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Oftel Accused Of Bias At European Summit
News The UK's telecoms watchdog, Oftel, was this week accused of bias by David Stanfield, director of regulatory affairs at fixed line phone company INMS. Speaking at a public hearing on the future of telecom rules being held in Brussels, Stanfield...
[May 11, 2000, 13:17]
Wikipedia Accused Of 'US-centric Bias'
News An Australian academic has accused Wikipedia of "US-centric bias" over the way the online encyclopaedia's administrators edit user-generated entries. In an entry published for e-journal The National Forum, Tim Anderson, a senior lecturer in...
[February 12, 2008, 7:46]
DOJ Kicks Out MS 'bias' Claim
News The Department of Justice's Antitrust Division late Monday responded to Microsoft Corp.s legal motion to stop a hearing on its antitrust case before an independent third party "special master," saying the case should proceed because the company...
[January 6, 1998, 13:07]
UPDATE: Microsoft To Be Sued For Racial Bias
News A $5bn discrimination lawsuit filed against Microsoft will be amended Wednesday to include six more plaintiffs, according to attorneys handling the action for the plaintiffs. Willie Gary, senior partner with Gary, Williams, Parenti, Finney, Lewis...
[January 3, 2001, 9:45]
News Burst: EU Accused Of Music Copyright Bias
News European Union copyright policy on the Net is being unfairly influenced by the big five media companies, according to a consortium of leading Internet entrepreneurs. On Tuesday one member accused the EU of indirectly funding the music industry's...
[September 28, 1999, 12:50]
Computing The Ability Bias Of The College Premium: An Application Of Correlated Random-Coefficient Models With Regime Switching
White Papers This paper derives and tests a procedure to estimate correlated random-coefficients models with a hidden Markovian regime switching structure, and presents an application to wages' dynamics in the United-States from 1968 to 2001.
[June 22, 2005, 0:00]
Explore All Avenues Before Assuming Gender Bias
News Question: A TechRepublic reader writes in to ask: "I believe that my boss has a difficult time dealing with women. I am the 'project leader' on an installation project, but whenever there is a decision to be made, he defers to my coworker, who...
[October 14, 2002, 11:44]
PC Users Start Petition To Stop Chip Bias
News A group of computer users have taken issue with Intel's dominance in the consumer CPU marketplace and started an online petition to encourage motherboard manufacturers to adopt AMD chips instead. The petition states: It is very important to us as...
[November 11, 1999, 14:37]
SAP Slams Open Source 'socialism'
Talkback GSCE History always taught me to look at a source of information for bias. What bias does that person have? Why does this person have bias? Why does this person have bias? My teacher always said, ask questions.
[November 11, 2005, 17:04]
Improving Fiscal Policy In The EU: The Case For Independent Forecasts
White Papers Empirical evidence demonstrates the existence of a forecast bias in the budgetary process of several large euro-area countries. This forecast bias negatively affects the fiscal policy-making process. To remedy this bias in the present process of...
[July 12, 2005, 0:00]
CBO's Economic Forecasting Record
White Papers This paper focuses on two aspects of the quality of CBO's forecasts: statistical bias and accuracy. The statistical bias of a forecast is the tendency of the forecast to be overly pessimistic or optimistic.
[July 12, 2005, 0:00]
Empirical Implications Of Statistical Discrimination On The Returns To Measures Of Skills
White Papers This paper investigates how lack of information may bias the investigator's assessment of the presence of statistical discrimination. The paper shows that the nature of the bias is such that statistical discrimination may be rejected in a Mincerian...
[June 22, 2005, 0:00]
On Randomizing The Sending Times In TCP And Other Window Based Algorithms
White Papers Current implementations of TCP suffer from performance problems like bias against flows with higher Round Trip Times (RTTs), synchronization of windows, phase effects in flows and correlated losses leading to throughput degradations with Drop Tail...
[October 30, 2007, 23:00]
The Josh Silverman CEO Of Skype Interview Sham.
Blog Talk about bias, bias is not the word. I have just read the interview with Josh Silverman the new Skype CEO and what a sham interview it was. Tell me how can you get the answers to questions that MUST and NEED to be answered when it is so stage...
[May 3, 2008, 19:43]
Measurement Error In The Consumer Price Index: Where Do We Stand?
White Papers This paper surveys the evidence bearing on measurement error in the CPI and provides the best estimate of the magnitude of CPI bias, which was found to be about 0.6 percentage point per year with a confidence interval that ranges from 0.1 to 1.2...
[June 28, 2005, 0:00]
Microsoft Likely To Avoid Split
News During a second day of hearings into Microsoft's appeal of a breakup order issued last year, Microsoft attorney Richard Urowsky argued that US District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson showed a bias against the company in comments made to reporters...
[February 28, 2001, 7:28]
Review Couldn't Be Further Off The Mark
Member Review I have the odd feeling that the formal reviewer has an inherent bias towards Microsoft products much as I have a bias to Mac OS products. However, the difference between us is that the reviewer failed to expose this bias to the reader, or decided...
[November 3, 2003, 9:33]
Jackson Steps Down From Microsoft Discrimination Case
News Jackson was put under the spotlight during oral arguments last month in Microsoft's appeal of the antitrust case, when the panel of seven judges ripped into him for post-trial comments that gave the appearance of bias.
[March 14, 2001, 7:36]
Pricing In The Shadow Of Firm Turnover: ISPs During The 1990s
White Papers The paper also finds a survivor bias in pricing: ISPs who survive tend to have higher prices than younger firms. This bias interacts with the evolution of the market. This paper examines the relationship between changes in price levels and the...
[October 19, 2007, 0:00]
A Year Ago: Veitch Speaks: My Life In Show Business
News Because it's so huge - 220,000 visitors, 2400 vendors - it has broad coverage - though not comprehensive as it has a significant bias towards the PC sphere. Though I admit a slight bias, if you're an IT manager or director you can't beat the...
[November 29, 1999, 6:06]
