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Nokia N97 Review
in The Smart PDA, on July 10, 2009
...ia N97. He likes the design, camera and 3.5mm headset jack. However he isn't impressed with the poor battery cover, mediocre keyboard, unappealing Resistive touch screen, messy UI and slow device ...
Will California drag down the United States?
in Sox First, on July 2, 2009
...g too inflexible and refusing to compromise. California is in a diabolical mess and Standard & Poor's has warned it may cut the state's rating if it doesn't find a solution. And wi...
Fancy projecting with your phone? Soon!
in The Digital TV Weblog, on June 30, 2009
...e mini projectors have always been something of a pipedream; those that materialize inevitably have poor brightness and often crap image quality; so the Fraunhofer Institute has developed a tiny littl...
Can Wind Power Make a Profit?
in IfEnergy, on June 23, 2009
...rbes looks at one specific example... A windmill doesn't make economic sense, even though this poor entrepreneur is gouged 19 cents per kilowatt-hour from his utility. A 121-foot, 100-kilowatt tur...
Did Sonia Sotomayor's mortgage views help send county into recession?
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on June 23, 2009
...ors on FOX News and other stations putting the blame for the country's mortgage meltdown on the poor and on the federal agencies that tried to get them into homes.
Their reasoning goes like this:...
My Favorite Buick, a Roadmaster at RM's Meadowbrook Auction
in Classical Drives, on June 22, 2009
...s without a car to the polls. I didn't have a driver's license and they didn't ask! The poor old souls who survived my foot-to-the-floor drags up the Queensway would probably have voted fo...
Bankers' pay soars despite crisis
in Sox First, on June 22, 2009
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It's hard to believe but bankers are now raking in enormous bonuses despite the global financial crisis. The Financial Times reports that Merrill Lynch, UBS and Citigroup are actually crank...
Social Entrepreneurship using Facebook
in Audeamus - How dare we..., on June 21, 2009
...ny cases where some people have taken initiative to get donation from interested people to help the poor, create awareness regaring some topics, and create new networking opportunities for people who ...
Recession drawing to an end. So what?
in Sox First, on June 20, 2009
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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 anythin...
CIA recruits bankers
in Sox First, on June 19, 2009
...nty of work out there, if you want to become a spook. The CIA is now running a recruitment ad for bankers to come on board and "assess foreign economic policies and foreign financial issues&quo...
Unemployment: are the numbers lying?
in Sox First, on June 14, 2009
... year but stopped searching in the past month because of barriers to employment such as child care, poor health or lack of transportation. Nor does it include "involuntary part-time workers"...
Apple Rumors Are At the Breaking Point
in The Gadgets Weblog, on June 8, 2009
...f a Mac Tablet or uber-iPhone . If this were to happen, I would be instantly torn and probably dirt poor. Some are also specuating at various color models of the iPhone and possibly a carrier switch. ...
Banks fight to keep accounting tricks
in Sox First, on June 6, 2009
...are trying to delay that accounting rule, They have called in the Chamber of Commerce, the Mortgage Bankers Association, and the American Council of Life Insurers to write to Treasury Secretary Timoth...
More bad news: Mortgage delinquencies on the rise
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on May 29, 2009
...ure in the first quarter of this year. This marks the highest this figure, recorded by the Mortgage Bankers Association, has been since 1972, the year the association first began tracking it. It is al...
More housing woes
in Sox First, on May 29, 2009
...k, an economist at Wachovia Corp. in Charlotte, North Carolina told Bloomberg . But the Mortgage Bankers Association's mortgage delinquency figures suggest the bottom is nowhere in sight. Acco...
More on the Satyam-PWC scandal
in Sox First, on May 27, 2009
...ource cause global PwC leadership to overlook, look the other way, or not take action on reports of poor quality or lack of independence by Price Waterhouse India partners and others? Did PwC leadersh...
Economists predict recession ends this year. As if!
in Sox First, on May 27, 2009
...en so far. A prime example is housing prices. The New York Times reports that the Standard & Poor's Case-Shiller Home Price Index has seen house prices falling a massive 18.7% in 20 US citi...
MBAs and Entrepreneurs
in BootStrapMe, on May 21, 2009
...Is our fascination with the comings and goings of MBAs as obsolete as our lionization of investment bankers and hedge-fund managers? Is it time to look elsewhere for the "best and the brightest&q...
The refi money is still flowing
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on May 21, 2009
...ners back to their mortgage lenders to refinance their mortgage loans.
According to the Mortgage Bankers Association , mortgage loan applications for the week ending May 1 jumped 2 percent from the...
The problem with economists
in Sox First, on May 18, 2009
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Bankers have deservedly received much of the blame for the financial bloodbath that's paralysed governments and transformed societies. But economists are just as much to blame. Possibly even m...
