If they fire their ceo by telephone, just how do and will they treat the rank and file employees? Does the Chairman know what damage he has just done to Yahoo as a 'place to work"' by acting in this manner? By all means replace a senior exec, if that's necessary, but do it in a formal and respectful manner, or suffer the widespread consequences amongst your employees.

I am presuming that you are British? In the UK being "arrested" merely means being questioned. It has little to no long term consequences. In other countries being "arrested" means actually being formally charged with an offence. An ""arrest" record stays on your record forever and many job interviewers specifically ask if one has ever been "arrested". As this is a public record it means answering it in the affirmative and hoping that the interviewer listens to your side of the experience. But many would just move on to another candidate. Thus an arrest record can be devastating.

Business 101 lesson is to treat your most valuable asset, your customer, with respect. Hiking rates 60% all of a suddden and then having you PR say: " 'We knew there would be some people who would be upset" is astoundingly disrespectful and followed up with with "we don't care if your upset" comment. Amazing. If Netfix wants to increase prices in this manner it's their perogative and they intrinsically accept the risk of losing some/many customers not because they can't afford you pricing, but rather because they dislike being treated as dispensible commodities instead of loyal customers. The point is they could have come out and communicated to customers that the existing rate was for a transitional period while the streaming offerings grew in range. Now that point has been reached they wish the separate products to stand alone in pricing so that Netflix is more properly remunerated in the future. You might still lose some customers, but this way you would not alienate many and suffer extremely negative PR. Whosoever signed off on Netflix's approach to this matter needs a long course in remedial learning on how to keep your customers happy and feeling respected and wanted while at the same time adjusting prices upwards. It's NOT that difficult.

The physical edition of the NYTimes costs the reader/subscriber around $48 for the same paper which can now be delivered digitally to ones Tablet for $20.00. (I make the presumption here that the daily digital edition can be downloaded to ones tablet rather than necessitating an always online link). This is a saving of $28.00 per 4 weeks which over a year is a saving of $364.00 which can be put towards the cost of buying a good tablet. I don't know the internal math, but printing and distributing the physical paper must eat up quite a lot of the $48 charge, so it's quite likely that the NYT ends up with a similar net revenue and they get a better way to distribute to more potential subcribers outside the Metroplitan NY area, so perhaps their worldwide subscrber base will expand.

We have seen court cases were the Judge was entirely ignorant of even the most basic workings of the internet. So many users of VCRs wer/aree unable to program their machine so that the blinking 12:00 light stayed on. Does this Judge and others really think that everyone who buys and uses a wireless modem understands how to and is capable of changing or setting up security parameters on such a modem. I think NOT.

As my headline says if the new music doesn't interest people why by the CDs? Me. I prefer to have hardware (CD) back up for all my music.

Sorry to ask this, as it's so eay to offend. IF God created man, to always live on earth i.e. everyone coming back to earth after Jesus Christ returns it bewgs a simple question. Where and how will everone live on a totally over populated single planet with no personal space and no room to grow food? Or is the "easy" answer that there are really so few "decent" people that in reality the returning few will have more space than today?

I doubt that Sprint charges Amazon more than a very small amount of money per Kindle activated. After all the minor usage of Sprint's data network, to downloan a book, hardly uses any capacity on the network. When the individual fee is multiplied by the numbers of Kindle it's a nice bonus payment for Sprint to receive. Overall it would not surprise me if Amaon breaks even on the Kindle hardware. That makes it a terrifice deal as a driver of ebook sales for them.

My comments related to the fact that Fox has a history of playing new series "out of sequence" giving a very false impression of a series. This did happen to me with Firefly...so I switched off. Much later I found out the real storyline and had to buy the DVDs to see the series in the right order. By then the series had already been cancelled. Whether one individially likes a particuar series isn't the point. What is the point is that showing eps out of order creates plot confusion and IMHO makes potential viewers turn to another channel. Having huge weeks of gaps between first run episodes also causes viewers to seek other shows. So I kmention of Firefox was not intended to create a discussion on the individual merits of that series, rather the way in which it was shown helped its downfall and cancellation.

Actually that series was called "Firefly" and the one episode depicting cattle being transported was played out of sequence and helped create missunderstandings about the premis of the series. That was the whole point of my reference.