] The Federal Communications Commission announced Friday
] that states cannot require regional phone companies to
] sell high-speed Internet service as a stand-alone
] product.

Voip development has been held back for a few years. This makes the market dull, which makes you poorer.

FCC: Phone companies don't have to sell DSL as a stand-alone product - 03/27/05

] Warren Buffett, one of the world's most successful
] investors, has launched his most withering attack to date
] on the US trade deficit, describing Americans as "rich
] spending junkies" who could turn into a nation of
] "sharecroppers".

Contrast this with another choice. Music: Download and own? Or subscribe and stream.

Guardian Unlimited | Buffett attacks American spending junkies

] Snocap, the new company started by Napster founder Shawn
] Fanning, said Thursday that it struck a deal with SonyBMG
] Music Entertainment to help distribute the record label's
] music through file-swapping networks.

Record deal for Fanning's swap service | CNET News.com

] According to sources at major record labels, Jobs himself
] sent top music executives a link to a blog explaining how
] to turn copy-protected songs from Apple rival Napster
] into unprotected, freely burnable music files. The story
] rippled through label circles Tuesday, as executives
] tried to understand whether any actual damage had been
] done to the service.

Steve Jobs, Napster nemesis | CNET

] Bill Gates, whose net worth of $46.6 billion makes him
] the world's richest person, is betting against the U.S.
] dollar.
]
] ``I'm short the dollar,'' Gates, chairman of Microsoft
] Corp., told Charlie Rose in an interview late yesterday
] at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. ``The
] ol' dollar, it's gonna go down.''

... at the point he divests his holdings to Euro, the US Gov should start dropping MS software contracts.

Bloomberg.com: Bill Gates ditching dollar

] Tolkowsky suggests that Europeans saw air flight as a
] threat to the established social order. If people could
] fly, what would become of state sovereignty? The socially
] structured Europe couldn't bear this thought. It took a
] couple of American boys, living in an unstructured
] frontier society, to shed an unyielding philosophy that
] blocked a technological leap.

] Tolkowsky suggests that the notion of "corporate
] culture" unavoidably includes the manner in which the
] corporation interprets the meanings of its technological
] assets. Executives today realize that one of the most
] challenging facets of their job is to manage corporate
] culture. But, argues Tolkowsky, "they should be aware
] that managing corporate culture includes the art of
] 'belief management.'" 

Should Your Next CEO Be a Philosopher? - Knowledge@Wharton

] Folks have been predicting a big year for mergers and
] acquisitions in 2005, and we are starting the year with a
] bang. I have learnt exclusively that Six Apart, the
] parent company behind hosted blogging service TypePad,
] and Moveable Type is about to acquire Live Journal, for
] an undisclosed amount. The deal is a mix of stock and
] cash, and could be announced sometime later this month,
] according to those close to the two companies. If the
] deal goes through, then Six Apart will become one of the
] largest weblog companies in the world, with nearly 6.5
] million users. It also gives the company a very fighting
] chance against Google's Blogger and Microsoft's MSN
] Spaces.

Here is your rumor of the day.

Om Malik on Broadband - Six Apart to buy Live Journal

University of Maryland's archive of failed businesses.

Business Plan Archive

Of the 1.5 million jobs lost last year in "mass layoffs", less than 1 percent were attributed to overseas relocation. Technological innovation is responsible for a far greater number of lost jobs than outsourcing.

Daniel Drezner is shining the light on outsourcing. As has been discussed here previously, many times, its not having the negative effect chicken little keeps harping on. Believe it or not, the current administration is likely correct, and Kerry is playing the violin for those of us who got hit with the layoff stick in an effort to have a real issue.

Drezner keeps a blog at http://www.danieldrezner.com/blog/ which contains some footnotes for this op-ed, along with a steady stream of clued content.

Where Did All the Jobs Go? Nowhere

] The unofficial figures of the day's trade tell the story.
] Over $10 million in stocks changed hands, reflecting the
] movement of about 1.43 billion shares though only 27
] companies are listed on the exchange.

] For Iraqis, these days have been a long time coming. The
] ISX replaces the now-defunct Baghdad Stock Exchange,
] which was riddled with corruption. Saddam's extended
] family often muscled in at will by simply issuing new
] shares for companies they found attractive.

] Officials say they hope that in a month they will have all
] 120 companies previously listed on the old exchange on
] the new ISX's ''big board'' actually 27 small white boards,
] where workers record trades with markers.

Boston.com / With pen and sweat, brokers push Iraq Stock Exchange to new highs