Motley Fool cuts staff, folds Soapbox
News The company also plans to discontinue online marketplace Soapbox.com, which was launched only six months ago. The Motley Fool laid off about 30 percent of its staff Thursday, becoming the latest online publisher to recoil amid cost pressures.
[February 9, 2001, 9:01]
Barrett on the soapbox for Merced
News Intel President and CEO Craig Barrett issued an ultimatum Thursday to executives attending Dell Computer's DirectConnect conference: Become an e-business or die. In a keynote here, Barrett said that in five years 1 billion people worldwide are...
[August 27, 1999, 9:58]
Microsoft prepares to take on YouTube
News Microsoft's new Soapbox on MSN Video site takes on the popular site YouTube, which has become an online sensation for viral and homegrown user-generated video. Soapbox on MSN Video, codenamed Warhol, will eventually be integrated with Windows Live...
[September 19, 2006, 8:35]
Microsoft releases Windows Live updates
News Windows Live Movie Maker brings some, but not all, of the features found in the movie-making application built into Windows, adding the ability to post videos to Microsoft's Soapbox video-sharing site, but notably not to Google's much larger rival...
[September 18, 2008, 11:54]
Microsoft to Oracle: Cease and desist
News Trade-show keynote speeches are a sure soapbox for vendors to dis their competitors. But not since the days of OS/2 versus Windows have barbs been flying as they have recently in the database space. In fact, Microsoft has called in its lawyers over...
[October 27, 2000, 8:32]
TiVo Broadcaster
Downloads SOAPBOX* It is a shame that we have to result to hacking our TiVo to functionality that is included in everyone else's monthly service fee, just because we are Macintosh Users. This is a little application that, when launched, will allow you...
[January 5, 2006, 6:00]
Author keeps removing comments pointing out their own errors.
Talkback I mean seriously, when someone gets up on a soapbox about quality of language, shouldn’t they, y’know, get their language up to par? I wish I could pretend to be surprised, but hey. We'll see if they erase this one too; after all, what's a little...
[September 16, 2009, 19:55]
Copyright activists let off steam in London
News On Sunday, the first speaker to take to the soapbox — well, stepladder — was Cory Doctorow, the European coordinator for civil liberties group Electronic Frontier Foundation and the co-editor of the Boing Boing blog.
[October 17, 2005, 14:00]
Ten IT flame wars that refuse to die down
Comment No cause is more likely to send me scrambling onto my soapbox. Anyone who expected professional camaraderie from IT people might be surprised at the bitter and protracted disputes that have gripped the technology industry, says Jack Wallen.
[September 4, 2009, 15:44]
Home Office responds to Facebook criticism
Blog Comment And every time someone raises their voice to speak their concern over the government's actions, they're pretty quickly shouted down with a "if you're not guilty, you have nothing to hide" mantra.it would seem pretty clear to me that the government...
[March 26, 2009, 7:29]
Torvalds rules out GPL3 for Linux
Talkback But using the GPL3 as a soapbox to fight against it isn't the right thing to do. While I admire what Richard Stallman is trying to accomplish, as I've said elsewhere in comments to the GPL3, I think the DRM clause is flawed and in the wrong place...
[January 28, 2006, 9:09]
Two of a Kind: Mobile Banking Needs Mobile Security
Blog I won’t get on my macroeconomics soapbox regarding the incredible paradigm shift that the world must embrace regarding the poor business model surrounding “free banking” that the financial industry has created.
[August 8, 2008, 3:04]
Cracker offers site defacement service
News Sommer agrees that page defacements are increasingly becoming a soapbox for those with a message to get across and points to the conflict in the Middle East which has been accompanied by attacks on a number of political sites.
[January 2, 2001, 15:10]
Europe to US: Get Off Our Backs
News Grove is not the only American to get up on a high-tech soapbox. Starting in March, when Intel's chief executive delivered a stinging keynote speech to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Grove has not been shy about giving Europeans an...
[August 29, 1997, 9:27]
2000 Roundup: Cybercrime goes global
News Government sites were defaced in a campaign against the government's policy on smoking and bank sites were chosen as a soapbox to attack government fuel taxation. In February, computer hackers demonstrated that even the biggest Internet companies...
[December 26, 2000, 6:12]
Comment: Not Your Garden-Variety GNOME
News Both developers saw the media scrum as a great soapbox for their political agendas, while Red Hat just wanted to push a product. Hidden among all these commercial vendors discovering the free software community, we also have the opposite.
[March 30, 1999, 14:25]
