One of the most remarkable - and heartening - changes in recent years has been in the attitude to software patents. Until a few years back, there was a certain fatalism regarding these particularly pernicious intellectual monopolies, as if they belonged, with death and taxes, to the inevitable and immutable. But people have […]
During Thursday’s earnings call with investors, XM Satellite Radio Holdings Inc. said the company would have 10.3 million subscribers if they counted promotional subscribers when a new vehicle is manufactured.
“XM does not report promotional subscribers when a new vehicle is
manufactured but only counts it as a subscriber when the vehicle is
sold and when we have […]
The Democratic Strategist has posted :
The participants in this roundtable offer an unusually broad range of perspectives. They include leading grassroots and netroots strategic thinkers as well as traditional Democratic strategists. This reflects TDS’s deep commitment to providing a rigorously impartial forum for the full diversity of views within the Democratic community.
The contributors include […]
XM Satellite Radio Holdings Inc. said on Thursday that data reported by the NPD Group has become increasingly less applicable in showing the company’s retail sales performance.
“NPD data is less relevant today than it was five to three years ago,” said CEO Nate Davis. “We no longer use NPD as a lead indicator in the […]
We spend way too much time inside our small Silicon Valley worlds. It often feels as if I constantly see the 400 or so people that run this place, and that drive the main conversations here, it is like a high school cafeteria.
And I know plenty more that would love to step outside of their […]
What, precisely, do we mean by "power"? I find that my MBA students are often uncomfortable with the word; they tend to prefer "influence," which is much less…powerful. And, of course, their resistance suggests that there’s something worth exploring here.
Merriam-Webster’s first definition of "power" is the "ability to act or produce an effect." OK, but […]
Michael Giberson
Operators of the Texas power grid scrambled Tuesday night to keep the lights on after a sudden drop in wind power threatened to cause rolling blackouts, officials confirmed Wednesday.
At about 6:41 p.m., power grid operators ordered a shutoff of power to so-called interruptible customers, which are industrial electric users who have agreed previously […]
Announced today.
“He’s the one who has shown in his work that he’s able to work with all sides,” Barrow said.
Barrow said Obama’s bipartisanship more than makes up for his relatively short experience in Washington.
“The best indicator of what a person’s going to do in the future is what they’ve done in the past,” he said.
In […]
