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Seen that? - Sophos daily Top 10 hoaxes
in I got Spam?!, on November 10, 2009
...ack to rule #1 #3 [...] Read More Sponsored Post: Spikes In Spam Put Your Business at Risk at I got Spam?! Around 70% of all emails hitting ...
Seen that? - Bio-Terrorism and the Flu Pandemic Conference
in The Biotech Weblog, on November 8, 2009
...tant for those with asthma to get a flu vaccine? Research has found that the flu shot decreases the risk of [...] Read More Pandemic preparedness at Sox First ...
Seen that? - Silicon Valley Bank Bridges Sandhill Road and Shanghai
in China Venture News, on November 8, 2009
...9;s prestigious university knows that the domestic venture capitalists and even the foreign VCs are risk adverse and sums it by saying that when it comes to supporting entrepreneurs, "there is a ...
Galleon scandal: just the beginning?
in Sox First, on November 8, 2009
...ffington Post that maybe insider trading shouldn't even be illegal, claiming that it would expose fraud earlier, it would put more information out in the market and that companies will become more t...
Seen that? - Menopause and Hormone Replacement Therapy
in Well Woman Blog, on November 5, 2009
...ment therapy - despite the previously reported downsides (such as increased mortality and increased risk of cancer [...] Read More Hormone replacement therapy and hot flashes at...
Obama dismantles post-Enron reforms
in Sox First, on November 5, 2009
...members backed is that while these companies can't individually do the damage Enron did through its fraudulent accounting and its manipulation of energy markets, millions of investors who have small-c... ...f the same pattern. As Isaiah Poole writes in the Blog for Our Future , it's putting investors at risk. "The consequence of the amendment these members backed is that while these companies can't ind...
Big profits: How Goldman Sachs bet on the US housing crash
in Sox First, on November 5, 2009
...ld crash. As Boston University economics professor Laurence Kotlikoff told Gordon, it smells like a fraud and should be prosecuted. "The Securities and Exchange Commission should be very interested in... ...lity of Goldman Sachs actions by accusing the bank of selling securities backed by at least 200,000 risky home mortgages while at the same time placing bets that the US housing market would crash. As ...
Seen that? - A Poor Diet While Pregnant Can Increase Child's Diabetes Risk
in Daily Diabetic, on October 31, 2009
... A Poor Diet While Pregnant Can Increase Child's Diabetes Risk at Daily Diabetic Apparently, it's never too early to join the fight against diab...
Seen that? - Soap and Water Eliminate Peanut Allergen
in Allergies, on October 29, 2009
... A new trial has begun in the UK, testing whether early exposure to peanuts reduces the risk of developing peanut allergies later in life. The study will test 480 children between the age...
Swine flu fraud
in Sox First, on October 29, 2009
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It was just a matter of time. The US Food and Drug Administration has published a list of fraudulent swine flu products purporting to clean up the disease now popping up on websites. Read th...
Breaking up the banks
in Sox First, on October 28, 2009
...l Volcker has called for the reinstatement of laws that stop banks from owning and trading risky securities. Still, their calls are unlikely to get any traction from the Obama administration which...
Seen that? - Phishing attacks primer for consumers
in The Social Networking Weblog, on October 26, 2009
... is a form of internet scamming used to steal your information. Wikipedia notes that its criminally fraudulent activity. A phishing scam consists of 4 major parts: 1. It [...] Read More ... ...ce there are some things you need to be [...] Read More Social Networking Puts You At Risk at The Social Networking Weblog Webuser -- Mar 13...
US housing probe and climate change
in Sox First, on October 26, 2009
...iving in poor conditions. "Market mechanisms – and unregulated markets – result in locations at risk of flooding and landslides being left for the poorest," she said. "This population does not have th...
Cell phones and brain cancer
in Sox First, on October 26, 2009
...en by the World Health Organization (WHO) is set to publish evidence that heavy users face a higher risk of developing brain tumors later in life. This is no small study. It was conducted in 13 coun...
Profits are a gift: Soros
in Sox First, on October 25, 2009
...year government bonds for 3.5%. That's money for jam! "So those earnings are not the achievement of risk takers," Soros says. "These are gifts, hidden gifts, from the government, so I don’t think that...
Seen that? - Should You Drink Coffee When You're Pregnant
in Well Woman Blog, on October 24, 2009
... prevent cancer. An article in the Kansas City Infizine says: Old fears that coffee might increase risk of cancer are no longer considered valid. Overall, laboratory studies suggest that regular and ...
