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RIAA Wins Lawsuit Against Usenet.com
in P2P File Sharing, on July 9, 2009
...e of copyrighted music and taking action against companies and individuals who are engaging in wide scale infringement. We hope that other bad actors who are engaging in similar activity will take not...
How can a supply chain react to unexpected events (similar to Michael Jackson's death)?
in Supplychainer, on July 5, 2009
...sing it.
- Diversifying suppliers: Using different suppliers in different countries helps us to scale up and down easier and if an economic downturn occurs in one part of the world, the risk and o...
全球前 100 名最佳投资网络 VC
in Wangtam, on July 1, 2009
最近的一项报告根据风险投资者的网络化程度，评选出具备最佳网络的前 100 家风险投资商。
该报告认为 ，风险投资者的网络化程度越高，网络越好，投资回报率就越高。该报告指出，风险投资者的网络是与由其他与其进行联合投资的投资者所组成的。风险投资拥有的联合投资者越多，网络就越好。风险投资商的网络规模与回报率之间的关系，可以为其投资带来更好的交易流、人才、顾问、潜在客户和退出可能。
该报告对 2006-2008 年间为超过 3300 家创业公司提供融资支持的 2700 个投资者进行了分析，并根据网络化程度评分，评选出具备最佳网络的前 100 家风险投资商。请见下表：
1 德丰杰
2 红杉资本...
Madoff gets the max! What now?
in Sox First, on June 30, 2009
...al if people think they can get away with it. "There may not be anyone who can improve on the scale and ingenuity of Madoff's fraud. However, it is a recurring theme in human nature that som...
Caribbean Sees Deep Price Cuts
in The Flyaway Weblog, on June 24, 2009
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The recession is cutting into the Caribbean's travel industry in a profound way, according to CNN "The deals we are seeing in the Caribbean right now are unprece...
3rd Party Blog
in Wangtam, on June 23, 2009
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Georgia Tech opens a new supply chain center in Costa Rica
in Supplychainer, on June 21, 2009
...( ZLC ) and recently added some new members to this collaboration from Latin America and called it SCALE . I personally think the motivation for such expansions are creating more profit out of intern...
Social Entrepreneurship using Facebook
in Audeamus - How dare we..., on June 21, 2009
I don't know how many of you have a personal profile in Facebook (I guess most of you at the website has grown to more than 200 million users) but what I have found out recently is that Facebook is not only a website for sharing photos and contact info. with friends but also a good way of st...
Fiber for Nerve Repair Derived from Chitosan and Polyester
in The Biotech Weblog, on June 19, 2009
...the mechanical strength of the synthetic polymer.
Researchers combined the fibers at the nanometer scale by first using a technique called electrospinning to draw the materials into nanometer-scale f...
Zirconite Jewelry
in The Jewelry Weblog, on June 19, 2009
...iamond, one of the hardest materials known to man is rated 10, at the top of the hardness scale. The hardness of Zirconite cubic zirconia ranges between 9.0 and 9.1, while ordinary cubic zirconia ra...
The Coming Solar Revival
in IfEnergy, on June 15, 2009
... guardedly optimistic outlook came Tuesday... and follows an abysmal period in which new commercial-scale solar business has stalled due to the lack of bank funding for projects. The defunct investmen...
Who would buy a newspaper?
in Sox First, on June 11, 2009
...s fascinating to read the reports of how the New York Times is now selling the Boston Globe after cutting journalists' pay there by 23%. Whether they'll find a buyer for it is another questi...
Cutting Salaries
in Biz Plan Hacks, on June 6, 2009
...Late last month BusinessWeek ran two stories on cutting salaries: Does It Pay to Reduce Pay? and Cutting Salaries Instead of Jobs .
Does it make sense? Once considered off limits for salaried man...
Neutron CE 6 Electric Lawn Mower is the Eco Friendly Evolution
in The Gadgets Weblog, on June 4, 2009
...is nearly silent, powerful enough to clear out my whole yard, it has a mulching bag, and a 19" cutting path. The Neutron battery takes a full 12 hours to charge, and once it is charged, it can ru...
Arkansas Governor Praises U of A's Dedication to Nanotech
in Nanotechbuzz, on June 4, 2009
...to reap commercial success with TuffTek , its nanoparticle coating product to be sold to the metal-cutting industry," writes the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette's Laurie Whalen . "As many as...
Saving Money also Comes by Eating Healthy
in The Personal Finance Weblog, on May 30, 2009
...ealth costs, too, in the future and will help you save money on groceries and in the long run.
By cutting out extra snacking or larger than necessary meals, you could save money each week. Be sure to...
