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Chrome OS: The reflective phase
in The CIO Weblog, on July 10, 2009
After the original explosion of Google Chrome OS related articles immediately after the announcement, today we get the day-after "thoughtful" posts exploring what it all means, and what will really happen with Google, Chrome OS, and the supposed arch-enemies of the two, Microsoft an...
Carbonite Announces Distribution Deal with Sun Microsystems
in On Storage, on July 10, 2009
...benefit from this. A free month of backups is going to be tempting to some and even if only a small percentage decide to sign-up and use online backups it is going to swell the user base for Carbonite...
Download Java, Get a Free Month of Online Backup
in Java Entrepreneur, on July 9, 2009
...benefit from this. A free month of backups is going to be tempting to some and even if only a small percentage decide to sign-up and use online backups it is going to swell the user base for Carbonite...
Role of Genetics in Allergies and Asthma
in Allergies, on June 24, 2009
...ver, asthma or eczema, the other twin has it in 50 to 80 percent of cases. In fraternal twins, the percentage drops to about 25 to 40 percent.
...
Corel Releases Netbook Suite and Misses Point Of Netbooks Entirely
in The Gadgets Weblog, on June 22, 2009
...lso, the software suite requires over 300MB of storage space, and on many netbooks, that is a large percentage HDD real estate.
Corel Open Office will allow users to open and convert all Microsoft Of...
Jammie Thomas-Rasset Hit With $1.92 Million Fine
in P2P File Sharing, on June 21, 2009
... the most downloaded songs in the history of digital music — was also on there, it kicks the percentage up even further..."
More here from Times Online ... more here from TorrentFreak ...
Could Childhod Obesity Be Declining?
in Straightfromthedoc, on June 16, 2009
...study could be misleading because nearly two-thirds of the U.S. population is overweight. And, the percentage of overweight children has grown at an alarming rate, with 1 out of 3 kids considered over...
More housing woes
in Sox First, on May 29, 2009
... delinquency figures suggest the bottom is nowhere in sight. According to those figures, "the percentage of mortgage holders not current on their mortgages, was 12.07 percent on a non-seasonally...
Loan modifications not always helping homeowners
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on May 26, 2009
...that 25 percent of failing mortgages did not go into delinquency again.
That may seem like a small percentage, but to the families represented by that 25 percent figure, the loan-modification program...
No recovery yet
in Sox First, on May 8, 2009
...ve fallen by 5.7 million since December 2007. That amounts to 4.1% of payrolls which is the biggest percentage decline since the 1958 recession. Unemployment will continue to rise, so any recovery is ...
Save Money on Your Grocery Shopping
in The Personal Finance Weblog, on May 7, 2009
... is spent on eating out - it would probably surprise most people. When you realize that so large a percentage of your income goes to food would probably even be a shock to many. Finding ways to save m...
Founder Sez Fewer Illegal Files on Pirate Bay Than on YouTube
in P2P File Sharing, on February 28, 2009
... vast majority of the torrents shared on its site are legal.
"He went on to suggest that the percentage of infringing content on The Pirate Bay is less than that found on YouTube," notes ...
How the Recession is Shaping Up
in Biz Plan Hacks, on February 12, 2009
...I'd create a little more context with this new chart.
The new chart from the BLS compares the percentage of jobs lost over six different recessions dating back to 1974. The current recession be...
Compliance and Outsourcing
in The Outsourcing Weblog, on February 11, 2009
...arely undertake. The end result of this is an increase in compliance costs (either absolute or as a percentage of transaction fees) which to some extent compromises the value proposition of the outsou...
Can You Predict Your April Sales This Year? (I Think Not...)
in Biz Plan Hacks, on February 8, 2009
...ay, even as the economy sputtered, you could still predict your April sales to within a couple of percentage points. Today it's as if a blanket of fog has dropped over commerce; visibility is nea...
Michelle Obama Starts A Trend Hollywood
in Exclusive from our news room , on January 26, 2009
...ter the Presidential Inauguration, to which Mrs. Obama wore a single strap gown by Jason Wu, a good percentage of the Hollywood stars at the SAG awards wore gowns very similar in design.
Click here ...
General Motors To Begin Leasing Vehicles Again
in Exclusive from our news room , on January 12, 2009
...ut 5% leases in this tight credit market but the company is so cash strapped that even that small a percentage makes the risk viable.
Here's the story from "Motor Trend" .
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Can Fast Food Kids' Meals Be Nutritious?
in The Parenting Weblog, on January 8, 2009
...cent of kids' meals served at fast-food restaurants met federal dietary guidelines.
