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Apocalypse Fatigue: losing the battle on climate change
in Sox First, on November 18, 2009
...nstant gratification, people are accustomed to the here and now and won't put up with long term forecasts. It's point I take up here in my piece on the psychology of climate change . As I say here:...
Seen that? - Pillow Talk
in The Mobile Technology Weblog, on October 31, 2009
...rrents lie in its inherent complexity and lack of enthusiasm shown by mobile operators.ABI Research forecasts that by 2012, some 292 million handsets - just over 20 percent of the global mobile handse...
Can a CIO be successful without IT experience?
in The CIO Weblog, on October 15, 2009
...tives of the "business" perspective and leaves IT without a voice, but this conclusion rests on two faulty assumptions. One is that the business/IT perspective are necessarily divergent; the other is...
Temperatures to soar by more than expected
in Sox First, on September 27, 2009
... by the end of this century, according to new reports . These projections are a lot worse than the forecasts two years ago. And sea levels might rise by as much as six feet by 2100 instead of 1.5 fee...
Seven causes of business failure
in Sox First, on September 3, 2009
... moving into an adjacent market that really isn't adjacent. 3. misguided consolidations. 4. faulty financial engineering. 5. rollups, or buying up businesses to create a monopoly. 6. stayi...
Lawyers and Outsourcing Deals
in The Outsourcing Weblog, on September 1, 2009
... vendor paper) are great when it comes to escalation clauses (e.g., underlying costs are too high, forecasts are too low, etc.), but remarkably silent on shrinkage. But companies need to control their...
VMWare Buys SpringSource
in Java Entrepreneur, on August 12, 2009
...as a service is inhabited by the likes of such companies as Amazon and Google. Forrester Research forecasts the market for PaaS to reach $15 billion by 2016."
More here from Ars Technica .....
Airline losses soar
in Sox First, on August 1, 2009
...would be losing loads of money because of the financial crisis and swine flu. According to industry forecasts, they were set to lose $9 billion this year. That would be just a start. There is no relie...
Chrome OS: The reflective phase
in The CIO Weblog, on July 10, 2009
After the original explosion of Google Chrome OS related articles immediately after the announcement, today we get the day-after "thoughtful" posts exploring what it all means, and what will really happen with Google, Chrome OS, and the supposed arch-enemies of the two, Microsoft an...
Taking out a mortgage loan without going mad
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on July 6, 2009
There's one secret to 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 really blame homeowners for focusing so intently on what their mortgage int...
Recession drawing to an end. So what?
in Sox First, on June 21, 2009
...cause frugality is here to stay. Welcome to the new normal. Justin Fox at Time has some sobering forecasts. People will spend less for years to come, we are in for a long period of bear markets wit...
It will be years before jobs return
in Sox First, on June 15, 2009
...Michigan, Ohio and Indiana will take many years to recover. What's really alarming about these forecasts is that the rest of the world seems to be focused on recovery coming down the track. The s...
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in Wangtam, on 2009-06-15
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More job cuts ahead: Bain
in Sox First, on April 24, 2009
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There are forecasts that even if markets start growing again, unemployment will continue to escalate. That's borne out in the latest Bain executive survey, published in the Harvard Business ...
12 brands that will die
in Sox First, on April 18, 2009
...mpetition. It's hard to fault and makes fascinating reading, in a gruesome sort of way. If the forecasts are right, there will be many casualties before the recovery comes and the business landsc...
Managing fragmented data remains a supply chain challenge, IBM research finds
in Supplychainer, on February 28, 2009
...or these executives are smart devices and integrated ERP systems that capture real time visibility: forecasts/orders, schedules/commitments, pipeline inventory, and shipment lifecycle status. Automati...
Blind over-optimistic analysts
in Sox First, on February 28, 2009
... check the results." The New Yorker's James Surowiecki says analysts keep posting wrong forecasts on fundamentals like unemployment. Why is it that they are so off-track? What planet are t...
Data management and forecasting remain top challenges in life science sector
in Supplychainer, on February 16, 2009
...were quite interesting as they highlighted that managing disperse product data and improving demand forecasts remain two top challenges in this sector.
Aberdeen mentions that before any SCM init...
