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Google Pushes the World Toward Cloud Computing with Its New Operating System
in The Search Engine Weblog, on July 10, 2009
..., the interface is minimalistic and there's even a task manager. There have been efforts in the past to create an open source linux operating system. Now the effort has the backing of an industry ...
GMail Leaves Beta and Hell is Bound to Freeze Over
in The Gadgets Weblog, on July 8, 2009
...us for the Beta tag that has been attached to GMail, Google Docs, and the other Google Apps for the past few years. Honestly, Gmail, for all intents and purposes, was not substantially different last ... ... quite deliver what it promised. With the new shift from "betahood" Google has also added some substantial enterprise support to the app suite, and they have recently beefed up GMail to supp...
Can dope save California?
in Sox First, on July 8, 2009
...my 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:
It... ...rape and vegetable crops combined. "Put it all together, and California could potentially wipe some $3 billion off its budget deficit by letting its people puff and pay. That still leaves it with...
The world's oldest bible reunited online
in Wangtam, on July 7, 2009
...Check Your Username & Organize Your Web Profiles | Friends Call Me
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• SocialEarth- Promoting social entrepreneurship, businesses, and ideas
• Luxist
• The Corner on National Rev...
Magellan Maestro 4700 is the Navigator You are Searching For
in The Gadgets Weblog, on July 7, 2009
...es. The cool part about predictive traffic updates is that it will help you chart a course based on past traffic patterns considering your destination and travel times; predictive traffic updates alon... ...h, when you think about it, is really when you need a good GPS unit.
The Magellan Maestro 4700 has some very intriguing features. It includes a beautiful 4.7 inch display, doubles as a hands-free, Bl...
Can YouTube survive?
in Sox First, on July 7, 2009
...of a colossal global multinational may signal the end of a dream that has somehow managed to extend past the bursting of the dotcom bubble back in 2001, and the options for new online ventures seem to... ...w much is it costing Google? That's been one of the fascinating questions doing the rounds for some time. And it's anyone's guess. Rhodri Marsden at The Independent suggests YouTube...
Pebble Beach Swamped, Calendar Needs to be Split
in Classical Drives, on July 6, 2009
... a press release. I hope so.
I'm not against concours that feature prize-winning cars from the past. But most of those cars were beyond reach of average folks when new and are even more so today....
Satellite Hopes To Make Deadzones a Thing of the Past
in The Mobile Technology Weblog, on July 3, 2009
The world's largest commercial satellite has been launched into earth orbit with the goal of providing mobile phone service to "dead zones" all across North America.
Owned by Reston, Va.-based TerreStar, the satellite is designed to pick up and relay signals from mobile phones.
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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 ... ... other publicly backed funding, including lending from the discount window of the Federal Reserve. Some of this stuff is over the top but it's a good read. My only issue with the piece is that it...
Good News for Liberal Arts Majors - StarCraft Classes Now Available
in The Gadgets Weblog, on July 2, 2009
...ry, and other advanced skills. He advertises his race, I assume, because Starcraft is such a major past time in Korea, and he has some real game time invested in learning the ins and outs of the game.... ...
If you have a pension for for playing an eleven year old RTS game, and you really want to kick some butt at it, then I have good news. Starcraft classes are available to you right now in the San F...
July 8: China Cleantech Business Forum
in China Venture News, on June 30, 2009
...ig role. China has increased its investments on cleantech by three-fold to RMB1.35 trillion in the past decade. According to 2Point6Billion, the business forum is organized by the China Entrepreneurs ...
Durbin-Grassley, Indian Outsourcing, and the H-1B Visa
in Global Mobility Report, on June 29, 2009
...tsourcer on behalf of U.S. clients.
The outsourcing firms' business model, developed over the past decade, has worked well for them and their American clients. When they win contracts to manage ...
Employee Compensation Case Law
in China Venture News, on June 29, 2009
... China Law Blog had a case study (of sorts) this past week on employee compensation. The article looked at an employee claim for pregnancy leave that was filed after they'd been laid off.
The ...
Adobe 将于十月推出手机版 Flash player 10 beta
in Wangtam, on June 26, 2009
Adobe 的 CEO Shantanu Naraye 最近在一次会议上宣布将于今年 10 月早期推出Flash player 10 beta 版，该版本将支持大多数智能手机系统，包括 Android、webOS、Windows Mobile 和 Symbian。
这则消息对使用 Google Android 或 webOS 操作系统的手机来说可谓意义重大，目前为止，在这两款操作系统中一直没有好用的 Flash 视频播放器。基于 Symbian 和 Windows mobile 的系统中则已经实现了对Flash视频的支持。而 Adobe 的 iPhone 系列手机普遍缺乏对 Adobe...
