Car Black Boxes, Redux

August 28, 2005

Here’s a new twist on an old story: car black boxes tracking a driver’s behaviour – because a judge ordered it. Gist: A judge in Oakland County is using black box technology to keep an eye on drivers who repeatedly run afoul of the law. The boxes have been installed in the vehicles of 14 […]

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Startups that the VCs Want to Fund

August 28, 2005

Business 2.0 recently ran an article on the results of a survey of VCs it conducted to find out what businesses they were interested in funding.  Gist: Like most venture capitalists, Jim Armstrong, managing director of Clearstone Venture Partners, receives dozens of business plans every week. But when we stopped in recently, he was more […]

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Liability for Wrongful Hiring

August 28, 2005

Mike Fitzgibbon looks at the situation south of the border and wonders whether we in Canada are headed towards liability for wrongful hiring.

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More on Celphone Use in Cars

August 27, 2005

Yet another study that demonstrates the obvious – it is dangerous and distracts drivers: The study, conducted by researchers at the University of Illinois, found that drivers have a greater difficulty maintaining a fixed speed or keeping their vehicle safe in a lane when they performed tasks that simulated those of talking on a cellphone. […]

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A Fiasco is Brewing in Canadian Satellite Radio

August 27, 2005

In yet another astonishing fumble, the Liberal Government has had a very public episode of anguished self-reflection over the CRTC’s satellite radio decision and seems prepared to overturn the CRTC’s decision and start again. Bitove must be climbing the walls. Michael Geist has a summary here.

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The Trouble with iTunes

August 27, 2005

If you’re in the music business, iTunes is rapidly becoming your worst nightmare – a runaway success that quickly solved the problem that the music industry couldn’t lick after several years of trying – standing in between the industry and its customers, and using iTunes as a tool for selling iPods, not solely as a […]

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Term Sheet Series Wrap-Up

August 26, 2005

Brad Feld wraps up his term sheet series with a very handy index to all of the posts he and Jason Mendelson have written.

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The Founders’ Pie Calculator

August 26, 2005

Frank Demmler tackles the tricky problem of allocating equity among co-founders: Several weeks ago, we took a look at the founders’ pie. I noted that frequently the founding team divides 100% by the number of founders. I also cautioned that this is the WRONG WAY! I then went on to identify the factors that should […]

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A Reversal of DMCA Fortunes

August 25, 2005

From BNA’s Internet Law News: The [U.S.] Federal Circuit Court of Appeals has reversed a lower court decision that blocked an independent service vendor who offered repair and maintenance on StorageTek machines. The court ruled that the DMCA cannot be used to sue such vendors when the repair and maintanence itself does not violate any […]

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A Matter of (Fading) Trust

August 25, 2005

Eric Dash has a very good article in the NYT today on trust in the payments business in the aftermath of the CardSystems fiasco. Gist: As a result, nearly two months after the disclosure that a tiny payment processor, CardSystems Solutions, exposed the personal information of more than 40 million cardholders – and even though […]

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Smoking-Gun Email Nails Violation of No-Shop Clause

August 25, 2005

The growth of e-mail as an important tool in litigation is constantly being demonstrated, but today brings a case that couldn’t make the point any clearer: When Qantum Communications cut a preliminary deal to buy two radio stations from businessman Ronald Hale, the private investment firm thought it had a lock on the properties because […]

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Rogers Testing WiMAX?

August 24, 2005

The Globe today features a tantalizingly short suggestion that Rogers is testing WiMAX in the Muskoka area. WiMAX that reaches Muskoka from Toronto? WiMAX that is being transmitted from somewhere else, north of Toronto? Details, details ….

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