Seen that? - Diabetes Challenges: Dealing With Diabetes On Valentine's Day
in Daily Diabetic, on October 21, 2009
...dren and adults in the United States are living with diabetes, and another 54 million people are at-risk. But those aren't the only faces affected by diabetes. If you are a parent or loved one car...
Seen that? - What to Expect When You're Expecting, The Book
in Next Nine Months, on October 19, 2009
...gestational diabetes is the scariest diabetes, just because it is not only the individual who is at risk but the unborn baby as well - making this type of diabetes, double trouble. Gestational Diabet...
AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition 9.0
in Wangtam, on 2009-10-19
...Welcome to the New Net
• The Rise & Fall of a Billionaire Technology Hedge Fund Guru
• Street View: We can trike wherever you like
• Android 2.0 screenshot walkthrough
• iSteadii 2.0 - Ima...
How the ratings agencies sold out investors
in Sox First, on October 19, 2009
...which executives knew how far lending standards had fallen and that they were giving top ratings to risky products. 'I could see it coming at the tail end of 2006, but it was too late. You knew it was...
Seen that? - Review: Turning the Tables: Restaurants from the inside out
in Do you like to cook?, on October 18, 2009
... course that will enable them to better advise patrons of their food options, thereby avoiding the risk of allergic reactions. According to Mats Hulth, the head of [...] Read More Vacati...
Did brilliant minds create the recession?
in Sox First, on October 18, 2009
... computer models, their long and short positions were highly correlated and so there was next to no risk. Their model did not take into account Russia defaulting on its government obligations. The guy...
No autographs, say auditors
in Sox First, on October 18, 2009
...nts are fair and true. But as WebCPA reports, auditors are now saying it will increase costs and risk of litigation. Grant Thornton has even warned it will subject to lynch mobs of angry investors....
Seen that? - Email Sucks
in I got Spam?!, on October 11, 2009
Email Sucks at I got Spam?! I'm now pretty much doing email by the seat of my pants. If you sent me an email in the last 24 hours, then I likely didn't read it. It all started about 17 hours ago, when I started receiving the same SPAM emai...
Mortgages: 30-year or 15-year?
in The Personal Finance Weblog, on October 11, 2009
...ece looks at more than just the math, because financial decisions are usually complicated. How much risk can you take on? How disciplined are you? What other financial demands to you face. What are yo...
A system to let institutions fail
in Sox First, on October 11, 2009
...ensures investors, long-term debt holders, lenders and management suffer pain commensurate with the risks they allowed an institution to take. Secondly, we need some sort of insurance that creates a b...
Seen that? - Gilead wrestles with Roche for Tamiflu rights
in The Biotech Weblog, on October 9, 2009
...t for those with asthma to get a flu vaccine? Research has found that the flu shot decreases the risk of [...] Read More ...
Bribery charges turn personal
in Sox First, on October 9, 2009
...udi Arabia, Europe and Africa. Or will the Justice Department put pressure on Britain's Serious Fraud Office to do the same and target the individuals? ...
Organized crime, forests and climate change
in Sox First, on October 8, 2009
...quot;Organized crime syndicates are eyeing the nascent forest carbon market." So what sort of fraud would it be? The most obvious would be claiming credits for forests that don't exist. Ther...
Heroes Season 4 : Ep. 3 - Acceptance
in Wangtam, on 2009-10-08
...nts and freebies when reviewing products or risk being fined $16,000
• Psystar sells Snow Leopard virtualization to third-parties
• Apple and Windows Computers Living Together Under One Roof, Acco...
Plan to destroy the dollar
in Sox First, on October 7, 2009
...ncy meetings, Sun Bigan, China's former special envoy to the Middle East, has warned there is a risk of deepening divisions between China and the US over influence and oil in the Middle East. &quo...
Seen that? - Asthma Drug Advair, Deadly?
in Allergies, on October 4, 2009
... Children living within the inner cities of the United States are believed to be at higher risk of developing allergic asthma. Indoor allergens commonly found in inner cities, such as dust mi...
Oil spike and the nuclear equation
in Sox First, on October 3, 2009
...in Politico : "Neither Israel nor the international community can afford to take even a small risk that Iran might acquire and misuse a nuclear weapon." Or as the Seeking Alpha blog puts...
Should ratings agencies go the way of Arthur Andersen?
in Sox First, on October 3, 2009
...n in 2002 after authorities learned that its auditors had shredded documents related to Enron's fraudulent schemes and were probably complicit in those practices. Even though the firm's felony...
Do Venture Capitalists Foster Innovation, or Just Pay For It?
in TJ's Weblog, on September 28, 2009
... stake claim to 81% of the all jobs created. Yes, 81% . Can they please give the entrepreneurs who risk their life savings, max out their credit cards and put their families in the back seat a little...
