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Goldman Sachs riding high
in Sox First, on July 13, 2009
...ldman Sachs had engineered every market manipulation since the Great Depression. Now the New York Times reports that Goldman Sachs is about to report a strong profit of more than $2 billion in the ...
Mistresses of the universe: can women save the world?
in Sox First, on July 13, 2009
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Back in February, New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof speculated that things could have been very different if Lehman Brothers had been Lehman Sisters. Less macho and testosterone driven. ...
Larry Summers: the worst is yet to come
in Sox First, on July 12, 2009
...ns by Larry Summers, director of the US president's National Economic Council in the Financial Times . Summers says the recession has a long way to go and the worst is still ahead. Summers says:...
Employee or Entrepreneur? The Pros and Cons of Self-Employment
in BootStrapMe, on July 12, 2009
...onal finance... Although I tend toward entrepreneurial endeavors, I don't consider myself a die-hard entrepreneur.... I've had jobs I loved and jobs I hated, and many that just paid the bills....
Derivatives tripped up regulators: Geithner
in Sox First, on July 11, 2009
...ere's a lot of work to do and the proof of the pudding will be in the eating. As the New York Times reports, Geithner has not provided us with any details as to how the administration will defi...
Create Zoho Creator Web Apps from Microsoft Access Database
in Wangtam, on July 10, 2009
...ly Web-Access Fee
• New York Attorney General Sues Tagged.com
• People Looking Good - TheSartorialist.Blogspot.com
• PopWatch Blog | Entertainment Weekly's EW.com
• Rollip - Create Polaroi...
If You LIKE the Clouds, You'll Love Google's Chrome OS (Maybe)
in Web 2.0, on July 10, 2009
...ble. Search Engine Land has a good analysis of all the different opinions available. And the NY Times has one of the best available overviews.
VentureBeat says there are some reasons that you ...
Chrome OS: The reflective phase
in The CIO Weblog, on July 10, 2009
...e five reasons encompass most of the other arguments I have heard in this vein so far:
Linux is hard to love
We aren't ready to run everything on the Web
Microsoft is a formidable opponent...
Chrome OS: The Fight is Finally on for Microsoft and Google...
in Bizinformer, on July 10, 2009
...such as e-mail, word processing, and multimedia through the Internet rather than from a user's hard drive. In otherwords, Chrome will be an operating system for people who believe in cloud compu...
Freecom Hard Drive Secure: Added layer of security to your data
in The RFID Weblog, on July 10, 2009
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From now on stealing data will not be a piece of cake for the thieves from your external hard drives with the availability of RFID backed Freecom external HDD . The Freecom external HDD is secur...
SouthWest NanoTechnologies Announces $3 Million in Funding
in Nanotechbuzz, on July 10, 2009
... in Norman, OK, increasing capacity 100× and lowering unit costs by 90%," according to Small Times . "The company also has an applications development center near Boston."
More here...
Evident Technologies Files for Bankruptcy
in Nanotechbuzz, on July 10, 2009
... biotechnology company Invitrogen Corp. had sapped Evident financially," writes The Albany Times Union's Larry Rulison . "Bankruptcy documents show Evident owes the law firm represent...
Virginia Nanotechnology Park Moves Forward
in Nanotechbuzz, on July 9, 2009
...mmittee a green light to move forward with a preliminary marketing plan," writes The Roanoke Times' Jeff Sturgeon . "As envisioned, the proposed Virginia Nanotechnology Park would featu...
Blackberry - Erfolgsmodell App World
in BlackBerry World, on July 9, 2009
...m Meilenstein erreicht. Im April wurden die virtuellen Pforten geöffnet und nun verkündet die IT-Times bereits die 2000. Anwendung:
Entsprechend erfreut äußerte sch RIM-Manager Jeff McDowell im Ra...
Java vs. Mono
in Java Entrepreneur, on July 9, 2009
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SD Times' David Worthington this week published an excellent article contending that Microsoft's Mono framework has become more popular for Linux desktop applications than Java .