Startling predictions for 2009
in Sox First, on February 8, 2009
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Some seriously scary forecasts from Martin Weiss at Money and Markets . If the forecasts are right, it rebuffs any claim that things are going to get better in the second half of this calendar ye...
Rupert Murdoch's downturn blues
in Sox First, on January 31, 2009
...eractive Media is axing jobs and many more are expected to go. Analysts have cut their earnings forecasts, warning that the company's profits this year could be halved. And Pali Research war...
Diagnosing the liquidity and credit crunch
in Sox First, on January 7, 2009
...istical models of many professional investors and credit-rating agencies provided overly optimistic forecasts about structured finance products. One reason is that these models were based on historica...
The year ahead: what to expect?
in Sox First, on January 1, 2009
...what the hell. What can we expect in 2009. The truth is, no-one really knows. Still, there are some forecasts worth looking at. A sobering prediction from Dr Doom, Nouriel Roubini, which you can watc...
The worst forecasts for 2008
in Sox First, on January 1, 2009
So 2008 is over. And good riddance too. If ever there was a year that deserved to be consigned to flames and forgotten about, this was the year. No one would have expected a year where company share prices fell by 50%, and in some cases more. True, some old timers compared it to previous downtu...
Biofuels May be Obsolete Before We Can Make Enough to Matter - Part I
in IfEnergy, on December 26, 2008
...ing. And according to Moresco, a report published earlier this month by investment bank ThinkEquity forecasts an 80% short fall in meeting this mandate.
The worst part of this situation is that the ...
Economic forecasts - dark days ahead
in Sox First, on December 22, 2008
How bad is the meltdown? There are dire predictions from Miguel Angel Fernandez Ordonez, the Governor of the Bank of Spain. He says it's the worst since the Great Depression of 1929. "The lack of confidence is total. The inter-bank (lending) market is not functioning and this is gener...
Obama: it will take years to recover
in Sox First, on December 20, 2008
...n mid-2009. If that happens, it will delay the spending recovery. Unemployment is soaring with some forecasts that go past 10% in 2010. The wealth destruction has been huge in this downturn with house...
How the predication models failed
in Sox First, on November 11, 2008
Earlier this year, I did a blog entry looking at how financial innovation had led to the meltdown. As the New York Times points out, the basic problem with the models built around mathematics, computing and statistics is that they ignored the human factor. "In recent years, the securit...
How Web 2.0 impacts supply chin management?
in Supplychainer, on November 5, 2008
...; the collaborative nature of Web 2.0 technologies allow companies to make better and more reliable forecasts. Another area is in the product design phase; people from different functions can share in...
Fair value battle escalates
in Sox First, on October 29, 2008
...prices. Indeed, no institution has ever told bankers they should lend them less money because their forecasts were super confident. But it's a different picture when securities and trades are in t...
Europe catches the US car industry disease
in Sox First, on October 24, 2008
... earnings forecast on the back of slowing auto sales. Then Renault and Peugot have also cut their forecasts. If you need more detail on this, you can check this report in the Financial Times ....
Soros saw it coming
in Sox First, on October 18, 2008
...You can add financier George Soros. As John Cassidy suggests in the New York Review of Books , the forecasts are quite eerie. Years before the implosion, Soros wrote: "Eventually, the US governm...
Forecasts of the economic disaster
in Sox First, on October 13, 2008
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With forecasts that the world is headed for its worst recession in 25 years, if it's lucky, the Huffington Post has run a timely piece on the ones who predicted the economic firestorm. Th...
Missing earnings targets: career consequences
in Sox First, on September 30, 2008
...ces to Missing Quarterly Earnings Benchmarks . The study found that CFOs who miss analyst consensus forecasts are likely to have a bonus cut of 8%, and a 0.62% higher chance of being sacked. For CEOs,...
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in Wangtam, on 2008-09-17
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Small companies give SOX delays the ostrich treatment
in Sox First, on September 11, 2008
...elays and therefore completed assessments at the last minute or not all. Indeed, 12% either filed a faulty report or disclosed inadequate segregation of duties without any evidence of
complying and 7%...
