This article focuses on the U. S. Secret Service investigating a facebook poll about President Obama's assassination. This is a perfect example someone making a blatantly bad decision. The fact that whoever created this poll thought that there would be no negative consequences shows an amazing amount of ignorance. In the article there are many people quoted saying that the person deserves to be prosecuted. While this technically violates our first amendment right to freedom of speech considering the time this country is going through with the employment of the patriot act a person cannot afford to be this ignorant and make such a foolish decision. I think to some extent the person should suffer consequences for his actions but, we also can't forget about completely breaching the freedoms of an American citizen.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/09/28/secret-service-probes-facebook-poll-asked-obama-assassination/
Tuesday, September 29, 2009
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
Microsoft v. Apple
Most of the competition between these two corporations has been in innovations in technology and software as well as the same boring ad campaigns that both of these companies flood the media with. In this article we get to see a different side of the battle between these two companies which is on the business side. Microsoft has recently begun to poach employees from the Apple stores in order to man their newly opened Microsoft stores.
This is an interesting move by Microsoft as well as a very smart one. On one hand you have Apple inc. a company that has opened stores dedicated to selling solely Apple products. Microsoft comes along with the same idea and what better way to compete? Why not simply steal Apple's employees and take advantage of the experience they already have. When you consider that Apple is certainly not known for overpaying their employees it really comes down to offering a higher salary. Even if Microsoft may be losing money by offering their employees a higher salary than Apple, they end up making their money back from the business they're stealing from Apple as well as one upping their competition.
The end all to this is that this is just another small battle being fought in the war between these two companies. While on the outside these two companies may be battling through their innovations in technology most people forget that the real battle is being fought on the business end.
http://www.sci-tech-today.com/news/MS-Reportedly-Raids-Apple-Sales-Staff/story.xhtml?story_id=11200DOTZUJ4
This is an interesting move by Microsoft as well as a very smart one. On one hand you have Apple inc. a company that has opened stores dedicated to selling solely Apple products. Microsoft comes along with the same idea and what better way to compete? Why not simply steal Apple's employees and take advantage of the experience they already have. When you consider that Apple is certainly not known for overpaying their employees it really comes down to offering a higher salary. Even if Microsoft may be losing money by offering their employees a higher salary than Apple, they end up making their money back from the business they're stealing from Apple as well as one upping their competition.
The end all to this is that this is just another small battle being fought in the war between these two companies. While on the outside these two companies may be battling through their innovations in technology most people forget that the real battle is being fought on the business end.
http://www.sci-tech-today.com/news/MS-Reportedly-Raids-Apple-Sales-Staff/story.xhtml?story_id=11200DOTZUJ4
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