one of the original Macintosh designers, about the long and storied history of the Mac. Hertzfeld, who tells the story of the Mac in his book A Revolution in the Valley, shares his thoughts about how the Mac has aged over time, how life might have been different if Steve Jobs had stayed on at Apple, and the differences between working for Apple, and for Google (his current employer.)" Read on below for a bit of what Hertzfeld had to say.Read more of this story at Slashdot.

Date: Thu, 20. November 2008 15:04:47

raque writes "Appleinsider is reporting that the new MacBooks/MacBookPros have built-in copy protection. Quote: 'Apple's new MacBook lines include a form of digital copy protection that will prevent protected media, such as DRM-infused iTunes movies, from playing back on devices that aren't compliant with the new priority protection measures.' Ars Technica is also reporting on the issue. Is this the deal they had to make to get NBC back? Is this a deal breaker for Apple or will fans just ignore it to get their hands on the pretty new machines? Is this a new opportunity for Linux? And what happened to Jobs not liking DRM?"pa href="http://mobile.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/11/19/2218217amp;from=rss"img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rssamp;op=imageamp;style=h0amp;sid=08/11/19/2218217"/a/ppa href="http://mobile.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/11/19/2218217amp;from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./p pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/5b0NHLdKj66agMMkZz9iI2TElmQ/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/5b0NHLdKj66agMMkZz9iI2TElmQ/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/JyVqwZk_gsA" height="1" width="1"/

Date: Tue, 10. June 2008 23:34:16

AP - The flowers have been selected, the Veterans' Memorial Center has been booked, and the three-piece band has been chosen. The e-invitations have gone out and relatives are flying in. The brides — and there will be two of them — might not have time to buy something new to wear, but that's OK.

Date: Wed, 28. May 2008 21:07:44

GlobalTVFord May Forgo Buyouts in Cuts to Salaried Workforce (Update2)Bloomberg - 5 hours agoBy Bill Koenig May 28 (Bloomberg) -- Ford Motor Co., the world's third- largest automaker, will probably dismiss some US salaried workers rather than offer buyouts to pare staff as rising costs extend losses, the company said.Ford reportedly to cut up to 12% of salaried jobs MarketWatchReport: Ford will cut salaried jobs Bizjournals.comThe Associated Press - Wall Street Journal - Houston Chronicle - Reutersall 278 news articles

Date: Fri, 5. September 2008 14:20:21

NinemsnNew premier Nathan Rees vows to fix Labor's 'trashing'NEWS.com.au - 46 minutes agoBy Simon Benson POLITICAL unknown and self-confessed Westie Nathan Rees admitted yesterday Labor had let down the people of NSW but promised a "red-hot go" to turn the state around.After the fall The AustralianNSW Labor turmoil as top jobs tumble The AgeThe Canberra Times - Newcastle Herald - The Age - The Ageall 2,628 news articles