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A Day In The Life Of A Twintern
in Wangtam, on July 12, 2009
... Continues Strong Growth in U.S. as Consumers Increasingly Opt for Free Entertainment Alternatives
• Feeling Tweety in 'Web Site Story'
• Microsoft VP says Google's playing defense wit...
Beware the China bubble
in Sox First, on June 29, 2009
...ies where the financial system continues to function largely without a glitch, but Fitch is growing increasingly wary. Future losses on stimulus could turn out to be larger than expected, and it is un...
Study Anticipates Increasing Use of Linux on Mainframes
in HackITLinux, on June 21, 2009
...ew study commissioned by CA (and executed by TheInfoPro ) has found that large enterprises are increasingly deploying Linux on mainframes to maximize value and minimize costs.
"Linux on the...
Apple Updates its Software While the Government Rethinks Law
in The Mobile Technology Weblog, on June 17, 2009
...l use with painstaking documentation of minutes.
The cell phone tax can be a pain for workers who increasingly use mobile devices for texting, emailing and browsing the Internet sometimes for work, ...
Accelerating Relationships with Social Networking
in TJ's Weblog, on June 15, 2009
...ow business relationships can, in his words, be accelerated by using multiple social networks. I am increasingly seeing cases in which people have accelerated relationships by connecting in multiple p...
Is Algae the Real Future of Biofeul?
in IfEnergy, on June 12, 2009
...enewable Energy World recently asked that question.
Energy policy at the moment sets targets for biofuel use. Those targets are pretty high and only a certain amount (less than half, eventually) ca...
Cutting Salaries
in Biz Plan Hacks, on June 6, 2009
...nce considered off limits for salaried managers and professionals, base pay reductions are becoming increasingly common in today's brutal recession. Many human resources experts believe the recent...
Is manufacturing dead?
in Sox First, on June 3, 2009
... unique. Still, we shouldn't expect that will create jobs. As Reich says, manufacturing now is increasingly automated. It's not dying, it's just changing....
Will you be riding Google's Wave?
in The CIO Weblog, on June 1, 2009
...-disposed to this approach since it resembles one I have advocated for some time to circumvent the increasingly dark tar pit that electronic mail has become; Wave (conceptually, at least) solves the i...
Business Models: What compelling reason exists for people to give you money?
in Biz Plan Hacks, on May 30, 2009
... what you need - a compelling reason. Seth makes the point that that first question is becoming increasingly important to a business model.
The other questions you need to answer? Read the piece ...
Batteries Get Stimulus Grants
in IfEnergy, on May 27, 2009
VentureBeat pointed out last week that $2 billion worth of federal grants were being awarded to battery makers in the near future. Grants will run between $100 million and $150 million. The deadline to apply for a grant was yesterday.
From the article: Candidates for the money are required to p...
The Revolution
in The CIO Weblog, on May 12, 2009
... Hackett's formula as a death knell for the IT department. In the face of increasing demand and increasingly easily adopted off-the-shelf services to meet that demand, making cuts and attempting t...
H1B: Frying pan to fire
in The CIO Weblog, on May 11, 2009
...HR than the H1B foreign-worker visa program. CIOs, as a rule, are fans; the ability to hire from an increasingly large pool of eager and well-educated foreign workers to fill domestic jobs helps ease ...
California's Mendocino Wines
in Celebrate Wine, on April 29, 2009
...uff." But they pointed out that the show included some "really fantastic Pinot Noir, and, increasingly some excellent Syrah as well."
Keep an eye on Mendocino wines...
© Ethan Prat...
Will Biofuel Make It?
in IfEnergy, on April 23, 2009
... BusinessWeek had a long but informative perspective piece on the future of biofuel earlier this month. Simply put, the outlook is bleak... Yet behind the very real innovations and investments, the b...
Is the US becoming like Russia?
in Sox First, on April 15, 2009
...man who succeeded him, said in 2006: "The management of market risk and credit risk has become increasingly sophisticated. … Banking organizations of all sizes have made substantial strides over ...
Qtrax Announces Official Relaunch
in P2P File Sharing, on April 10, 2009
...eted at consumers currently using illegal peer-to-peer 'torrent' sites, will launch into an increasingly crowded and fast-changing competitive landscape," warns the Financial Times' ...
The great economic cover up
in Sox First, on April 10, 2009
...en the banks will, as they did in Japan, either stay enormously weak, or Treasury will be forced to increasingly absurd giveaways of taxpayer money. We've seen how horrific AIG - and remember, the...
