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Do you still have faith in Obama's stimulus plans?
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on July 10, 2009
...;ve inched upwards during the last three months, are still far below where they stood just one year earlier.
So the question is: Do you have any faith in Obama's economic stimulus plans ? Accord...
Carbon market bonanza for accountants
in Sox First, on July 10, 2009
...rbanes-Oxley. Now it looks like accountants will find that carbon trading a license to print money. Earlier this week, we had reports that the Big Four accounting firms are beefing their expertise a...
Can dope save California?
in Sox First, on July 8, 2009
...e responsible budgets and spending that's just way over the top. Still, as Slate pointed out earlier this year, marijuana is California's largest cash crop. It's valued at $14 billion a...
Pebble Beach Swamped, Calendar Needs to be Split
in Classical Drives, on July 6, 2009
...omobili at Black Horse was formed to deliver a proper Italian car show on the green, reminiscent of earlier days on the peninsula, when people gathered at The Quail on Friday prior to the Pebble Beach...
Supply chain video: Preparing for the worst, managing supplier risk in the downturn (Part 1)
in Supplychainer, on June 30, 2009
...worst, managing supplier risk in the downturn" (Note: I have posted some other videos from him earlier this year).
In this first part, Prof. Hanfield starts with a discussion about the u...
Supply chain video: The result of a new survey among 900 U.S. supply chain executives on this year's trends
in Supplychainer, on June 28, 2009
... from the current recession beginning in late 2009 and early 2010. In general, companies predict an earlier rebound for their own businesses than for their industry or the U.S. economy.
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Climate change: the lawyers' picnic
in Sox First, on June 27, 2009
...nd business opposition, we can expect to see it open up a spate of litigation. Writing in Forbes earlier this week, Institute for Liberty president Andrew Langer warned of litigation which will tie...
Home sales rise again. Is this a housing recovery?
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on June 25, 2009
...eport, existing homes sold for a median price of $173,000. That's down 16.8 percent from a year earlier. The reason? Economists at the Realtors association pointed to the number of distressed prop...
Using Facebook as a Dating Service
in The Dating Weblog, on June 24, 2009
...My friend Cherie Burbach had an interesting post earlier this month on how to get a date using Facebook. Facebook can be a great place to meet someone new. You'll get introduced to single people...
Mercy for Madoff plea
in Sox First, on June 24, 2009
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Earlier this month, I did a blog entry looking at how Bernard Madoff's victims wanted the fraudster to get the full 150 year jail sentence. Many of the victims were not high flyers. Madoff r...
Digital Britain on Filesharing
in P2P File Sharing, on June 21, 2009
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The Digital Britain report was finally published earlier this week, laying out new tactics for the UK's approach to filesharing.
" Ofcom will work with ISPs to send written warning...
Airline crisis strategy: screw customers and staff
in Sox First, on June 21, 2009
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Earlier this month, I did a blog entry looking at how the airline business was going to the dogs. The combination of the global financial crunch and swine flu will cost them at least $9 billion...
Three White Wines: Gary Vaynerchuk
in Celebrate Wine, on June 20, 2009
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Wine personality Gary Vaynerchuk had a good program earlier this month on Three White Wines that have been getting a lot of attention: Simone Sauvignon Blanc 2008 from Chile, Nob...
Free Entrance to U.S. National Parks on Weekends
in The Flyaway Weblog, on June 17, 2009
...e) depending on the park you visit.
Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar announced the initiative earlier this month.
"National parks also serve as powerful economic engines for local communit...
The Coming Solar Revival
in IfEnergy, on June 15, 2009
... Forbes had an article earlier this month on SunPower and the solar energy revival it expects to see soon... This guardedly optimistic outlook came Tuesday... and follows an abysmal period in whi...
Disney and toxic waste allegations
in Sox First, on June 15, 2009
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The Walt Disney Company earlier this year unveiled , amidst much fanfare, its new environmental initiatives which included zero greenhouse gas emissions and zero waste. But is this Fantasyland st...
Will rising mortgage interest rates stop housing recovery?
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on June 11, 2009
...ays, wrote an interesting, and pretty scary, story on this subject today. The Journal reported that earlier this week, the interest rate on a 30-year fixed-rate mortgage rose to 5.79 percent. That...
Entrepreneurial Life
in TJ's Weblog, on June 7, 2009
...eneur, but evidently most of them wish they'd made the jump to the world of entrepreneurship earlier in life.
