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Amazon.com Launche Wireless Superstore
in The Mobile Technology Weblog, on July 10, 2009
...ften associated with starting a new service plan and even more cool is that rebates will be automatically deducted from a phone's cost at checkout!
AmazonWireless (which is yet in Beta stage) is...
Why it matters if your neighbor's struggling to pay the mortgage
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on July 9, 2009
...were greedy, you might say. They took out odd mortgage loans with artificially low initial interest rates all so they could move into a house they couldn't really afford in a neighborhood that was...
Want to Save Even More Money on Your Car Insurance?
in The Personal Finance Weblog, on July 9, 2009
...ing. It is also important to know that you probably have not heard them all, either.
As you know, rates on many things are often reduced if you belong to a particular membership, or club. Philip Reed...
T-Mobile To Begin Pre-Selling New Android Phone
in The Mobile Technology Weblog, on July 8, 2009
In effort to reaise up some well needed capital, struggling wireless carrier T-Mobile today began pre-selling the myTouch 3G, its second Google-powered smartphone.
T-Mobile, which currently sits in fourth-place in terms of sheer size among US carriers, is feeling the pressure amid a busy summ...
Los Angeles leads nation in mortgage fraud
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on July 8, 2009
... always going to be scammers out there. The best defense is to be on guard at all times. If someone calls you out of the blue offering to help you reduce your mortgage payments, hang up the phone. It&...
The world's oldest bible reunited online
in Wangtam, on July 7, 2009
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Beware loan-modification scams
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on July 7, 2009
...erely had sent money to con artists.
You can protect yourself from these scams, though. If someone calls you with a loan-modification offer, don't provide them any information, and don't send...
Animoto Releases Updated iPhone App
in The Mobile Technology Weblog, on July 6, 2009
Animoto has released an update to their popular music video creation app for the iPhone and iPod touch, Videos 2.0 .
The Animoto Videos application allows users to easily create and view professional-quality music videos on the go. With nearly 500,000 videos created through the application ...
Taking out a mortgage loan without going mad
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on July 6, 2009
... taking out a mortgage loan without losing your mind: Don't obsess over those mortgage interest rates.
Unfortunately, this is the one piece of advice very few borrowers listen to.
You can't ...
Pebble Beach Swamped, Calendar Needs to be Split
in Classical Drives, on July 6, 2009
...bigger, which would be okay with humble auto writers like me if it didn't continue to push room rates beyond reach. (Yes, the rich are different than you and me.) The latest announcement comes fro...
Our new Cotton Candy Sheep
in WebKinzBlog, on July 5, 2009
...gh to buy an online pet. The Cotton Candy Sheep is just too adorable.
In England, cotton candy is called 'candy floss', in Australia they call it 'fairy floss'. In fact when it was f...
Satellite Hopes To Make Deadzones a Thing of the Past
in The Mobile Technology Weblog, on July 3, 2009
...d also pursue similar deals with other wireless carriers.
"Off the network grid, you can make calls via the satellite," said Jeffrey Epstein, President of TerreStar. "It's a terres...
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Sourceforge Website Redesign
in Wangtam, on July 2, 2009
...blems Can Delay iPhone Voicemail
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It's getting tougher to get a mortgage-broker license
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on July 2, 2009
...ts such as interest-only loans and adjustable-rate mortgages with artificially low initial interest rates.
It's good, then, to see states such as Massachusetts being more vigilant. Of course, it ...
Urlaubspläne geändert? Auto Europe verzichtet auf Stornogebühren bei Mietwagen
in Das Mietwagen-Blog, on July 2, 2009
...unter der Telefonnummer 0800-5600333 kompetente, mehrsprachige Mitarbeiter. Das Call Center ist auch am Wochenende und an Feiertagen besetzt. Darüber hinaus ist die Hotline auch für Mietwagen in der ...
What VCs Are Worrying About
in Wangtam, on July 1, 2009
...omy
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Is there room for Cisco in the online office suite space?
in The CIO Weblog, on July 1, 2009
...A single line in reports on a Tuesday conference call with Cisco VP Doug Dennerline opens up the intriguing possibility that the company is "thinking about" getting into the online office ...
Verizon and Sprint to Launch Blackberry World Phone
in The Mobile Technology Weblog, on July 1, 2009
You could say that with the help of Verizon, RIM's latest Blackberry is going on world tour. In fact, that's exactly what's going on in the latest word that Verizon Wireless will launch the BlackBerry Tour on July 12 for $200 with a new two-year contract.
The Tour is loaded with m...
Are you ready for a mortgage loan?
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on July 1, 2009
... know yet about clogged gutters, weeding and broken water heaters.) The desire to own something, to call something yours, is a strong one.
