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You are hereCopyrightTop 10 Reasons Why Google is Causing EU More Problems than Microsoft DidSubmitted by Scott Cleland on Wed, 2014-10-01 10:37European Commission Vice President for Competition Joaquin Almunia recently warned the European Parliament that “Microsoft was investigated [for] 16 years, which is four times as much as the Google investigation has taken, and there are more problems with Google than there were with Microsoft” per the FT article: “EU antitrust chief says Google case may be bigger than Microsoft.” Why would the EC view Google as a bigger problem than Microsoft ever was? Accelerating the De-Americanization of the Internet -- My Daily Caller Op-edSubmitted by Scott Cleland on Mon, 2014-03-17 10:00Please don’t miss my latest Daily Caller op-ed: “Accelerating the De-Americanization of the Internet.” It explains the broad implications for the Internet of:
This is Part 5 of my “World Changing the Internet” research series.
World Changing the Internet. Part 1: Seven Ways the World is Changing the Internet [1-11-12] How the Google-EC Competition Deal Harms Europe – My Daily Caller Op-edSubmitted by Scott Cleland on Mon, 2014-02-10 21:28The De-Americanization of the Internet – My Daily Caller Op-edSubmitted by Scott Cleland on Tue, 2013-11-19 15:24Please don’t miss my latest Daily Caller op-ed: “The De-Americanization of the Internet” -- here. America's dominance of the Internet has peaked. Read why and what it means.
World Changing Internet Series Part 1: Seven Ways the World is Changing the Internet Part 2: Twitter’s Realpolitik & the Sovereign-ization of the Internet
YouTube is Ultimate a la Carte – My Daily Caller Op-edSubmitted by Scott Cleland on Thu, 2013-11-14 16:06
Please see my latest Daily Caller op-ed, “YouTube is Ultimate a la Carte” – here -- on Senate Commerce Committee Chairman Rockefeller’s new legislation: “Consumer Choice in Online Video Act.”
Broadband Internet Pricing Freedom Series
Part 1: Netflix' Glass House Temper Tantrum Over Broadband Usage Fees [7-26-11]
Google-YouAd is a Deceptive and Unfair Business Practice – Part 29 Google Unaccountability SeriesSubmitted by Scott Cleland on Thu, 2013-10-24 11:44Google represents its new default policy -- taking a user’s name and picture and putting it in their ads without permission or compensation -- as “Shared Endorsements.” This deceptive and unfair business practice is more aptly named Google-YouAd, “Pirated Endorsements,” or “Swindled Endorsements,” because they are taken deceptively without permission or compensation. To Google, people apparently are just another form of digital content that should be open and free to exploit without asking the owner for permission and without any expectation of payment from Google for the value that Google generates from the taken content. We should not be surprised. Google is treating their users, not as humans with privacy and ownership rights, but as inanimate products, content, and “targets” of their advertising model. Notice that they are treating people’s unique identities just like they treat others valuable content that is trademarked, copyrighted, patented, private, confidential or secret. Simply they take it without permission or compensation until an authority that they fear compels them to cease and desist. Brito & Google: BlameThePiracyVictims.org – Part 17 Google Disrespect for Property SeriesSubmitted by Scott Cleland on Thu, 2013-10-17 19:07A more apt name for Jerry Brito’s new website, PiracyData.org, would be BlameTheVictims.org. In a tweet trumpeting the purpose of PiracyData.org, Mr. Brito exclaimed: “Here’s why Hollywood should blame itself for its piracy problems – [link] Thx to @binarybits[Wash-post blogger] for this write up!” Special Report: Google on Piracy: Not Telling the Whole Truth and Nothing but the Truth – Part 16 Google’s Disrespect for Property SeriesSubmitted by Scott Cleland on Fri, 2013-10-04 11:38Google’s recent “Report: How Google Fights Piracy,” begs cross-examination, for the same reason courts and Congress employ the tool of cross examination and the process of adversarial hearings to get to the real truth. We all are familiar with the legal oath: “Do you solemnly swear that you will tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth so help you God?” FYI – New Online Research Library of Precursor’s Top Research SeriesSubmitted by Scott Cleland on Thu, 2013-09-05 16:34Please find the new Precursor online Research Library -- here -- which will be kept up-to-date going forward.
This should make it much easier to scan and find particular research of interest by subject and theme.
Thank you. Precursor LLC – Proven Thought Leadership
Google protesteth Larry Ellison too much that Google does not steal… Part 15 Google Disrespect for Property SeriesSubmitted by Scott Cleland on Wed, 2013-08-28 11:59Yet again, Google has violated the first rule of holes; when in a hole, stop digging. Google is unwisely keeping the story alive that Oracle CEO Larry Ellison said this to Charlie Rose on air: [Google] “took our stuff and … that was wrong. This really bothers me. I don’t see how [Larry Page] thinks you can just copy someone else’s stuff.” In a Google+ post to his followers, Google Chairman Eric Schmidt responded: “We typically try to avoid getting dragged into public battles with other companies. But I’ve gotten a lot of questions about Larry Ellison’s claims that Google “took [Oracle’s] stuff”. It’s simply untrue -- and that’s not just my opinion, but the judgment of a U.S. District Court.” Does Google really want to engage in a broader public conversation about the truth and facts of Google’s serial disrespect for the property of others? Pages |