Apple to Recall the iPhone 3G?
in The Wireless Weblog, on August 14, 2008
...k ]... said they had obtained a report that showed... the likely cause of the 3G iPhone problems is faulty adjustments between the handset's antenna and an amplifier that receives very weak signal...
FICO Relents; Credit Card Authorized Users Can Boost Their Credit Scores
in The Personal Finance Weblog, on August 12, 2008
...ame the system and FICO's partner lenders are giving out loans to bad credit customers based on faulty information about a person's credit worthiness.
Fair Issac's plan was to discontinue...
Keeping your COBOL?
in The CIO Weblog, on August 8, 2008
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The last time that COBOL (that's COmmon Business Oriented Language, A 1950's era mainframe programming language) got this much press was just prior to Y2K, when the effort to purge legacy code of two-digit data references convinced many business leaders of the need to re-cod...
More waste and fraud in Iraq
in Sox First, on August 2, 2008
...idence that the U.S. government tracked construction deficiencies to ensure that Parsons remediated faulty work on a timely basis." Is it any wonder that the contractors and profiteers are clean...
Thoughts on The Open
in Eagle Par Birdie, on July 19, 2008
It has been great entertainment watching the first two rounds of The Open from Royal Birkdale.
The elements have played their role and the venerable old layout is every bit as tough as I'm sure the R&A hoped it would be.
And why shouldn't it be? Golf is played outside. And tha...
Maritz Goes to VMWare
in The CIO Weblog, on July 9, 2008
...er Diane Greene as CEO of VMWare in a move which coincides with a warning of lower expected revenue forecasts for 2008.
While VMWare has been handily cleaning up in the virtualization sector, renewed...
European Hedge Fund Survey
in The Hedge Funds Weblog, on July 2, 2008
Photo courtesy of iStockphoto, Ugur Evirgen
In a HedgeCo story , online database and analysis service provider DataMonitor predicts strong growth in funds of hedge funds over the next year, with less demand for single hedge funds.
In their report, 'Hedge Funds in Europe 2008', surv...
Las Vegas Gets Cheap
in Play Las Vegas, on July 1, 2008
...e Las Vegas' easy comps.
Make no mistake about it; Las Vegas is here to stay despite the bleak forecasts about the state of the country's economy. This is a big money town, and there are too ...
HP Issues Laptop Advisory
in Home Based Business, on June 27, 2008
...known hardware issue with certain models of their notebooks. To put it simply, the motherboards are faulty. I know this first hand because mine died 5 days ago! Fortunately HP will repair any affected...
Beauty Must Read: Essie in the New York Times
in Are you a beauty?, on June 24, 2008
...quot;I want people to forget about the 'R' word," she said the other day, referring to forecasts of a recession, "and to smile when they see all these bright, fun colors." She w...
Carl Icahn 将正式卷起新 Yahoo 收购风波
in Wangtam, on 2008-05-17
刚刚已经提及， 亿万富翁 Carl Icahn 上周谋得 Yahoo 董事席位，意欲发动代理权争夺战 。然后 Carl Icahn 在随后发给 Yahoo 的信中确认，他已经发动了旨在促成微软收购 Yahoo 的代理权争夺战。 Carl Icahn 已经提名了十位 Yahoo 董事候选人，希望用他们取代现有 Yahoo 董事会，以推动 Yahoo 接受微软每股 33 美元、总价值 475 亿美元的收购报价。 Carl Icahn 还在写给 Yahoo 董事会主席 Roy Bostock 的信中披露，他已经收购了 5900 万股 Yahoo 股票，并在寻求清除来自国美国联邦贸易委员会的反垄...
Homeowner's Insurance and Your Home Business
in Home Based Business, on May 2, 2008
...angible products you work on. For example, the latter covers damage to your customer's home if faulty wiring in a TV set that you repaired starts a fire.
Workers' Compensation Insurance , co...
