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MS trial: Perusing the 'Posner effect'
News Consumer advocate and Microsoft critic Ralph Nader, for one, is suggesting that Microsoft may benefit from Posner's hands-off reputation. Nader adds that, prior to embarking on his legal career, Posner started a consulting firm, called Lexecon...
[November 24, 1999, 9:27]
Consumer-rights guru proposes limits to ICANN
News US consumer rights advocate Ralph Nader has launched a new round of attacks against ICANN, the non-profit group that manages Internet addresses, with a proposal outlining the way ICANN's power should be controlled.
[September 28, 1999, 9:40]
Online guide seeks to clarify US candidates' positions
News But it may be the only one that uses a survey of the general US population to assess where John Kerry, George Bush and Ralph Nader fall on the issues. For instance, if a voter's only criteria is that the "economy is extremely important", the tool...
[November 2, 2004, 12:24]
The next battleground: Linux vs. Windows?
News But now it's looking more interesting," said Jamie Love, director of Ralph Nader's Consumer Project on Technology. Love said that Nader's organisation is testing a number of Linux flavors on different machines at its own offices.
[April 6, 1998, 7:00]
New domain names on the way?
News Last week, for example, a Ralph Nader group submitted a letter asking that several "non-commercial" new domains, such as .sucks, .unions and .itsnotfair, be created to allow for consumers and social activists to have a secured place in cyberspace.
[March 13, 2000, 9:51]
Can free speech and the Internet co-exist?
News The Consumer Project on Technology, Ralph Nader's pro-consumer organisation, announced on Wednesday that the group intends to propose seven new domains when ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) meets this month in Cairo.
[March 2, 2000, 9:02]
Windows refund is a 'PR stunt' - Microsoft
News Consumer advocate Ralph Nader, who previously championed the idea of targeting the top PC makers with requests for operating system choice, is using the Windows Refund campaign as an opportunity to bring up again OEM pricing and control issues.
[January 22, 1999, 9:51]
A Year Ago: Windows refund is a 'PR stunt' - Microsoft
News Consumer advocate Ralph Nader, who previously championed the idea of targeting the top PC makers with requests for operating system choice, is using the Windows Refund campaign as an opportunity to bring up again OEM pricing and control issues.
[January 22, 2000, 6:07]
AOL-Netscape deal: The death of open standards?
News Jamie Love, director of the Consumer Project on Technology -- the group created by consumer advocate Ralph Nader in 1995 -- responded to the deal Tuesday, accusing AOL of habitually resisting basic Internet standards.
[November 25, 1998, 9:41]
Hackers flexing political muscles
News Despite the fact that he was an hour late, is undecided on Napster, has "never used a computer in my life", and tubthumped for Green candidate Ralph Nader, Biafra was a runaway hit with an attentive alternative-tech crowd -- packing out the Hotel...
[July 17, 2000, 9:02]
Consumer groups lament Microsoft deal
News The Consumer Project on Technology, formed by Ralph Nader in 1995, focuses on intellectual property rights, among other things. Consumer advocate groups reacted to Friday's Microsoft-Department of Justice antitrust settlement with disappointment.
[November 2, 2001, 17:13]
US Exclusive: Caldera CEO says Microsoft threatening PC makers
News Jamie Love, director of Ralph Nader's Consumer Project on Technology, said his group will ask Justice Department officials to look into the allegations, perhaps as early as Wednesday. Microsoft is threatening to suspend the contract of at least one...
[April 28, 1998, 9:01]
Will merger shut lid on open access?
News We think it sucks," said James Love, director of Ralph Nader's Consumer Project on Technology. As media stocks soared and the folks at the newly minted AOL Time Warner toasted their futures, some feared Monday's behemoth merger could have dire...
[January 11, 2000, 14:03]
Gates reaction: What everyone is saying
News James Love, director of consumer advocate Ralph Nader's Consumer Project on Technology No one is short of opinions when it comes to tech mogul Bill Gates. Not even President Bill Clinton. So, when Gates on Thursday handed his title of CEO over to...
[January 14, 2000, 8:54]
Treaty casts shadow on public domain
News Jamie Love, who works for the Ralph Nader-affiliated Consumer Project on Technology, says the treaty is worrying because it creates an additional legal protection for works in the public domain that are Webcast.
[November 7, 2003, 14:50]
Mobile phone users back Kerry
News In the survey of 6,039 likely voters, 1.6 percent chose Independent Ralph Nader, and 4 percent remained undecided. The young cell phone crowd backs Kerry for president, according to a novel poll taken exclusively over mobile phones.
[November 2, 2004, 9:59]
New global treaty could pose threat to the Net
News In a nutshell, it will strangle the Internet with a suffocating blanket of overlapping jurisdictional claims, expose every Web page publisher to liabilities for libel, defamation and other speech offenses from virtually any country, [and...
[June 22, 2001, 15:43]
Bush names new US 'CIO'
News Jamie Love, an open-source advocate at Ralph Nader's Consumer Project on Technology, said he had made some progress persuading Forman -- Evans' predecessor -- to move toward open standards and open file formats inside the federal government.
[September 4, 2003, 11:10]
Is Bill Gates throwing off the mantle of geekiness?
News Some days, however, even Bill Gates can't make a dollar; several commentators linked his jokey Sunday keynote address and last night's Travolta-isms to a desire for populism spurred by the US Department of Justice and consumer kingpin Ralph Nader...
[November 19, 1997, 14:27]
A Year Ago: Does Microsoft owe you money?
News Last spring, consumer advocate Ralph Nader's Consumer Project On Technology sent letters to six of the top PC vendors, requesting they preload alternatives to Windows on their machines. What if all computer users who aren't using their preloaded...
[January 21, 2000, 6:01]
