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More stormy weather

Scientists are now warning we are in for some extreme weather over the next 12 months with the global "El Niño" exacerbating the impact of global warming. Expect more droughts, floods and cyclones. Specialists interviewed by Wharton here say this is very much the future. We all be...

Suddenly more bullish on housing?

Maybe there is something to that old "American Dream," after all. How else to explain that even as the residential real estate industry suffers through a catastrophic slump, U.S. residents still profess faith in the value of housing? You'd think that most homeowners today — and ...

微软正式公布 Microsoft Office 2010 技术预览版

微软已开始通过让 Office "上网"维持在办公软件领域的优势。早在 11 年前，微软就已开始让用户通过互联网收发 Outlook 电子邮件，数年前开始让客户"租用"服务器空间，无需自己购买服务器。2008 年 11 月，微软将 Excel 电子表格和协作软件 SharePoint "搬"到了网上。用户可以"租用"微软的软件，自己无需支出巨额前期费用。 微软需要加快"上网"速度。微软计划今天首次公开展示 Office 2010 部分软件。当前微软面临着来自 Google 的激烈竞争，G...

Recession reshapes America

I have often talked about how the recession will reshape America's geography where cities like Detroit will turn into ghost towns. Without saying as much, demographer Richard Florida seems to be saying that in his latest book, an extract of which is republished here . Florida argues that ...

T. Boone Pickens Gives Up on World's Largest Wind Farm

© jurvetson A number of sources ( BusinessWeek , the News Tribune , Forbes , Fast Company ) are covering the news that Texas oilman and billionaire T. Boone pickens has thrown in the towel (for now, at least) on his efforts to build the world's largest wind farm in Texas. BusinessWeek ...

Genetic Test for Cystic Fibrosis in Embryos

© hive Cystic fibrosis is a genetic disorder that affects the secretory glands, including the glands that produce mucus and sweat, which leads to various diseases of the lungs, sinuses, gastrointestinal system, liver, pancreas, and may even result to infertility especially among males. Althou...

Create Zoho Creator Web Apps from Microsoft Access Database

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Do you still have faith in Obama's stimulus plans?

I happily voted for Barack Obama last year. I was thrilled to see George Bush and his cronies swept away. But I had no illusions: I knew that fixing the country's problems, especially its struggling economy, would require a long, hard slog. I knew, too, that things weren't magically g...

Carbonite Announces Distribution Deal with Sun Microsystems

Sun Microsystems and Carbonite have announced a partnership under which users who download the newest version of Java will receive a free 30-day trial of Carbonite Online Backup . "Carbonite Online Backup installs in a few clicks and runs automatically in the background, continuall...

Mozy and the Petabyte

The folks at Mozy have posted a wonderful graphic explaining the concept of a petabyte (a million gigabytes) — and noting that the company now stores more than 15 petabytes of data: "13.3 years of HDTV content — that's approximately 58,292 movies, which means an equal...

Download Java, Get a Free Month of Online Backup

Sun Microsystems and Carbonite have announced a partnership under which users who download the newest version of Java will receive a free 30-day trial of Carbonite Online Backup . "Carbonite Online Backup installs in a few clicks and runs automatically in the background, continuall...

China Restricts Virtual Currencies

A number of news sources ( Metaverse Journal , CNN , Venturebeat ) are covering new restrictions on virtual currencies in China. China's Ministry of Commerce has put an end to the exchange of virtual currencies for real money in China. The virtual world Second Life is the most well known o...

Netbooks may be the new mobiles

While everyone has been busy catching iPhone fever, and Blackberries have firmly entrenched themselves as must-have tools in corporate America, the consumer-oriented, scorned netbooks may be the next hot device for businesses. Although netbooks are viewed by traditional IT types as little better th...

On Swine Flu, Travel and Homeschooling

© shibuya246 Note: I am currently based in Asia. A few days before we were set to fly to Thailand for a week's holiday, I was so close to canceling the trip. Not only was Thailand included in the list of countries with community spread of swine flu, it was also my son's last week of ...

