Day December 19, 2004

Pfifer will scrap ads for Celbrex, which is associated with increased risk of heart attack – but will keep marketing it to doctors. It gets worse They only killed the ads because the FDA forced them to. And worse still.…

The Fox Is in Microsoft’s Henhouse (and Salivating). The success of the web browser Firefox has shown that open-source software can move from back-office obscurity to your home, and to your parents’, too.

Republican Congressman Tom Feeney of Oviedo asked a computer programmer in September 2000, prior to that year’s contested presidential vote in Florida, to write software that could alter vote totals on touch-screen voting machines, the programmer said. Former computer programmer…

COCHABAMBA, Bolivia–Five years ago the issue of water privatization exploded here when massive public protests forced out a consortium of firms led by the California engineering giant, Bechtel. Within weeks of taking over the city’s public water company, Bechtel hiked…