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Amazon Challenges NY Online Sales Tax

In a widely anticipated move, Amazon is suing New York, challenging the state's new online sales tax. According to the law passed earlier this year,...

Where Has All the Innovation Gone?

Where are the tech products that will help us through these tough economic times? I'm putting this question the hands of you, the reader,...

Do You Need Open-Source Indemnification?

While gathering support contract pricing information for my Ubuntu 8.04 review, I noticed a somewhat surprising item listed among the benefits of paying Canonical...

Google-Yahoo Deal Proves to Be Master Stroke Vs. Microsoft

What a long strange trip it's been.Three months after Microsoft offered $31 per share for Yahoo, and after many seed stories in the Wall...

Rackspace to Launch New Cloud Storage Service

Internet hosting provider Rackspace, of San Antonio, Texas, on May 5 launched its own Web-based storage service -- dubbed CloudFS -- to beta users...

Moonwalk, Caringo Hook Up for Alternative Single-Tier Storage

A couple of hot "disruptive" data storage companies -- whose technologies are revolutionary yet complementary -- have joined forces and will commingle their wares.Moonwalk,...

Company Posting ‘H-1B Only’ Job Ads Fined $45K

In the first half of 2006, the Programmers Guild, an IT worker interest group, filed 300 discrimination complaints with the U.S. Department of Justice...

i2 Syncs Financial, Supply Chain Goals

i2 Technologies is releasing its Sales and Operations Management, a solution designed to allow retailers and manufacturers to bring together financial planning and analysis...

White Spaces Strike Out with Sports

Professional sports leagues became the latest industry group with close ties to broadcasters to oppose the unlicensed use of interference buffer spectrum between television...

Stop the GTA 4 Hypocrisy

With the release of the videogame "Grand Theft Auto 4" we are starting to see a wave of media and politicians condemning the game...