Entrepreneurs tend to view themselves as unemployable; they work for themselves be...
Mortgage giant Mozilo charged with fraud
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on June 5, 2009
...down. It has since been bought out by Bank of America.
Mozilo was charged by securities regulators earlier this week with insider trading and regulatory fraud. You can read all about Mozilo's dow...
Delahaye Book Beats Depression for the Quickest of Clicks
in Classical Drives, on June 5, 2009
...ts Car Magazine subscribers for just $175. This special expires at midnight, Monday, June 8: "earlier if supplies run out."
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Neutron CE 6 Electric Lawn Mower is the Eco Friendly Evolution
in The Gadgets Weblog, on June 4, 2009
...s thickness. If you neglect your yard and have a forest out back, the battery may quit on you a bit earlier. Neutron believes in their products because they offer a 1 year return policy and a two year...
Palm Pre has Captured Wireless Carriers' Attention
in The Mobile Technology Weblog, on June 1, 2009
...for Sprint.
As expected, the remaining domestic carriers have their sights set on the Pre as well. Earlier this week AT&T's Chief Executive Randall Stephenson said that he sees his company se...
The Time is Now...
in Bizinformer, on May 29, 2009
... Lisa Barone over at Small Business Trends had a piece earlier this month on a webinar called "Just Start - Getting Your Business Started Right." And according to people running the web...
Faberge Jewelry
in The Jewelry Weblog, on May 29, 2009
...him on a par with the world's most renowned jewelers. He drew his inspiration from the art of earlier generations, which he found in the well-stocked treasury of the Hermitage.
Faberge 18K ...
Antalya: Turkey's Mediterranean Playground
in Wandalust, on May 29, 2009
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A variety of historic sites line the Gulf of Antalya. Many date from the Roman Era. A few date to earlier than that. And a couple can be dated to before history of the region began to be recorded. Fr...
Mortgage interest rates went up. Don't panic!
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on May 28, 2009
...rtgages, too. Those rates jumped to 4.86 percent, according to Bankrate, from 4.74 percent one week earlier.
To all this, I have one thing to say: Don't panic.
Yes, we all want the lowest mortga...
Publish Your Blog on Kindle
in Web 2.0, on May 25, 2009
... Mashable 's Ben Parr had a piece earlier this month for bloggers on how to get your blog published on the Amazon Kindle. I submitted one of my blogs ( The Green Cup , a blog on education) to see ...
Making the Pitch
in Biz Plan Hacks, on May 23, 2009
... Women Entrepreneurs had a fun "how to" piece earlier this month on "selling ice to Eskimos." This is not rocket science, really. Whether you are running an online business or a l...
Linpus GM: Linux Netbooks to Hit 50 Percent Market Share This Year
in HackITLinux, on May 22, 2009
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Earlier this month, The Taipei Times' Elizabeth Tchii reported that Linpus Technologies general manager Stephen Lim "expects Linux-based netbooks to reach 50 percent market share by...
The refi money is still flowing
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on May 21, 2009
... percent from the week prior. It was also up 43.7 percent when compared with the same week one year earlier.
Thing is, it might not be all that easy for homeowners to take advantage of these historic...
Employee disengagement in a recession
in Sox First, on May 21, 2009
...or giving them special jobs or more flexibility. The worrying part, as The Economist pointed out earlier this year, is that engagement schemes are not recession proof. And that, it says, could be a...
Logan ProxTalker: RFID gives voice to disabled children
in The RFID Weblog, on May 21, 2009
... with the device have been able to put together entire sentences which could not have been possible earlier.
This device has been designed by Glen Dobbs and Kevin Miller and in terms of size is equiv...
Will credit card bill stall mortgage foreclosures?
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on May 20, 2009
...ng track in 1995.
The government, spurred on by Pres. Barack Obama, are now getting in on the act. Earlier this week, the U.S. Senate passed a credit card reform bill. You know it's an important ...
Bixi: RFID Bike Sharing Program Reaches Montreal
in The RFID Weblog, on May 20, 2009
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I have earlier talked about the RFID bike sharing programs, check here and here . It seems the craze for RFID bike sharing programs has started to spread its wings and now we have another of i...
SEC official abuses position
in Sox First, on May 18, 2009
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Earlier this month, I did a blog entry looking at how appallingly the Securities and Exchange Commission has been managed. Basically, it's a case of of the lunatics running the asylum. Addi...
