Monopolies

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• Preserving Patents Before the Planet

  
  open... — Authority: 570
  I dont think this needs much comment: The Chambers Global Intellectual Property Center (GIPC) has been front and center in this debate, and our position is clear: if governments are serious about addressing climate change, and all agree that new technologies are a vital part of the answer, then IP laws and rights ...
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• Comcast-NBC Merger : Controlling Content and Delivery

  
  The Rag Blog — Authority: 559
  Image from ZeroPaid.The Comcast-NBC marriage:The importance of Net NeutralityWith a monopoly on delivery, what’s to stop a new breed of ISPs/cable providers from dictating content to customers?By Jared Moya / December 10, 2009See Internet war: The fight for free access, Below.A scary thing happened last week when ...
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• Advantages And Disadvantages Of Currency Trading

  
  Currency Forex Trading Blog — Authority: 156
  
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• Intellectual Monopolists Scorn the Blind

  
  open... — Authority: 570
  The ever-vigilant James Love pointed to this fascinating submission from the UKs venerable Royal National Institute of the Blind [. pdf ]: Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB) is the UKs leading charity offering information, support and advice to over two million people with sight loss. ... Even in the ...
  3 days ago

• The Telegraph And Natural Monopolies In Communications

  
  Computer & Internet - computer-internet.marc8.com — Authority: 168
  A bunch of folks have sent in Matthew Lasars excellent look back at some of the early days of the telegraph system and how it parallels some questions that we face today over things like net neutrality. read more
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• Questions about Monopolies

  
  Pawatercooler.com — Authority: 146
  I’d like to know what the average person thinks about monopolies?  Do they have a positive or negative view of monopolies?Generally, we know that monopolies will do whatever they can to drive out any competition.  We also know that once a monopoly is established, the price that the consumer pays for the service ...
  1 week ago

• Bear vs. Ninja: Nota Bene #2009-43

  
  Scholars and Rogues — Authority: 613
  “Overture, curtain, lights / This is it. We’ll hit the heights / And oh, what sites we’ll hit / On with the links, this is it!” Enjoy! … “When he was on an operating table with his chest cracked open, everyone assumed Command Sgt. Maj. Thompson’s long Army career was over ” … “I felt at that ...
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• My first prediction for 2010

  
  Contrarian Stock Market Investing News - Featuring Bargain Stocks — Authority: 521
  Baltimore — ( TFN ): Do you think Rupert Murdoch and his multi-billion-dollar buggy whip factory is getting nervous? Unless the prince of print media single-handedly transforms an industry, his empire will come crashing down. This story goes well beyond Murdoch’s decision to start charging for his company’s ...
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• Career Management: Borders Books

  
  Professional CV Writing - CV4.biz — Authority: 123
  Career Management: Borders Books From me personally, to the near 2000 employees at Borders Books UK , a company now in administration, a heart felt: good luck! For the rest of us, is there a career management lesson in their plight? Certainly, I think for those looking to manage long term career prospects , ...
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• Marketing Drugs to Consumers

  
  Economix — Authority: 744
  Some highlights from a new Congressional Budget Report on how prescription drugs are advertised.
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• Is The Black Screen Problem a Fake?

  
  My Philly Network — Authority: 143
  Image via Wikipedia “There was a bit of a stink today about an antivirus vendor claiming that Microsoft ’s November security patches caused computers to show a “ black screen of death “. Microsoft has investigated the issue, and states that the antivirus vendor, Prevx, is wrong.” via Microsoft: ...
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• Daily Grumble

  
  Joe. My. God. — Authority: 700
  Realizing that complaining about ones cable provider is as fruitless as complaining about the weather, I still must vent about Time-Warners "paperless" billing system. In addition to providing your 87 digit account number, to pay online one must also enter a "customer code," which, hello, is only available on the ...
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• Study: Intellectual Monopolies (Patents) Vastly Dominated by… the Monopolies

  
  fsdaily.com - Free Software News - Published news — Authority: 161
  A not-so-overly-alarmist reminder of how monopolies are taking over society using self-serving laws and establishments, including the patent office
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• Shipping US wine to Canada: FedEx gets in the game – and raises questions

  
  The Wine Case — Authority: 109
  An article on the Wine Law web site, an extremely interesting source on everything legal about how wine is sold (or not sold) within Canada, caused a bit of excitement among Canadian wine tweeps, today, as it revealed that FedEx has begun shipping wine directly from the United States to Canada – or at least, [...]
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• We deserve better commodity information

  
  Open IT Strategies — Authority: 418
  It’s no news that Wikipedia, with all its flaws, is the default information source of a generation of skulls full of mush. If this wasn’t obvious enough from my college students, it was brought home a week ago when interviewing FLL robotics contestants (ages 9-14), when nearly all said their project ...
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• Time to Abolish the Olympics?

  
  open... — Authority: 570
  This is incredible: An American author and broadcaster claims Canadian border officials questioned her about whether she would discuss the 2010 Vancouver Olympic Games at a speaking engagement Wednesday evening in Vancouver. ... They began to search her notes and computers and those of her two colleagues, Ms. ...
  2 weeks ago

• Who Owns Science? The Manchester Manifesto

  
  open... — Authority: 570
  One of my heroes, Sir John Sulston, has a piece in the Guardian today with the intriguing headline "How science is shackled by intellectual property": The myth is that IP rights are as important as our rights in castles, cars and corn oil. IP is supposedly intended to encourage inventors and the investment ...
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• Your First System To Increase Web Site Traffic As An Online CEO

  
  Cyber Flopping! — Authority: 150
  increasing web site traffic Most of the time, as a busy web marketer. You will be worn out with monotonous tactics to increase web site traffic. There are 1,000’s of tactics, but focusing on what to do and doing it every time. This is the enlightenment of being a Rich Alchemist. One special CEO who can look in ...
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• Did Microsoft decide to go with Family Guy after all?

  
  Stewie's Playground — Authority: 126
  After all the controversy surrounding Microsoft’s decision to dump sponsorship of “Seth and Alex’s Almost Live Comedy Show” (see more at Microsoft has backed out on Seth MacFarlane comedy special ), what was the deal with last night’s episode squeezing in a quick Windows 7 ad at the end? Here’s the video: ...
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• Has Microsoft Got a Job for You...

  
  open... — Authority: 570
  Since its Monday morning, I thought Id start the week gently, with a little humour, courtesy of a Microsoft job ad. After all, who could read the following without laughing? On Open Enterprise blog .
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