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Walmart's challenges with its Chinese suppliers
in Supplychainer, on November 30, 2009
...workers included in the report suffer serious rights abuses".
In the report, CLW attributes this failure to ineffective auditing and a pricing structure that forces factories to sell goods at unsus...
Champions League Group Stage - Penultimate Fixture Preview
in The Soccer Weblog, on November 24, 2009
...t for that to look likely, however, and nothing more needs said about the implications of their failure to qualify.
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Chrome OS Technology preview
in The CIO Weblog, on November 20, 2009
...r conflict going on, and much of the confusion observers are exhibiting over this OS results from a failure to apprehend it; you can see my take on that conflict and how Chrome OS fits into it here ...
Seen that? - Non Diabetics Abuse Diabetic Drug
in Daily Diabetic, on November 19, 2009
...launched in the UK for the treatment the following diabetes-related ailments: heart disease, kidney failure and blindness. BYETTA is said to have been developed from the spit of a poisonous lizard. Co...
What Risks Are You Taking?
in BootStrapMe, on November 12, 2009
...The life of an entrepreneur revolves around managing risk and failure - with the hope that your efforts will eventually lead to success. This is more true for bootstrappers than for any other type ...
Seen that? - Portable dialysis machines on the horizon
in Straightfromthedoc, on November 9, 2009
...ysis centers several times per week. If at-home dialysis takes off, many lives of those with kidney failure will change: When Karen Everts wants to go camping, kidney failure no longer slows her down:...
Seen that? - TFR Over Memphis Due to Presidental Visit
in The Aviation Weblog, on November 9, 2009
...day, March 11. There will be a 30-nautical-mile-radius [...] Read More Communications Failure Shuts Down Memphis Airport at The Aviation Weblog ...
Reading the Microsoft tea leaves: Is the company turtling?
in The CIO Weblog, on November 4, 2009
...mpiling a host of events. That may be what has been happening in the past months as perceptions of failure, or even worse, of inadequate success, have been laid at Redmond's feet from a variety of so...
Too big to fail is too dumb
in Sox First, on October 29, 2009
...blem, he says, is that it will get ugly when the financial system goes pear-shaped again. "When the next crisis hits, and it will, that frustrated public is likely to turn, not just on politicians who... ... market. As British economist John Kay writes , it's impossible for regulators to prevent business failure and they shouldn't even think about it. Kay writes: "The essential dynamic of the market e...
Managed and unmanaged social networks in the enterprise
in The CIO Weblog, on October 23, 2009
...One of the most consistent patterns I have seen with the deployment, and subsequent failure, of social networking tools within the enterprise is that, whether of its own volition or having been hector...
Do the Pitfalls of Outsourcing Outweigh the Benefits?
in The Outsourcing Weblog, on October 19, 2009
...om in this October 20, 2009 article . Highlighting the threats arising from data loss or supplier failure, the author suggests that the risks may outweigh the benefits. What the article fails to ad...
Times dismisses Microsoft
in The CIO Weblog, on October 19, 2009
...vaunted general release of Windows 7 almost upon us (a release that some are calling the "last, or next-to-last, version we'll see in that standard large-operating-system world" ) , the inevitable qu... ...ch as cloud computing, Software as a Service, and mobile devices. Whether through complacency or a failure to comprehend industry changes, Microsoft has evolved from threat to joke for many competito...
How the ratings agencies sold out investors
in Sox First, on October 19, 2009
...new ways of measuring risk. More insidiously, the ratings system provides a ready-made excuse for failure: as long as you’re buying AAA-rated assets, you can say you’re being responsible. After the ho...
Hedge funds lied to investors
in Sox First, on October 15, 2009
...verifiable representations about other topics (28%),'' the researchers say. "Misrepresentation, the failure to use a major auditing firm and the use of internal pricing are significantly related to le...
A system to let institutions fail
in Sox First, on October 11, 2009
...egulators misjudged the systemic importance of that collapse and the psychological fallout from its failure. They also made the mistake of assuming that the way to avoid moral hazard and make capitali...
