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Joel Klein To Receive The 100 Women in Hedge Funds' Effecting Change Award
in The Hedge Funds Weblog, on November 3, 2009
... Hedge Funds’ Board of Directors today announced that Joel Klein, Chancellor of the New York City Department of Education, will receive its 2009 Effecting Change Award at its New York Gala on November...
TechFlash discusses roadblocks to innovation in America
in The CIO Weblog, on November 2, 2009
... Just because a country experiences a surge in poorly educated, low-income workers looking for agriculture jobs doesn't mean they are going to suddenly start dropping off resumes at Google, or someho...
London, Classic Cars, and Harrods
in Classical Drives, on November 2, 2009
... he tells about how much fun it is to have breakfast at the Cafe Rouge near the legendary Harrods department store, where "all the fashion designers and managers of the various departments are also ...
US housing probe and climate change
in Sox First, on October 26, 2009
...an planner, and a professor at the University of Sao Paolo. She is also the former Director of the Department of Planning for Sao Paolo, and from 2003-2007 served as the National Secretary for Urban ...
Seen that? - Should You Drink Coffee When You're Pregnant
in Well Woman Blog, on October 24, 2009
...gnancy? That's the issue being debated among health professionals. The battle is between the UK Department of Health who says pregnant women can drink, but should not exceed one or two drinks a we...
Managed and unmanaged social networks in the enterprise
in The CIO Weblog, on October 23, 2009
...n the enterprise is that, whether of its own volition or having been hectored into doing so, the IT department puts on a big push to deploy the tools, creates a lot of buzz and fanfare, and then... wa...
!0 more to be charged with insider trading
in Sox First, on October 21, 2009
...l well-timed stock investments and phone taps. You can read details about these phone taps in this Department of Justice document . The other interesting part about this case is the political dimen...
How the ratings agencies sold out investors
in Sox First, on October 19, 2009
...all Street in packaging loans into securities for sale to investors. It also stacked its compliance department with the people who awarded the highest ratings to pools of mortgages that soon were down...
How effective is prohibiting social networks at work?
in The CIO Weblog, on October 13, 2009
...then any point in putting time and effort into crafting such policies? Is it something that the HR department insists on to keep a few handy excuses around for firing troublesome staff?
I'm genuin...
Seen that? - EMC adds Google Desktop search to Documentum
in On Storage, on October 12, 2009
...el Liedtke, AP business writer, reports: In a 49-page document filed April 18 with the U.S. Justice Department and state attorneys general, Google alleged that the latest version of Microsoft's Wi...
Thailand Joins the Renewable Energy Push
in IfEnergy, on October 11, 2009
... the first Renewable Energy World Asia. At the REW Asia opening session, Dr Twarath Sutabutr of the Department for Alternate Energy and Efficiency presented some of the details of Thailand’s Renewable...
Bribery charges turn personal
in Sox First, on October 9, 2009
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The Justice Department is getting personal in its campaign to curtail bribery. The Wall Street Journal reports that the US officials are now honing in on individuals involved in bribery cases. ...
Lean IT bandwagon gains horses
in The CIO Weblog, on October 7, 2009
...dustrial world has increasingly led to their application in other areas of the business, and the IT department looks like it may be the next objective for lean proponents. Increasing buzz level over L...
Seen that? - Loremo on the Edge
in IfEnergy, on October 6, 2009
... Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratories' Advanced Energy Technologies Department conducts research focusing on converting and storing energy (batteries and fuel cells), p...
Seen that? - Dumb blonde
in Are you a beauty?, on October 3, 2009
... Are blondes really dumb? And for that fact, are beautiful women a bit short in the brain department? Any beautiful blonde could reassure you in a minute. It is ridiculous to think that hair...
Apple ticks off enterprise converts
in The CIO Weblog, on September 17, 2009
...d, but it isn't clear that popularity is going to allow them to kick sand in the face of the IT department and keep making gains in the corporate market.
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Sears let off lightly for spying on customers
in Sox First, on September 16, 2009
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Back in June, the US Federal Trade Commission announced it was investigating the department store chain Sears for spying on its customers' online activity. It was a sneaky little arrangemen...
ATI Catalyst Drivers 9.9 WHQL
in Wangtam, on 2009-09-14
...t-Up, Plum
• Microsoft-Yahoo Web Search Deal Faces In-Depth Justice Department Review
• CE-Oh no he didn't! Part LXII: Steve Ballmer publicly ridicules Microsoft employee with iPhone, threaten...