Of course, the American dream has taken a bit of a hit these...
Is plain vanilla the right goal?
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on June 30, 2009
...consumers, and keep the country from suffering another wave of foreclosures, Pres. Barack Obama has called for the creation of a new consumer protection agency. The agency would have dominion over mor... ... that consumers know that they can take out basic mortgage loans — without adjusting interest rates, interest-only options or any of the other fancy stuff that got so many borrowers in trouble d...
Durbin-Grassley, Indian Outsourcing, and the H-1B Visa
in Global Mobility Report, on June 29, 2009
... for those workers.
The Indian outsourcing model takes a different approach. Outsourcing firms typically post visa workers in the U.S. on a short-term basis, in many cases about 18 months. The worker... ...es in the U.S. and 70% to 80% offshore. The mix allows the companies to benefit from the lower wage rates offshore, while doing the most critical work, such as testing software applications, on-site. ...
Sony Next to Release an iPhone Killer
in The Mobile Technology Weblog, on June 29, 2009
We often talk about attempts to dethrone the immensely popular iPhone and it looks like consumer electronics giant Sony is about to take a stab at it next.
Sony has released word that it is considering setting up a project team as early as July to make a new device that combines the functions...
Credit Scores and Car Insurance
in The Personal Finance Weblog, on June 29, 2009
... © me and the sysop
One way to get better car insurance rates and save money is to keep your credit score in good shape. For some time now, insurers have been looking at credit scores in order t...
Undervalued or Not, the Yuan is Not Likely to Gain Much
in China Venture News, on June 29, 2009
...ind exchange rate. The currency exchange rates of every country in the world are based on a concept called the Purchasing Power Parity (PPP). This concept says that a currency's value is based upo... ...il Raheja has an excellent explanation of the theory behind exchange rate. The currency exchange rates of every country in the world are based on a concept called the Purchasing Power Parity (PPP)....
Logistics cost in the U.S. is dropping
in Supplychainer, on June 28, 2009
...o offset the 13.2 percent decline in inventory carrying costs, primarily due to record-low interest rates last year. Transportation ($872 billion) now accounts for 6.1 percent of nominal GDP while inv...
Another Way to Save on Car Insurance
in The Personal Finance Weblog, on June 27, 2009
... need to financially cover your obligations in the event of an accident, or of a loss. The insurer rates each customer for potential losses and then charges accordingly. You, of course, want to keep y...
Verizon's New Global Smartphone Aims for the Ozone
in The Mobile Technology Weblog, on June 26, 2009
... to run Windows Mobile 6.1 this new smartphone will run on both CDMA and GSM worldwide and is being called the Ozone.
The Ozone's claim to fame is its simplified "sliding panel" user in...
HTC Hero - wirklich heldenhaft?
in BlackBerry World, on June 26, 2009
...aten Umfeld präferieren Widgets für Twitter, Wettervorhersagen oder Videos.
Soweit das Call-Magazin , das dann auch über unterschiedliche Profile und Interessengruppen schreibt, die jeweils im Bünd...
Product Alert: Solena Tortilla Chips
in Allergies, on June 25, 2009
... © stu_spivack La Mexicana, Inc. , is recalling "Solena Tortilla Chips" due to undeclared milk .
The product was distributed to retail stores and food service outlets in Oregon and Wa...
Pensioners kidnap and torture their investment adviser
in Sox First, on June 25, 2009
...k. When they agreed, he scribbled a message on the bottom of the fax asking for whoever read it to call police. The cops eventually stormed the place and arrested the pensioners. Amburn later said it...
Motorola Karma Has Texting in Mind
in The Mobile Technology Weblog, on June 24, 2009
...ooking to use their phones to send text messages and access social networking sites like Facebook.
Calling this new handset the Karma, Motorola says that the design will be especially pleasing to ind...
Don't believe the homeownership hype
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on June 24, 2009
...investment as real estate agents and mortgage loan officers make them out to be.
Yes, homes historically have risen in value. There's no denying that. But if you look at the world of housing, you...
How to Save Money When You Buy Auto Insurance
in The Personal Finance Weblog, on June 23, 2009
... two things:
• Which cars should you avoid
• Which cars will give you the best auto insurance rates
You see, it needs to start here because trying to get discount auto insurance on a car that will c...
Did Sonia Sotomayor's mortgage views help send county into recession?
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on June 23, 2009
...n't they the ones who took out adjustable-rate mortgages with artificially low initial interest rates just so they could squeeze into home that were a little nicer or bigger than what they could a...
T-Mobile's New Android Phone Coming Soon
in The Mobile Technology Weblog, on June 22, 2009
... ace up their sleeve in the ongoing struggle to dethroning the Apple iPhone coming out this August. Calling it the myTouch 3G, its new Google Android equipped phone is a more equipped version of the p...