GM or Chrysler: Which one is a better option for Fiat?
in Supplychainer, on May 27, 2009
... to the merger of Fiat with two American auto-makes Chrysler and GM (Opel part). Besides economy of scale and other motivations, I believe Opel option is a better candidate from supply chain point of ...
Employee disengagement in a recession
in Sox First, on May 21, 2009
...t firms with highly engaged workforces tend to outperform stragglers." So with more companies cutting costs, and cutting down on engagement strategies, we can expect a massive fallout and lots o...
Infosys CEO interviewed
in The CIO Weblog, on May 20, 2009
...s to do so). To whatever extent enterprises are working with cloud services, it is still on a small scale and apparently under the corporate radar. Cloud computing is all but a foregone conclusion at ...
iPhone price reduction rumors missing the enterprise
in The CIO Weblog, on May 18, 2009
...ing innovative and flexible data plans to cover business uses, broadening their market share before cutting their pricing to pull in a less lucrative layer of personal users....
The deplorable state of mathematics education today
in The CIO Weblog, on May 17, 2009
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By now you've surely all heard the basic argument from the article a million times: these wide-scale service outages indicate a basic lack of stability and character of unreliability in utility c...
Corporate social responsibility and recession
in Sox First, on May 15, 2009
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With the recession, companies are cutting back on their corporate social responsibility budgets but it's not going away. As reported here , the big cuts are in corporate philanthropy but they...
Time to lob a Molotov cocktail
in The CIO Weblog, on May 14, 2009
...onsibility back onto the business units... but without constantly saying no, managing demand, or cutting services.
IT shops are beginning to understand this. Coming out at nearly the same time as L...
Bad retail figures expose recovery myth
in Sox First, on May 14, 2009
...'s just vanished. While people have been talking about a recovery of sorts, companies have been cutting their inventories now for the last seven months. That hardly suggests a rebound. Then there...
Why stricter laws won't work
in Sox First, on May 13, 2009
...ou don't choose at all, you just comply. "What history teaches us is that on a very large scale, such as what happened in the Soviet Union, if people don't practice making responsible de...
微软确认将于 12 月正式发售 Windows 7
in Wangtam, on May 12, 2009
刚才在洛杉矶的 TechEd 2009 会议上，微软 Windows 业务高级副总裁 Bill Veghte 确认，微软确认将于 12 月正式发售 Windows 7。公司旗下的另一款产品，适用于客户端及服务器版本的 Windows Server 2008 R2 也将于同期上市。
微软同时表示，将在今年 7 月向此次年会的参加者放出 Office 2010 的技术预览版。微软的一位产品经理 Ward Ralston 则表示，这并不意味着 Office 2010 步入了正式发布前的阶段。微软尚未公布该产品的发布日期。
微软在半月前推出了首个 RC 版的 Windows 7，这也意味着该...
H1B: Frying pan to fire
in The CIO Weblog, on May 11, 2009
...ngly large pool of eager and well-educated foreign workers to fill domestic jobs helps ease the pay scale. Industry leaders as illustrious as Bill Gates have gone before Congress to testify in support...
Survey: Most Women Work Because They Have To
in Well Woman Blog, on May 8, 2009
...) of working moms are more stressed due to the current economic climate and the majority (65%) are cutting their family budget.
Some further evidence that the economy is taking a toll on working moth...
Microsoft's prospects
in The CIO Weblog, on May 5, 2009
... I believe they have the vision to achieve that again; if they can't muster the execution, then cutting products out of the lineup probably isn't going to help them. It may be the textbook thi...
SOX and complacency
in Sox First, on May 5, 2009
...39;t choose at all, you just comply. And history has shown us that when you do that on a very large scale, as occurred in the Soviet Union, they stop making responsible decisions. Like any skill, that...
Climate scientist sacked for talking
in Sox First, on May 1, 2009
... been instructed to get permission before talking to the media again. It's very much a case of cutting down tall poppies and envy, something that is quite rife in New Zealand and Australian work ...
Austin Healey Shines at Victoria BC Car Show
in Classical Drives, on April 27, 2009
...des a miniature passenger-carrying railway. I also noted ongoing construction of a pavilion for 1/4-scale streetcars. While I admire vintage streetcars and would go out of my way to ride on one yet, 1...
OnLive: the future of everything?
in The CIO Weblog, on April 27, 2009
...eeds."
There has been a lot of scoffing at this premise, so entrenched has been the view that cutting-edge, resource intensive applications such as modern PC games can only be run on powerful, o...