Bad retail figures expose recovery myth
in Sox First, on May 14, 2009
...ries now for the last seven months. That hardly suggests a rebound. Then there is the unexpectedly poor 0.4% drop in retail sales, as reported here , on the back of rising unemployment touching near...
Hedge Fund Administrator of The Year
in The Hedge Funds Weblog, on May 13, 2009
...uded Dr Werner Frey, CEO of the European Securities Forum and Angela Knight, CEO of The British Bankers Association.
More about the awards
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Navigating the new mortgage roadmap
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on May 12, 2009
I applied for my most recent mortgage loan back in 2006. You might remember that this was right before the housing boom ended and the housing crash began. Bad timing on my part. Today, my home is worth far less than what I paid for it.
But there was one benefit of buying a home in 2006: Getting a m...
Using Groceries to Save More Money
in The Personal Finance Weblog, on May 12, 2009
...ther some people's stomachs. While that is an obvious illustration, it goes way beyond that.
Poor eating habits can definitely lead to a weakened immune system - or, possibly to a weakening of y...
Lawyers cash in on Chrysler bankruptcy
in Sox First, on May 2, 2009
...lay any recovery plan. And who will be the winners out of this? As always, it will be the lawyers, bankers and accountants with Bloomberg reporting they are likely to make at least $200 million by ...
Ratings agency crackdowns
in Sox First, on May 1, 2009
...fits a clean bill of health. Now they're being held to account, not before time. Standard & Poor's, Moody's Investors Service and Fitch Ratings are being sued for negligence fraud and ...
Window 7 coming early, as expected
in The CIO Weblog, on April 30, 2009
...t 7 in the same measures as it did Vista, largely with the purchase of new machines (save those few poor frustrated souls who view 7 as the salvation to their time in Vista-purgatory), it is becoming ...
Indoor Air Pollution
in Allergies, on April 30, 2009
...ay household items like furniture, carpeting, paints and cleaning products, can also contribute to poor indoor air quality. For people who are sensitive to these types of things, irritation of the eye...
50 Ways to Leave your Outsourcer
in The Outsourcing Weblog, on April 28, 2009
...y migrated from "non-core" business functions to "core" functions, making both poor service and disruptions far less tolerable. The services receive far more scrutiny and have gott...
Big bonuses at imploding banks
in Sox First, on April 26, 2009
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The banks are imploding but that hasn't stopped the bankers raking in massive bonuses. Just what they're being rewarded for is anyone's guess. The New York Times reports that six of...
Porsche Panamera Makes World Debut in China
in carzz.org, on April 22, 2009
...d the V-8-powered 928. The former grew into the more powerful 944, even as the latter suffered from poor sales. Had the 928 been a marque with a different nameplate it might have been a great success....
How a nut case blogger fooled the market
in Sox First, on April 21, 2009
...ing stress tested are insolvent. That report contributed to falls in the US market, although some poor company results didn't help. Even more disturbing is Bloomberg's assertion: "Andr...
Hope, greed, fear and the financial crisis
in Sox First, on April 16, 2009
... the borrower's ability to pay, housing futures markets, comprehensive financial advice for the poor and a massive education campaign focusing on financial literacy for the masses. Instead, the U...
Giving banks permission to lie
in Sox First, on April 4, 2009
...writing down bad loans and by making new loans so companies could pay interest on bad loans and the bankers could say that the bad loans were good loans. Until Japan forced its banks to write off bad ...
G20 and FASB: the banks win again
in Sox First, on April 3, 2009
...ty, and the regulators are worse off. The change in the accounting rules is another bailout for the bankers!" Is it any wonder, as ethicist Dov Seidman writes, that the real problem we have no...
A video on social efforts from Dr. Patrick Dixon
in Audeamus - How dare we..., on March 31, 2009
...ivities. In this video from Patrick, he talks about the effects of outsourcing on social welfare in poor countries and a sustainable solution to solve global poverty proble. Hope you enjoy it; do you ...
Clarifications on HP and Mark Hurd
in The CIO Weblog, on March 31, 2009
...large as HP you are going to have a background level of hiring and firing no matter the economy. My poor choice of words obscured that and I apologize.
Another common point is that Mark Hurd is no sa...
G20 protest meltdown
in Sox First, on March 28, 2009
...itself for the G20 protests with warnings from one of the organizers that there could be "real bankers hanging from lamp posts". Regardless of the hyperbole, it's another sign of how pol...
Ideas for social entrepreneurship in crisis times
in Audeamus - How dare we..., on March 22, 2009
...t ideas that the community gets to approve funding for.
2) Using frequent fly points to feed the poor: Currently many business people accumulate frequent flying points to get free flights. One mig...
