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No recovery in sight

With the US economy convulsing in its sharpest contraction since 1958 . down 6.1%, the Fed now seems to be sitting on the side lines. In its latest statement , the Fed said the economic outlook had improved "modestly" but that economic activity was "likely to remain weak for a t...

Take Your Digital Camera On A Photo Cruise

Here's something for digital photographers who also like ships and life at sea, at least on a temporary basis. This may not be an exclusive business, but Crystal Cruises is conducting a "Photography Experiences of Discovery" experience, on two Mediterranean cruises this summer and...

One more step to bank nationalization

While the Federal Reserve says most US banks are well capitalized and will be okay in these stress tests, chances are the public and investors will still have to confront the n-word. Nationalization is on its way. Read carefully between the lines of this otherwise bland New York Time piece ...

The long slump

Yesterday, I did a blog entry giving Warren Buffett's warning that the US economy will remain in a shambles for at least all of 2009. But if yesterday's performance of the Dow Jones Industrial Average is anything to go by, it will be around for a lot longer than that. As The Wall Str...

Blackwater - what's in a name?

Private military contractor (hush, let's not use the word mercenary) Blackwater is rebranding itself . Its futuristic new name is Xe (pronounced, as my American friends do, like the last letter of the alphabet). As the LA Times says, what else can you do when your employees are facing man...

US unemployment gets worse

The US jobless figures are getting worse, which means the country is sinking deeper and deeper. According to the latest Department of Labor statistics , 626,000 Americans filed for jobless benefits last week and 4.8 million Americans were unemployed. A more detailed breakdown from the Bureau ...

Bank bailout failure

If nothing else, the latest events are showing us that Bush's bank bailout strategy was a complete and absolute failure. First, we had the reports last week of four banks closing in January. The year had barely started. And Obama has warned that no matter how much gets handed out, some ...

The axe man cometh: get ready for a shorter working week

It's the year of the axe with companies axing more than 75,000 jobs, led by Caterpillar which is sacking 20,000 . For a good breakdown, check this little table from the Financial Times . The news everywhere looks bad. American Express earnings have fallen 79% , a sure sign of the credit ...

British Pound Sinks To Seven Year Low

With each passing day another country gets hit with the effects of the burgeoning worldwide recession and today it seems is Great Britain's turn. Britain's small businesses and real estate industry have started receiving their economic stimulus payments but it will take a while before these...

China: from inflation to deflation

Worrying figures with China's annual inflation rate falling to 2.4% in November. It's the lowest rate of increase in almost two years. In the year to February 2008, it was 8.7% which means basically that China has shifted from inflation to deflation in less than a year. With commodity...

Running on empty - the global recession unfolds

Banks around tbe world are slashing interest rates to contain the global recession. The Bank of England has gone for a full percentage point cut, Sweden has slashed by 1.75% and New Zealand by 1.5%. But the bad news keeps coming. The US economy shed 533,000 jobs in November , the worst rate ...

Dreadful US data package

This Thanksgiving looks grim and there is every sign that it will be one very bad Christmas for retailers with the latest economic data coming through. Consumer spending fell 1% in October, the biggest slump in seven years. Orders for US-made durable goods fell 6.2% and orders for transport...

Times are Tough, But This AOC Monitor Displays a Bright Side

Here in the United States, some might say that we are in the middle of an economic free fall , while others might say that we are in the middle of a financial meltdown . Personally, I think they both might be right. On the bright side, many companies, itching to stay in business, are offering ...

US market: it's back to 1997

1997 was the year Tony Blair was appointed Prime Minister of Britain, it was the year Diana Princess of Wales was killed in a car crash. And Bill Clinton was riding high. US stocks and the Standard & Poor's 500 Index have collapsed, plunging to the lowest level since 1997. Bloomber...

Consumer patterns in crunch

We are seeing some interesting patterns with mcdonalds announcing strong results despite the downturn. Forbes has gone so far as to suggest it's all because of McDonalds' "recession-proof menu" but the picture is more complicated than that. As a rule, discretionary spe...

iPhone production to be cut? Blame the economy

...ey will likely have no predictive qualities in the future." Still, the forecast if correct is disturbing because it does show that the economic is going deep. And if it's right, it's ano...

Teens Prepare for College with Online Classes

Photo courtesy of iStockphoto , Image# 6365439 Brightstorm , a new learning network, just launched a series of online classes to help teens do better in school and prepare for college. They explain: "Brightstorm's network offers teens access to 5-hour interactive video courses, broke...