Addressing Management Challenges of Converged Mobile Devices
in The Wireless Weblog, on September 25, 2009
...en faster - 71 percent this year alone and 196 percent during the next three years. Mobile-related risks are growing accordingly. As the use of converged mobile devices to access and share information...
Luxury hotels the latest victims of the recession
in Sox First, on September 25, 2009
...eatures 300-thread count Egyptian bed linens and iPods, is collateral for a $100 million loan is at risk of default. These hotels were financed aggressively on the oxygen of debt during the boom and n...
《华尔街疯人日记》连载57
in Wangtam, on 2009-09-24
...llion Research Bargain for Netflix, and Maybe a Model for Others
• Announcing Zoho Discussions: Customer and Employee Communities
• Microsoft acquires the technology assets of Interactive Supercom...
魔鬼辞典之金融危机
in Wangtam, on 2009-09-23
随着金融危机从"狼来了"变成活生生的磨难，金融业的一些特有隐语也进入到了日常对话中。对于不熟悉华尔街这个小圈子的人来说，这种出乎意料的变化可能让他们不快。
安布罗斯•比尔斯(Ambrose Bierce)在1906年出版的魔鬼辞典《愤世嫉俗者词汇手册》(The Cynic's Word Book)中对当时的政治和文化用语给出了独出心裁的解释。按照这种精神，《华尔街日报》也在雷曼兄弟(Lehman Brothers)倒闭一周年之际编写了一个缩写词、新词和滥用词入门手册，这些词可以让人通俗、形像地了解雷曼倒闭给世人留下的烂摊子。
AAA，名词，废词。一种修辞工...
Obama flags bailout for newspapers
in Sox First, on September 21, 2009
...t-Gazette and The Blade, Obama said fact based reporting and double checking information was now at risk. He says it's becoming "all blogosphere, all opinions, with no serious fact-checking, ...
SensiGene Cystic Fibrosis Carrier Screening Test
in The Biotech Weblog, on September 20, 2009
...est , a carrier screening genetic test that helps to identify individuals who may have an increased risk of having a baby with certain genetic conditions.
This innovative test screens for 103 mutatio...
Elderly turn to bank robbery in recession
in Sox First, on September 20, 2009
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Back in July, I did a blog entry looking at hiow bank robberies, fraud and other crimes were booming because of the recession. Now we have further evidence of the recession's impact with ...
Nothing learned from Lehman collapse
in Sox First, on September 14, 2009
...unlikely. Wall Street has not changed at all. As Stevenson Jacobs from Associated Press reports, risk taking for the banks is back with a vengeance with Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase and others - w...
BAE brought to justice (finally)
in Sox First, on September 7, 2009
...Saudi Arabian government. As I pointed out here , the uproar broke out after Britain's Serious Fraud Office dropped its investigation into the alleged bribery allegations. Now, it looks like the...
Can the SEC be sued for Madoff?
in Sox First, on September 7, 2009
...ken but negligently performed." Still, to cover itself the SEC is now looking at setting up a fraud college to help its officials detect financial shenanigans, reports Bloomberg . As if the stu...
New Mini Coupé Concept Misses the Mark
in carzz.org, on September 2, 2009
... I'm going to come right out and say it, even at the risk of antagonising Mini fans everywhere: this new Mini Coupé concept misses the mark on styling. In fact, I wonder why we need it at all ...
Climate change and national security
in Sox First, on September 2, 2009
...rk so powerfully in the opposite direction,'' Kerry writes. "Worldwide, climate change risks making the most volatile places even more combustible. The bottom line is that failure to tack...
Lawyers and Outsourcing Deals
in The Outsourcing Weblog, on September 1, 2009
...task to law firms. This is how the legal services are procured.
But lets not forget their role as risk managers. Anytime a company's critical information is outsourced (and remember, information ...
SpiderOak Announces 50 Percent Educational Discount
in On Storage, on August 30, 2009
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And it's not just for online backup - as the company's announcement puts it, "Why risk losing the papers you worked so hard on, the research that took all semester, and the pictures ...
UBS whistleblower jailed
in Sox First, on August 30, 2009
... banker Bradley Birkenfeld was this week sentenced to three years four months for conspiring to defraud the US by helping clients to cheat taxes. Let's forget the fact that Birkenfeld was actua...
The Power of The Fetal Fibronectin Test
in Well Woman Blog, on August 27, 2009
...t in nearly 90 percent of cases. The study concluded that fFN testing has the potential to improve risk assessment and impact treatment decisions including the administering of steroids, increased sur...