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Why it matters if your neighbor's struggling to pay the mortgage
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on July 9, 2009
...osures drag down housing prices for everyone else. If you need to sell your house, it's awfully hard to compete with the foreclosed property going for $100,000 less than market value.
Foreclosed...
LaCie’s LaCinema Rugged External HDD Is One Tough Media Server
in The Gadgets Weblog, on July 9, 2009
... harshest of conditions, but that has not stopped Lacie from producing the LaCinema Rugged External Hard Drive complete with HDMI and Component video ports.
The device, which comes in 250GB, 320GB, ...
Jackson's funeral: taxpayers foot the bill
in Sox First, on July 9, 2009
... for Michael Jackson's funeral? An expensive live event for a dead superstar. The Los Angeles Times reports that inquiries are under way into how the city ended up paying $1.4 million for the f...
T-Mobile USA Launches myTouch 3G Android Phone
in HackITLinux, on July 8, 2009
T-Mobile USA today announced the start of the pre-sale period (from July 8-28, for current subscribers only) for the $200 myTouch 3G , the company's newest Android-based mobile device. Retail availability of the device will begin on August 5th.
"The MyTouch 3G is very similar to ...
Anticipating the CrunchPad
in HackITLinux, on July 8, 2009
...ard. Arrington said having the device boot directly to the browser means it won't need a lot of hardware horsepower to operate smoothly."
More here from Electronista ... more here from t... ...ower to operate smoothly."
More here from Electronista ... more here from the SF Business Times ... more here from ZDNet ... and more here from Gearlog .
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Los Angeles leads nation in mortgage fraud
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on July 8, 2009
...unately, there are always going to be scammers out there. The best defense is to be on guard at all times. If someone calls you out of the blue offering to help you reduce your mortgage payments, hang...
Apple's lack of enterprise ambition
in The CIO Weblog, on July 8, 2009
... which he answers unequivocally "no." Reisinger lays out all the usual points; Apple is a hardware, rather than software business, with a decidedly consumer focus, limited experience and lit...
Can dope save California?
in Sox First, on July 8, 2009
...#39;s economy is in deep trouble and threatens to drag the rest of America down with it. So it was hard to go past Advertising Age running this brief commercial from the Marijuana Policy Project:
...
Magellan Maestro 4700 is the Navigator You are Searching For
in The Gadgets Weblog, on July 7, 2009
...will help you chart a course based on past traffic patterns considering your destination and travel times; predictive traffic updates alone are worth the purchase price in my opinion. You also get the...
Beware loan-modification scams
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on July 7, 2009
...If you want to read a chilling story, try this one published yesterday by the Los Angeles Times. It details the devastating effects that loan-modification scammers can have on their victims.
The Ti...
Palin shoots the media
in Sox First, on July 7, 2009
...to Ms. Moore, and those who re-publish the defamation, such as Huffington Post, MSNBC, the New York Times and The Washington Post, that the Palins will not allow them to propagate defamatory material ...
Is barcode cheaper than RFID or vice versa?
in The RFID Weblog, on July 7, 2009
...stry that bar code is cheaper when compared to RFID and on the 35th birthday of bar code, New York Times ran an article which said:
Bar codes, after all, cost just half a cent each, while the elec...
Save On Car Insurance by Raising Your Deductible
in The Personal Finance Weblog, on July 6, 2009
...get it, they often leave it alone. Unfortunately, this can mean that you are throwing some of your hard-earned money away. Saving money, however, means that you need to be willing to analyze your curr...
Pebble Beach Swamped, Calendar Needs to be Split
in Classical Drives, on July 6, 2009
...hat Pebble Beach has outgrown itself and maybe should be split into two or more events at different times in the calendar. Having said that, I acknowledge that a La Dolce Vita Scholarship Fund has b...