In Search of a Cool Summer: Da Lat, Vietnam
in Hidden Travel Gems, on June 24, 2009
...s consistent throughout the summer months: lows drop into the upper 50's and highs rarely climb past 78F degrees. This means that Da Lat is often cooler at the hottest point of the day than Saigon...
Porsche's Affordable 912s to Gather in California
in Classical Drives, on June 19, 2009
... expected to be the largest of its kind in the world. Considering all the 912s I've seen in the past few years, even two would be a large gathering but apparently more than 2,500 owners continue t... ... Sometimes great cars get overlooked because they are forced to compete with a more powerful sibling. That was certainly true of the Porsche 912. Essentially a 4-cylinder version of the 911 it never...
Taking a Chance
in Next Nine Months, on June 19, 2009
...torn between happiness and sorry. The further into it we got, the more anxious we got. Once we got past the first trimester, we started being hopeful, and cautious.
Several months later, there we wer...
My iPhone 3G S is Here and it is Worth It
in The Gadgets Weblog, on June 19, 2009
... and themes. Using spotlight, I can launch any application on the phone, including any apps that go past the 11 home screen limit (yes - your only limit to app storage on the iPhone 3G S is your drive...
CIA recruits bankers
in Sox First, on June 19, 2009
... mightn't be earning as much as you were when you were high on the hog at a hedge fund. It only past $85,000 to $130,000 a year but then, at least it's work. Speaking to Reuters , CIA spokes...
Does owning a home have to be the American Dream?
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on June 17, 2009
... in this. During the Clinton and Bush administrations, the homeownership rate in the country soared past 70 percent. That's way too high, and it sucked in families and people who had no business f... ...ty. And real estate appraisers overvalued homes.
Now it's fallen apart.
But here's where some of the real blame lies: Our insistence that owning a house is the American Dream, and that rent...
The Ultimate Fathers Day Gift for a Classic Car Guy
in Classical Drives, on June 17, 2009
...ign show, held Sunday, June 21, features more than 200 automotive and motorcycle designs from the past, present and future at the Edsel & Eleanor Ford House in Grosse Pointe Shores, Michigan. As a...
Nokia E72 unveiled - pics and video
in Wangtam, on June 16, 2009
...... ...cartoonish icon sets to spiff up your desktop
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• Microsoft Sues Three in Click-Fraud Scheme
• Facebook Has A Program To End Hunge...
Betsey Johnson Jewelry
in The Jewelry Weblog, on June 16, 2009
..., creativity and boundless talent have kept her at the forefront of fashion for the past 40 years....
Unemployment: are the numbers lying?
in Sox First, on June 14, 2009
...t include "marginally-attached workers". These are people who have looked for work in the past year but stopped searching in the past month because of barriers to employment such as child ca...
Want a better credit score? Manage your money
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on June 12, 2009
...Lenders want to see a high credit score — a numerical figure that encapsulates borrowers' past histories of managing their money and paying their bills on time — before they lend borro... ... Lenders were heavily criticized for passing out mortgage money too freely during the housing boom, something that led to the record number of foreclosures we're seeing today.
But how can you boo...
MGB-GT, Yours for Just $20 in Museum Charity Raffle
in Classical Drives, on June 12, 2009
...lone the services of a cleaning lady. Of course if it came with a private road race circuit leading past the front door, I'd be sorely tempted to purchase a few tickets.
But here's a lucky dr...
Badgley Mischka Jewelry
in The Jewelry Weblog, on June 9, 2009
...erican Designers, and as darlings of the Hollywood set. The design duo has made their mark over the past two decades with glamorous, stylish, and wearable eveningwear and accessories . Their timeless...
Twitter Attention This Month...
in The Social Networking Weblog, on June 7, 2009
...arrotcreative
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...
Chiquita receives 2009 Circle of Excellence award by the Distribution Business Management Association
in Supplychainer, on June 7, 2009
...to reporting.
The criteria for the award is based on a company's current corporate commitment, past demonstrated programs and plans for continued commitment....
Bayer Diabetes Care Launched A1CNow® SELFCHECK For Home Use
in Daily Diabetic, on June 3, 2009
...level at home.
As you may know, an A1C reading provides the average blood sugar level over the past three months and indicates how well blood sugar is being managed.
With Bayer's A1CNow®SELFC...
Xbox Project Natal Makes You Get Up and Move
in The Gadgets Weblog, on June 2, 2009
...rsive experience.