Supply chain video: John Westerveld talks about supply chain risk strategy
in Supplychainer, on April 9, 2009
...ross this video from him where he talks about the fact that supply chain risk management has become increasingly more recognized as a critical part of corporate strategy. He argues that companies shou...
Cloud computing killed your future
in The CIO Weblog, on March 17, 2009
...orporate Services IT executive bemoan how ill-equipped his team was to deal with the division's increasingly fabric-like infrastructure. He was neither the first nor the last to express that senti...
Newspapers: obituaries and renewals.
in Sox First, on March 17, 2009
...s, the pragmatists were the ones simply looking out the window and noticing that the real world was increasingly resembling the unthinkable scenario. These people were treated as if they were barking ...
Whither the call center?
in The CIO Weblog, on March 9, 2009
...tions, but even as outsourcing as a whole tended to increase in recent years, companies have become increasingly ambiguous about off-shoring the call center. As Fersht points out, the efforts to bring...
Tough Times for Vonage
in The VoIP Weblog, on February 28, 2009
...ws' Robert Poe . "Analysts and pundits have repeatedly predicted its demise in the face of increasingly fierce competition from cable companies' telephony services."
"It's...
The banking crisis and Eastern Europe
in Sox First, on February 18, 2009
...ng into free fall . The Financial Times reports that Moody's says Eastern Europe is looking increasingly vulnerable. According to the FT, Moody's warns of "continuous downward pressur...
SaaS expected to grow through the downturn
in The CIO Weblog, on February 17, 2009
...customers; it's as clear a signal as you will find that the concept is robust and will encroach increasingly on traditional software provisioning in both good times and bad. The economic advantage...
Cuba Launches Nova Linux
in HackITLinux, on February 16, 2009
...iant of Linux," writes The Register's Timothy Prickett Morgan .
"Linux has become increasingly popular in South America, Africa and Eastern Europe, where companies and citizens aren&#...
New iPhone App: BargainTravel.com's Travel Toolkit
in The Wireless Weblog, on February 7, 2009
...rts.
It's a nice grouping of key travel info in one place, especially as your iPhone gets increasingly crowded with new apps - all basic functions are accessible from the main screen with on...
Ben Gurion University and Primafuel Collaborate to Produce Fuel from Microalgae
in The Biotech Weblog, on January 22, 2009
Photo courtesy of iStockphoto , Image# 450318 Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) and Primafuel, Inc. , a California-based company that develops renewable fuels, have entered a multi-year, multi-million dollar technology-licensing and development agreement .
The collaboration is focuse...
Be Alert, Work At Home Scams Are On The Rise!
in Home Based Business, on January 20, 2009
... Photo courtesy of iStockphoto , Image# 1520753 With the increasingly grim economic forecast and rising unemployment rates, the amount of work at home scams on the net is increasing. The most popul...
Maths and the meltdown
in Sox First, on January 14, 2009
...eople buy and sell much more often than that during a bubble-with the rate of transactions becoming increasingly manic the bigger the bubble gets ... Psychologists have found that people often overest...
Michael Bondanza Jewelry
in The Jewelry Weblog, on January 12, 2009
...his growing mastery of technique , a more personal sense of design began to evolve. Michael became increasingly aware of the quality of craft and the level of design he wanted to aspire to. His two f...
Vietnam Mandates Open Source
in HackITLinux, on January 10, 2009
...cies by the end of June," writes PC World's Jeremy Kirk .
"Open source adoption is increasingly rapidly in Asia," writes Ars Technica's Ryan Paul . "Several other count...
Outsourcing safely
in The CIO Weblog, on January 9, 2009
Implicit in the conflation of agile operations with fragile support is a requirement that your users have access to services which are at once flexible and scalable and which are also efficient for your business to provide. When you put those three words together, the next thing you come to is i...
Biofuels May be Obsolete Before We Can Make Enough to Matter - Part III
in IfEnergy, on January 2, 2009
From Seeking Alpha , back in February: The Energy Bill requires that 3% of ethanol be derived from cellulosic sources by 2012, and 44% by 2022. That means, by my estimates, we'll need to produce 405 million gallons of cellulosic ethanol in 2012 and 15.84 billion gallons in 2022.... I'd cons...
New era of regulation
in Sox First, on December 29, 2008
...e gas emissions are high on the minds of business leaders as well as politicians. Consumers too are increasingly worried-and aware that an interconnected global economy means interconnected global pro...
Biofuels May be Obsolete Before We Can Make Enough to Matter - Part II
in IfEnergy, on December 29, 2008
...l. But I didn't really talk much about it, other than to say that it was the next generation of biofuel. So let's look at cellulosic ethanol...
Wikipedia has an acceptable explanation of ce...