Apricorn Promises to Beef Up 5th Generation iPod Storage
in The Gadgets Weblog, on July 6, 2009
...eople who need even more that 120GB of storage.
They are selling a combo kit that includes a 240GB hard drive and an 850mAh replacement battery. This kit also comes with the necessary tools to crack ...
Another stimulus package
in Sox First, on July 6, 2009
...package. Besides the economy, there is another reason and it's political. A recovery that's hard to read and goes nowhere will erode Obama's high approval rating which is really the bedroc...
Giveaway: Samurai Helmet
in WebKinzBlog, on July 5, 2009
...ly deluxe gift bag item!
To enter:
-Post your username on the thread
-This time, you can AS MANY TIMES AS YOU WANT. Seriously, go nuts!
-Drawing will be held on Friday - good luck to everyone!...
已经确认 Windows 7 RTM 于本月 13 日完成
in Wangtam, on July 5, 2009
...titan Michael Arrington's next big thing: Hardware
• Woman Shot in Apple Store at Clarendon's Market Common
• Employee Shot at Arlington Apple Store
• Authorize.net Goes Down, E-Commerce... ...rketer Filter
• SF Business Times: CrunchPad Inc. Formed With 14 Employees In Singapore
• New ways to search within a book
• First iPhone 3GS Jailbreak Hits The Web
• Michael Jackson's Mem...
The Month in Twitter - A Nobel Prize Coming?
in The Social Networking Weblog, on July 5, 2009
...Twitter Reschedules Maintanence Around iran Election
Twitter has been in the news a few other times. The new search engine, Bing, searches tweets (for Celebs, at least). Twitter also began ver...
Supply chain video: Preparing for the worst, managing supplier risk in the downturn (Part 3)
in Supplychainer, on July 5, 2009
...t of Robert Hanfield's talk in PMMS Leadership in Procurement: A Global Perspective in Troubled Times. In this part Robert touches upon issues such as early retirement policies, cash issues and sy...
How can a supply chain react to unexpected events (similar to Michael Jackson's death)?
in Supplychainer, on July 5, 2009
... in $150 million loss for the organizing company.
This is clearly an example of an event which is hardly predictable; now the question is that, if we look at world of supply chain we see that there ... ...cked many of his fans but also the company which was organizing the event. In a podcast by New York Times, I heard that the unexpected death has resulted in $150 million loss for the organizing compan...
Madoff hires prison consultant
in Sox First, on July 5, 2009
...f has hired a prison consultant, Herb Hoelter, to help find him the best possible jail. But as The Times reports, Hoelter will have his work cut out because 150 years means he has next to no hope of...
Headache Online Tool: Headache U
in Straightfromthedoc, on July 4, 2009
...aybe you can blame your parents! Did you know that migraines can be hereditary, and affect three times more women than men? Whatever the pattern may be, get out some paper and start taking notes! The ...
USB 3.0 Is Coming Soon to Make Your PC Even More Obsolete
in The Gadgets Weblog, on July 3, 2009
...f Taiwan as early as this summer. Certainly, but the end of the year, holiday PC's and external hard drives will be hitting the shelves.
USB 3.0 allows for transfers of data up 5GB/s. Yes, that i...
What the jobless figures tell us
in Sox First, on July 3, 2009
...ers in the US, up 7.2 million from the start of the recession and it keeps going up. The Financial Times points out the obvious in this republished form here : "It is incredible that 19 months ...
The Goldman Sachs-Rolling Stone slugfest
in Sox First, on July 3, 2009
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Hard to go past Matt Taibbi's piece in Rolling Stone where he accuses it of engineering every market manipulation since the Great Depression. Taibbi doesn't pull any punches either. He ...
Supply chain video: Preparing for the worst, managing supplier risk in the downturn (Part 1)
in Supplychainer, on June 30, 2009
...PMMS Leadership in Procurement: A Global Perspective in Troubled Times was an event organized some while ago in Montreal Canada. Since there are some interesting videos from the presentations in this ...