Sun, Oracle, WordPress, and MySQL
in Wangtam, on April 23, 2009
...Yahoo Cutting 5% Of Staff (YHOO)
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• incredibly slick site
• Comcast Expands DOCSIS 3.0 In Bay Area - New community launches include Palo Alto and San Mateo
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Skype 4.0.0.226 for Windows（含 Portable 版）
in Wangtam, on April 23, 2009
...cts drop down menu
• bugfix: Video did not always scale correctly
• bugfix: Skype occasionally crashed when uPnP port forwarding failed
• bugfix: Improved uPnP handling for Linksys WRTG54G owners
• bu...
EagleTec USB Nano Flash Drive Saves More Than Data
in The Gadgets Weblog, on April 23, 2009
...d, it should meet the ReadyBoost and many other requirments.
The drive is cheap too. Who knew that cutting out all of that manufacturing and fancy LEDs could actually save money. The 4GB drive only c...
VMware to announce VSphere today
in The CIO Weblog, on April 21, 2009
...it's going to be difficult for all but the most massive organizations to match the economies of scale of third-party cloud providers. Leaving aside the general conclusions of the recent McKinsey &...
Leon Popov Butterfly Rings
in The Jewelry Weblog, on April 20, 2009
... diamond from 0.50 carat up to 1.99 Carat.
$3590
Leon Popov's creations are sold through large-scale retailers and private individuals in USA, France, Italy, Japan, Germany, Brazil, Argentina, Co...
Model-Making Klutz Admires 1-6th Scale Corvette Engine That Runs
in Classical Drives, on April 17, 2009
...d a short life.
Thus you can imagine how awe-struck I was when learning of a near-finished 1/6th scale Chevrolet 327 cu. in. V-8 that actually runs! It was built by Jim Moyer, whose hobby is buil...
Henkel wins supply chain excellence award
in Supplychainer, on April 13, 2009
...ughout the supply chain. This has enabled it to effectively reorganize its supply chain on a global scale.
The award was presented to Henkel on the occasion of the "ebs Supply Chain Conference&q...
Renegotiating in Down Times
in Biz Plan Hacks, on April 11, 2009
...he point recently that in an economy where businesses are failing and everyone's concerned with cutting costs, renegotiating your costs is a meaningful strategy.
Everything can be renegotiated. ...
Virgin Mobile Slashes Prices on Plans
in The Mobile Technology Weblog, on April 10, 2009
...aid Virgin Mobile is revamping some of its service rates in effort to compete against intense price-cutting among second-tier wireless competitors.
Beginning April 15th, Virgin Mobile will drop the p...
SUNY Albany Launches $150 Million Nanotech Expansion
in Nanotechbuzz, on April 2, 2009
...rsity at Albany's College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering (CNSE) this week held a ribbon-cutting ceremony to market the official opening of a $150 million expansion of its Albany NanoTech C... ...
The University at Albany's College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering (CNSE) this week held a ribbon-cutting ceremony to market the official opening of a $150 million expansion of its Al...
Yet Another Amazon Web Service
in The CIO Weblog, on April 2, 2009
...etitors.
Forward thinking users who already saw the potential of EC2 to service this sort of large-scale processing had been running Hadoop on privately rented instances already, but the Amazon imple...
Advertising market crash
in Sox First, on April 2, 2009
...ry is in serious trouble. "The 2008/2009 period is now a more serious advertising recession in scale, duration, and relative to the global economy, than the extraordinary 5.1% real-terms post-dot...
Clarifications on HP and Mark Hurd
in The CIO Weblog, on March 31, 2009
...ted, and generically evil, and I might not argue with you, but if you stack HP leadership up on the scale, I think they come off relatively clean. Well-meaning people differ on this, but in my view if...
The importance of corporate DNA
in The CIO Weblog, on March 30, 2009
...ons with many divisions and product lines might seem to disprove this immediately, but on a certain scale, a division might have a culture of its own which could substitute for that of the overall cor...
Hearts On Fire Jewelry
in The Jewelry Weblog, on March 27, 2009
...Hearts On Fire is unique in the diamond industry in that they have taken the standards for diamond cutting into a new echelon of perfection. The brand has developed new high-tech machinery including...
VIdeo: Protect Yourself During the Spring Allergy Season
in Allergies, on March 24, 2009
Has spring sprung in your neck of the woods? Here's a video courtesy of CNN featuring ways to avoid the worst of the spring allergy season:
Embedded video from CNN Video
Spring is a wonderful time of the year; I hope you get to enjoy it, too, despite the allergies!
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in Wangtam, on March 21, 2009
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Fedex announces the quarter earnings are down 75 percent
in Supplychainer, on March 21, 2009
...Logistics Management Magazine , FedEx said it is rolling out the following domestic and global cost-cutting measures, which it expects to reduce expenses by roughly $1.0 billion for Fiscal 2010:
- Ne...