Bankers' pay soars despite crisis
in Sox First, on June 22, 2009
... UBS and Citigroup are actually cranking up pay for investment bankers to stop them leaving. Market rates for bankers have been running close to the boom-time highs of two years ago and banks are also...
Vinegar For Weight Loss?
in Well Woman Blog, on June 21, 2009
...d to be worth about US$0.93bn (€0.73bn) in Europe in 2005 and $3.93bn in the US, indicating that call to slim down or face the health consequences is being heeded by a slice of the overweight populati...
Beware of loan-modification scams
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on June 21, 2009
...se scammers take an advance fee, and then do nothing to actually lower the homeowners' interest rates.
The East Valley Tribune story points to the case of Bobby John Herrera, who victimized 47 ho...
Google Voice Prepares for Launch
in The VoIP Weblog, on June 20, 2009
... to adding a significant amount of users... Google Voice has a number of unique features including call transfer between a user's devices, multi-party conferencing, conversion of voice calls to te...
CTI and CommPartners Bring Hosted Call Recording to SMB Market
in The VoIP Weblog, on June 19, 2009
...announced a partnership with CommPartners Connect to bring CTI's SmartRecord IP hosted VoIP call recording solution to the small and medium sized business markets.
"By partnering with i...
Product Alert: Smith's Tea with Lemon
in Allergies, on June 19, 2009
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Smith Dairy Products Company is recalling "Smith's Tea with Lemon" gallon size due to undeclared milk .
The lot affected in this recall is in gallon-size containers with UPC 7...
T-Mobile Aims High with the Dash 3G
in The Mobile Technology Weblog, on June 19, 2009
... Wi-Fi connectivity and 65K-color TFT display.
It will also connect and organize users with voice calling, messaging, support for personal and business email, GPS for location-based services and the...
A new wave of mortgage foreclosures on the way?
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on June 18, 2009
...use they won't have paid off enough on their home loans.
Because home values have fallen drastically over the last two years, many homeowners with these mortgage products will actually owe more o... ...— is that many of these option adjustable rate mortgages are set to adjust to higher interest rates between 2009 and 2012. Many homeowners won't be able to make the higher monthly mortgage p...
Azotobacter vinelandii Genome Sequence
in The Biotech Weblog, on June 18, 2009
...nown bacterium and has the capacity to maintain low levels of cytoplasmic oxygen through a process called respiratory protection. The sequence of the bacteria's genome allowed the team of research... ...cesses, using A. vinelandii as model organism.
A. vinelandii has one of the highest respiratory rates of any known bacterium and has the capacity to maintain low levels of cytoplasmic oxygen throug...
Apple Updates its Software While the Government Rethinks Law
in The Mobile Technology Weblog, on June 17, 2009
Apple today officially released the iPhone OS 3.0 software, updating 45 software patches to address rare security vulnerabilities in its popular iPhone and iPod Touch mobile devices.
The company said the new features include cut, copy and paste, MMS, and push notifications.
Analysts expect ...
A GM name change?
in Sox First, on June 17, 2009
...elf to be such a reactive company, formulating policies as a knee-jerk response, that it might just call in the marketing people for a name change....
The slow recovery
in Sox First, on June 16, 2009
...needs to compared to what's happening in the real world. Capital One says credit card default rates have risen to 9.4% and American Express says defaults have risen to 10.4%. Meanwhile, Reuter...
Nokia E72 unveiled - pics and video
in Wangtam, on June 16, 2009
• Nokia E72 unveiled - pics and video
• Hunch launches!
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Just Koogle it.
in Sox First, on June 16, 2009
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Now I've heard everything. We have reports of a new kosher search engine called "koogle" developed in Israel that allows religious Jews to search the Net without compromising their...
Higher mortgage interest rates putting a scare in homebuilders
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on June 15, 2009
...iation of Home Builders charts the confidence levels of their home-builder members every month. Basically, they ask members how confident they are that sales of newly built homes will be strong.
In J... ... that home builders are spooked rather easily these days.
Today it's higher mortgage interest rates that are giving builders the willies. A story in the Wall Street Journal pointed to rising in...
Nokia Announces Successor to the E71 Smartphone
in The Mobile Technology Weblog, on June 15, 2009
Nokia has answered the question on the minds of business users all around the globe today by announced its E72- an updated version of its top-selling E71 business phone.
The company says that the E72 builds on the successful E71; its hot selling QWERTY- equipped smartphone, by adding performa...
IBM's confusing cloud strategy
in The CIO Weblog, on June 15, 2009
... SaaS offering. That's a fine thing in and of itself, but if that's what IBM is choosing to call cloud computing ( edit: I understand their preferred term is actually "hybrid" comput...