The small percentage of meals that did meet dietary guidelines included fruit as a side dish and milk, and nea...
Physical Activity and Type 2 Diabetes
in Daily Diabetic, on December 22, 2008
...ersity's Slone epidemiology Center are African-American women - which make up a significant percentage of the population in the United States affected by type 2 diabetes.
Using data collecte...
Goldman Sachs tax lurk
in Sox First, on December 17, 2008
...ording to Goldman Sachs, the lower tax rate was "due to an increase in permanent benefits as a percentage of lower earnings and changes in geographic earnings mix". Translated, that means t...
Running on empty - the global recession unfolds
in Sox First, on December 5, 2008
... slashing interest rates to contain the global recession. The Bank of England has gone for a full percentage point cut, Sweden has slashed by 1.75% and New Zealand by 1.5%. But the bad news keeps co...
Immigrants and Entrepreneurship in the U.S.
in TJ's Weblog, on December 2, 2008
...wa (Wertheim Fellow at the Harvard Law School and executive in residence at Duke University) on the percentage of new businesses in the U.S. that are started by immigrants. And the message was that im...
Elevate Destinations Works for Environmental Preservation
in Wandalust, on November 24, 2008
...called Elevate Destinations . The service bills itself as 'travel that matters" because a percentage of the profits goes to local communities and to environmental Preservation .
Among th...
Cancer Drug Gleevec May Treat Type 1 Diabetes
in Daily Diabetic, on November 19, 2008
...ugs could prevent and reverse diabetes in a mouse model of type 1 diabetes. Moreover, a significant percentage of the animals remain in long-term remission even after discontinuation of the therapy.&q...
Esophageal Cancer Awareness
in Straightfromthedoc, on November 11, 2008
... the cells lining the lower esophagus change due to repeated exposure to stomach acid. Only a small percentage of people with GERD develop Barrett's esophagus, but once it is diagnosed, patients s...
Time for Education to Opt In on Social Networking?
in The Social Networking Weblog, on November 3, 2008
...93.2 percent said they do actively, 4 percent had in the past and 2.8 said never. For Facebook, the percentage of active users is 88.6, compared to 3.4 former users and 8.1 percent who said they have ...
Will credit cards be the next shoe to drop?
in Sox First, on October 29, 2008
...ghtening up, even cutting back, on credit cards as defaults rise, reports i nvestors.com . With the percentage of credit card loans written off as not being paid on the rise, it is clear that credit c...
The Rise Of The Penny Slot Machines
in The Gambling Weblog, on October 17, 2008
... have been the biggest money maker in many a casino because they tend to pay out at slightly higher percentage rates in some casinos.
This long time Las Vegas casino love affair with the penny slot m...
The Small Tasks
in Biz Plan Hacks, on October 13, 2008
...n the email program. With Outlook you can put the priority of the task, when it needs to be done, a percentage of progress of the task, and can categorize them. Of course there is other programs you c...
Heisman Trophy Candidates
in End Zone Buzz, on October 7, 2008
...Daniel guides a top-five team with remarkable efficiency. He is second in the nation in completion percentage at 76.3, ninth in TD passes with 15, and he has thrown just one interception. His numbers ...
Juicy Couture Designer Watches
in The Jewelry Weblog, on October 3, 2008
...assets, was purchased by Liz Claiborne Inc for US $53 million, plus a percentage of future earnings. Nash-Taylor and Skaist-Levy remained co-CEOs. They have had Barbie dolls made in the likeness of ...
The Lunacy of Sports Writers
in End Zone Buzz, on September 30, 2008
...baseman in the National League; Albert Pujols and Lance Berkman own large margins in both slugging percentage and on-base percentage. Pujols and Berkman are far superior fielders ..." Wow, okay, ...
Are Admissions Officers Checking Your Facebook Page?
in The Online Universities Weblog, on September 22, 2008
...t these viewings have generally had a positive impact on their evaluation. The bad news: a greater percentage (38 percent) report that applicants' social networking sites have generally had a nega...
Should Your MySpace, Twitter or Facebook Page Be Part of Your College Application...?
in The Universities Weblog, on September 22, 2008
...es the student's social networking page had a positive impact on the application process.
The percentage of admissions officers who look at an applicant's social networking site goes up for ...
Should Restaurant Servers Pay Credit Card Fees on Their Tips?
in The Personal Finance Weblog, on September 19, 2008
...ees on those charged tips, some restaurant owners are making the servers pay, deducting that small percentage from the gratuities left on credit cards.
