Anybody out there who travels for work or pleasure should check out the Government Accountability Office’s latest report on those pesky airline fees we’re all being charged these days — it could help save travel money.
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Tags: airlines, fees, GAO, Government Accountability Office, table
The United States leapfrogged in the annual digital economy rankings this year, moving up from No. 5 to the No. 3 spot — no small accomplishment given the lousy economy, with its stagnating employment and cautious capital investments.
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The next business that could come under regulators’ scrutiny: online dating. These sites attract plenty of folks just looking for love, but a few real creeps have started migrating there as well.
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Tags: background checks, killer, match.com, online dating
It’s no secret that the Internet carries vital business and government information around the globe. Anybody with the power to turn off that vast and far-reaching network would be pretty powerful indeed, and Congress may give the president that power.
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Tags: congress, cybersecurity, kill switch, law, legislation, obama
As the investigation into the debacle at Lehman Brothers begins to unfold, it’s the job of court-appointed lawyers to review 34 million pages of documents — many of them e-mails among Lehman employees.
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Tags: bank examiner, e-discovery, e-mail, Lehman Brothers, search, terms
Talk about piling on! The music industry’s battle with online file sharing has reached a new level of hostility with a fresh round of lawsuits against the popular online site, LimeWire, and an appeal to shut down the site completely. But can you really blame the recording industry and its accountants?
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Tags: District Court, Kimba Wood, lawfuit, LimeWire, New York, Recording Industry Association of America
Seems that consumer advocates and politicians smell blood in the technology waters. The red stuff is flowing from the direction of Facbook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, whose awkward performance at a tech industry conference recently sent schools of predators swarming.
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Tags: CEO, Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, privacy
Anybody who ever watched “The Wire” or read a 21st century thriller probably has a pretty good idea of how a pre-paid wireless phone works.
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Tags: burner, cell phone, cellphones, Charles E. Schumer, John Cornyn, law, legislation, senators, U.S. Senate
Many types of IT employees are exempt from overtime — but not all. And misclassifying workers as exempt could lead to a costly court battle.
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Tags: employment law, IT employees, overtime
Internships can be a great way to tap into the newest pool of IT talent. But companies offering unpaid internships will want to review the Department of Labor’s new rules on hiring interns.
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Tags: department of labor, interns, recruiting
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