Motorola Rival Coming to Verizon
in The Mobile Technology Weblog, on June 12, 2009
...he Verizon network have reason to celebrate in the form of the Rival from Motorola. Designed specifically for the challenges of texting, the Rival features a 2.2-inch screen and a backlit QWERTY keybo...
Want a better credit score? Manage your money
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on June 12, 2009
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Home buyers with the highest credit scores qualify for the mortgage loans with the lowest interest rates. Buyers whose credit scores - also known as their FICO scores - are too low will either have t...
Recession and marriage
in Sox First, on June 12, 2009
...9;s just not worth it, even if it means prolonging a bad marriage. According to the report, divorce rates in England and Wales are at their lowest for 26 years thanks to the recession. It's a sim...
Will rising mortgage interest rates stop housing recovery?
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on June 11, 2009
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Mortgage interest rates are still pretty low. But they are rising. That has some economists worried. They're wondering whether increasing mortgage interest rates will slow or even halt the mo...
What economy? CEO private jets take off
in Sox First, on June 11, 2009
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Despite unemployment in the US reaching 9.4% and foreclosure rates topping 300,000, as reported by Bloomberg , it's heartening to see some things don't change. Pay perks for chief executi...
Nokia Hopes Cell Phones will No Longer Require Chargers
in The Mobile Technology Weblog, on June 10, 2009
... could result in the collective dumping of phone chargers all around the globe but it is a scientifically sound idea that we hope will come to pass.
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Outsourcing Your Dating Life
in The Dating Weblog, on June 10, 2009
...ur possibilities. When you sign up, you get 007 Dating Assistant. Yep, that's really what they call them because of the undercover nature of their work. The company says the Bondesque dating assis...
Is it time to refinance your mortgage?
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on June 10, 2009
...e is a bright spot for certain homeowners: The weak economy has resulted in lower mortgage interest rates. That means it's a good time to refinance a mortgage loan.
Of course, even with low inter...
Rental Rates for that House at the Beach this Summer are Down
in The Flyaway Weblog, on June 10, 2009
If you're thinking of renting a place this summer as part of your vacation, the NY Times says you should be very happy with the price you get in the current market - and it might pay you to shop around. And up and down the East Coast, those who rent out vacation properties are wondering about ...
Save Money on Groceries by Using All Your Food
in The Personal Finance Weblog, on June 9, 2009
...portions, you can save money on your grocery bill if you simply throw it together into a new dish. Call it a stew, a casserole or a soup if you want, but by making another dish out if it, you will sav...
Are reverse mortgages the next trouble spot?
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on June 8, 2009
...es could be the next financial product to cause serious problems for consumers. In the story, Dugan calls for legislators take action to prevent reverse mortgages from causing some of the same proble... ...If your mortgage loan officer tells you to consider an adjustable rate mortgage, one whose interest rates could jump sky-high after, say, five years, you'd probably be apt to listen, right? After ...
Apple Slashes Prices on the iPhone
in The Mobile Technology Weblog, on June 8, 2009
Apple Inc. slashed the entry price for an iPhone in half as well as lowered some of their laptop prices today; the company's first dramatic price cuts since the recession began a year and a half ago.
The 8-gigabyte iPhone 3G, which came out last year, now costs $99, instead of $199. The 1...
Wells Fargo accused of pushing bad loans on African-Americans
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on June 8, 2009
...wers. Many loan officers pushed interest-only loans. These came with extremely low initial interest rates. They then adjusted, and when that happened, many borrowers couldn't afford to make their ...
Crowdsourcing
in Web 2.0, on June 7, 2009
...utsourcing it to an undefined, generally large group of people or community in the form of an open call." They should know. Wikipedia is crowdsourced...
Two interesting pieces on crowdsourcing c...
T-Mobile To Release Second Android Phone While Samsung Targets Photogs
in The Mobile Technology Weblog, on June 5, 2009
T-Mobile, the fourth-largest U.S. carrier, is hoping to increase its rank by launch its second smartphone to run Google's Android operating system in a few weeks.
While details aren't overly specific just yet, the new smartphone is slotted to run Google's codenamed "Cupcake&q...
LG GD910 Wristwatch Phone available in July
in The Smart PDA, on June 5, 2009
...details:
Dimensions: 13.9mm
Network: 7.2Mbps HSDPA
Display: 1.4 inch touchscreen
Camera: CIF video call camera
Multimedia: MP3 Player
Other: Text-to-speech functionality
Source: GSM Arena ...
Mortgage giant Mozilo charged with fraud
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on June 5, 2009
...meowners who couldn't make their mortgage payments once their artificially low initial interest rates adjusted to higher levels, brought the company down. It has since been bought out by Bank of A...