Microsoft has promised that Project Natal will be compatible with all 360's; past, present, and future. Price and time were not released, but my guess is that in the future you ...
GM's bad ad
in Sox First, on June 2, 2009
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It's hard to go past the chutzpah of General Motors' latest ad, posted on YouTube and Facebook, shortly after it filed for bankruptcy. You can watch it courtesy of AdvertisingAge . With ... ...nning. "the only chapter we are focused on is chapter one," the company says. Given that some of GM's woes came from its refusal to make cleaner cars, the environmental imagery is hard ...
So You're Still Single
in The Dating Weblog, on May 31, 2009
...se can be remedied. Cherie looks at bad attitidues, fear of online dating, unresolved issues from past relationships, and the possibility that you're neddy or too picky.
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Washington's Best Wine
in Celebrate Wine, on May 30, 2009
...The nice people at Vinography had an informative piece this past week on the wine industry in Washington State. The first week of April I got the opportunity to do an "immersion" course in...
In Search of a Cool Summer: Baguio, Philippines
in Hidden Travel Gems, on May 29, 2009
.... While the temperature in Manila is hovering around 78F degrees at night in July, it rarely climbs past 75 in the heat of an afternoon in Baguio. And while residents of the Bay City are running their...
Krugman, Soros and Roubini: how to fix the crisis
in Sox First, on May 26, 2009
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Hard to go past this piece from the New York Review of Books where they run a symposium on the financial bloodbath with comments from a team that includes financier George Soros and economists P... ... to go that high does depend upon people's belief that you will behave responsibly, and that is somewhat in question. I hope it is less in question than it was in the past, now that we've had ...
National Venture Capital Association: Suggestions and Blind Spots
in TJ's Weblog, on May 25, 2009
...m to speculate on and flip quickly. And a final suggestion was that taxes on VC firms not be raised past the current capital gains framework.
Bulger at PE Hub made some interesting points in respons... ...39;ve read through other piece of economic news. The first piece, at Red Herring , simply outlined some suggestions the NVCA made at its annual meeting in Boston at the end of April. The suggestions ...
No More Hydrogen Cars?
in IfEnergy, on May 22, 2009
...There's been a lot of nergy legislation news in the past couple of weeks. But TreeHugger pointed out one chunk of news that didn't get much coverage. Federal support funding for hydrogen ca... ...l eventually see the internal combustion engine become a thing of the past. But if we have to burn something , hydrogen certainly looked like the best long term option.
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How low will interest rates go? Who knows?
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on May 22, 2009
...s of just $128.56. Borrowers will have to decide if such savings are worth the hassle of digging up past pay stubs, tax records and other sometimes-hard-to-find documents.
So if the mortgage interest... ...Applying for a mortgage loan — whether it's a new loan or a refinance — sometimes feels like a big gamble.
Interest rates on the 30-year fixed-rate mortgage loan may stand at 5.1 perc...
Alex and Ani Jewelry
in The Jewelry Weblog, on May 22, 2009
...ystals, and unique castings dating back to the 1940s, Rafaelian brilliantly turns the jewels of the past into present day gems. Alex and Ani, which is made in the USA , is named after her two daughte...
Tweeting Too Hard
in Wangtam, on May 21, 2009
...NYTimes.com With 32 Million Global Visitors
• Google drops idea to buy newspaper
• South Carolina's McMaster softens rhetoric, but still considers suing Craigslist
• 如果金融界由女人来掌管
• Tweeting...
AT&T Considers Dropping Cost of IPhone Plans
in The Mobile Technology Weblog, on May 20, 2009
...ch screens, the most expensive component in the device, has declined by more than 30 percent in the past year, Apple plans to introduce a new, cheaper iPhone in June.
Analysts have speculated that A...
Will credit card bill stall mortgage foreclosures?
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on May 20, 2009
...panies to cardholders to miss their payments. Seems like an odd strategy, but I wouldn't put it past the card companies.
My hope is that the credit card reform legislation actually does help peop...
Pandemic Preparedness: Wi-Fi, Teleworking, and Swine Flu
in The Wireless Weblog, on May 15, 2009
...rendlines 2009 [PDF file] states that the number of U.S. teleworkers grew by 39 percent over the past two years. The report credits the increase to three key factors: rising fuel and commuting costs,...
The Revolution
in The CIO Weblog, on May 12, 2009
... me) but I'm having trouble thinking that the combination of technology advancements made these past few years and the current wide, deep recession could possibly not result in revolutionary cha...
