Broadband access to the Internet may be getting cheaper, but at a price: speed. Read the CNN.com article. As the article says, e-mail users will be happy with this speed, as will most casual web surfers, for now. ‘Throttling’ bandwidth also helps ISPs manage their networks my reducing stress on the system. But I’ll never…
Category: Business
MS Passport
Microsoft settled a dispute with the government over its Passport identification service today. Read about it. Chief among the issues the software giant was chastised for were deceptive claims about the security offered by Passport and tracking of user’s navigation of the web. It’s unfortunate that Microsoft must be spanked every time it does something…
ImClone CEO Convicted
ImClone chief executive Samuel Waksal was indicted on several securities violations today. Perhaps this will be a first step in bring over-paid, under-controlled CEOs to heel. Now, if we could only do something about the execs at Enron…
Old-fashioned Work
Today I go back to work. Not that I’d been out of a job; instead, I had been working via the tele-commuting route for the last 16 months. Now it’s back to the real commute and what can be a substantial grind in Houston, Texas. Tele-commuting is the coming thing, I am here to tell…
Fraud Legislation
President Bush has signed the Accounting Industry Reform Act. Read the CNN article by Suzanne Malveaux. The real question is obvious: will it be enforced? If so, America may well be rewarded by a healthy Wall Street. If not, how can a small, “outside” investor reasonably put money into a game that is highly likely…
Bush Stock Trades Not News
The Whitewater-like mini-scandal embroiling President Bush over his trades of Harken Energy stock twelve years ago is much ado about nothing. In fact, it is merely a Democratic tit-for-tat, an obligatory retribution for the assaults on former President Clinton. Democratic leaders have chosen to flex their political muscle during the pre-election summer campaigns to minimize…