Diana Vincent Jewelry
in The Jewelry Weblog, on March 17, 2009
...t in design and metalsmithing in Rome, and earning a BFA in 1980, Diana followed her passion for cutting edge design by creating Diana Vincent Inc. It was here that she began creating innovative j...
Cloud computing killed your future
in The CIO Weblog, on March 17, 2009
...ve been too busy applying duct tape and Band-Aids to existing infrastructures to stay on top of the cutting edge. Nearly a year and a half ago, already, I heard a FedEx Corporate Services IT executive...
Managing IT costs
in The CIO Weblog, on March 11, 2009
...time to be aggressive internally. IT departments have been, and continue to be, threatened by large-scale utility computing and other on-demand resources. I sat in a room full of consultants the other...
Things I Should Have Blogged About...
in Bizinformer, on March 10, 2009
... . That's how you know it's bad - when people stop buying computers...
On February 24th, Cutting Mature Workers Widens the Wisdom Deficit . Regardless of your financial position, now is no...
Prognostic Test for Frontotemporal Dementia
in The Biotech Weblog, on March 10, 2009
...due to a shortage of progranulin long before symptoms appear. The blood test can be used on a large scale and is much more simple and user-friendly than the current genetic tests. This finding also of...
The key themes in the supply chain of tomorrow
in Supplychainer, on March 8, 2009
...oward Main Street, 'factors' - the companies that offer financing to retail suppliers - are cutting the amount of credit available in transactions involving the weakest retailers. A bigger pul...
Stardust Jewelry
in The Jewelry Weblog, on March 6, 2009
...t quality - a reputation gained and maintained through strict in-house quality control. From stone cutting through finishing, every piece is scrutinized at each stage of production with a perfectioni...
$5K Scholarships for Students with Asthma
in Allergies, on March 5, 2009
... graduate in the 2009 school year and hold a minimum cumulative grade point average of 3.5 on a 4.0 scale are eligible. Applications are now being accepted and the deadline to apply is April 30, 2009...
$50,000 In Scholarships Will Be Awarded To 10 Deserving Students With Asthma
in Straightfromthedoc, on March 5, 2009
... graduate in the 2009 school year and hold a minimum cumulative grade point average of 3.5 on a 4.0 scale are eligible. Applications for Schering-Plough's "Will to Win" college scholarsh...
How Do You Assess Innovation?
in TJ's Weblog, on February 28, 2009
...ure." The third has to do with the innovation's place on something like a necessity-luxury scale.
I thought Scott's article was insightful. You can read it here .
Photo courtesy of ...
Good Cities for Cheap Hotels
in The Flyaway Weblog, on February 28, 2009
...te recently released hotel.info 's Value for Money index... The site rates hotel values on a scale of one to ten. And as the database builds, some places you might not expect come out as great ...
Please Don't Take Away Our Tax Breaks!
in The Outsourcing Weblog, on February 27, 2009
...irst, they assert that the removal of this tax break will cripple U.S. competitiveness - "like cutting their nose to spite their face." I find that assertion to be speculative at best, parti...
Newspaper death roll
in Sox First, on February 25, 2009
...in online newspapers because they don't produce anywhere near the profit once enjoyed by print. Cutting staff is not the answer, according to that report. A better, if no less painful, solution mi...
Outsourcing Takes a Hit
in Biz Plan Hacks, on February 24, 2009
... you missed it, BusinessWeek had a piece earlier this month on the how a number of businesses are cutting back on outsourcing as part of their fiscal response to the recession. Of course, that's... ...ally in the IT sector. The economic slump has become so pronounced that even outsourcing is getting scaled back. Executives who once relied on outside firms to handle certain IT tasks to cut costs are...
Searching the Deep Enterprise
in The CIO Weblog, on February 23, 2009
...ve a pretty good idea where their data is and how to access it. But drop-in boxes or software using cutting edge off-the-shelf search technologies, such as the Google appliance pictured above, can'...
The Two Trillion Dollar Meltdown by Charles R Morris
in Sox First, on February 19, 2009
...reat credit bubble of the 2000s." Adding to the problem were Alan Greenspan's policies of cutting interest rates whenever there was trouble. In 1987, the Fed cut interest rates three times i...
Is Mexico still a viable near-shore location?
in Supplychainer, on February 19, 2009
...guidelines." I think so too; however, I believe companies should revise the country's risk scale again and be tight for future investments to see if the situation will stabilizes in the near ...
Bad Money by Kevin Phillips
in Sox First, on February 17, 2009
...d housing credit bubble; fourth, roughly quadrupling US credit market debt between 1987 and 2007, a scale of excess that historically unwinds; and fifth, consummating these events with a mixed perform...