Bankers' cocaine binge
in Sox First, on October 11, 2009
...n fueled by coke abuse? It's something we will never know for sure, but it's worth keeping in mind. Next time markets are booming and share prices skyrocketing, it's a warning that other forces might ... ...
To what extent can the market's failure be blamed on cocaine? According to this alarming news report , there was a clear link between the heady trading during the boom and snorting. And profe...
Addressing Management Challenges of Converged Mobile Devices
in The Wireless Weblog, on September 25, 2009
...ons from smartphones will grow even 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 device... ...ociated with them.
Cutting Wireless Costs
Organizations need data to document transmission failures and other events so they can successfully enforce quality-of-service (QoS) agreements and re...
魔鬼辞典之金融危机
in Wangtam, on 2009-09-23
...么处在这样一个无底洞中。
反馈循环 (FEEDBACK LOOP)，名词。一件事情的意义因为不断重复而放大的过程。出处：CNBC电视频道。参见逆反馈循环(ADVERSE FEEDBACK LOOP)....
Arcane weekend technical link
in The CIO Weblog, on September 19, 2009
...ve seen, and this only serves as a reminder that the Inexpensive part of the name implies a certain failure rate anyway... the real issue is not the ultimate reliability of the system, but the cost/be...
Sears let off lightly for spying on customers
in Sox First, on September 16, 2009
... email messages." Sears neglected to tell customers what it was doing. "Respondent's failure to disclose these facts, in light of the representations made, was, and is, a deceptive prac...
Nothing learned from Lehman collapse
in Sox First, on September 14, 2009
...fail because US regulators misjudged its systemic importance and the psychological fallout from its failure. They also made the mistake of assuming that the way to avoid moral hazard and make capitali...
Seven causes of business failure
in Sox First, on September 3, 2009
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There is no such thing as a new business mistake, just the same ones repackaged. Business failure always seems to follow the same path. Analyze each disaster and you will find similar mistakes ar...
Madoff: contender for SEC chairman
in Sox First, on September 3, 2009
...ities industry during the examination ... Madoff told them that Christopher Cox was going to be the next Chairman ofthe SEC a few weeks prior to Cox being officially named." The report slams the... ...es and Exchange Commission. That's the revelation in this SEC report into the regulator's failure to stop Madoff and why it turned a blind eye to the frauds he was perpetrating. According t...
Climate change and national security
in Sox First, on September 2, 2009
...climate change risks making the most volatile places even more combustible. The bottom line is that failure to tackle climate change risks much more than a ravaged environment: It risks a much more da...
Up to 1000 more bank failures
in Sox First, on August 28, 2009
...tive Officer at BankUnited, John Kanas has predicted we will see 1000 more bank failures over the next two years. Rising unemployment will continue to drive the problem because consumer spending ha... ... Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) statement , the number of "problem" banks and bank failures has almost tripled in the last 12 months. There are now more than 400 and the list is growi...
Success, Failure, and the Need to Keep Trying
in TJ's Weblog, on August 26, 2009
...work" - To me addresses the trials and tribulations of a small business owner or entrepreneur. Failure in start ups happens. It can happen again and again, and will happen. Failure doesn't ge...
Nokia 5230: Smart, Cool and Affordable
in The Smart PDA, on August 25, 2009
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After the failure of Nokia N97, Nokia is planning to make a comeback with its new budget touchscreen handset known as the Nokia 5230. The Nokia 5230 is being introduced into the market to compete ...
Enterprise 2.0 finds success (and failure!)
in The CIO Weblog, on August 25, 2009
...ies to allow ground-up efforts, but they will still be marginalized once it's understood that a failure to quash innovation is not the same thing as encouraging it oneself. Why pay a CIO salary wh...
Readers Digest: another private equity failure
in Sox First, on August 18, 2009
Another example of a private equity screw-up. Readers Digest, the media outlet that started in 1922 and made its name publishing condensed novels and edited articles from other magazines has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. The latest bone-headed plan is to convert $1.6 billion wor...
Samsung SSD is Serious Business for Gamers
in The Gadgets Weblog, on August 14, 2009
... In addition to breaking speed limits, the drive also offers 1,000,000 hours MTBF (mean time before failure), and low power consumption.
