More Blunders: An IT Rogue’s Gallery
The News Review:
- More Blunders: An IT Rogue’s Gallery
- Brussels stands by trade-aid plan despite critics
- A legacy of leadership.
- Down the same dirt road.(polticians efforts in rural development)(Edit…
- FEATHERING AN EMPTY NEST; A SMALLER CONDO HOME MEANS A DIFFERENT…
More Blunders: An IT Rogue’s Gallery
InformationWeek – Oct 16, 2006
Study them, learn from them, and hope not to repeat these major missteps. Marketers 1, Techies 0That’s the way it looked as the Sony BMG digital rights management scandal unfolded last November. Unsuspecting consumers who bought rootkit-infested Sony music CDs. The company’s reputation took an even worse beating, and class-action lawsuits brought by state attorneys general, most of which have since been settled, could wind up costing Sony millions… And it’s not all been bad news recently: the FBI recovered the VA’s stolen laptop (see item above). Even The Mighty Can FallWhen the going gets tough, remember that even the cool kids can stumble every now and again. No less than tech giant Google has accidentally.
Brussels stands by trade-aid plan despite critics
Reuters AlertNet – Oct 16, 2006
Two British ministers, in an open letter to the ministers meeting in Luxembourg, had expressed concern about the talks and called for developing countries to be given "as much time as they reasonably need to open their own markets". A British official said that meant up to 20 years. The letter also said poor countries needed to be able to stop subsidised EU farm exports undermining home-grown products and Europe must not force ACP countries to negotiate rules on investment, competition and government procurements. The letter was signed by Gareth Thomas and Ian McCartney, British development and trade ministers respectively. AID AND TRADE The debate comes as hopes have faded for a global trade deal which was designed to boost exports and ease poverty. Parallel to the ACP trade talks, the EU’s 25 countries plan to increase annual spending on aid for roads and other projects to help poor states’ exports to 1 billion euros ($1. 3 billion) by 2010, matching a similar European Commission contribution.
A legacy of leadership.
Free with registration – Post and Courier – AccessMyLibrary.com – Oct 16, 2006
16–Despite deep personal ties to the industry, David Schools never imagined a career selling groceries. After graduating from the College of Charleston in the early 1980s, he took a job with his family’s growing supermarket business “to earn extra money,” he said Friday. Now, more than two decades later, Schools is poised to take over the reins at the home-grown retail giant known to locals simply as “the Pig. ” Piggly Wiggly Carolina Co. said Friday that Schools, the company’s senior vice president, has been tapped to succeed its long-standing president and chief executive, Joseph T. “Buzzy” Newton III. In turn, Newton will.
Down the same dirt road.(polticians efforts in rural development)(Edit…
Free with registration – Arkansas Business – AccessMyLibrary.com – Oct 16, 2006
This game of one-upmanship–or perhaps one-downmanship–with regard to one’s humble Arkansas origins is growing tiresome. I remember vividly a dinner-table dispute between my parents over whose childhood had been more impoverished. Both had grown up in the hills of north-central Arkansas with no phones, no.
FEATHERING AN EMPTY NEST; A SMALLER CONDO HOME MEANS A DIFFERENT…
Free with registration – In Furniture – AccessMyLibrary.com – Oct 16, 2006
, came to a decision. With the two kids grown and gone, it was time to leave their ranch-style home of 27 years, shed all the.