Dendreon (nasdaq: DNDN - news - people ) said today that it is planning to fileanapplicationwith the Food and Drug Administration to have its cancer vaccine, Provenge, approved.
The IRS has extended its Voluntary Classification Settlement Program, whereby taxpayers who believe they have erroneously classified workers as independent contractors instead of employees may fileanapplicationwith the IRS. This allows them to have federal payroll tax exposure drastically reduced (by as much as 90 percent for some) for the years in which workers should have been treated as employees.
The transformation involved moving from the paradigm in which the application ran with a local file system to an architecture in which any data needed was fetched in advance from slower and more variably performant remote storage and then storing what was needed in memory.
This made it difficult to realize personal content protection with a set of dedicated application software and dedicated content file formats in an open environment like Android, since a variety of applications freely developed by third-parties started to be downloaded and executed.