But when he returned from a three-night trip to Colorado, he heard from his landlord. Special enforcement officers from the city showed up while he was gone, and the landlord received five violations for running afoul of rules related to illegal transient hotels. Added together, the potential fines looked as if they could reach...
Monthly Archives: November 2012
‘BYOD’ Is The Bane Of Corporate Information Security
YouTube/BuddhaExtremeNetNL “Hackers (1995)” All it takes is one employee stuffing his daughter’s thumb drive into a company computer and suddenly a ‘Hello Kitty’ animation has taken over every computer screen in the office. It’s malware. In an hour, China has siphoned all relevant proprietary information. In a week, their factories are pumping out cheap...
A Failed Partnership In Mexico Has Landed Yahoo With A $2.7 Billion Judgment
nandorfejer A Mexican court has ruled Yahoo in breach of a contract with a former partner, Ideas Interactivas, and hit it with a $2.7 billion judgment, Yahoo announced. The judgement is not final, and Yahoo says the case is “without merit.” Still, this is one more distraction for CEO Marissa Mayer, who is trying...
Yahoo’s $2.7B Mexican standoff: An ex-employee, a decade-old deal and more questions than answers
A report on Yahoo today notes that the company has been ordered to pay $2.7bn in a contract dispute by the 49th Civil Court of Mexico City. The non-final judgement was made in favor of Worldwide Directories, a holding company of Ideas Interactivas, against Yahoo in Mexico with regards to yellow pages listings. Yahoo has...
Thanks to BitTorrent, The 4-Hour Chef goes from being boycotted by Barnes and Noble to a bestseller
Self-help guru Tim Ferriss may have had a troubled start with his latest book, The 4-Hour Chef, but now it’s flying off the shelves. The book in question has gone from being boycotted by Barnes and Noble to becoming the first BitTorrent bestseller. Here’s the story. The book is published by Amazon Publishing, which...
Apple CEO Tim Cook’s first TV interview is with Brian Williams, to be aired Dec 6th on NBC
Apple CEO Tim Cook’s first television interview ‘of its kind’ that he’s ever granted, was conducted with NBC’s Brian Williams, and will be aired on December 6th on NBC’s Rock Center broadcast. Williams says that he spent the day with Cook in the preview clip below. He says that he was able to walk...
Facebook Loosens Zynga’s Leash
If this were a certain social network, Zynga and Facebook could probably agree that their relationship status is: It’s complicated. Two new SEC filings on Thursday revealed that the social game-maker and the social network are putting a little distance between themselves, amending some rules of their multi-year agreement to give both companies a...
What Verisign’s New Contract With ICANN Means For Domain Name Rates
Verisign, the operator for .com domain registry, has renewed its six-year contract with the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names (ICANN) with the U.S. Commerce Department’s blessing. Under the terms of the new contract, Verisign is not allowed to raise its current price of $7.85 per domain name for the length of the agreement. Unless, of course,...
Top 5 Spotify Apps For Music Discovery
Spotify wasn’t built for discovery. The Swedish music streaming company realizes this and instead of trying to natively bake a zillion features into its service, it launched a platform for third party developers about a year ago. Spotify’s app directory now features almost 60 HTML5-based add-ons for the service’s desktop client. These apps perform a...
Chromebooks gain interface improvements with new Stable update
True to the “always new computer” tagline, Google updated its software for Chromebooks on Friday, bringing several user interface improvements and new features. In a post on the Chrome Releases blog, Google says machines will all start receiving the update over the next several days. Device owners can expect to see software version 23.0.1271.94...