The Editor Speaks: Nothing
I have nothing to write about today. Nothing. Then I remembered something I had written about that I knew nothing about. Well, I know a little about everything I can think of so this task was very difficult. Thinking more…
CKIA Emergency Exercise staged in Cayman Brac
Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands (1 December, 2014) Cayman Brac’s Emergency Responders tested their skills on Tuesday, 25 November during an exercise organized by the Cayman Islands Airports Authority (CIAA). The exercise called “Rescue Me” was staged at the Charles Kirkconnell…
Lawyers prep for battle in iPod antitrust class action
By Marisa Kendall, From The Recorder SAN FRANCISCO — Depending on who you ask, Apple Inc.’s 2006 iTunes update was either a “significant enhancement” that gave users “amazing new features,” or it was a ruse created solely to feed the…
Publicly traded NPEs take investors for a bumpy ride
By Scott Graham, from The Recorder SAN FRANCISCO — When the Federal Circuit affirms summary judgment of noninfringement, that’s usually considered bad news for the patent holder. But SmartMetric Inc., a tiny, publicly traded company that’s been litigating patent claims…
It’s clear that race is America’s deepest problem
The Economist From Business Insider Riots are rarely so widely anticipated. By 8pm on November 24th, when the prosecutor in Ferguson, Missouri, announced the grand jury’s decision not to charge a police officer with a crime for shooting an unarmed…
The obstacles behind the demise of the sapphire iPhone screen
By Kevin Bullis for MIT Technology Review From Mashable In the year leading up to the release of the iPhone 6, Apple invested more than $1 billion in an effort to make sapphire one of the device’s big selling points….
“Closing the gap to Universal access” Remarks by Mr Dereck Springer, PANCAP Coordinating Unit Director
From Communications Unit, CARICOM Secretariat (CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The 2014 World AIDS Day theme is ‘Closing the Gap’. This theme challenges us as Policy makers, programme managers and implementers to identify and develop strategies and policies for…
PayPal’s Bitcoin integration and the future of digital currency adoption
By Ken Miller from Techcrunch Editor’s note: Ken Miller is the COO of Gem. Previously he was VP of risk management at PayPal executive and adviser to Square. Recently, PayPal announced several partnerships aimed towards enabling certain PayPal merchants to…
The Editor Speaks: Gimistory
Yes it is true. I have joined the list of storytellers for this year’s Gimistory. The press release from the Cayman National Cultural Foundation says: “This year’s Gimistory will feature seasoned international tellers such as Ken Corsbie, Amina Blackwood-Meeks, Mighty…
Cayman Islands Captive Forum has already 1,200 registrations – ‘set for huge success’
The 2014 Cayman Captive Forum is set to be another huge success, with registrations approaching the 1,400 mark. Hosted by the Insurance Managers Association of Cayman (IMAC), the annual conference, which is to be held December 2nd to December 4th,…