A big week for the US economy
in Sox First, on September 13, 2009
...hursday. Indeed, Thursday will be a double whammy with weekly jobless claims numbers from the Labor Department are also due that day. And on Friday, the US government releases its state by state emplo...
Manticore Technology Can Turn Your Leads into Sales
in TJ's Weblog, on September 11, 2009
In the entrepreneurial world of today, startups often live or die based on their ability to market their product or service. So how are your marketing efforts going? If the answer is not something you really want to talk about, Manticore Technology can offer you a solution to the problem.
For many...
RFID comes to the rescue of deaf students
in The RFID Weblog, on September 10, 2009
... certainly become easier if not normal for deaf children. Armed with a $390,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Education, Robert Hancock and Becky Sue Parton, two assistant professors will be able ...
Open Letter Questions UK P2P Plan
in P2P File Sharing, on September 7, 2009
...ot; notes AfterDawn's James Delahunty .
"The signatories to the letter argued that the department's estimate for the damage done to the content industries by file-sharing, placed at ab...
You Can Solve Your Marketing Problems with Manticore Technologies
in The Search Engine Weblog, on September 7, 2009
Like so many marketplaces today, Search Engine Optimization is a competitive business. If you're looking for a forceful marketing solution to turn your marketing program into actual sales, you may be looking for Manticore Technology.
For many businesses, the solution to their sales problems co...
Biotransformed Blueberry Juice Against Obesity and Diabetes
in The Biotech Weblog, on September 5, 2009
...betes, says Tri Vuong, lead author and recent PhD graduate from the Université de Montréal's Department of Pharmacology: "Consumption of fermented blueberry juice gradually and significantly ...
BackBlaze Shares Its Secrets
in On Storage, on September 5, 2009
... "However, I have to admit that it's a really good one. It can offer some real value to IT departments and create a positive brand impression of Backblaze with IT pros, who tend to serve as t...
19 Carbon Sequestration Programs See Government Funding
in IfEnergy, on August 31, 2009
... © SolYoung
VentureBeat reported recently on the U.S. Department of Energy's announced intention to provide $27.6 million in funding for 19 different projects testing "the efficiency o...
Enterprise 2.0 finds success (and failure!)
in The CIO Weblog, on August 25, 2009
...mething you wanted to see happening in a garage somewhere in Silicon Valley, not in your accounting department, where well-meaning but amateur geeks without a big picture perspective would build one-o...
Juicy Couture Fashion Jewelry
in The Jewelry Weblog, on August 25, 2009
...cloth and velour tracksuits as well as leather and terrycloth handbags. The line is sold in upscale department stores and specialty stores. Juicy clothes and accessories are often worn by celebrities...
DOJ Approves Oracle-Sun Deal
in Java Entrepreneur, on August 22, 2009
... © Mark Coggins
Oracle Corporation this week announced that the U.S. Department of Justice has approved its proposed acquisition of Sun Microsystems .
"Oracle announced its bid for S...
Pebble Beach 2009 Winner Horch, a Name Hardly Known
in Classical Drives, on August 21, 2009
... founder was a pioneering automobile engineer, for a time manager of the motor vehicle construction department at Benz before that company amalgamated with Mercedes. Ironically all Horch-badged cars b...
Eco-friendly Pesticides Derived from Herbal Essentail Oils
in The Biotech Weblog, on August 17, 2009
Researchers are exploring the use of essential oils derived from herbs such as rosemary, thyme, clove, and mint as natural pesticides for use against agricultural as well as household pests.
"We are exploring the potential use of natural pesticides based on plant essential oils - commonly ...
Post 9/11: What to do when post-traumatic stress doesn't subside?
in Straightfromthedoc, on August 14, 2009
...e in PTSD cases related to the 9/11 events.
In a collaborative study done by New York City's Department of Health and Mental Hygiene and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention , numbers sh...
Who says you are a CIO?
in The CIO Weblog, on August 13, 2009
...f the average CIO is again falling (more and more are finding themselves wedged into the accounting department again, a lackey for the CFO rather than powerful strategic thinker for the company) and a...
Should Teachers Friend Their Students?
in The Social Networking Weblog, on August 9, 2009
I got my August copy of Learning & Leading from ISTE (the International Society for Technology in Education) this week. There was an interesting counterpoint on the question of whether teachers should "friend" their students...
Marsha Redd says "yes." She's a libra...
Unemployment figures: don't celebrate yet
in Sox First, on August 9, 2009
... there who have given up looking for work and they're not counted. Under this system, the Labor Department only counts you as unemployed if you looked for work in the four previous weeks. If you d...