Packard Stars Among Vintage Cars, Here in My Own Backyard
in Classical Drives, on May 11, 2009
...ect blue sky day was ideal for car owners, though. For this blogger it was pleasant to be strolling past row-upon-row of wonderful old cars, mostly of Detroit origin although a few British imports wer...
Madoff's secretary tells all. What's next?
in Sox First, on May 11, 2009
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Gee, she sure can talk. Hard to go past the revelations last week in Vanity Fair from Eleanor Squillari, Bernard Madoff's secretary of more than 20 years who claimed the man was an egotisti... ...lly suggestive remarks: "'Oh, you know you're crazy about me,' he would say to me. Sometimes when he came out of his bathroom, which was diagonal to my desk, he would still be zipping...
Selling to Procurement Organizations
in The Outsourcing Weblog, on May 10, 2009
...side person who wants to champion a product, but doesn't have the political clout to "get past procurement." Look at those words - "chumpion" - the chump, and "get past pr...
Bankroll blues
in Sox First, on May 7, 2009
...ulation of their industry. According to that report, they spent almost $370m in Washington over the past decade on lobbying and campaign donations. Top of the list was Countrywide which made $97 billi...
Amazon 推出新款 9.7-inch 显示屏的 Kindle DX
in Wangtam, on May 7, 2009
如传言所预告，Amazon 今天推出了新款的 9.7 英寸大显示屏的 Kindle DX 电子阅读器 ，内置 PDF 阅读器，具有自动旋转功能，最多可存储 3500 本图书，售价仅为 489 美元。目前 Kindle 网店共有 27.5 万本图书，其中包括当下 112 部《纽约时报》畅销书中的 107 部，该类图书及新推出的图书以每本 9.99 美元的价格出售。
主要配置参数：
• Slim: Just over 1/3 of an inch, as thin as most magazines
• Lightweight: At 10.2 ounces, lighter than...
BlackBerry Curve Dethrones iPhone
in The Mobile Technology Weblog, on May 6, 2009
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According to market researchers at The NPD Group, Research in Motion's BlackBerry Curve moved past Apple's iPhone in the first quarter to become the best-selling phone in the United States.
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Coming: The Best British Car Show This Side of Britain
in Classical Drives, on May 6, 2009
... The UK's auto industry may be a mere shadow of its past but all over the world you'll find enthusiasts keen to own, restore, or just admire a British car. Nowhere is this more evident than ... ...han in the Canadian province of British Columbia. Name notwithstanding, the attraction probably has something to do with the large number of British immigrants who settled here after the war and, to a...
Is MySpace Past It's Prime?
in The Social Networking Weblog, on May 5, 2009
...around in my mind. Author Om Malik seems to think that MySpace is (or will soon be) a thing of the past... The legendary New York Yankees catcher Yogi Berra is rumored to have said about a restaurant:...
Creating Your Own Joy - the BMW Z4 Paintbrush
in The Gadgets Weblog, on May 1, 2009
...ence.
South African-born artist Robin Rhode (now lives in Berlin; made a name for himself in the past few years with some distinctive artistic work) help create the model by doing it in real like (... ...-born artist Robin Rhode (now lives in Berlin; made a name for himself in the past few years with some distinctive artistic work) help create the model by doing it in real like (check out the BMW B...
Indoor Air Pollution
in Allergies, on April 30, 2009
...s may be two to five times higher than outdoor levels!
According to Dr. Neil Schachter, M.D., past president of the American Lung Association of the City of New York and author of Life and Breat... ...door air quality, you belong to the majority. Unfortunately, the fact is that the indoor levels of some pollutants may be two to five times higher than outdoor levels!
According to Dr. Neil Schac...
What's the State of Your Air?
in Straightfromthedoc, on April 30, 2009
...er, M.D., Medical Director of the Respiratory Care Department of the Mount Sinai Medical Center and past president of the American Lung Association of the City of New York, on simple changes to help i... ... in outdoor particle pollution.
While improving outdoor air quality is important, indoor levels of some pollutants may be two to five times higher than outdoor levels, according to the U.S. Environme...
GM Drops Pontiac, Journalists Miss the Point
in carzz.org, on April 29, 2009
...oned in those enthusiast eulogies and more's the shame for this was a Pontiac that honoured its past, providing ample performance with a unique and elegant style. RIP, Pontiac.
... ... latter being a marketing maven's method of reducing a great product to just another vehicle in someone's driveway. My automobile journalist colleagues are already writing the eulogies. Unfort...
Is Twitter Politically Conservative?
in The Social Networking Weblog, on April 29, 2009
... It's been 32 days now since we discussed some aspecty of the fabulous microblog. So we're past due...
