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Spooner recommended a reprimand, the most minor penalty available under the Civil Service Law. Schools Chancellor Joel Klein has the thorny job of rejecting, modifying or accepting the ruling. "After the Chancellor issues his final decision -- which he may do this week -- Mr. Choudry can seek court review of the Chancellor's final decision," Pestana told TechNewsWorld...

Amazon's solution to the problem is best suited to online distribution. Indeed its plans embody -- finally -- what the online retail industry originally promised, at least for information and entertainment products, said Joel Goldhar, professor of technology management at Illinois Institute of Technology's Graduate School of Business...

"Everybody should love widgets. You can get just what you want and nothing else," JupiterResearch analyst Joe Wilcox told TechNewsWorld. "In some ways, the programming is going back to the old days when software was lean and mean and more modular. Widgets are very small and they serve a specific purpose."

Freedom of speech and gay rights advocates are no doubt pleased with the end result. However, it would have been helpful to have obtained clarification on some key unresolved commercial issues in the case, says Joe Berghammer, a partner with Banner & Witcoff and an adjunct professor at Northwestern University...

"In emerging markets, consumers are more likely to own a cell phone than a computer, so they get to the Internet through their phone," JupiterResearch analyst Joe Wilcox told TechNewsWorld. "Data use is not as advanced in the United States." Ipsos confirms Wilcox's assessment....

The big story with Firefox 1.5.0.2 is that it adds native support for Apple's Mac OS X running on Intel's processors, according to JupiterResearch analyst Joe Wilcox. The security fixes issued are typical, though important, updates common to most browser updates The software u...

Orb and Sling Media offer products that you have to see to appreciate, according to JupiterResearch analyst Joe Wilcox. Similar to the TiVo service, he said merely describing the technology to friends doesn't tell the whole story "You can tell your friends about watching the s...

Others counter that it is up to the parents to control what their children do on the Web. "These are public Web sites," JupiterResearch analyst Joe Wilcox pointed out. "Parents can monitor what their children are posting," he told TechNewsWorld Problem Could Worsen...

Others counter that it is up to the parents to control what their children do on the Web. "These are public Web sites," JupiterResearch analyst Joe Wilcox pointed out. "Parents can monitor what their children are posting," he told TechNewsWorld New Marketplace...

Although broadband growth has been strong for the last three years -- nearly doubling from 23.7 million subscribers in 2003 to 40.9 million in 2005 -- the "big pitch" by marketers during that time has been the superior speed of the technology, according to Joe Laszlo, an analyst with JupiterResearch in New York City...

The find is significant because "it symbolizes the importance of the indigenous and European heritage mix in Mexico," said Joel Palka, Ph.D., professor of Maya and Mesoamerican studies at the University of Illinois-Chicago. "Also, the Maya and Aztecs are well-known for their sacred temples on modified hills," he added, "and now we have an earlier example from the Teotihuacan culture."

Businesses are actively using professional networking site LinkedIn to connect with consultants and recruit employees. Individuals use LinkedIn to query about companies, asking questions like, "Is it a good place to work?" or "Joe offered me a job -- is Joe an upstanding guy?" or "I'm about to make a job offer to Sally -- what can you tell me about her?"...

The rebranding comes as no surprise, said Joe Wilcox, senior analyst with JupiterResearch. Microsoft "wants to protect its customers' messaging environment and also provide a compliance mechanism and adequate security," he pointed out. "As such, the company has made a series of security acquisitions over the last 24 months, and FrontBridge Technologies is just one of those."

Sales tax is an area where eBay sellers are often "dumb like a fox," Joe Kennedy, author of "The Small Business Owner's Manual," told the E-Commerce Times. Kennedy does accounting for many eBay sellers "The regulations are usually that the seller must pay sales taxes on goods ...

Liberal online bloggers are waging another "netroots" challenge against another centrist Democrat, Joe Lieberman, the former nominee for vice president of the U.S Expect more of this in the future -- hard core activists, from around the country, linked in virtual communities, ...

"Microsoft is the incumbent," noted JupiterResearch analyst Joe Wilcox. "While there are a lot of portable devices out there, most people still get to the Web via a PC, and typically one running Windows "The launching pad to the Web is Microsoft's stronghold and this is territ...

Are we headed for an eventual face-off between Firefox 2 and IE7? The face-off is already under way, according to Joe Wilcox, an analyst for JupiterResearch. Four factors triggered the confrontation: the large number of Firefox downloads, the growing monetization opportunities, increasing public security concerns and Windows Vista development...

Fortunately, reports last week from Capitol Hill say that House leaders such as Energy and Commerce Committee chairman Joe Barton (R-TX), Telecommunications and the Internet Subcommittee chairman Fred Upton (R-MI), and Reps. Chip Pickering (R-Miss), John Dingell (D-MI), and Edward Markey (D-Mass) have agreed on the idea of a national cable franchise for America. Given that these representatives join Senators like John Ensign, John Kerry, Jim DeMint, John Rockefeller, John McCain and Gordon Smith in supporting the idea, consumers could actually get effective legislative relief from an outdated system that promotes high prices and reinforces questionable local government behavior...

Congressman Joe Pitts, a Pennsylvania Republican, said the attachment to a larger bill that limits phone companies' ability to resell phone numbers and other private information is meant to forbid the sale of mobile phone records without the customer's approval "The American p...

It is a different AOL, Joe Wilcox, senior analyst, Jupiter Research, told TechNewsWorld. "They have had a closed network approach for a long time." It was inevitable, though, that the Dulles, Va.-based company would evolve in this direction "A number of developments are happen...