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Archive for May, 2007

Privatizing America’s “public property”

Posted in BusinessWeek, Chicago Downtown Parking System, Chicago Skyway, Emily Thornton, Government, Indiana Toll Road, Pocahontas Parkway, Privatizing on May 9, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

 Emily Thornton’s cover story, Roads to Riches, in the May 7th issue of BusinessWeek details the recent trend of State governments selling public assets – toll roads, parking garages, bridges and airports – to financial institutions and other private investors.  The governmental bodies that have done this so far, or who are considering, often point [...]

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CEO Pay

Posted in Bob Nardelli, CEO, CEO Pay, CEO Salary, Douglas mattern, Executive Excess, Executive Pay, Golden parachute, Home Depot, IBM, PC World on May 7, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

I read an article on PC World about the rumored layoffs by IBM – the rumors are reportedly bogus – and I began to reflect on the Douglas Mattern article entitled, CEO Pay is Outrageous and It’s Undemocratic.  In particular, the following quote really stuck with me.

Business Week reports that the disparity between the ‘shop [...]

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Dell pcs to ship with Ubuntu v7.04 pre-loaded

Posted in Canonical, Dell, Fiesty Fawn, Linux, OS, Operating System, Peter Galli, Technology, Ubuntu, eweek on May 1, 2007 | 1 Comment »

According to a Peter Galli article on eWeek.com:

Dell and Canonical will announce a partnership on May 1 that will see the hardware giant ship Ubuntu Linux preinstalled on some of its desktop and laptop computers.

The article points to its sister site, DesktopLinux.com which suggests that the first machines loaded with Ubuntu’s “Feisty Fawn” will be [...]

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