House sales rise, no recovery

Home sales in the US have risen unexpectedly but let's hold off on the cheering. Look closely at the figures and you'll see that the US housing market is still in bad shape. Sales are still lower than they were a year ago and sales prices are at their lowest in four years. There ...

Greenspan's legacy

In his book The Age of Turbulence , former Fed chief Alan Greenspan proclaimed that subprime was a good thing for America. "The gains were especially dramatic among Hispanics and blacks, as increasing affluence as well as government encouragement of subprime mortgage programs enabled many ...

Europe catches the US car industry disease

In another sign that the global economy is deteriorating fast, the European car industry is in serious strife. First, we have Fiat admitting that it's burning cash and it warns that its profit could fall 65%. The only reason its third quarter earnings were anywhere near respectable was on...

$100 (ish) Blu-Ray Player From Best Buy

© DeclanTM How does America's #1 retailer celebrate the craptastic implosion of its competitor ? The sell a Blu-Ray Player for $200 and give away $100 dollars in coupons with it. This $199 nail to Circuit City's coffin comes in the form of the Insignia NS-BRDVD Blu-Ray player on sale...

Corporate governance takes a back seat

Further evidence that US regulators are not at all interested in fixing the corporate governance mess that helped speed up the meltdown. As part of the $700 billion bailout package, the US Treasury said financial institutions getting taxpayers money would have to adhere to stricter corporate go...

Diabetes 2.0

Photo courtesy of iStockphoto , Image# 6028358 What: Diabetes 2.0 - Harnessing New Technologies in Research and Treatment When: Saturday, October 25, 2008 , from 8 a.m. - 4 p.m. Where: Marriott Marquis, NYC Presented by the Diabetes Research Institute Foundation 's 7th New York Rese...

A Time to Renegotiate

Photo courtesy of iStockphoto , Jacob Wackerhausen With many offshore vendors needing to address lost revenues caused by the financial crisis , now may be the perfect time for customers to initiate renegotiation proceedings. By offering to extend the term of a deal at a time when other deals m...

American Airlines to Filter In-Flight Wi-Fi For Porn

Photo courtesy of iStockphoto American Airlines this week said it plans to filter its Gogo in-flight Wi-Fi service for porn. " In a statement it put out early Tuesday evening , the carrier said it made the decision 'based on the feedback of our customers and employees,'&quo...

Product Reviews

// New research says people are more swayed by online reviews than they are by their own friends. Places like Amazon have pioneered the reader review, and its obviously taken hold. Just about every site nowadays has a place for people to voice an opinion on a product, book, mo...

Tiberium "suspended"

Tiberium, the FPS based on the Command and Conquer series, has been suspended indefinitely by EA. As it had "fundamental design challenges from the start", it is perhaps a good thing that the game was canceled, yet it is somewhat sad to see it go, after the screenshots made it look re...

Open Source OpenSSO for identity management Unveiled by Sun

Organizations of today face problems with respect to Single Sign On or SSO and keeping this in mind the OpenSSO Enterprise software, the first open solution for access management from Sun seeks to address this issue. It aims at offering flexible and scalable solutions for simplifying proces...

Smartparts Intros World's Largest Wi-Fi Digital Picture Frame

Smartparts, Inc. today introduced what the company says is the world's largest Wi-Fi digital picture frame, the 32-inch SP3200WF , which is fully compatible with Windows Live Photo Gallery and comes with Smartparts' OptiPix Pro software. "The resolution for the frame is 136...

Win A Seat At The Bellagio Las Vegas Festa Al Lago Poker Tournament

Here's an unusual opportunity for Poker tournament fans to win a seat to the prestigious Sixth Annual Las Vegas Festa Al Lago Poker Classic Tournament At The Bellagio Las Vegas Casino. The online casino, "Spade Club.com" , is offering Poker fans a chance to win a seat to this tou...

Steve Jobs Not Dead - iPod Touch More Alive Than Ever

In case you were hiding under a rock hiding from today's scheduled " end of the world, " yesterday was a major day for Apple and their darling iPod family. Oh yeah, and steve Jobs is not dead as was previously rumored. First, the new iPod Nano brings a new form factor. Gone i...