Treatment For Gaucher Disease From Protalix

Gaucher disease is a hereditary, genetic disorder with severe and debilitating symptoms. It is an inherited metabolic disorder in which harmful quantities of a fatty substance called glucocerebroside accumulate in the spleen, liver, lungs, bone marrow, and sometimes in the brain. Now, a biop...

Housing slump boosts population in New York City, other big cities

The housing slump has certainly had some unforeseen consequences. For instance, it may have actually helped boost the number of people living in New York City, Los Angeles and Chicago. A story by Bloomberg News theorizes that falling home values in the suburbs of California and Florida may h...

Are you ready for a mortgage loan?

For many people, owning a home is still the embodiment of the American dream. (I guess they don't know yet about clogged gutters, weeding and broken water heaters.) The desire to own something, to call something yours, is a strong one. Of course, the American dream has taken a bit of a hit thes...

Succeeding on the Internet

© d70focus Search Engine People recently had a fairly comprehensive look at what it takes to 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 ...

Genome-Wide Karyomapping for Detecting Cystic Fibrosis in Embryos

© drsuparna In the 25th annual meeting of the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology in Amsterdam, scientists report of an embryo test that can screen for cystic fibrosis as well as aneuploidy. According to the researchers, genome-wide karyomapping simultaneously detects inherita...

Mexico's Ruins (and Google)

Mexico's National Institute of Anthropology and History signed an agreement with Google Mexico to promote archaeological and historical sites in a bid to revive tourism following the swine flu epidemic, according to the Associated Press . Among the details, a YouTube Channel for the Nationa...

Acer set to kick Dell out of 2nd place

Perhaps I've managed to be under a metaphorical rock about this... but I found this news really, really suprising. Dell are set to be knocked off the number 2 spot of pc sales in the USA by none other than Acer, a non US company, making this esspeically significant. One guesses it's due to ...

Sony Next to Release an iPhone Killer

We often talk about attempts to dethrone the immensely popular iPhone and it looks like consumer electronics giant Sony is about to take a stab at it next. Sony has released word that it is considering setting up a project team as early as July to make a new device that combines the functions...

Would you walk away from your mortgage loan?

If your home lost half of its value — not too unbelievable of an occurrence in today's housing market — would you be willing to simply walk away from your mortgage? Would you have any qualms about not making that monthly payment and simply leaving your house behind? Surprisingly, a ...

Undervalued or Not, the Yuan is Not Likely to Gain Much

I came across a couple of articles recently the seemed to complement each other on the relative value of the U.S. dollar and the China's Yuan Renminbi. Nikhil Raheja has an excellent explanation of the theory behind exchange rate. The currency exchange rates of every country in the world a...

Oh, the Pain... What to Do When You've Been Unfriended

© mattbaron Judy McGuire from the blog the Frishy recently wrote an interesting article on being ditched by a friend - through Facebook. We'd been having problems that had culminated in a huge argument the day before, but I figured we'd get through it. I figured wrong. Still, bein...

Saving Money on Your Car Insurance Tips

© Fabio Aro Car insurance agencies love some people because they do not think to ask questions about what they are buying. One thing that you definitely want to talk about is what kind of auto insurance discounts you qualify for. This is very important because there could be enough discounts ...

Dragging out the foreclosure mess

It's difficult to imagine the stress that homeowners feel when their home falls into foreclosure. Losing your home is a sign that you failed. You couldn't cut it. And now you and your family have been booted out of your home. It's humiliating. It's painful. And these days, fore...

Home sales rise again. Is this a housing recovery?

The sales of existing homes rose once again this May, according to the National Association of Realtors. The May increased marked the first time that national existing-home sales rose for two months in a row since September of 2005. This is good news for home sellers, many of whom have seen...

In Search of a Cool Summer: Da Lat, Vietnam

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...