Is it reasonable for management to ask servers ...
Black Sunday fallout
in Sox First, on September 16, 2008
... recession will mean further losses in the credit system. This time the losses will be smaller as a percentage of higher-quality assets, but will affect much bigger pools of debt (e.g. the prime mortg...
Is "dual supplier" a good strategy?
in Supplychainer, on September 9, 2008
...uppliers, I also propose competitive bidding but not for selecting a supplier but for selecting the percentage which should be given to each supplier.
What do you think? Does this make sense?...
Your Best Buy May Be Broken, So Take A Look First
in The Personal Finance Weblog, on September 2, 2008
...refund policy. This can not be a massive problem for Best Buy. I have to believe it is a very small percentage of overall sales that come back looking for a refund due to damaged goods. Why risk the g...
Cocoa Butter Lotion Does NOT Prevent Stretch Marks
in Next Nine Months, on August 20, 2008
... women developed stretch marks compared with 49 percent of women given placebo lotion. Although the percentage is slightly lower in the cocoa butter group, from a statistical standpoint, the differenc...
Our Explorer - local tour guides for travellers
in Wandalust, on August 13, 2008
...form of the booking deposit and the client pays the guide directly. This should ensure that a high percentage of the fees paid by the client go directly into the local economy especially in developing...
T-Mobile USA to Launch Open Development Platform
in The Wireless Weblog, on August 8, 2008
...acRumors' Arnold Kim . "A video streaming application, for example, would require a higher percentage to T-Mobile. The site again emphasizes that the store will apply across all different pla...
Twitter Buys Summize
in Web 2.0, on August 8, 2008
...raised a huge amount of money and Summize had almost a million dollars in funds raised itself. What percentage of its coffers did Twitter just spend on all the Summize technology and five employees?&q...
Are we firing people here, or what?
in The CIO Weblog, on August 6, 2008
...ich you probably shouldn't; I've filled out a few myself, and they don't get the larger percentage of my already diminished brainpower allocated to the answers. But on the whole, my gut te...
Run a country like a corporation
in TJ's Weblog, on July 16, 2008
... Also the company should be financed by yearly capital increases. The majority should decide which percentage of income is the 'capital increase' of that year and each citizen/shareholder shou...
Hovey Lee Jewelry
in The Jewelry Weblog, on July 7, 2008
...or silver has been added to the gold to form an alloy - the lower the karat number the higher the percentage of copper or silver in the alloy.
Gold-filled - most gold-filled jewelry is composed ...
Save up to 70% at the Seoul Grand Sale
in Wandalust, on July 3, 2008
...discounted their prices with rooms from $30 a night at Innhostels. Various restaurants will take a percentage off your bill. There's 20% off the price of the City Bus Pass. Some attractions such a...
College Football's Top 5 Returning QB's
in End Zone Buzz, on July 2, 2008
...A Heisman finalist, Daniel was among the top 10 QB's in completions, passing yards, completion percentage and TD passes.
- Sam Bradford , Oklahoma Sooners: Bradford led the nation in passer rati...
Recent improvement in healthcare software solutions: Supply chain dashboards
in Supplychainer, on July 2, 2008
...rds". This new features allow hospitals to easily monitor indicators such as medicine in-stock percentage, user compliance, supply spend analysis and inventory accuracy.
I believe at the end, em...
How to Think Like Warren Buffett, Part 31
in The Personal Finance Weblog, on July 1, 2008
... its third consecutive catastrophe-light year, industry profit margins will probably shrink by four percentage points or so. If the winds roar or the earth trembles, results could be far worse. So be ...
Iraq and the missing $190 million: the Waxman letter
in Sox First, on June 19, 2008
...ng the transactions you examined, approximately 4% resulted in criminal referrals. "When this percentage is applied to the entire pool of 180,000 transactions, it appears that there may be more ...
AppEngine outage
in The CIO Weblog, on June 18, 2008
...esterday with its first widespread outage. Between 9AM and roughly 2PM Pacific, a "significant percentage" of users were unable to access the service, the result, according to Google, of a b...
Do Higher Denomination Slot Machines Pay More?
in The Gambling Weblog, on June 17, 2008
...nation slot machines. Yes, the penny slots are favored because the locals have determined that on a percentage basis, these machines pay out at a higher rate than the larger denominations .
In ...
Bringing accounting firms to account
in Sox First, on June 11, 2008
...vide information about fees billed to issuer audit clients, in various categories of services, as a percentage of the firm's total fees billed. The aim apparently is to increase transparency. Bu...