Las Vegas Art Expo II Starts September 18

Art lovers alert! Las Vegas continues attracting more fine arts related events and exhibits as part of its effort to make the city more than just a gambler's paradise. This is the second of what will probably be an annual event here, and if the success of the first one is an indicator of po...

Microsoft's Zune Adds Wi-Fi Downloads, FM Tagging and More

Microsoft today announced that, starting on September 16th, Zune users will be able to download or stream songs directly to the device via Wi-Fi. The company is also launching new 16GB ($199) and 120GB ($249) versions of the player, along with a new blue color scheme. "The bigge...

Samsung Bets On Big Flash Market Buy

© gruntzooki I bet you can name at least 3 flash device manufacturers. I also bet that the names of Sandisk or samsung were two of the three you named. Well, if Samsung has its way, it will own Sandisk, and be the largest flash manufacturer on the planet. We will have to refer to Samsung ...

Virgin America & HBO Inaugurate New York To Las Vegas Flights

This is a unique way to kick off a new airline service, but then the route goes to Las Vegas, where the unusual is commonplace. Virgin America Airlines has teamed up with, believe it or not, "HBO" cable TV to kick off its new JFK New York to Las Vegas airline service. The hook here...

Table Mountain Casino Has Free Bonus In Every Slot Machine

The Native American Casinos continue offering unique gambling opportunities, and today we have news about a special slot machine available in California's, "Table Mountain Casino" . There are 2000 slot machines in the Table Mountain Casino and every one of them has a new, built ...

MGM Mirage Sponsoring "48 Hours in Vegas" Confessional Sweepstakes

The enormously popular, "48 Hours in Vegas Confessional", which has even caused a few readers to post "confessions" on this blog, has been extended to May 2009. MGM Mirage has partnered with "About.com" to install even more, "confession", booths thr...

World Poker Tour Premiers On Canada Television Series

Televised Poker Tournaments are among the most popular types of TV programming in North America. The latest broadcaster to join the action is the Canada Television Series which begins coverage of The World Poker Tour next week on four of its Sportsnet outlets. Here's the full report on...

Gartner: Mobile Phone Sales Grew by 12 Percent in Q2 2008

Photo courtesy of iStockphoto, Yunus Arakon Research firm Gartner today reports that worldwide mobile phone sales reached almost 305 million units in Q2 2008, an 11.8 percent increase over the same period last year. Nokia continues to lead with 39.5 percent of the global mobile phone mark...

Continuous Data Protection solution for Linux Server backups

If you're new the the continuous data protection (CDP) game, continuous is the KEY word here. Most of us are familiar with CDP on Windows machines where changes are made and copies are automatically performed-capturing every change of data over time. The benefit here, as opposed to backups t...

Wippee! Go Daddy offers unlimited email storage

© Joe Shlabotnik If you haven't hear or read the wonderous news that go daddy is now offering unlimited email storage, don't worry. It is just another ploy to make you think you are getting something for nothing. It is sort of like when my wife says: "It was on sale&quo...

Turkcell Gets the iPhone

Photo courtesy of iStockphoto Turkcell today announced that it will be bringing the iPhone 3G to Turkey later this year - this follows an earlier (albeit extremely vague) announcement by Vodafone that it will also be offering the iPhone 3G in Turkey. " Turkcell is the leading...

SafeLink Wireless to Give Free Phones to Low-Income Tennesseans

...he launch of its SafeLink Wireless service in Tennessee. SafeLink will serve as the company's distributor of government-supported Lifeline service, providing a free phone and 68 minutes of air t...

Apple to Recall the iPhone 3G?

Photo courtesy of iStockphoto, Jon Schulte The snazzy new iPhone 3G is driving early adopters crazy with severe network connection problems - and according to BusinessWeek's Peter Burrows , while the problem comes down to the iPhone's Infineon chip, the company is hoping to r...

JP Morgan, Wachovia and UBS burning billions

Heard management guru Gary Hamel talk about the US banks today. And he was savage. Forget all this talk about commodity prices and the US dollar. The name of the game is the US housing crisis and the banks that delivered it. We were reminded of this with JP Morgan Chase writing off $1.5 bil...

Sprint Loses a Million Subscribers

Photo courtesy of iStockphoto, Chris Schmidt Sprint this week announced its results for the second quarter of 2008, which included the loss of nearly a million customers - while AT&T gained 1.3 million and Verizon got another 1.5 million. "As customers tighten their spending du...