Caribbean Sees Deep Price Cuts

© Vagabond Shutterbug The recession is cutting into the Caribbean's travel industry in a profound way, according to CNN "The deals we are seeing in the Caribbean right now are unprecedented," says John Israel, Orbitz.com's Caribbean regional director. "There may have b...

Save Money on Auto Insurance

© Stig Nygaard Auto insurance is something that a lot of people pay more for than is necessary. There are many steps that you can take to reduce your monthly costs and save money. One way to get your low cost auto insurance is to get a number of auto insurance quotes and then compare them. ...

Type 2 Diabetes Overtreatment, Is It Really Safe??

© Alan Cordova According to study reported in the June issue of Diabetes , overtreatment of people with type 2 diabetes improves their glycemic control without worsening their mental or physical status. According to Laura N. McEwen, PhD, from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, and c...

Beware of loan-modification scams

As the number of housing foreclosures across the nation continue to rise, something else is on the upswing, too: loan-modification scams. The scammers target homeowners who have fallen behind in their mortgage payments or those who are facing foreclosure. They promise to modify these homeowners'...

Supply chain education ranking: Penn State becomes No. 1

Probably the question of "Which program to choose?" is what many potential supply chain students are facing: Different programs have popped up here and there and many reputable universities are offering supply chain education programs. So AMR Research recently conducted a research to prepa...

Have a Ball - in Dublin...

MSNBC recently looked at the city of Dublin and said that despite the hard economic times, visitors to the Irish capital can still have a ball there. While Ireland's famed "Celtic Tiger" economy is now more of a sickly kitten these days, the country is still vibrant as can be for tra...

Ohio Music Festival moves smoothly with RFID Tickets

© marfis75 This time there were no cases of counterfeiting or long queues, thanks to use of RFID technology in Six Fest music festival held in Ohio. Even rain could not play spoilsport to the technology. InstaTrax Solutions deployed the RFID ticket system at the event which enabled around ...

Recession drawing to an end. So what?

So bankers forecast that the recession will end in the third 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, the market will be a completely differen...

Product Alert: Smith's Tea with Lemon

Smith Dairy Products Company is recalling "Smith's Tea with Lemon" gallon size due to undeclared milk . The lot affected in this recall is in gallon-size containers with UPC 70424 00560 and lot number 07/07/09 . If you have purchased this product and would like to return i...

NFL Week 6

AP Photo/Kevin Higley I guess the millions Ryan Leaf made getting his dozen or so touchdowns (and twice as many interceptions) in the NFL playing for the San Diego Chargers near the end of the century just wasn't enough. The number 2 pick for San Diego's Chargers was arrested trying to...

A new wave of mortgage foreclosures on the way?

I'd like to think that we've seen the worst of the foreclosure crisis. I'd like to think that we'll be seeing fewer homes fall into foreclosure, and fewer homeowners missing their mortgage payments. I'd like to think all that. Unfortunately, I can't. What I really think is ...

ASUS 与 Disney 联手打造儿童用 NetBook

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...

How MySpace fell behind

When Rupert Murdoch acquired MySpace four years ago for $580 million, there were questions whether the septuagenarian media baron would kill the Internet site's phenomenal popularity. Now, the latest figures suggest that might have happened. The latest figures, reported here , showing ComS...

Could Childhod Obesity Be Declining?

© Joe_13 According to a recent study, childhood obesity may be declining for the first time in 20+ years. However, could the numbers be misleading? Research shows consumption of high fat foods is declining and soup, yogurt and fruit are on the rise. This study could be misleading because nea...

How to Create an Action Plans

Times are tough. In the midst of tough times, sometimes a business manage has to do something . But deciding to do something is different than deciding how to do something... Entrepreneur.com had a good piece recently on creating an action plan. This is the number one secret to effective goal...

Accelerating Relationships with Social Networking

Business has always been at least partly about networking. More and more, it has come to be about social networking. I wrote recently about the need to focus your efforts in social networking. I came across this piece not long ago by Christopher Rollyson on how business relationships can, in h...