Testosterone and financial risk taking
in Sox First, on August 26, 2009
...d been Lehman Sisters. The implication: too much testosterone can be a bad thing for investment and risk management. Now we have a new study, reported here , that testosterone affects financial deci...
EarlyCDT–Lung™ Test for Detection of Early Stage of Lung Cancer Released
in The Biotech Weblog, on August 25, 2009
...atment can be most successful. The test is primarily recommended for individuals who are at higher risk of lung cancer , such as long-term smokers, ex-smokers and those exposed to environmental facto...
Pregnancy and Antidepressants
in Well Woman Blog, on August 22, 2009
...ogists .
The question remains however: are antidepressants safe for pregnant women?
For many the risks vs. benefits of continuing treatment are not clear.
"We know that untreated depression p...
Headed for the double dip
in Sox First, on August 20, 2009
...f that's happened. As Warren Buffett writes in the New York Times , the United States runs the risk of becoming a banana republic economy unless something is done to rein in the debt when markets...
Diabetes Risk In Childhood Cancer Survivors
in Daily Diabetic, on August 20, 2009
...ood cancer survivors who underwent total body or abdominal radiation therapy may have an increased risk of diabetes.
Such were the findings reported in the August 10/24 issue of Archives of Interna...
TAKE Supply Chain Acquires PSI Software company
in Supplychainer, on August 20, 2009
...h's Will McNeill, research director, "In the area of global trade management, managing the risk has fallen on supply chain, logistics, compliance and financial professionals. A typically outs...
Readers Digest: another private equity failure
in Sox First, on August 18, 2009
...and young people are refusing to subscribe? That's a big bet by the banks and it's full of risk. If revenues stay where they are, and debt servicing is wound back, then that might work. But i...
Foreclosures dogging the middle class
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on August 14, 2009
...st started to boom? We liked to say it was because of all those greedy homeowners who took out high-risk subprime mortgages to get into homes they couldn't really afford.
Well, today's forecl...
Madoff's right hand man pleads guilty: who's next?
in Sox First, on August 12, 2009
...hich raises the obvious question: who's next? How could his wife Ruth Madoff not know about the fraud? And what about the fund managers who sent him money from investors?...
Citigroup and Norwegian greed
in Sox First, on August 11, 2009
...arketed the Citigroup products to towns. But according to reports at the time, all details of the risk were somehow omitted from the Norwegian version of the prospectus put out by Terra. These warni...
No bail for Black
in Sox First, on August 11, 2009
... have to hand it to Conrad Black. Two years after he sentenced to six-plus years in the slammer for fraud, he has still been seeking bail pending an appeal. If anyone told he had a snowflake's cha...
Oliver's Allergy Labels and Tags
in Allergies, on August 10, 2009
...tter if your child is in preschool or in junior high. But there are things you can do to reduce the risk of reactions, if not totally banish it. One way is to label all his things, particularly his lu...
Climate change junket for Congress
in Sox First, on August 10, 2009
Diving on Australia's Great Barrier Reef, waking up in a plush hotel in Waikiki and spending New Years Eve in Christchurch watching fire works. All part of the job for members of Congress who went on a fact finding mission to investigate climate change. According to The Wall Street Journa...
GE cooks the books
in Sox First, on August 9, 2009
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The big accounting fraud news this week was the Security and Exchange Commission announcing that conglomerate GE had cooked the books, boosting its earnings by $785 million and its revenues by ...
Autumn Babies at Higher Risk for Childhood Asthma
in Allergies, on August 8, 2009
...n are more likely to get a viral respiratory infection during infancy, which in turn increases the risk of childhood asthma.
Unfortunately it is not so simple to protect an infant from contracting re...
Sipera Systems Launches UC-Sec 100 Security Appliance
in The VoIP Weblog, on August 7, 2009
...rk and protection against VoIP and UC security vulnerabilities and zero day threats, including toll fraud, eavesdropping and data theft," writes eWeek's Nathan Eddy .
"Like all Sipera...
Spooks and the financial crisis
in Sox First, on August 7, 2009
...sis represents the primary near-term security concern for the United States...There is a heightened risk of social and political instability worldwide as governmetns and citizens grapple with rising u...
Dillman to head HP Global Information Technology
in The CIO Weblog, on August 6, 2009
...y steadily up the ladder, passing through CIO to end up as executive vice president of benefits and risk management.
Dillman looks like a good re-hire for HP at this point, as the company continues t...
Obama Healthy at 48 - Should We Follow His Lead?
in Straightfromthedoc, on August 6, 2009
...smoking habit and his family's cancer history were cited as being the biggest (and only) health risks facing him prior to his presidential appointment. But now, with his seemingly non-stop travel ...
