Day: May 9, 2006

Forward to the past

One does like the direction taken by the gaze being used to flag the referendum on whether individual rights were really such a good idea after all.

Really dumb French email tax proposal

French conservative MEP Alain Lamassoure wants the budget-strapped EU to tax sms and email: For email, the rate could be as little as €0.00001. “This is peanuts, but given the billions of transactions every day, this could still raise an immense income.” Ironport’s data suggests that global email volume for 2006 will be in excess…