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Apple Announces Its Last Year at Macworld

CUPERTINO, California—December 16, 2008—Apple® today announced that this year is the last year the company will exhibit at Macworld Expo. Philip Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of Worldwide Product Marketing, will deliver the opening keynote for this year’s Macworld Conference & Expo, and it will be Apple’s last keynote at the show. The keynote address will be [...]

New York Court Dismisses Amazon’s Objections To Paying State Taxes

Remember the Amazon Tax? Back in April, the New York State legislature passed a bill requiring Amazon to collect taxes from New York State residents even though it doesn’t have a physical presence in the state (the normal requirement for retailers). The state got around the physical presence requirement by counting affiliates as part of [...]

Celebrating the UK’s computer pioneers

The computer seems the very essence of the modern world, especially as the gadgets we sit before and carry around shrink as fast as they become more powerful. But if truth be told the computer has had a long and honourable history that stretches back to the closing years of the World War II. And, say conservations [...]