| Read Steve Jobs' remarks | | Posted Wednesday, February 07, 2007 2:59:47 PM by Blog57 Team | | Steve Jobs Tuesday called on music companies to abandon digital rights management software, which restricts how digital song downloads can be used. This message from the Apple CEO was posted on Apple's Web site on Tuesday: With the stunning global success of Apple's iPod music player and iTunes online music store, some have called for Apple to "open" the digital rights management (DRM) system that Apple uses to protect its music against theft, so that music purchased from iTunes can be played on digital devices purchased from other companies, and protected music purchased from other online music stores can play on iPods. Let's examine the current situation and how we got here, then look at three possible alternatives for the future. .... | |
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| | | iPhone coming Monday? Gizmodo says yes | | Posted Sunday, December 17, 2006 1:03:42 PM by Blog57 Team | | Well, when it comes to the iPhone, sadly, no-one besides Steve Jobs, his inner circle, Chinese manufacturers and specially selected Internet pundits like the Gizmodo guys or a drunken Digg founder (Kevin Rose) really know. The post on Gizmodo is the shortest they've ever posted, and it doesn't really tell you anything. There are none of those trademark fuzzy pics or patent applications, either. Commenters on the site are wondering whether they mean Monday 15th of January, the Monday after Macworld, or if Gizmodo really means Monday the 18th of December (which will be Tuesday 19th for us here in Australia thanks to ye olde Time Zones). There's also speculation that, given that Gizmodo's Brian Lam says ‘It isn't what I expected at all' that it's a VoIP product that will work with Apple's iMacs.... | |
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| | | Experts Warn Of Scams Involving Checks | | Posted Wednesday, November 15, 2006 11:06:05 AM by Blog57 Team | | Identity thieves go to extraordinary lengths to steal your private information, even driving up and down streets to intercept people?s wireless Internet signals, a practice being called war driving. 10News investigators looked into a scam using checks. Ronald Priggy made a career of passing bogus checks. In one incident, Priggy paid a Home Depot cashier with a check he made on his computer. ?He was defrauding people. He knew it, he did it and we prosecuted him,? said Randy Lawrence of San Diego?s scam-busting Computer And Technology Crime High-Tech Response Team, also known as CATCH. Lawrence and his team chase thieves who use computers and the Internet to commit crimes. ?By the time the victim finds out two or three weeks down the road, then they?re stuck,? said Lawrence.... | |
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| | | Air Force recruiting while cutting jobs | | Posted Sunday, November 12, 2006 2:58:38 PM by Blog57 Team | | With a $22 million advertising campaign that includes splashy television commercials but focuses largely on the Internet, the service is trying to tell young people that the Air Force is still looking to fill critical jobs, despite its shrinking size. The problem, said Brig. Gen. Suzanne Vautrinot, commander of the Air Force's recruiting service, is that many people have heard the Air Force is chopping thousands of jobs. "We are hiring. We are absolutely hiring," she said. To help meet its job-cut targets, the Air Force plans to scale back its recruiting by about 10 percent. It will begin taking in about 27,800 recruits annually, compared with the nearly 30,900 recruited in the fiscal year that ended Sept. 30. Since the Air Force generally meets its recruiting goals, the service may have to either turn people away or redirect some recruits toward jobs more in demand, such as linguists or medical staff.... | |
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| | | Comcast adding 197 jobs at Sterling Heights call center | | Posted Thursday, November 09, 2006 7:18:33 PM by Blog57 Team | | STERLING HEIGHTS, Mich. -- Comcast Corp. is adding 197 jobs at a suburban Detroit call center, citing increased demand for its digital phone service and an effort to improve customer service. Comcast Cable said customer calls will be rerouted from St. Paul, Minn., to the Sterling Heights center. Comcast said it spent $4.5 million to renovate and add 18,000 square feet to the center to accommodate hiring. Sterling Heights City Manager Mark Vanderpool said the decision by Comcast and a number of other businesses to add jobs in the area is particularly welcome now. "It's very nice to get these projects started during tough economic times," Vanderpool told The Macomb Daily of Mount Clemens. The center handles cable television, Internet and home phone service calls.... | |
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| | | Job ads jump 25 per cent: survey | | Posted Monday, November 06, 2006 7:11:07 PM by Blog57 Team | | The number of jobs advertised in newspapers and on the Internet rose again in October to around 175,000 a week. Banking group ANZ says more than 190,000 positions were advertised each week, up 25 per cent compared to the same period last year. ANZ says job ads increased by more than 5 per cent last month, mostly driven by new positions on the Internet. ANZ economist Tony Pearson says the data indicates that employment growth will weaken a little in the future but the labour market will still be very tight. .... | |
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| | | Asda pushes out the online trolley | | Posted Monday, November 06, 2006 1:19:53 PM by Blog57 Team | | THE online shopping war intensified yesterday when supermarket chain Asda said it planned to expand its internet operations to take on Tesco and Sainsbury. Asda said the roll-out of its online service will create 1,800 jobs for drivers, back office staff and pickers who collect goods from the shelves to be delivered to customers' homes. A spokeswoman said 157 out of its 310 stores will offer online shopping by October next year compared with just 91 at present. The move will give Asda a similar level of geographic coverage to Tesco and Sainsbury. The spokeswoman said, "Tesco and Sainsbury cover about 80% of the country at the moment. .... | |
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| | | Tech briefs | | Posted Tuesday, October 31, 2006 11:00:28 PM by Blog57 Team | | Monster Worldwide Inc., owner of the most-used jobs Web site, said co-founder Andrew McKelvey quit as chairman emeritus after he refused to cooperate with a special committee probing the company's options-granting practices. McKelvey, 72, also resigned from the board, New York-based Monster said Monday. McKelvey, who founded Monster's predecessor in 1967, quit as chief executive officer three weeks ago, saying he didn't have time to take part in the probe and manage the company. His lawyer Steven Reich wrote in a letter filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission that McKelvey said he didn't understand that manipulating the dates on options grants was improper. .... | |
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| | | Ralph Lauren Internet Group Picks N.C. For Facility | | Posted Saturday, October 28, 2006 7:11:56 PM by Blog57 Team | | Lauren Media LLC, the Internet arm of designer Ralph Lauren, will build a new center for online order handling and fulfillment in High Point, N.C., the company said Wednesday. The project will generate some 200 jobs. For details, see: www.wral.com/apncnews/10166635/detail.html .... | |
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| | | Pa. firm to create 500 jobs here | | Posted Wednesday, October 25, 2006 7:05:16 PM by Blog57 Team | | A Pennsylvania company plans to create more than 500 jobs for its rapidly growing electronic commerce distribution business in a new facility in Richwood. The company, GSI Commerce, will become the first tenant in Boone County's tax increment financing zone early next year. GSI Commerce said a 540,000-square-foot building in the IDI Park South will house an operation that fills and ships Internet orders for about 60 major companies. The company, which has signed a 10-year lease with IDI, plans to have about 500 employees in three years, said Greg Ryan, director of communications for GSI, headquartered in King of Prussia, Pa. Most of the jobs will pay $10.50 an hour and will involve filling, packing and shipping orders from online shoppers for a variety of retailers. The list of GSI clients includes Levis, Burberry, Dockers, Kate Spade, Bath & Body Works, RadioShack, Linens 'n Things, Major League Baseball, Dick's Sporting Goods, Home Box Office, the Public Broadcasting Service and Ace Hardware.... | |
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