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...Francisco-based site is looking to handle all the details of your online afterlife for $30 a year or a onetime fee of $300. To determine whether you have passed on, the firm will check with two "verifiers" (people you have designated to confirm your death) and examine a death certificate...
...have seemed to mark a major turn in the debate over health-care reform. "White House Backs Away From Public Health Care Option," cried Politico.com. The New York Times led its story with a declaration that the Administration had "sent signals" that it was moving away from "its once-firm vision of a government organization to provide for the nation's 50 million uninsured and was now open to using nonprofit cooperatives instead." And the Drudge Report, predictably enough, was running a big photo of a white flag...
...student tech demands mount and budgetary pressures strain campus IT departments. Handing the e-mail keys over to Google helps schools avoid costly server upgrades while capitalizing on Web-based e-mail's popularity among students. Eric Weil, managing partner for Student Monitor, a national college-focused market research firm, says the average college student has two or three personal e-mail addresses, and Gmail's popularity among students has doubled over the past two years. (Read "Google's Chrome: Taking Aim at Microsoft - and the iPhone...
...obvious color of monopoly." China implemented a new antitrust law last year and has already used it once to block a high-profile foreign acquisition in China - Coca-Cola's planned buyout of juicemaker Huiyuan. The fact that the proposed Rio-BHP Billiton deal doesn't involve a Chinese firm is irrelevant. China's antitrust regulators have the same right to review the plans of two global companies as the E.U. did to bring antitrust charges against Microsoft in 2000. (See pictures of Chinese investment in Africa...
...Nick Davis, head of the English private security firm Anti-Piracy Maritime Security Solutions, told the BBC that a sinking was unlikely as the cargo would have been spotted floating in the open waters. "I strongly suspect that this is probably a commercial dispute with [the ship's] owner and a third party, and they've decided to take matters into their own hands," he said...