Yahoo 第二次正式答复微软：哥们儿，给点面子，加点钱吧？
in Wangtam, on 2008-04-08
针对前几天 微软的最后通牒 ，几个小时前 路透社爆料 称 Yahoo 又要来个严词拒绝了，不过事实上还没那么糟糕，因为刚刚 Yahoo 正式答复微软了，公开文稿中表明了一些态度，认为微软应该多出点钱，他们也不是不愿意坐下来好好谈。不过，都到这份上了，Yahoo 到底有什么资本，到底哪里好意思要微软加价了？HUNG 是没看出来。Yahoo 在公开的回复当中倒是对自己充满信心，当然，在措辞上已经显露出一部分由硬变软的趋势：
" Steve, you personally attended two of these meetings and could have advanced ...
Cellixx offers mobile reservations on the go
in Les Explorers, on mars 14, 2008
...ng auto- complete features
* User acts in familiar environments
* increased brand recognition, no faulty illustration
* Location based services
* Supporting and linked to existing (corporate-) boo...
Update: Polaris Recall Expanded
in Under My Helmet, on March 5, 2008
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I reported last month about the voluntary recall by Polaris on their Sportsman series for the faulty ECM unit.
Now about 11,000 "Outlaw IRS" ATVs, Model Year 2006-2008, are being vol...
Middle East to Become Sophisticated Investor Center
in The Hedge Funds Weblog, on February 25, 2008
...ith the UAE and Qatar playing potentially dominant roles in the region, the report said.
Mirabaud forecasts that hedge funds will become increasingly attractive to the region's ever-more sophist...
China's growth: is a slowdown coming?
in Sox First, on January 19, 2008
...res with real power, like blocking exports of mobile phones, for example. Still, so far the early forecasts for this year are that China will start to flex its muscles. If there is a slowdown in Ch...
Effect of China's holidays on the global supply chains
in Supplychainer, on January 15, 2008
...are derived from previous year planning. If previous years accounted for the holiday, how will 2007 forecasts be used or modified?
"When we look at this scenario, demand planning independent of ...
Trends for 2008
in Sox First, on January 8, 2008
... events that might catch some off guard? Editors of The Futurist have put together their Top 10 Forecasts for 2008 and beyond and it makes interesting reading. Despite the challenging economic co...
Tips for surviving the recession
in Sox First, on December 27, 2007
...ice increase since this time last year - retail sales increased a lackluster 2.4 per cent. Industry forecasts had predicted gains of 3.5 per cent to as high as 4.5 per cent,'' reports The Wal...
Holiday Weather
in The Flyaway Weblog, on December 25, 2007
...nd Atmospheric Administration to check the weather on your destination.
For local, severe weather forecasts or weather warnings on your destination, a visit to noaa would be a smart way to st...
How to avoid Christmas stockout at the store level?
in Supplychainer, on December 24, 2007
...on of subsequent demand. A CTL research team did this for shoes, and was able to improve the demand forecasts for the mix of colors and styles that the manufacturer was selling.
- Another option is ...
kayak and sidestep merge
in TJ's Weblog, on December 21, 2007
...e travel market. Being invested and involved in kinkaa I certainly do share some of these bullish forecasts.
Talk was on the street that each Sidestep and Kayak want to go IPO in 2008. Now that wil...
Mobile WiMax to Reach 80 Million Users by 2013
in The Wireless Weblog, on December 11, 2007
...er Research today released a report entitled Mobile WiMax: Global Opportunities, Strategies & Forecasts, 2007-2013 , which predicts that mobile WiMax (802.16e) will take off between 2010 and 201...
F-Secure Reviews 2007, Forecasts 2008
in Networking for Pros, on December 7, 2007
F-Secure reports that the number of malware signatures they were monitoring in 2007 doubled from about one-quarter million to about one-half million. The majority of the increase represents variations of known malware programs. According to F-Secure, the growth in the number of non-novel malwa...
T-Mobile Recalls Motorola's Sidekick Slide
in The Wireless Weblog, on November 17, 2007
On Friday night (sneaky timing, guys!), T-Mobile announced that it's pulling the Sidekick Slide from store shelves due to a problem that causes the device to turn off when the slide mechanism is used. When the device is called the Slide, that can be a bit of an embarassment...
"Thi...
Home Based Business Structure 101: Business Planning Tips
in Home Based Business, on November 11, 2007
...rship. Many businessmen, even experienced ones, have to pay for costly mistakes because they have a faulty business plan.
However, there are also some who make a bad business plan work because they ...