I was surprised to some across a post recently that suggested that Twitter is dominated... ...d to go over a month without talking about Twitter. It's been 32 days now since we discussed some aspecty of the fabulous microblog. So we're past due...
I was surprised to some across a po...
Luxury or necessity? It's back to the past
in Sox First, on April 28, 2009
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Is TV becoming a thing of the past? And is the recession changing our buying patterns? New research from the Pew Research Center's Social & Demographic Trends project suggests that yeste... ...shwashers, air conditioning, clothes dryers and television sets are no longer seen as necessities. Some of this is because of the recession and belt tightening as people learn to live on less. But so...
Kiki McDonough Jewelry
in The Jewelry Weblog, on April 27, 2009
...ome. Not that it has always been easy, McDonough admits. Despite the various fashion changes of the past 20 years, she says that, even now, she still has to persuade women to be more adventurous in we...
Austin Healey Shines at Victoria BC Car Show
in Classical Drives, on April 27, 2009
...gh the cars may not be spectacular the easy-going atmosphere makes up for any lack of glamour. This past weekend the Victoria Old English Car Club gathered at Heritage Park, a few miles/kms from my ... ...rtible with just 33,000 original miles and an asking price of $6800 Canadian.
Heritage Park is, in some respects, an ideal setting for a vintage car show in that it is a museum of farm machinery from...
Dangerous economic optimism
in Sox First, on April 24, 2009
...over all their ground until the beginning of 2011. Why is that? Because the worst recessions of the past were those rooted in banking crises and the other bad ones were those that happened in many cou... ...
While some say the global economy is going to pick up and the signs are looking good, the train is a long way down the track. In fact, the optimism might even be dangerous. Harvard economist Kenn...
Are economists to blame for the financial crisis?
in Sox First, on April 23, 2009
...o see the weaknesses in financial markets. They just didn't see it coming. It's hard to go past this piece in the Weekly Standard by Harvey Mansfield , a professor of government at Harvard, ...
Porsche Panamera Makes World Debut in China
in carzz.org, on April 22, 2009
...ts I had reservations about Porsche making a sedan, however sporty it may be, though I recall years past when we were happy to boast that the Maserati Quattroporte was the world's fastest 4-door...
Own One of the Greatest Racing Prototypes at Ferrari Leggenda e Passione
in Classical Drives, on April 21, 2009
...agging behind the competition. Thankfully the Ferrari Leggenda e Passione event is mostly about the past, when the legendary marque won every race worth winning.
RM Auctions , in association with So...
VMware to announce VSphere today
in The CIO Weblog, on April 21, 2009
...performance under Maritz and distinctly unimpressed by representations made of their efforts in the past year or so to seize the initiative and beat back Microsoft's inherent advantages in the vir... ... the initiative and beat back Microsoft's inherent advantages in the virtualization market with something revolutionary. I have some doubts about VSphere as well; whether the technology is brillia...
ACTU Issues Warning About Nanomaterials
in Nanotechbuzz, on April 18, 2009
...eactions as asbestos fibres, governments and business must not repeat the painful lessons of the past and allow another tragedy to occur again," says ACTU assistant secretary Geoff Fary. "Ex... ...handling standards," writes The Age's Dan Harrison .
"With animal tests showing some nanomaterials share the same characteristics and reactions as asbestos fibres, governments and bus...
The long recession's impact
in Sox First, on April 17, 2009
...t was creating a new kind of consumer, one that focused on value and that rejected behaviors of the past that had embraced excess. Some other interesting trends are emerging. A Booz & Company s... ...
So the International Monetary Fund warns that this recession will be around for some time. So what implications does that have for society? How will that shape the way we live? In its latest rep...
Save More Money in 2009
in The Personal Finance Weblog, on April 16, 2009
...r money for the rest of the year. Why not decide to save more of it this year than you have in the past? Economically unstable times make it more than necessary to have an emergency fund somewhere - a... ...ave in the past? Economically unstable times make it more than necessary to have an emergency fund somewhere - and many people's retirement accounts have already dwindled immensely - and some are ...
Tiger "Rude" at Augusta
in Eagle Par Birdie, on April 16, 2009
...n't say the right things or was gracious enough in his loss.
There have been many times in the past when Tiger HAS been gracious in losing and HAS said the right things.
But why do we insist tha... ...verall demeanor after he finished play on Sunday.
Read the story yourself - it's packed with some very interesting stuff when it's not taking on a Tiger-bashing tone, like the fact that Ang...
