BYsunny licious Relevancy Score: 87 Fri Apr 11, 2008 at 11:10 AM
Well this is an interesting event. Should file sharers be disconnected from the internet?
http://www.gigwise.com/news.asp?contentid=42292
European MPs Reject Calls For Internet Ban On Illegal File Sharers
They propose ...READ»
BYJohn Bates Relevancy Score: 70 Sun Oct 12, 2008 at 7:33 AM
Patients in England will be offered screening for
early signs of heart disease, stroke and kidney disease, Prime Minister
Gordon Brown has said.
He said he wanted a more "personalised" NHS with a bigger focus on ...READ»
BYPaul Grant Relevancy Score: 62 Mon Jun 30, 2008 at 1:24 PM
The Internet has completely changed the world of media and communications. In the past decade we have seen a revolution in the way businesses and organisations operate, resulting from technological and social advances possible using ...READ»
BYCollin Lawson Relevancy Score: 58 Sat Nov 15, 2008 at 1:39 PM
This Saturday as world leaders from the G20 meet in Washington, the topic du jour is stabilizing the world economy.
Leaders from the United States, France, Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Britain, Canada, China, Germany, India, ...READ»
BYAriel Schwartz Relevancy Score: 56 Thu Mar 12, 2009 at 1:06 PM
Britain's Prince Charles may be a climate change champion, but his mother's house is an environmental nightmare according to a team of surveyors from renewable energy firm Navitron. Buckingham Palace came in dead last in the ...READ»
BYKit Eaton Relevancy Score: 48 Mon Jun 8, 2009 at 6:46 AM
Europeans have been busy choosing new members of the European Parliament, and the Swedes have pulled off a surprising maneuver: They've elected a member of the Pirate Party. For the anti-copyright movement, it's a huge ...READ»
BY Fast Company Relevancy Score: 47 Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 12:47 AM
Medical marijuana's elder statesman is not convinced that the therapeutic benefits of cannabis can be separated from the psychoactive effects -- or that cannabis should be "pharmaceuticalized."READ»
BYChuck Salter Relevancy Score: 45 Tue Mar 13, 2007 at 7:43 PM
Now this is the kind of competition we at Fast Company like to see. Tony vs. Arnold. The UK vs. the U.S. The challenge: Who can be tougher on carbon emissions?
As you might recall, California Governor, March FC coverboy, and Fast ...READ»
BYChuck Salter Relevancy Score: 44 Fri Mar 31, 2006 at 2:47 PM
If you've ever worked out of a home office, you know how absurd a contest to find the Home Office From Hell is. Because there is no contest. Pretty much everyone I know who relies on a bedroom/dining room/breakfast room-turned-office ...READ»
I watched this morning's too-close-to-call International Olympic Committee (IOC) vote with friends in London and while these normally self-deprecating Londoners are elated to bag the $3bn prize of hosting the 2012 games, there's also ...READ»
“Sex and the Boardroom: Is power the ultimate aphrodisiac?” screams from the tip top of the front page of today’s Financial Times in bold letters, referring to a page 10 article by Luke Johnson entitled “The sex snare set ...READ»
BYHeath Row Relevancy Score: 38 Mon Mar 1, 2004 at 11:59 AM
Kudos to Dean Markadakis, Fast Company's art director -- and his team -- for two merit awards recently awarded by the Society of Publication Designers. Fast Company won two awards, one for the design of our November 2003 feature, ...READ»
BYCharles Fishman Relevancy Score: 38 Tue Oct 28, 2008 at 2:36 PM
Rimini, Italy is the site each fall of a conference that is a kind of Clinton Global Initiative for Europe, without Bill Clinton -- a meeting that tackles a single urgent topic over four days. This year’s topic is "le ragioni de penia," the reasons for poverty.READ»
So, the French government caved. After months of protests by hundreds of thousands of university students, President Jacques Chirac agreed last week to kill off a proposed law that would have allowed private employers to fire workers ...READ»
BYMichael Taylor Relevancy Score: 35 Tue Sep 28, 2004 at 4:44 PM
What riles me most about creative accounting scandals, besides their moral and ethical no-no's, is the monstrous greed and hubris exhibited by their perpetrators. Enron. Adelphia. Tyco. (Fodder all for CEO See-Ya!) These are just a ...READ»
BYHeath Row Relevancy Score: 34 Wed Aug 6, 2003 at 12:09 PM
In the August 2003 issue of Fast Company, Keith Hammonds sheds light on the dirty little secret about spam. In the piece, he considers possible solutions to the ever-increasing spam problem.
Today, the Direct Marketing Association ...READ»
BYTerry Tamminen Relevancy Score: 34 Tue Feb 5, 2008 at 8:32 AM
What do the horseless carriage, the iPod, and global warming have in common? Once thought fads or fantasy, it turns out that all three are here to stay.
It also turns out that each is more connected to the other than is apparent at ...READ»
BYHeath Row Relevancy Score: 33 Fri Oct 15, 2004 at 4:21 PM
Similar to yesterday's entry about Calvin Klein's workspace memo, I learned today that the British Ministry of Defense has asked all employees to record each cup of tea or coffee they drink while at their office -- so the ministry ...READ»
BYFast Security Relevancy Score: 33 Thu Oct 30, 2008 at 4:10 PM
With the ease of online banking and paperless bills, many Americans have made the switch to managing accounts on the web. However, with this new power comes greater responsibility. Online banking is a fabulous tool, but you have to be safe about it.READ»
By Terry Tamminen
What do the horseless carriage, the iPod, and global warming have in common? Once thought fads or fantasy, it turns out that all three are here to stay.
It also turns out that each is more connected to the other ...READ»
Love 'em, hate 'em, the French aren't afraid to buck the norm. While students riot in the streets over a proposed change in the labor laws, the French parliament tossed an egg at copy-protected digital music systems with a law that ...READ»
BYKit Eaton Relevancy Score: 31 Thu May 7, 2009 at 8:32 AM
Piracy and copyright issues are still troubling the world, and recent news about the RIAA, and the European Union's copyright laws highlight this fact. The RIAA is reportedly still suing people when it said it wouldn't, and in ...READ»