More bad news: Housing foreclosure activity remains at record levels
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on May 14, 2009
...e notices and bank repossessions. That's an increase of 32 percent from the same month one year earlier.
In fact, RealtyTrac reported that one in every 374 U.S. housing units received a foreclos...
Bayer Diabetes Care's CONTOUR® Meters Now Available In Midnight Blue and Orange Burst
in Daily Diabetic, on May 12, 2009
... Earlier this month, Bayer Diabetes Care introduced two bold new colors to their line of CONTOUR® Color blood glucose meters - Midnight Blue and Orange Burst - that will provide people with d...
OIN Seeks Prior Art in TomTom Patent Suit
in HackITLinux, on May 1, 2009
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"The OIN's new FAT-busting project is a response to a lawsuit that Microsoft settled earlier this year with navigation device maker TomTom ," explains Ars Technica's Ryan Paul...
Canon EOS Rebel T1i vs Nikon D5000
in Digital Shot, on April 30, 2009
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As I talked about earlier this week, the D5000 looks to be an epic camera, but how does it fair up to the T1i? The new Cannon challenger also looks like a hell of a machine, but which is going to...
Austin Healey Shines at Victoria BC Car Show
in Classical Drives, on April 27, 2009
... respects, an ideal setting for a vintage car show in that it is a museum of farm machinery from an earlier era and includes a miniature passenger-carrying railway. I also noted ongoing construction o...
Business Plans a Waste of Time? Maybe...
in Biz Plan Hacks, on April 26, 2009
... PE Hub published an article earlier this month about a study at the University of Maryland's Robert H. Smith School of Business. Here it is in a nutshell: Management and entrepreneurship profess...
One more step to bank nationalization
in Sox First, on April 24, 2009
...re those banks "on the verge" are going to get that money. Surely not private investors. Earlier this week, I did a blog entry suggesting the US government was moving in the direction of ...
Clothing Optional in Bavaria
in The Flyaway Weblog, on April 23, 2009
... TravelPost had an interesting spot earlier this month on the 32-room Hotel Rosengarten in the Black Forest region. It will soon become Germany's first nude hotel, "catering solely to th...
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...
Porsche Panamera Makes World Debut in China
in carzz.org, on April 22, 2009
...aserati Quattroporte was the world's fastest 4-door sedan. Perhaps it's because, in a much-earlier era, my job was to publicise the German automaker and its racing activities in Canada. And t...
TARP fraud investigations
in Sox First, on April 21, 2009
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Earlier this month, I did a blog entry looking at how the TARP cop Neil Barofsky bemoaning the lack of accountability for the bailout funds being put up by US taxpayers. Clearly, the system...
Back door bank nationalisation
in Sox First, on April 20, 2009
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Earlier this year, I did a blog entry looking at how the Obama administration was opening the door to nationalizing banks where the US government is repaid with common stock giving it a stake in...
Recipe Design contest - Now Open
in WebKinzBlog, on April 18, 2009
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Webkinz World new recipe contest is official open now. UPDATE - the problem from earlier today is fixed and you can enter now.
Can you design the next Webkinz World Secret Recipe? We're loo...
Sony Ericsson Delays Android Phones
in The Mobile Technology Weblog, on April 17, 2009
... sales in the January-March quarter tumbled by 36 percent to $2.2 billion, from $3.5 billion a year earlier.
It blamed the sales drop to weaker demand for mobile phones, with retailers and distribut...
The long recession's impact
in Sox First, on April 17, 2009
...ighly synchronized across the world tend to last longer. So what impact will that have on society. Earlier this month, I did a blog entry looking at how it was creating a new kind of consumer, one th...
Small Wind: GE Is Investing
in IfEnergy, on April 16, 2009
... CNET reported earlier this month that GE is sinking money into wind power. But it's not the big super-turbines, it's small personal wind turbines that GE is focusing on. Southwest Windpower,...
The Tweeting RFID Cat Door
in The RFID Weblog, on April 14, 2009
... Ion will be posting further details on how you could create one for yourself too.
In one of my earlier posts I had talked about pet flaps, check here and here but the one I have talked above ...
The new consumer
in Sox First, on April 9, 2009
... year, I did a blog entry looking at the way consumer patterns have changed in the recession. The earlier this year, I did a piece looking at thrift chic, the latest trend where people are embraci...
Seattle TechExecs CIO Panel Forum
in The CIO Weblog, on April 8, 2009
...I left Seattle TechExecs CIO Panel Forum earlier today burning with unanswered questions.