Oracle-Sun Deal Under Increased Scrutiny
in Java Entrepreneur, on August 7, 2009
...ulators.
"The Redwood City, Calif.-based database giant said in June that although the U.S. Department of Justice had escalated an initial probe into the deal, it didn't expect the deal to ...
Government spending in tracking technologies provides good opportunities for SCM technology providers
in Supplychainer, on July 30, 2009
... this trend.
As an example, according to Washington Technology (earlier this week), the Defense Department moves vast quantities of thousands of different materials, including many very high-value...
Summer Diabetes Management
in Daily Diabetic, on July 28, 2009
... Diabetic Care Services has partnered with Kent State University 's nutrition department to offer testing and nutrition tips for maintaining effective diabetes self-management during summer,...
Can manufacturing be saved?
in Sox First, on July 23, 2009
...oyment falls because fewer people are needed. In this, manufacturing is following the same trend as agriculture. A century ago, almost 30% of adult Americans worked on a farm. Nowadays, fewer than 5% ...
Swine Flu
in Latina Viva, on July 21, 2009
...nds and a dozen people are dead from it.
Argentina has also been hit by the bug. The U.S State Department issued a travel alert for Argentina until September 14 because of the pandemic. Argentin...
Regulating PE's & VC's? Treasury Wants To...
in Bizinformer, on July 20, 2009
... The US Treasury Department proposed a bill earlier this month that would regulate venture capital, private equity firms and hedge funds that had more than $30 million in assets. Registration wit...
Sun Shareholders Approve Oracle Acquisition
in Java Entrepreneur, on July 20, 2009
...ders have approved the company's merger with Oracle .
"Pending approval by the Justice Department, database titan Oracle is set to acquire Sun for $9.50 per share in cash, or $5.6 billion ...
Navigating The Business Start Up In A Recession
in Business Computer Blog (UK), on July 17, 2009
... © TheGirlsNY
On June 29, the Bureau of Economic Analysis of the U.S. Department of Commerce reported that U.S. gross domestic product declined by 5.5% in the first quarter of 2009. This follows d...
Office 2010: Micorsoft Moving to a Cloud-based FREE Business Model?
in Web 2.0, on July 17, 2009
...s marketing videos for Office 2010 is embedded below. Makes you wonder if the boys in the marketing department there have been snorting copier ink or inhaling white out fumes or something...
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2 Million Pakistani Refugees Returning to Swat Valley
in Global Mobility Report, on July 15, 2009
...n are really over, economic problems are coming to the for. Swat's two main economic forces are agriculture and tourism. But the year's first crop has been lost and the tourism industry has co...
Understanding Honduras
in Latina Viva, on July 13, 2009
...st 102 years of our existence as a country.
It will be an interesting story to follow.
© U.S. Department of State
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Genetically Modified Salt-Tolerant Cereal Crops
in The Biotech Weblog, on July 10, 2009
Using a new genetic modification approach, agricultural researchers have developed cereal crops that are able to withstand salinity .
Professor Tester says his team used the technique to keep salt - as sodium ions (Na+) - out of the leaves of a model plant species. The researchers modified gen...
What recession? Small arms trade is booming
in Sox First, on July 10, 2009
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While the US State Department has announced it is observing the United Nations' International Small Arms Destruction Day, you have to wonder whether their hearts were in it. As reported he...
The world's oldest bible reunited online
in Wangtam, on 2009-07-08
...T&T's Exclusive Deal With Apple's iPhone
• Windows 7 ISO Verifier
• Unofficial Gears for Windows and Linux
• Unofficial Gears for Mac OS X
• How to Get Windows Vista and 7's &q...
CIOs who tweet
in The CIO Weblog, on June 21, 2009
...for accounts of other CIOs (although, really, who has time for Facebook when they are running an IT department?). If so, your task just got a lot easier on Twitter, because CIO Dashboard's Chris...
How To Keep Kids Healthy This Summer
in Straightfromthedoc, on June 18, 2009
...art of camp some 14 of 160 staff members tested positive for Influenza A and the California Health Department advised camp administrators that those counselors most likely have swine flu. Rabbi Elliot...
The Coming Solar Revival
in IfEnergy, on June 15, 2009
... been a major investor in renewable energy projects. SunPower CEO Tom Werner says that the Treasury Department's cash grant program (part of February's economic stimulus package) will begin to...