Pricing has not been announced, but it won't be cheap. A ...
Google 出价 1.065 亿美元收购 On2
in Wangtam, on 2009-08-06
Google 表示 将斥资 1.065 亿美元收购数字视频压缩技术提供商 On2 Technologies。
根据协议规定，每股 On2 股票将转换为价值 0.60 美元的 Google 普通股。交易规模大约在1 .065 亿美元。整个交易预计将在今年第四季度完成。
Google 拥有广受欢迎的视频共享网站 YouTube。而 On2 是一家数字视频压缩技术提供商，在网络视频日益盛行的今天，数字视频压缩技术已成为一个重要法宝。
Google 产品管理副总裁 Sundar Pichai 在声明中表示，"现在视频已经是 Web 体验的一个重要组成部分，我们相信高品质的视频压...
微软与 Yahoo 达成为期 10 年的搜索合作协议
in Wangtam, on 2009-07-31
微软和 Yahoo 今天共同对外宣布，双方已达成为期 10 年的搜索和广告合作协议，称该交易将为全球消费者和广告主带来更多选择，并有利于进一步加强全球互联网产业的技术创新步伐。
微软、 Yahoo 称，总而言之，通过该交易，微软将成为 Yahoo 搜索的技术提供商，而 Yahoo 将独家负责两家公司全球范围内的搜索广告销售事务。
两家公司称，对网民和广告主而言，该交易在整合双方产品资源和搜索平台后，将推动互联网产业的持续技术创新。网民们会发现，他们查找信息的速度将更快，所获得信息准确性也更高。通过微软具有市场竞争力的搜索平台，将为广告主、内容提供商带来更多价值，并提高网民们的互联网活...
Does the Microsoft-Yahoo deal make sense?
in Sox First, on July 30, 2009
...if indeed they decide to use Bing instead of their own search. If this happens, to me it proves the failure of Yahoo's strategy over the last years. All the money they wasted on sideline portal id...
Summer Diabetes Management
in Daily Diabetic, on July 28, 2009
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Research indicates that diabetics with a higher intake of soy protein have a lower risk of kidney failure. To include more soy in your picnic diet, opt for veggie burgers, add edamame to salads or t...
Avandia, Under Fire Once More!
in Daily Diabetic, on July 27, 2009
...ore.
Previously implicated in risk of heart attacks , Avandia is facing another criticism:
liver failure and death in some patients.
Researchers from the activist group Public Citizen reported ...
Amazon, Why Don't You Come In Our Houses And Burn Our Books Too?
in Wangtam, on 2009-07-21
... Web Design
• Unified Search
• Wordpress 2.8.2 Security Patch
• Cellar for iPhone and iPod Touch: Manage your wine collection on the go - Only on the iTunes App Store ... ...oration service
• AT&T Is A Big, Steaming Heap Of Failure
• How to Lose Weight Watching TV
• Top 10 Great Social Sites for Movie Lovers
• PocketSmith
• CRYPO-900.GX uses Very Strong Mili...
China's supply chain challenge: Mitigating supply risk
in Supplychainer, on July 6, 2009
... contributing region for nine of 15 risks examined, including supplier and internal product quality failure, security breaches and intellectual property infringement. (Note: Probably you remember some...
Criticism starts to catch up to AppEngine
in The CIO Weblog, on July 3, 2009
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Pretty much every cloud service failure these days results in a predictable volley of coverage; the unbelievers crow over another purported example of the perfidy of over-hyped utility computin...
How biotech companies can reduce supply chain risk?
in Supplychainer, on June 26, 2009
... shut down (the same as many other sectors:)).
What was interesting for me was their use of FMEA (Failure Mode and Effect Analysis) which is very established method in quality management to reduce s...
I Am Making The SSD Jump Thanks to Kingston V-Series Kit
in The Gadgets Weblog, on June 16, 2009
... Kingston will stand behind it, I am willing to trust it.
I will let you know how it goes over the next couple of weeks. I am already impressed with the kit, the warranty, and the price. I hope I am ... ...romises a 50% speed improvement over standard 7200RPM hard drives, and a 1 million mean time before failure. More importantly, the process to upgrade, and to tools to do it are included. This is SSD f...
