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Gene testing firm goes titsup
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/11/18/gene_test/
Guest post by Daniel Vorhaus and Lawrence Moore: what happens when a personal genomics company goes bankrupt?
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| 4. So What Does It All Mean? If the
| company's policy clearly permits the sale
| of genomic information in the kind of
| transaction that could be consummated in a
| bankruptcy case, then such a sale can go
| forward. But if the policy prohibits such a
| sale, or if the policy is unclear or does
| not address the subject at all, a transfer
| may still take place--subject to the ins
| and outs of bankruptcy law, including
| provisions specifically applicable to
| personal information. We'll turn to that in
| the second part of this series.
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http://scienceblogs.com/geneticfuture/2009/09/guest_post_daniel_vorhaus_and.php
Recent:
Is True Amazon Kindle Killer Not A Device, But A Format?
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| But the danger is there, now that e-books are gaining popularity. The Wall
| Street Journal's Brett Arends even goes so far as to compare Kindle to
| Betamax, the Sony-developed videotape format that despite a brief spell of
| popularity in the '70s faded into kitschy obscurity when VHS tape became the
| standard. New consumer technology always means format wars; look at what
| happened to HD DVD, the would-be competitor to Blu-ray.
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| The challenge then, is for Amazon's Kindle competitors to not only embrace
| ePub but to figure out how to convince would be e-readers that being locked
| into Amazon -- device, format, exclusivity, the whole works -- is not what
| they want.
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http://www.crn.com/retail/219100651;jsessionid=CC0V1JMVW4NV3QE1GHPCKHWATMY32JVN
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