How'd the mortgage meltdown happen? NPR knows

One of the problems with the mortgage mess that is still slowing the nation's economic recovery is that so few of us regular homeowners understand how everything went so bad so fast. I mean, I cover this stuff for a living, and it confuses the heck out of me, too. You can't rely on the main...

Vopium-Free VOIP Application for Smartphones

Vopium is a carrier-grade mobile telephony service designed to offer affordable and reliable international calls from any mobile handset. By using the Vopium application on their mobile to make calls from their home country, consumers and businesses alike can save up to 90% on international mobi...

Unemployment: are the numbers lying?

So unemployment in the US has jumped to 9.4% but are the numbers telling us the truth? Is unemployment actually worse than what the statisticians are telling us? As reported here , consultant John Williams says the number of unemployed in the US is actually more like 20%, which takes it up t...

In Search of a Cool Summer: Lake Baikal, Siberia

One of the least noticed natural wonderlands in the tourist world today is Lake Baikal in Siberian Russia. During the 52 days between June 20th and August 10th it usually breaks 85F degrees in Ulan-Ude (on the shores of Lake Baikal) less than a dozen times each year. The high temperature is more...

Want a better credit score? Manage your money

If you want to become a homeowner, you're going to need a good credit score, unless you have piles of cash lying around. For most, though, the credit score is the key to determining whether they will qualify for a mortgage loan. Lenders want to see a high credit score — a numerical f...

NIKA Water: Helping Body and Soul

With another hot summer on the way, proper hydration is on the top of everyone's mind. However, here is a unique twist on the classic summer water story: An estimated 75% of Americans suffer from mild, chronic dehydration. But that number is nothing compared to the 20% of the world's p...

Wal-Mart Promises to Promote Women. Do you Believe Them?

BusinessWeek had an article last week on Wal-Mart CEO Mike Duke's promise to promote women. Seeking to counter Wal-Mart's image as a company that sells mostly to women yet is overwhelmingly run by men, new Wal-Mart (WMT) CEO Mike Duke pledged at the company's annual shareholder con...

ROI metrics for SOA

I posted a couple of weeks ago a reference to a recent Gartner study showing that some 40% of companies engaging in SOA projects do not associate ROI metrics with those projects. I posited at the time that perhaps this wasn't quite the travesty that it seemed, or that other commenters held it ...

Digital Transition Is Looming and Many Aren't Ready

I know that the readers of the Gadgets-Weblog are not the ones whom I am talking about, but many are not prepared for the digital television transition that is happening on Friday, 12 June. I am speaking to your crazy aunts, moms, dads, and second cousins who still get their television programi...

Introducing Fedora 11

The Fedora Project this week released Fedora 11 , which adds a number of attractive new features to the Linux OS. "Fedora 11, which was code named Leonidas, includes virtualization console improvements that ease the task of moving between the host operating system and the guest operat...

Outsourcing Your Dating Life

© annie.kisskiss A number of sources ( TechCrunch , Online Dating insider , VentureBeat ) have reported on a new service that lets you outsource all the stuff involved in online dating - for a mere $480 a month. VirtualDatingAssistants.com will do the work of creating your profile and scre...

Is it time to refinance your mortgage?

The economy is terrible. Yes. But there is a bright spot for certain homeowners: The weak economy has resulted in lower mortgage interest rates. That means it's a good time to refinance a mortgage loan. Of course, even with low interest rates, refinancing doesn't make sense for everyone. CN...

Swine flu and crime

With the World Health Organisation on the brink of declaring swine flu an official pandemic, Keiji Fukuda, the WHO's interim director general for health, safety and the environment has told Time Magazine that the fallout could be devastating with panic setting in and the "worried we...