Succeeding on the Internet
in TJ's Weblog, on June 30, 2009
...succeed on the Internet.
Tip number 1: Do what you do best... Seems like a no-brainer, but often times when companies start out they want to be a one stop web shop. Durng our early days we took on p...
Europe Gets Universal Phone Charger Standard and I am Jealous
in The Gadgets Weblog, on June 30, 2009
...e living in the United States, but for a technology buff and gadget head, it can be frustrating at times. Korea gets the most fantastic cell phones, and Japan has mobile television on everything, and ...
AgfaPhoto Is Producing A Tough Digital Camera For Tough Times
in Digital Shot, on June 30, 2009
...oof to 10 meters able to withstand reasonable abuse.
This is why I say it's a camera for tough times, although during today's tough economic times, it's also easy on the pocketbook.
Wit...
Jackson's estate: the blooduckers zero in
in Sox First, on June 29, 2009
...told it to the police. There was a nanny in the London papers Sunday almost bragging about how many times she had to pump his stomach. And the papers here were lousy with other writers acting as if th...
Logistics cost in the U.S. is dropping
in Supplychainer, on June 28, 2009
...ts for 78 percent of transport by revenue and half of all business logistics cost, was particularly hard hit, rising just 1.3 percent compared with 4.4 percent for the other modes (rail, barge, air ca...
Giveaway: Series I Trading card bed
in WebKinzBlog, on June 27, 2009
...es I Trading Card beds!
To enter:
-Post your username on the thread
-This time, you can AS MANY TIMES AS YOU WANT. Seriously, go nuts!
-Drawing will be held on late night Tuesday - good luck to e...
WildCharge Evolves the iPhone to the Next Level
in The Gadgets Weblog, on June 25, 2009
...ge up to five devices simultaneously as long as you have the necessary skins and adapters.
Via NY Times
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Has Intel finally broken into the cell phone market?
in Wangtam, on June 24, 2009
...s Considers Paid Access to Mobile News
• Qik For Android Alpha leaks, Immediately Hits The Market
• BzzScapes
• The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan
• TinyPetition - Create a petition today!
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In Search of a Cool Summer: Da Lat, Vietnam
in Hidden Travel Gems, on June 24, 2009
Da Lat is the honeymoon capital of Vietnam. It is a romantic French Provincial town snuggled into the cool hills of Southeast Asia.
Detailed day-by-day weather records are not available for Da Lat, but the temperature in the city is consistent throughout the summer months: lows drop into the upp...
Role of Genetics in Allergies and Asthma
in Allergies, on June 24, 2009
...allergies in the near future.
But how much of an influence does genetics really play? A New York Times report looks into it and concludes:
Unlike hair and eye color, they stem from the interactio...
Can Wind Power Make a Profit?
in IfEnergy, on June 23, 2009
...ld come to only 18% of peak output, meaning that the juice would be worth $30,000 a year. It's hard to cover the interest on a $500,000 loan with a $30,000 annual payback. It's not an unusual ...
Russia and Japan to Collaborate on Nanotech
in Nanotechbuzz, on June 21, 2009
... will focus on selecting specific projects the two can work on together," according to Small Times .
"The main focus of the interaction will be the selection of specific projects from Jap...
Jammie Thomas-Rasset Hit With $1.92 Million Fine
in P2P File Sharing, on June 21, 2009
...usic — was also on there, it kicks the percentage up even further..."
More here from Times Online ... more here from TorrentFreak ... more here from InformationWeek ... more here f...
Does Apple need Steve Jobs?
in Sox First, on June 20, 2009
...ear or in 10 years," he told Bloomberg . Still, short term share performance aside, it's hard to imagine Apple with Jobs' innovative drive and flair. Let's watch this space....
Recession drawing to an end. So what?
in Sox First, on June 20, 2009
...hird quarter of 2009. Big deal!! Don't crack open the champagne yet. The next few years will be hard. If you expect it will be anything like the boom years, you're kidding yourself. First, th...