Jasmonic Acid Treatment Cuts Down Pesticide Use
in The Biotech Weblog, on June 9, 2009
© jilly40uk US agricultural company Becker Underwood, in collaboration with Plant Bioscience Limited, now holds worldwide exclusive licence on the use of jasmonic acid as a natural seed treatment to help cut down on pesticide use on some commercially-important agricultural crops.
Researchers a...
Recession Forces More Golf Deals
in Eagle Par Birdie, on June 8, 2009
...mother of invention.
How true, especially these days.
If you have wandered through your favorite department store recently, you've probably seen some pretty amazing deals: 60 percent off, buy o...
Global Rejection of Genetically Engineered Wheat
in The Biotech Weblog, on June 3, 2009
Farmers, consumers and civil society organizations in Australia, Canada and the U.S. released a joint statement confirming their collective commitment to stop commercialization of genetically engineered (GE) wheat .
Here's the summary statement:
In light of our existing experience with ge...
In Search of a Cool Summer: Baguio, Philippines
in Hidden Travel Gems, on May 29, 2009
Asia is hot in the summer. At least most of it is. But there are a few spots where the summer traveler can enjoy moderate, perhaps even cool, weather. Chief among those locations is Baguio City, Philippines.
Baguio is referred to affectionately as the summer capital of the Philippines. The title...
ROI Measurement and Misunderstanding
in The CIO Weblog, on May 26, 2009
... that what SOA is, or isn't, or is labeled, or not, even belongs in conversation outside the IT department, anymore than IPX/SPX or TCP/IP do. My feeling is that IT departments which are being con...
Rebecca Summer 2009 Jewelry
in The Jewelry Weblog, on May 26, 2009
...r in Italy for years is now making major forays into the United States with distribution details in department stores such as Bloomingdale's, Nordstrom, and a Beverly Hills boutique. The brand is ...
Alex and Ani Jewelry
in The Jewelry Weblog, on May 22, 2009
...ted design expertise. Alex and Ani is sold at specialty stores such as Fred Segal, Henri Bendel and department stores nationwide including Nordstrom and Bloomingdale's . ...
Redder Antioxidant-Richer Lettuce Using LEDs
in The Biotech Weblog, on May 21, 2009
© Leeks 'N' Bounds A team of plant physiologists has developed a method of producing redder- and thus healthier, anti-oxidant-richer - lettuce using ultraviolet light-emitting diodes (LEDs) .
To create red leaf lettuce plants enriched with these compounds, Britz purchased low-power LE...
How bad is the housing market? That depends
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on May 19, 2009
... is a sign that the housing market here still hasn't recovered.
According to the U.S. Commerce Department, housing starts fell 12.8 percent in April when compared to March. Homebuilders are now o...
iPhone price reduction rumors missing the enterprise
in The CIO Weblog, on May 19, 2009
...s users are practically smuggling their personally purchased iPhones into corporations under the IT department's nose, neither Apple nor AT&T are moving to capitalize on the buzz by offering c...
Golden Rice is an Effective Source of Vitamin A
in The Biotech Weblog, on May 15, 2009
Golden Rice is a genetically modified plant developed to contain more beta-carotene in the grains, seen as a viable method of alleviating vitamin-A deficiency particularly in developing countries. In its current form, Golden Rice contains 35 micrograms of beta-carotene per gram. But how much o...
Time to lob a Molotov cocktail
in The CIO Weblog, on May 14, 2009
...#39;s plugging a specific Amazon product. Other proponents of new ways of doing business in the IT department are scattered among a dozen different technology focal points, from utility computing, to ...
Bioscience Education in America: A State by State Analysis
in The Biotech Weblog, on May 13, 2009
... worldwide, including seven national laboratories which Battelle manages or co-manages for the U.S. Department of Energy and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.
The Biotechnology Institute is...
The Revolution
in The CIO Weblog, on May 12, 2009
...s in it.
This is true whether you take the optimistic tack that I am on, assuming that CIOs and IT departments will find new and innovative ways to stay relevant and active, or whether you follow Hac...
Selling to Procurement Organizations
in The Outsourcing Weblog, on May 10, 2009
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I recently became interested in the issues that arise when selling to corporate procurement departments. A legal process outsourcing company that I'm associated with is cracking this nut, a...
Cynthia Bach Jewelry
in The Jewelry Weblog, on May 8, 2009
...amp; Arpels , and relocated to Beverly Hills. Matthews ran the company's West Coast fabrication department, and Cynthia designed pieces for an elite clientele. ...