Biofuels May be Obsolete Before We Can Make Enough to Matter - Part I
in IfEnergy, on December 26, 2008
...ce and Security Act of 2007 calls for the U.S. fuel market to use 100 million gallons of cellulosic biofuel in 2010, according to Justin Moresco over at Red Herring. And according to Moresco, a repo...
Cox defends his legacy
in Sox First, on December 25, 2008
...ed down in such bureaucracy that it was impossible to do any investigations. " 'Under Cox, increasingly burdensome standards were applied to obtain subpoena power,' the source told TPMmuc...
Crisis Help for Anonymous High-net-Worth Individuals
in The Hedge Funds Weblog, on December 19, 2008
... psychological scarring from this downturn.
Psychologists and therapists are one way to go, but an increasingly popular option for high-net-worth individuals in the United States is "wealth peer...
Business opportunities opening for Apple
in The CIO Weblog, on December 17, 2008
... others in the company, that represents an opportunity for Apple to devote more resources and focus increasingly on the various obstacles decreasing their attraction in the enterprise market. Throw ...
$8 Billion Evaporates from Harvard's Endowment
in The Universities Weblog, on December 10, 2008
...lines in hard-to-value assets such as real estate and private equity - investments that have become increasingly popular among colleges. The university is planning for a 30% decline for the fiscal yea...
From finance failures to the FBI
in The CIO Weblog, on December 9, 2008
...e feds get their terrorist-hunting coordination off the ground, then surely the more pedestrian but increasingly organized and focused criminal elements scouring the Internet are due for some attentio...
Patagonia Fungus Produces "Myco-Diesel"
in The Biotech Weblog, on November 25, 2008
Researchers have identified a fungus found in the Patagonia forest that produces a new type of diesel fuel . Tests indicated that the fungus Gliocladium roseum , which grows on the branches of a tree called Eucryphia cordifolia , produces compounds normally associated with diesel fuel, which ...
Elevate Destinations Works for Environmental Preservation
in Wandalust, on November 24, 2008
An interesting service came to my attention recently, called Elevate Destinations . The service bills itself as 'travel that matters" because a percentage of the profits goes to local communities and to environmental Preservation .
Among their offerings, Elevate Destinations has a pack...
G20 undermines accounting independence
in Sox First, on November 18, 2008
...oney to influence the IASB's decisions. "There is concern that the IASB has been and will increasingly be under political pressure to conform to the desires of certain stakeholders and inter...
Biofuel from Olive Stones
in The Biotech Weblog, on November 17, 2008
Photo courtesy of iStockphoto , Image# 6892306 Researchers are exploring the potential of olive stones , otherwise a waste product of the olive processing industry, as a substrate for bioethanol production. The stones are rich in polysaccharides ( cellulose and hemicellulose) that can be bro...
Recession impacts India based outsourcing
in The CIO Weblog, on November 12, 2008
As if having China encroaching on them weren't enough, the powerhouses of Indian IT outsourcing are feeling the impact of the global economic crisis.
Conventional wisdom, including that espoused by yours truly, held that outsourcing shops and their ilk (including consultants) could prosper ...
How the predication models failed
in Sox First, on November 11, 2008
...with loans sold off and mixed into large pools of mortgage securities, has prompted lenders to move increasingly to automated underwriting systems, relying mainly on computerized credit-scoring models...
Children Get Homework Help From Online Libraries
in The Online Universities Weblog, on November 6, 2008
...nger need fear homework helplessness. Thanks to the spread of online tutoring services that are now increasingly free, courtesy of government and private funds, stumped students can reach out to resou...
Competes and Non-Competes
in The CIO Weblog, on November 4, 2008
...continue to force staff to sign non-compete agreements as a condition of employment, but I think it increasingly makes the business look weak and out of touch to do so. If they aren't worth the pa...
Update on Kentucky vs. the Internet Lawsuit
in Internet Poker, on October 11, 2008
... of the huge lawsuit that pits the special interest of Kentucky Governor Steve Beshear who has been increasingly forthcoming about his reasons behind the historic lawsuit. This of course has to do wit...
Supermarket Dating
in The Dating Weblog, on October 10, 2008
...trend across the world. It says, "Throughout the world, supermarket dating nights are becoming increasingly popular with young singles - and even some not-so-young singles."
Next time you...
RIM: Storm Coming This Fall
in The Wireless Weblog, on October 9, 2008
...ot;The BlackBerry maker has been under pressure to come up with something special to compete in the increasingly crowded high-end mobile market - especially after Apple launched onto the scene in 2007...