Mashable 超越 Techcrunch

根据国外第三方统计机构 Compete 和 Quantcast 数据显示，最受欢迎的科技 Blog 桂冠已不再是 Techcrunch 所属，而是社会化媒体 Blog Mashable。 根据 Compete 的独立用户统计数据显示，Mashable 在今年 5 月份的时候，在流量上超越了 Techcrunch。 Silicon Alley Insider 在最新的文章中表示 ，Mashable 之所以能够超越 Techcrunch，原因有如下四点： 1、扎实的资讯内容； 2、大量对搜索引擎友好的"How-tos"主题； 3、社会化媒体的读者愿意分享一切；...

Apple 公布 iPhone 3G S 和 iPhone OS 3.0

在刚刚结束的 WWDC 2009 开幕演讲上，Apple 全球营销高级副总裁 Phil Schiller 发布了第三代 iPhone 手机，名字就叫做iPhone 3G S。其中，字母"S"代表了 Speed 速度。顾名思义，Apple 这一次将注意力放在了提升系统性能方面。 iPhone 3G S的外观设计和上一代产品iPhone 3G完全相同，整机、屏幕尺寸没有进行任何修改，重量从133g略微增加到135g。而在内部，iPhone 3G S对硬件配置进行了全面升级。根据苹果在发布会上的说法，iPhone 3G S启动短信应用程序的速度是iPhone 3G的2.1...

Chemotherapy Drug Triggers Fatal Allergic Reactions

© TheNickster A new report indicates that between 1997 and 2007, there have been an unusually high number of deaths among cancer patients who received Cremophor-based paclitaxel , a solvent-administered taxane chemotherapy. Adverse event reports generally only represent from 1 to 10 percen...

Recession Forces More Golf Deals

Necessity is the mother of invention. How true, especially these days. If you have wandered through your favorite department store recently, you've probably seen some pretty amazing deals: 60 percent off, buy one, get two free - that kind of thing. Retailers are desperate to move mercha...

Twitter Attention This Month...

© carrotcreative Twitter always gets a lot of attention in the Blogosphere. But it seems like the past week has had a number of interesting Twitter stories. BusinessWeek (of all people) published an article on why people use Twitter. (After all, it's really just a waste of time, ri...

PSP Go is More Tempting Thanks to UMD Trade Up

© Jake of 8bitjoystick.com I own a PSP 2000, and it is a pretty good device. I play Field Commander, Patapon, Lumines and LocoRoco with some regularity. For that reason alone, I had almost dedicated myself to not buying a PSP Go. Not only will the device cost more than I payed for my origin...

Rising healthcare costs put strain on homeowners

Unemployment across the nation is at record highs. Foreclosures are, too. Of course, the two are related. But unemployment isn't the only factor in the rise of mortgage delinquencies and housing foreclosures we're now seeing. Credit card debts are high, too, making it harder for famili...

Palm Pre Review

Jason Chen of Gizmodo has had the chance to play around with the Palm Pre and he has posted a detailed review of the Palm Pre. Here are the positives of Plam Pre as mentioned in the review: The Palm Pre has the best Multitouch functionality compared to other phones in the market. It is also ...

Sipgate vs. Skype

VoIP provider sipgate launched in the U.S. this week, with the intention of competing directly with landline telephone services - and with Skype . "Sipgate, which has operated a successful VoIP business in Europe since 2004, launched a new free VoIP calling play in the U.S. that aims...

Mortgage delinquencies not slowing

I'm waiting for some good news out of the housing-finance industry. Really. I'd like to wake up one morning, open the paper and read this headline: "Foreclosures fall to record lows!" Unfortunately, I don't think I'll be reading that particular headline any time soon,...

Social entrepreneurship: A three decade history

Skoll Foundation has created a n excellent video giving an overview of social entrepreneurship initiatives done in the last 30 years. Leaders from Acumen Funds, Skoll Foundations and some entrepreneurs like Mohammad Yunus offer their point of views about the opportunities in this area. ...

One Visitor Wonders

Remember Looking Glass ( Brandy, You're a Fine Girl )? How about David Essex ( Rock On )? Now for the tough question: Can you remember even one other song by either of them? Probably not. So, is your website a one visit wonder ...? Ben McKay had a fairly lengthy piece not long ago on how...