Scotsman.com (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
JOHN Simpson, the Commonwealth featherweight champion from Greenock, will encounter one of boxing's more unusual characters when he defends his title at the Metro Arena,
BBC (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
The BBC's World Affairs Editor John Simpson tells the story of 20 years of post-communist life. Through personal stories, he traces the different roads that East Germany, the Czech Republic and Romania have taken since 1989. In part two John returns to Prague to speak to those who lived through the Velvet Revolution.
Skysports.com (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
John Simpson admits he faces one of the toughest fights of his career when he takes on Stephen Bell next month.
Consumer Watchdog (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
Physicians won't have to notify patients of every breach of privacy regarding their records, under a rule finalized by the Dept. of Health and Human Services. Two consumer groups, Consumer Watchdog and the Center for Democracy and Technology, argue that placing the onus on a breached organization to determine the level of risk and whether notification is necessary is not good policy. "In other...
The Daily Gazette stories (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
This season, John Simpson has gotten off to a more consistent start. He’s had at least one point in seven of the Dutchmen’s first nine games and will seek to continue his good fortune this weekend, when Union (0-0-2 ECAC Hockey, 3-3-3 overall) heads to the North Country to face St. Lawrence (1-1, 5-3-1) tonight at 7, and Clarkson at 7 p.m. Saturday.
The PR Lawyer (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
Posted by Amanda Walsh After being here in Spain for nearly two months, it has been quite a change from my experiences last year. I want to update our PR Lawyer blog readers on some interesting happenings here in Spain. Today, I read a post written by Miguel Helft on the Technology blog titled, “ Bits ” on NYTimes.com about a European privacy conference that was held last week in Spain....
Consumer Watchdog (Free subscription) | 08/11/2009
Indeed, privacy advocates, such as John Simpson of Consumer Watchdog, argued Google's gesture with Dashboard was just a straw man and that if the company really wanted to help it would allow users to prevent search information from being logged or to prevent Google from tracking a user's online activity while surfing the Web.
Culture (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
News that everyone’s favourite ballroom dancer and former political correspondent, John Sergeant, has signed up to be the new “face” of Marks and Spencer goes some way to explain his surprising decision to return a hefty advance from an unnamed publisher recently. He had agreed to write a second volume of autobiography (his first, Give [...]
IOL (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
Furniture, mattresses and clothes lay in a mess on the road as the notorious Red Ants cleared Southdale Gardens, east of Joburg, on behalf of owner John Simpson, who is owed more than R1,8-million.
Gov20, HealthIT & Healthcare Reform (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Google Dashboard is a new service that shows a summary of the data stored with a Google account (including Google Health). The dashboard lists some of the information associated with the Google services you use: your name, your email address, the number of contacts, the number of conversations in your Gmail inbox, your Google profile, the most recent entries from the web history etc. Google claims...
Consumer Watchdog (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
... Dashboard doesn't really give users any clearer insights into what the company is doing with all of the data it collects. John Simpson , a consumer advocate with Consumer Watchdog , said if Google really wants people to use Dashboard, the company should make it easier to find, noting that there are few links to the tool from the landing pages of any Google properties. Simpson said Google also should...
The Industry Standard (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
CBS beats analysts with $207 million profit for Q3 — Bloomberg reports that CEO Les Moonves “is leading the industry” in getting satellite and cable TV systems to pay retransmission fees that may bring CBS $200 million by 2012 or 2013. Audience members heckled Moonves when he stepped onto the stage at Google’s CES keynote performance in 2006. It was almost too easy to pick...
Consumer Watchdog (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
Google, which has been criticized frequently for amassing large amounts of data about people, is giving users an easy way to find out what information it stores in their accounts. John Simpson, of Consumer Watchdog, a frequent critic of Google, said Dashboard gave users the appearance of control over privacy but did not really prevent Google from tracking users across the Web. “What the Dashboard...
Consumer Watchdog (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
Google, which has had a bullseye on its back when it comes to Internet privacy, on Thursday launched a Web site that shows people what data Gmail, Google Calendar and more than a dozen other Google products store about them. John Simpson of consumer-advocacy organization Consumer Watchdog said the dashboard focuses on data that people have consciously shared with Google while they are logged into...
The Herald (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
BLACKSMITHS sailor John Simpson has spent most spare moments over the past seven years in his backyard with his neighbour Niven James building up their dream of sailing to Hobart. Next month Si
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