VoIP: Skype v. Gizmo

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Gizmo is a later arrival to the Internet telephony space staked out by Skype. While both offer free telephone calls over the Internet, Gizmo had the price advantage for landline phones, at 1 cent per minute for U.S. calls. But then Skype cut its price to zero, announcing free calling to all…

C2C this week: Juror background checks

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Jurors who lie or conceal information on their jury questionnaires are causing problems in the courts. Should jurors’ backgrounds be checked more carefully? Would deeper checks benefit lawyers? Would they discourage potential jurors? Join my co-host J. Craig Williams and me on the legal-affairs podcast Coast to Coast as we discuss these questions with:…

New service tracks corporate affiliations

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LexisNexis last week launched a new service that might be considered a genealogy site for the business world. Much as genealogy sites trace family trees, Corporate Affiliations charts corporate ties. It shows linkages among nearly 200,000 major companies and their affiliates, subsidiaries and divisions, to the seventh level of corporate linkage. It includes most…

Blog follows shooting of judge

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The Reno Gazette-Journal last week launched a blog devoted to tracking developments concerning the Judge Weller shooting. In the initial post, Senior Editor Mark Lundahl explained:

“The shooting of Judge Chuck Weller and stabbing death of Charla Mack has shaken the Reno community to its foundation. A millionaire businessman from a well-known local

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Dan Rather signs off

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For me, CBS News was long the undisputed leader in principled and professional reporting. I can’t help but see Dan Rather’s departure as an ominous portent for the future of CBS News and all broadcast news, especially given the pop-culture celebrity who soon will take his former anchor seat.…