MyPicks Beijing 2008: Sun makes its presence felt at Olympics 2008 but unofficially

Sun Microsystems may not be an official sponsor at Beijing Olympics 2008 but thtat doesn't seem to deter the company from making its presence felt in the unofficial arena. Keeping the Olympic frenzy in mind the company has announced a new social networking game on Facebook as a tribute to t...

Hot Gambling And A Sexy Show At The "Spotlight 29 Casino"

America's Native American Casinos continue expanding and improving the amenities being offered to their clients. A good example is The Spotlight 29 Casino, in California's Coachella Valley, which is now offering actual Las Vegas style entertainment. The Spotlight 29 Casino alread...

"Lavo" Nightclub Opening At Las Vegas" Palazzo Casino

Four days ago I posted news about The Las Vegas Venetian Hotel and Casino and today its new sister property, The palazzo , gets its turn. Less than 10 days ago I reported on a new Las Vegas night club and today there is another one to tell you about, the "Lavo" night club, ope...

Hilton Hotels Announces Work At Home Program for Reservation Agents

Photo courtesy of iStockphoto, David H. Lewis hilton hotels has announced a new program that allows their Reservation Agents and Customer Service Reps to work from home. Called Hilton@Home it was designed in response to rising gas costs and the weak economy. Today's consumer demands...

Photoshop World Coming To Las Vegas

Here's a chance for digital photographers who are fans of Adobe Photoshop to attend a premiere Photoshop workshop and take in everything that my fair city, Las Vegas, has to offer. Adobe's "Photoshop World" offers classes and workshops op all of the most popular functions of...

Fierce Competition For Macau Slot Machine Players

As is the case in most of the rest of the world's casinos, particularly those in Las Vegas, slot machines are by far one of the most popular gaming attractions. While player traffic in Las Vegas has decreased the opposite is happening at Macau's casinos and the race is on among them to ...

American VC Investment in China Doubles from Q1 to Q2

It might be hard to decide what to think about China's Business Confidence Index , but the venture capital index is definitely up . MarketWatch reported this weekend on the latest MoneyTree(TM) Report from PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) and the national venture capital association (N...

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac fallout - the questions continue

The bailout of Fannie Mae and Freddie Max continue to raise questions. The US government's plan to rescue Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac got the initial tick. The big investors supported a $US3 billion short term debt issue from Freddie Mac. But then things turned pear-shaped. Investors, worr...

Mozilla Weave 0.1.30

自从去年 12 月份提到 Mozilla Labs 发布 Weave 之后，就再也没有好好注意过这个小家伙了。当时 Weave 的应用面比较狭窄，开发也尚在早期，所以 HUNG 是没有使用的，因为根本上来将，它仅支持历史与书签的备份与同步。不过，今天无意中发现，最新 0.1.30 版本的 Mozilla Weave 已经支持更多本地信息的在线同步与备份了。如上面的截图所示，除了历史与书签之外，还包括了 cookies、密码与保存的表单。Mozilla 开始兑现当时的计划了，在逐步扩大支持的范围，不知道什么时候可以备份设置和扩展等了，到时候，HUNG 一直使用 Portable 版本的...

The battle for Yahoo!

The gloves are off! The fight's on between corporate raider Carl Icahn and the Yahoo! board with Icahn selecting an alternative board in a bid to take control of the company. The list of heavy hitters, including Icahn, are running on the platform that Yahoo should sell to Microsoft which w...

Apple 公布 WWDC 2008 会议日程表

Apple 公布 WWDC 2008 会议日程表 章子怡失败妆容，《画皮》戛纳公布造型，及更多…… 华人影星集体"告假"戛纳红毯 成龙抵达灾区看望灾民 iPhone 版世界地图 安吉丽娜-朱莉心系灾区 愿意帮助重建学校 Delish: Mac OS X 上又一款 del.icio.us 客户端 Evernote for Mac 1.1 荧屏救灾全国动员 美南加州华人华侨举行赈灾义演 募款逾21万美元 众星呼吁赈灾 iPhone Apps: Natuba Orange 公布欧洲 10 国的 iPhone 销售计划 新闻出版...

Siemens: from bad to worse

Siemens earnings are sliding , down 67 per cent, because of project delays, cancellations and costs flowing the bribery investigation. Siemens latest woes coincide with a report from international law firm Debevoise & Plimpton that there has been widespread violations of domestic and f...