Mortgage giant Mozilo charged with fraud
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on June 5, 2009
...sing 5.1 million stock options and then selling the underlying shares.
Remember people like Mozilo next time you want to blame someone for the housing slump. Yes, everyone from borrowers to real esta... ...once the king of the mortgage-lending business. Now he's the face of the industry's massive failure. According to the Reuters story, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filed a civil l...
PSP Go is Official, but Where is it Headed
in The Gadgets Weblog, on June 1, 2009
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There are three types of products: trend-setters, trend-setter competitors, and failures. For example, the Nintendo DS was a trend-setter, and the original PSP was a competitor, and the iPod Tou...
Adult Bone Marrow Stem Cells Can Repair Heart Tissue
in The Biotech Weblog, on May 29, 2009
...ow stem cells into skeletal muscle can repair cardiac tissue and thus reverse damages due to heart failure by doubling myocytes, or heart cells, and reducing cardiac tissue injury by 60 percent.
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Pay cuts fail to save HP jobs
in The CIO Weblog, on May 28, 2009
...pany to announce that it will be making recession-related layoffs after all... 6000 jobs over the next 12 months, amounting to 2% of the overall workforce.
I caught a lot of flack from HP staff for... ... prefer the more traditional sugar-coating and uncertainty followed by outright layoffs or business failure, prompting this observation in comments:
It's an interesting portrait in psychology, h...
How to introduce a carbon tax
in Sox First, on May 20, 2009
...mented and caused harmful side effects." The chances of Congress introducing a carbon tax are next to zero. Americans seem to have a thing about taxes. On other hand, Waggoner's arguments gi... ...ivers and those dams and reservoirs might endanger wildlife and might be vulnerable to catastrophic failure, unleashing devastating floods on those downstream. Indeed, this risk might be increased by ...
The problem with economists
in Sox First, on May 18, 2009
... France, sheds light on the hubris of the profession. The paper, The Financial Crisis and Systemic Failure of Academic Economics points out that this crisis is different from its predecessors. While...
Time to lob a Molotov cocktail
in The CIO Weblog, on May 14, 2009
...happen a lot more frequently than "doing things right." The danger to IT shops lies in a failure to adapt to this reality even as the market around them does. As Lawson says, "...if IT ...
A Hippocratic oath for managers
in Sox First, on May 9, 2009
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The global crisis is as much a failure of ethics as it is of finance. Business at the end of the day has to serve society which gives it its licence to operate. Creating virtual products as they d...
Failure Whets the Appetite for Success
in TJ's Weblog, on May 5, 2009
...'s Thoughts had some interesting ideas to share recently about everybody's favorite topic: failure. More specifically, he looked at how failure impacted the entrepreneurial spirit. Give me th...
S&OP in high tech companies should incorporates measures of risk
in Supplychainer, on May 1, 2009
...decision-makers are now more concerned about maintaining the integrity of their pipeline. "The failure of some suppliers in China has become an issue," he said. "And having the low-wage...
Are economists to blame for the financial crisis?
in Sox First, on April 24, 2009
... of what creates profit opportunities and causes instability in the global economy results from the failure of these assumptions. Herd behaviour, asset mispricing and grossly imperfect information hav...
To panic, or not to panic
in The CIO Weblog, on April 22, 2009
... cell service also went down as the trunks to towers were severed. An unanticipated side effect was failure of software systems internal to the hospital, which apparently required outside connectivity...
Is all this free sustainable?
in The CIO Weblog, on April 16, 2009
...his generation of innovative services might have a significant chilling effect on investment in the next.
I don't have any answers or suggestions for avoiding this situation but it's somethin... ... useful. But the real question is, would you have come up with those ideas on your own? Because the failure of this generation of innovative services might have a significant chilling effect on invest...
Data Robotics Introduces DroboPro Storage Device
in On Storage, on April 12, 2009
...inch SATA hard drives to back up data and to provide redundancy to protect against the simultaneous failure of up to two hard disks," writes InformationWeek's Antone Gonsalves . "When a...