Mobile Gaming Spreads In Europe
in The Gambling Weblog, on October 8, 2008
...e with their discretionary incomes are entering a new phase on online gambling.
As society becomes increasingly mobile so does the need to be able to do more things while on the go and that includes ...
IT jobs in a down market
in The CIO Weblog, on September 29, 2008
...he cheap might be the next new best skill to have... agile operations and development models may be increasingly relevant, even to the extent of being forced onto organizations which aren't adequa...
Its Time for Tata, Infosys, Wipro, Satyam and Others to Invest!
in The Outsourcing Weblog, on September 16, 2008
... Jacobs
With the financial crisis hitting all areas of the US and global economy, it is becoming increasingly clear to this author that it is time for the large Indian outsourcers, such as Tata , ...
Best Buy 出价 1.21 亿美元收购 Napster
in Wangtam, on September 15, 2008
Best Buy 刚才宣布 ，将以每股 2.65 美元现金的价格收购数字音乐服务供应商 Napster Inc.。该收购价格包括 6700 万美元现金，以及 Best Buy 截至 6 月 30 日对 Napster 总计 1.21 亿美元的投资。
如果该项收购顺利完成，将使 Best Buy 拥有来自 Napster 的 70 万个在线音乐用户，并使其获得新的客户。Best Buy 连接数字解决方案部门执行副总裁 Dave Morrish 在一份声明中表示："我们能够预见到，Napster 作为一个平台将加快我们在数字娱乐这一新兴行业的成长。"
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Bankruptcy at Lehman Brothers
in The Hedge Funds Weblog, on September 15, 2008
...obal credit crisis, with approximately $639 billion in assets.
Investors in recent weeks had grown increasingly jittery about Lehman's $46 billion of mortgages and asset-backed securities, as wel...
Positive changes in Vista licensing scheme
in The CIO Weblog, on September 4, 2008
...hat's no longer the case.
The other clauses are also a boon to the modern enterprise, which increasingly looks to contractors and home-based workers as a means of controlling expenses. When licen...
Mustard Seed Meal as Herbicide
in The Biotech Weblog, on September 3, 2008
Photo courtesy of iStockphoto , Marcus Lindström Mustard seed meal (MSM), a by-product of the extraction of mustard oil, has been demonstrated to be effective as an herbicide in container-grown ornamental plants .
MSM applied to the soil surface of containers at 113, 225, and 450 g·m-2 reduced...
Sweet Potato as Biofuel Source
in The Biotech Weblog, on August 28, 2008
...yielding ethanol crop.
It is however unclear whether sweet potatoes may be a viable alternative as biofuel source. Although they require less pesticides and fertilizer than corn, planting and harvest...
Lawyers take to boardrooms
in Sox First, on August 28, 2008
...s-Oxley means we're now seeing more lawyers in the boardroom, reports Law.com . Because of the increasingly litigious environment, directors are now seeking more legal advice. Which suggests we ...
Dell fails on cloud computing trademark
in The CIO Weblog, on August 18, 2008
...t commenters who so far have been taking the line that this represents a breath of fresh air in the increasingly insane efforts by corporations to patent and trademark everything in sight in hopes of ...
HD Biosciences Raises First Round
in China Venture News, on August 16, 2008
...Tan, Ph.D., president and chief executive officer of HD Biosciences. "As chemistry outsourcing increasingly shifts to China, we see a growing demand for in vitro screening and in vivo study servi...
Tune In To The Las Vegas Podcast A Palooza Tomorrow
in Play Las Vegas, on August 15, 2008
...#39;s population becoming more mobile every day portable gizmos and gadget such as iPods are become increasingly more common.
Podcasts have become incredibly popular and Las Vegas has been into the...
Keeping your COBOL?
in The CIO Weblog, on August 8, 2008
...oftware projects aside from the traditional and presumptive waterfall development model. While the increasingly complexity of software may be driving up development costs, it seems to me that the conc...
Enterprise 2.0 updates
in The CIO Weblog, on August 7, 2008
...loyments were oriented internally, indicating a natural and perhaps bottom-up exploratory phase, an increasingly number of respondents indicated that the tools were soon to be oriented toward external...
Johnson joins new look Fulham
in The Soccer Weblog, on August 7, 2008
....
Last season he struggled with injury and was unable to establish himself in the side. He became increasingly homesick and was looking to relocate his family back to London.
Now, after much confusi...
The corporate governance "zoo"
in Sox First, on August 7, 2008
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Corporate governance is increasingly like a zoo! That's one insight that has come out of the 2008 International Corporate Governance Network (ICGN) conference recently held in Seoul, Korea. ...