Will Your Home be one of 44 million to get HDTV by End of 2008?

© dsearls A recent forecast by London-based Informa Telecoms & Media , shows that about 4% (44 million), homes worldwide will watch HDTV by the end of 2008. Many analysts contribute the results of this forecast to lower television prices as well as the recent push to inform consumers of t...

Fluid: Mac OS X 上专用的 Prism

为什么会想到 Prism ？因为应用上确实很像， Fluid 就是 Mac OS X 上的这么一个类似于 Prism 或者 Adobe AIR 的应用软件，可以把在线应用本地化，快捷在本地启动和操作：

All Browser Bookmarks

All Browser Bookmarks 是 Mac OS X 上的一款小工具，当你在一个系统中安装了多种网页浏览器的时候，这个小工具可以在 menubar 上面单独开具一个菜单，把所有你安装的网页浏览器书签集中到这一个菜单中（如图示），可以大大节省时间和效率。Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger) 或者 Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) 都可以使用，并且是完全免费的。

Sprint is Bleeding

Sprint today announced plans to cut 4,000 jobs in response to a loss of 885,000 customers during the fourth quarter of last year. "The No. 3 wireless carrier behind AT&T and Verizon Wireless has struggled since it merged with Nextel in 2005," notes USA Today's Leslie Caule...

Mozilla实验室推出Weave项目，将提供社会性在线服务

看来Mozilla公司已经不再满足于只是做工具提供商，很有可能他们会进军在线服务这项领域。近日Mozilla实验室 推出了一项称之为Weave的在线服务 ，该服务可以让用户通过Firefox浏览器在线同步例如书签、密码等等个人资料。用户可以先上传自己的书签或个人资料至Mozilla的Weave服务器，然后就可以随时随地在任何一台电脑或手机上使用相关内容了。同时Weave 还提供了一个基础开放框架，可让其他的开发商利用这些信息开发出相应在线应用程序，从而可进一步加强并改善FireFox的用户体验度。 Mozilla公司表示，Weave计划的目的，是要在客户端软件和WEB之间实现更加紧密的...

Mozilla Labs 发布新应用 Weave

Mozilla Labs 今天发布了一个新应用 Weave ，通过一个扩展实现本地数据与在线同步保存、备份，目前已经支持浏览历史和书签的在线保存，仅适用于 Firefox 3，安装之后会在菜单栏工具项部分增设一个选项来执行。这意味着，用户可以通过这个应用，在任何连接互联网的终端上使用自己的设定和配置，Mozilla 也会逐渐完善 Weave，让其支持更多的用户信息存储。用户需要 先到这里 注册，然后即可使用了。更为详细的测试体验 可访问西行资讯 。

Subprime mess won't stop bonuses

Bonuses might be down but the subprime mess has not stopped the party on wall street . True, some are "doing it hard". After Morgan Stanley, for example, announced it would write down its mortgage assets by $9.4 billion and suffer its first quarterly loss fueled by losses in su...

Home Based Business Selling Rockstar Outfit for Teens and Young Adults

...that are original but trendy, because they're still trying to grow. Now, through four regional distributors and Internet campaigns, they're working on advertising. For instance, they started...

Subprime panic sets in

Which way for the US economy? As reported in the Knowledge@WP Carey series, Dr. Ken Mayland, president of Ohio-based ClearView Economics maintains that the supposed threats to the US economy are over-stated. He argues that that worst of the housing crisis is over and that despite the subprime m...

Subprime everywhere

With Barclay's Bank, Britain's third biggest bank, joining the growing list of banks taking multi-billion hits on subprime and with Goldman Sachs warning that leveraged investors may need to scale back lending by up to a staggering $2 trillion, the subprime story is going from bad to...

Office de Tourisme de Marseille : nouveau site Internet

L'Office de Tourisme de Marseille a un nouveau site Internet. Plus fluide, plus ergonomique, au design plus "léché", c'est un grand pas en avant par rapport à l'ancienne version ! L'intégration du système d'information TIPI en Provenance du CDT 13 est aussi bea...

Virgin Mobile IPO to Launch at $15 to $17 a Share

Virgin Mobile USA today filed with the SEC for an IPO in which it would sell 27.5 million shares for $15 to $17 each, generating around $375 million for the company. As RCR Wireless News' Kelly Hill notes, this is just one of series of steps the company has made towards an IPO. "...