Four days after participating in "Star Trek Day" on the Writers Guild of America’s picket lines at Paramount, the StarTrek.com production team received its walking papers from CBS Interactive.

Imagine a return to moviemaking where storytelling as a craft mattered most, and a writer with a dream and some financial backing could do what once required a studio to accomplish.

The Writers Guild of America strike has been an interesting debacle to watch, complete with a host of issues the public might not have thought of before. The inevitable convergence of the Internet and TV is one of them; the continued homogenization of American culture is another.

Even though Hollywood executives claim this Internet thing is too new for them to figure out how much they can cut out of it for writers, the scribes pointed out Viacom seems to have an idea.

Film and TV writers are striking for the first time in almost twenty years after the Writers Guild of America and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers were unable to reach an agreement.

Microsoft and LG Electronics (LGE) have entered into a patent cross-license agreement to develop the companie’s current and future product lines.

I think it’s great that Dell has come out with IdeaStorm, a suggestion site inspired by Digg (and that inspiration is explicily admitted on the site, unlike Yahoo’s recently launched suggestion sites, which caused such a ruckus because they were supposedly a “ripoff” of Digg). And like Rob Hyndman, I think the name is great too.

Sun Microsystems and Avnet Technology Solutions announced a distribution agreement to offer the complete line of Sun StorageTek products to Avnet partners. Such an announcement has been expected since Sun acquired StorageTek last year.

BS is an abbreviation for BellSouth, whose chief technical officer Bill Smith told the media his firm has taken the call for multi-tiered Internet connectivity to the big Internet players; Jeff Pulver suggests the online powers-that-be hit BellSouth first, but it won’t happen for one simple reason: money.

South African workers are going on a one-day strike today as called by the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) to demand the protection of textile and mining jobs.

Though optimistic, game makers working with the Screen Actors Guild and American Federation of Television and Radio Artists have not made progress in contract talks.

United Airlines has been planning to cut $9.9 billion in pension accounts which has angered its labor unions. If the cuts go through, the unions said that they will strike.

United Airlines is planning to cut $9.9 billion in pension accounts, and the labor unions are outraged and have threatened to strike later in the month if United does so.

The package carrier’s pilot union gives its blessing to leadership to call a strike without another vote.

NASA’s Deep Impact spacecraft will strike ‘Comet Tempel 1′ with a 820 pound impactor probe on the 4th of July.

You can use great design and copy to get a better response.

Alitalia had to cancel 176 flights as the result of a one-day strike by its cabin crews related to a contract dispute.

German chancellor, Gerhard Schrder, wants to loosen the EU’s fiscal rules so Germany and other countries can be allowed to run significant budget deficits.

The Microsoft Corp. is continuing its legal strike against Scott Richter, CEO of direct marketing firm OptInRealBig.com, LLC. who has been dubbed the world’s third-largest spammer by ROKSO, the Register of Known Spam Operations, which is listed on http://www.spamhaus.org/, an anti-spam and consumer advocacy organization. Richter recently settled a similar lawsuit filed by New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer.

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