The great economic cover up
in Sox First, on April 11, 2009
...ouse's National Economic Council saying that the economic disaster will come to an end in the next few months. Based on the data so far, you would think the Obama administration is trying to ta... ...ad of what's failed. Start appointing people who have records of success, instead of records of failure. That would be another nice place to start. There are lots of things we can do. Even today, ...
Here we go again
in The CIO Weblog, on April 6, 2009
...ction among those who sign the checks: the sheer amount of confusion and uncertainty created by the failure of this deal creates risk that can in most cases be avoided by proceeding with other vendors...
G20 and FASB: the banks win again
in Sox First, on April 4, 2009
...reduced or taken off the table when the firm starts performing badly so there will be no reward for failure. Furthermore, firms have to "clear, comprehensive and timely information" about th...
From Ganz: Site Issues Update
in WebKinzBlog, on March 31, 2009
... This weekend we had a hardware failure with one of our many servers. We are currently in the process of fixing this issue. The impact of this failure is that the Curio Shop information for today was ...
The importance of corporate DNA
in The CIO Weblog, on March 30, 2009
...#39;s a bit of an open question as to how much corporate culture actually matters to the success or failure of the products produced by the company. Certainly it's always a factor; the question is...
The questions you should ask before going to implementation of SCM solutions?
in Supplychainer, on March 28, 2009
... people have asked me is: "How should we approach implementation of a SCM initiative, avoiding failure?". Well, I think we should even start from before the implementation: We should ask our...
Staying Motivated
in TJ's Weblog, on March 16, 2009
...one what that.
The post goes on to talk about several other things to avoid. Things like fear of failure, or that "quiet period" where nothing at all happens for weeks or months.
You can ...
Skype 4.0.0.215 for Windows（含 Protable 版）
in Wangtam, on 2009-03-16
Skype 4.0 上周有了小更新，主要都是一些 Bug 修复。
11.03.2009 Skype 4.0.0.215 for Windows
Biocase Fingerprint Lock Will Be Well Intentioned Failure
in The Gadgets Weblog, on March 4, 2009
Some uses of technology are well intentioned but destined to fail. Windows Vista, Circuit City, and musical greeting cards are great examples. The Biocase Fingerprint Luggage lock is another well-intentioned product that is more trouble than it is worth. I completely understand the need to keep...
Blind over-optimistic analysts
in Sox First, on February 28, 2009
... investors need to play 'What If?' even when it involves some outlandish possibilities. The failure to do such worst-case planning, even after plenty of red flags, probably made the after-shoc...
Still in the dark on Steve Jobs
in Sox First, on February 27, 2009
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Last month, I did a blog entry slagging off at the Apple board and its total failure of corporate governance, keeping shareholders in the dark about Steve Jobs, his health and the likelihood or ...
Dumb money and the meltdown
in Sox First, on February 24, 2009
...could deliver steady, positive, market-beating returns in any type of climate, despite the manifest failure of virtually every other money manager to do so-were obviously foolish. But our best financi...
Fly.com
in Wangtam, on 2009-02-18
... Technology Preview
• A Successful Failure - Fail Whale
• MyStartSite.com - The Web On Your Own Terms
• PixyJobs.com - Find Web Development Jobs
• Welcome to Popling - The Learn Spanish, Frenc...
SaaS expected to grow through the downturn
in The CIO Weblog, on February 17, 2009
...chnology or technical concept, without considerable depth of adoption, it risks marginalization and failure in the markets. A significant concern noted by many CIOs when considering SaaS solutions has...
The Return of Depression Economics and Crisis of 2008 by Paul Krugman
in Sox First, on February 15, 2009
...et to one, but depression economics has returned. For the first time in two generations, there is a failure in the demand side of the economy. To put it bluntly, there is insufficient spending. The ob...
IBM provides EC2 versions of server software
in The CIO Weblog, on February 12, 2009
...r a mixed model and to produce its own cloud service, Azure, in-house, but there are glimmerings of failure in those efforts already (although the game is hardly over). IBM may be able to vault over t...