Yescalate Brings You Business Information and Customer Reviews
in Audeamus - How dare we..., on June 20, 2009
... © Ed Yourdon
In these current times, social responsibility has never been more important in the business world. It's easy to find about whether large companies act responsibly. But how do yo...
Fiber for Nerve Repair Derived from Chitosan and Polyester
in The Biotech Weblog, on June 19, 2009
...lend required twice as much force to push the tube halfway shut as the other biomaterial, and eight times as much force as the collagen tube.
The new material showed promise for nerve guides but woul...
CIA recruits bankers
in Sox First, on June 19, 2009
...e motivator to serving their country, I think they'll fit in very well with us." It's hard to imagine any actually making that switch. Going from a hedge fund to the CIA is a massive cha...
Mafia cashes in on crisis
in Sox First, on June 19, 2009
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Fascinating story in the Financial Times about how the Mafia has been cashing in on the financial crisis with two apparently "Japanese" men bringing $134 billion worth of fake Treasury...
Giveaway: Musical Maestro Super Bed
in WebKinzBlog, on June 18, 2009
...per cool new Super Bed.
To enter:
-Post your username on the thread
-This time, you can AS MANY TIMES AS YOU WANT. Seriously, go nuts!
-Drawing will be held on late night Sunday - good luck to ev...
Look After YOur Man This Fathers' Day
in Straightfromthedoc, on June 18, 2009
...ve medicine at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn. "Women tend to see the doctor two or three times more than men."
So where does that leave us women? We nudge the guys in our lives to be ...
ASUS 与 Disney 联手打造儿童用 NetBook
in Wangtam, on June 18, 2009
当前经济衰退中，许多玩具公司避免推出高价产品， Disney 却逆势而行，打算在假期销售旺季来临前推出售价 350 美元的儿童 netBook 。
这款 netBook "Disney Netpal"将于7月底起在美国和加拿大的 Toys "R" US 店铺和 Amazon 销售。
美泰和孩之宝(Hasbro)等玩具公司以及 Toys "R" US 等零售商则认为，因失业率上升、楼市低迷及信贷紧缩影响到父母的消费能力，因此价格便宜的玩具会更受欢迎。
Disney 表示，这是该公司首次在北美推出笔记本电脑，五年前该公司曾试图...
U.S. Open vs The Weather
in Eagle Par Birdie, on June 18, 2009
...ominous element: the weather.
The forecast for the entire tournament just stinks. Rain, heavy at times, thunderstorms and showers are the projected story right through until early next week.
The c...
Does Obama's patchwork overhaul go far enough?
in Sox First, on June 18, 2009
...just not good enough. As New York University economics professor Lawrence White told the New York Times : "It's the equivalent of grabbing the rating agencies by the lapels, shaking them, a...
Keep Your Computer Clean & Make Better Digital Photographs
in Digital Shot, on June 18, 2009
...d job.
So the answer is do everything you can to speed up your computer, such as defragmenting the hard drive and deleting unnecessary programs and files.
And, download today's free program, Pl... ...I have found that when my computer slows down during this process my mind starts to drift and I sometimes lose that mental image. Reacquiring it is time consuming and can lead to a rushed, botched job...
Apple Updates its Software While the Government Rethinks Law
in The Mobile Technology Weblog, on June 17, 2009
...layers in the rapidly growing sector.
In the meantime, President Obama asked Congress to repeal a hard-to-enforce tax on the personal use of work cell phones, appeasing the business community, phone... ...for workers who increasingly use mobile devices for texting, emailing and browsing the Internet sometimes for work, sometimes for personal use.
The government now says the law should be scrapped alt...
How MySpace fell behind
in Sox First, on June 17, 2009
...the number of users, MySpace went backwards. What caused this? Analysts have told the Los Angeles Times that much of it has to do with the MySpace fixation on its portal strategy portal strategy wh...
