asterius

As anti-SOPA protests became more vocal and demonstrative, several supporters backed away from the online piracy bill, including the White House. This casts doubts on the passage of the bill. But perhaps just to make an example and show the world that it is still serious about taking down online pirates, the Justice Department decided to shut down MegaUpload.com. This site provides a service to individuals to upload large files. Once uploaded, these file can be shared. For instance, you can... Read Full Story

My son has always been very social. It’s caused some problems in him getting all of his school work done at times. But I told him that he better start to find a balance to it if he expects to make it through more than one semester at college. As soon as I told him that I think that he realized I was right and decided to adjust his studying habits as a result. Read Full Story

Published January 8th, 2012 | By John Erianne I was blog post by new media phobic  writer, Nicolas Carr, a guy who though he himself uses new media as a platform for his writing is nonetheless critical of everything digital. His latest target is e-books. More specifically, he ponders whether being able to edit on-the-fly is a good things since a book is never really complete if you can constantly revise it quickly and painlessly. According to Carr: What will be lost, or at least... Read Full Story

While Amazon continues to expand its publishing business, Barnes & Noble is getting out of direct publishing. That’s rights, pretty soon, B&N will not be publishing anymore Barnes and Noble Classics or anything else. It seems the the big book retailers is planning to put all its eggs in one basket and support the Nook Reader. Currently, the Nook which trails the Kindle in sales is the most successful think Barnes and Noble has going for it.  With more bookstore closings on the horizon and its... Read Full Story

Even Danica Patrick in a bikini couldn’t help GoDaddy.com when the famous Internet company thought it was a good idea to support SOPA. Thousands of GoDaddy clients banded together to show the domain registrar exactly who’s wearing the man boots and who’s wearing womens boots by organizing a boycott.  In a span of a few days, GoDaddy lost over 20,000 accounts when the disgruntled protesters transferred their domains to other registrars. GoDaddy blinked and withdrew its support for the Stop... Read Full Story

Merrill Datasite is a professional VDR solution for IPO process . The company provides  secure virtual data room services for growing and fast-paced business environments. Examples of the types of documents storage and transfer services include sharing critical business information for electronic due diligence in M&A advisory, banking M&A, mid market M&A review, transfer of small business ownership when selling a company, document warehousing, mergers and acquisitions due diligence... Read Full Story

I was at the gym the other day and a friend and I were talking about our health issues.  We got to talking about alternative health remedies and he happened to mention this new health drink, Nopalea , he’d heard about  I admitted that I hadn’t heard of it and didn’t know what it was. “What is Nopalea?” I asked. Read Full Story

If the supporters of the Stop Online Piracy Act believe there piece of crap bill will actually stop intellectual property theft, I’ve got some motorhome insurance to sell ya. Seriously, Online pirates will adapt if this bill becomes law. What will happen is a gross violation of our constitutional rights, a violation that will essentially break the Internet. Read Full Story

A while back, I said that even though I was firmly against the “agency model” for pricing e-books, I did not believe that Apple colluded with publishers. Well… as the lawsuit against Apple and the mainstream publishers moves forward, information has come to light to make me rethink my initial conclusion. If we roll up our sleeves, put on a pair of tillman gloves and get to work investigating the matter further, we find that it was an unnamed publishing insider who tipped Grant & Eisenhofer, a... Read Full Story

Mainstream publishers still don’t get it: book buyers do not want to pay more than $10 for an e-book.  They are deluding themselves if they believe jacking-up ebook prices is a good idea. Higher ebook prices do not translate into more ebooks sales. And higher ebook prices are not exactly helping hardcover sales. Read Full Story