Bootstrapping and the Law of the Few
in BootStrapMe, on May 31, 2008
...alls the Law of the Few.
In his book The Tipping Point , Gladwell argues that generally a small percentage of the people in any given environment have a disproportionately large impact by virtue o...
Are The Slot Machines In Pennsylvania Rigged ?
in The Gambling Weblog, on May 30, 2008
...The real question is whether or not the machines are paying out as advertised, that is, the winning percentage that the casino guarantees.
Here's a response to how Pennsylvania's slot machi...
The importance of founders for start-ups
in TJ's Weblog, on May 28, 2008
...deceased founders underperformed those with living founders - but just barely. The former was five percentage points less likely to be in business four years after formation, while the results are eve...
通过 Live Search 购物获得现金返还
in M2 十字街口, on May 25, 2008
微软在 Advance08 推出了一项举措： Live Search CashBack ，简单来说，用户通过 Windows Live Search 进行商品搜索和购物的话，将可以获得现金返还的优惠。
Converting Canadian Bingo Halls To Casinos
in The Gambling Weblog, on May 23, 2008
...inos that are chartered by the country itself, the states, or in Canada, the provinces, pay a large percentage of the "take" to the governing body.
In these hard economic times this revenue...
Gorgeous Gold Rings at HSN
in The Jewelry Weblog, on May 21, 2008
...of jewelry. The color of the gold is determined by the type of metal alloys included in it, and the percentage of each alloy. 18k gold contains 75% gold, which is alloyed with other metals to make it ...
Xbox 360 春季更新详细列表
in M2 十字街口, on May 19, 2008
Xbox 360 每个季度的例行更新将于近期发布，已经有一份全面的更新细节列表公布了，关心 Xbox 360 的朋友要注意一下了：
Affiliate Program, Launched by American Diabetes Wholesale (ADW)
in Daily Diabetic, on May 17, 2008
...online reach and strengthen its brand with this new endeavor. ADW will pay its affiliate partners a percentage of every sale they refer. Commissions will vary based upon amount of sales.
By joining ...
Wine Glossary: Sulfites
in Celebrate Wine, on May 2, 2008
...nes, and other wine-making apperatus. Sulfites have gotten a rather bad reputation because a small percentage of the population-around one percent-is allergic to this compound. For this reason, any U...
More clarity required in travel philanthropy
in Wandalust, on May 1, 2008
...stment".
© Paul Mannix
I would be a lot happier if Elevate Travel put a figure on what percentage of their profits are donated to non-profit organisations in the host country, just saying ...
Bracelets in Precious Metals
in The Jewelry Weblog, on April 25, 2008
...ssed in karats (versus the carat weight used for measuring diamonds and other gems). The higher the percentage of pure gold, the higher the karat. Pure gold is 24K, while 10K gold - the minimum that m...
Tanita BC558: An Advanced Scale
in The Gadgets Weblog, on April 24, 2008
...nitor.
The Tanita BC558 allows for measurements of more than just weight, including your body fat percentage, bone mass, body water percentage, muscle mass, as well as your metabolic age and physiqu...
Measuring Disk I/O from within Oracle
in On Storage, on April 23, 2008
...w.thecheapdba.com/scripts/vsysstat_ioworkload.sql
Calculate the IOPS for small and large I/O, the percentage of reads to writes, and the MBPS throughput over a period of time as seen by the database....
Missing analysts
in Sox First, on April 23, 2008
...ad they are. In the fourth quarter, almost 1800 equity analysts overestimated final results by 33.5 percentage points, the biggest miss ever, reports Bloomberg . Bloomberg says the evidence suggests...
Selling a Business - Get a Lawyer
in Bizinformer, on April 15, 2008
...estment is below what was stated. Buyer threatens suit, but is willing to settle for a return of a percentage of the sale price. A lawyer will tell you if the buyer has been sued before or has sued. T...
Hedge Fund Summit, Top Quotes
in The Hedge Funds Weblog, on April 9, 2008
Here are some of the top quotes from speakers attending the Reuters Hedge Funds and Private Equity Summit ;
CHAN CHIA LIN, CHIEF INVESTMENT OFFICER, FULLERTON ASSET MANAGEMENT
"The recent turmoil in the financial markets has really illustrated the benefits of investing in fund of fund...
Year Round Schools
in The Parenting Weblog, on April 4, 2008
...across the country. When you have newcomers relocating for tech and research jobs, there is a high percentage of them that will be family people or people on that path. The result is an influx of chil...