The event was interesting and informative, but I couldn't help but feel that it didn't live up to its...
Decoding Tiny URLs
in Web 2.0, on April 6, 2009
...here they'll really end up if they click on it. Now you can tell...
LifeHacker had a piece earlier this month on the new TinyURL Decoder that will tell you the name of the domain that's h...
Collecting Bad Debts Through MySpace? Not...
in The Social Networking Weblog, on April 2, 2009
... Wired had an interesting piece earlier this week on a woman in Michigan whose MySpace page got targeted by a debt collector. She's now suing the collection agency.
Paula Newland fell behind on ...
Corsair Officially Launches the Voyager Port
in On Storage, on April 2, 2009
...s Darren Murph is unimpressed. "Corsair actually debuted its questionably useful Voyager Port earlier this month at CeBIT , but it's just now getting around to making things official... rea...
The Value-Price Relationship
in BootStrapMe, on March 31, 2009
... Entrepreneur had a good piece by Barry Farber earlier this month on how the relationship between value and price can make or break your business. I remember seeing this statement above a local print...
Eric Asimov in Alcase
in Celebrate Wine, on March 31, 2009
... The Pour at the NY Times had a earlier this month that I enjoyed and thought I'd point out in case you didn't see it. I had the privilege of attending a big vertical tasting of Trimbach'...
Compatible Partners: eHarmony Goes Gay
in The Dating Weblog, on March 30, 2009
...patible Partners .
Dating blogger Bonny Albo published a piece on the soon-to-be-active new site earlier this month. She found problems. A quick review of the site shows that they still aren't ...
Verizon Wireless Plans Subsidized Netbook Offering
in The Wireless Weblog, on March 27, 2009
...e the move as an answer to rival AT&T's recent netbook efforts," Moritz writes. "Earlier this month, AT&T announced it would sell netbooks for $99 through retailers like RadioS...
Twitter for Beginners
in The Social Networking Weblog, on March 27, 2009
... David Griner over at The Social Path published a good post earlier this month on how to get started with Twitter. It's a post that should get a fair amount of traffic. Your first few days on T...
New directions on the IFRS roadmap
in Sox First, on March 25, 2009
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Earlier this month, I ran an interview with International Accounting Standards Board member Warren McGregor on a number of issues including the question of whether the United States would adopt ...
Next Time You're in Honduras...
in Hidden Travel Gems, on March 22, 2009
... AquaTerraSky had a great piece earlier this month on things to do in Honduras.
Central America is one of the most neglected travel destinations on earth. Honduras offers beautiful coastlines, natu...
Businesses Helping Businesses
in Biz Plan Hacks, on March 22, 2009
... Noobpreneur.com had a good post earlier this month on how small businesses can help each other out during the current tough economic times. Why not forming an association or entrepreneurs club yours...
BlackHatters Beware... There ARE Consequences
in The Search Engine Weblog, on March 20, 2009
... bills itself as "an ethical Search Engine Optimization firm") had an interesting article earlier this month on "What Happens to BlackkHatters."
Some definitions:
Search engine ...
Berlins Beer Gardens and Parks
in Wandalust, on March 20, 2009
...GridSkipper did a double take on Berlin earlier this month. Looking at the city's beer gardens and parks .
Munich is the beer capital of Germany, but Berlin has its own supply of beer gardens...
Dell 终于公布 Adamo 超薄本本
in Wangtam, on March 18, 2009
传言 是真的，Dell 今天终于公布了传说中的 Adamo 超薄本本。这是一个直指 Macbook Air 的针对性产品，同样为 13 英寸，标配售价 1999 美元，将于本周六开始出货。配置方面包括了 Intel Core 2 Duo U9300 的处理器，主频为 1.2GHz，2GB 内存和 64GB 的固态硬盘。13.4 的显示屏为 16:9，一般使用分辨率为 1366 x 768。以下是官方新闻稿和一些产品相片：
Climate change: the worst case scenario is here
in Sox First, on March 16, 2009
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Earlier this month, I did a blog entry suggesting that we should not expect any deal to come out of Copenhagen at the end of this year to stop climate change. Now more alarmingly, we have the ...
Virginia is for Lovers (And that Includes Richmond)
in Hidden Travel Gems, on March 14, 2009
... AquaTerraSky had a nice piece on Virginia earlier this month.
I'm partial to Virginia because, well, I live there. Not in the Eastern side of the state, but out close to where Kentucky, West V...