Accounting reshuffle
in Sox First, on March 19, 2009
...ers? Bring in a new one. That seems to be the proposal from Edward L. Yingling from the American Bankers' Assocation. He has recommended replacing the Financial Accounting Standards Board with ...
Millionaires and fake prosperity
in Sox First, on March 12, 2009
...uarter because of the financial crisis. There are 2.5 million fewer of them and the rich are crying poor. The thing that gets me about reports like this is that it ignores the fact that a lot of this...
Give a Tucker Enough Space and it Will Overwhelm You
in Classical Drives, on March 11, 2009
...uto industry might have been dramatic, with great benefit to consumers. What a shame that politics, poor planning, and false charges by a media muckraker conspired to destroy the Tucker before it had ...
Google CEO: Twitter 是“穷人的电邮系统”
in Wangtam, on March 6, 2009
Google 首席执行官 Eric Schmidt 本周表示， Twitter 是一个"穷人的电邮系统" ，难以和 Gmail 等正规的电子邮箱服务相提并论。
当天，Schmidt 参加了在旧金山举办的摩根士丹利技术大会。他表示，作为一个计算机专家，他认为 Twitter 和类似的服务从某种程度上是"穷人的邮件系统"。
Schmidt 说，Twitter 的消息传递功能难以和正规的电子邮件产品相对比。Schmidt 还说， Google 还拥有一个非常成功的即时通信产品。不过，Schmidt 搞错了 Twitter 文本消息的长度限制，把 1...
Google CEO: Twitter A 'Poor Man's Email System'
in Wangtam, on March 4, 2009
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Golf Rejoices as Woods Returns
in Eagle Par Birdie, on February 26, 2009
...after a nearly 10 month layoff? If we're talking about a mere mortal, his chances must be rated poor: plenty of rust, physically and mentally and so forth.
But we're not talking about a mere ...
Dumb money and the meltdown
in Sox First, on February 24, 2009
...nd perpetually strong markets for debt. The high priests of this cult were the nation's central bankers. In the Era of Cheap Money (the fall of 2001 through June 2004), Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan...
Lady Black defends "kulak" bankers
in Sox First, on February 19, 2009
...s come out with a most extraordinary defense of the banking community. While most of us accept that bankers have created the world's economic crisis, Amiel compares them to the intellectuals targe...
Bad Money by Kevin Phillips
in Sox First, on February 17, 2009
...Not before time. As Phillips reminds us, the British colonial secretary Joseph Chamberlain told the bankers in 1904: "Granted that you are the clearing house of the world but are you entirely bey...
Is California the canary in the coal mine?
in Sox First, on February 17, 2009
...tate is out of cash, it's laid off scores workers, put more on unpaid furloughs, Standard & Poor's has lowered its bond rating to the lowest in the nation, it has stopped paying counties...
Madoff and the conspiracy of silence
in Sox First, on February 16, 2009
...r way and allowed Bernard Madoff to get away with his fraud. Now, the New York Post reports that bankers thought Madoff was a shyster but kept shtum. "Leon Gross, the former managing director ...
How to combat recession with operations
in Supplychainer, on February 14, 2009
...ly marketing based):
Secret #1. Really Monitor Non-Payroll Spending: An average business does a poor job of tracking how much money it is spending on non-payroll expenditures. There's just too...
Stimulus Hype: A Populist Plan? (Part II)
in Bizinformer, on February 9, 2009
...see that $10,000 as peanuts and would put it straight into their savings account and that b.) the poor would actually provide the best chance for kick-starting the economy.
So what's my problem w...
Reasons to Visit France
in Hidden Travel Gems, on February 8, 2009
...The people over at Tips for Moms has an interesting list of reasons to visit France available. Poor people can't do math; the title is "10 Reasons" and they only list nine. But they...
Microsoft launches supply chain center of excellence with Infosys
in Supplychainer, on January 31, 2009
...urces Sector, Microsoft. "Most of the supply chain challenges can be traced to factors such as poor collaboration, inadequate tools and technology, and challenges in getting the right data into t...
Wall Street bonus time, despite recession
in Sox First, on January 29, 2009
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The recession has not hurt the bankers. Not one bit. The New York Times reports that despite all the losses and taxpayer-funded bailouts, financial companies in New York collected an estimated $...
Guess who's coming to Davos
in Sox First, on January 26, 2009
...tional Herald Tribune reports , they won't be serving up caviar this year. The number of A-list bankers attending has been cut and many financial institutions have slashed their entertainment budg...
Satyam: do we need a global Sarbox
in Sox First, on January 21, 2009
...te governance, which leaves a lot to be desired with The Hindu reporting that India is plagued by poor disclosure, lots of creative accounting and a shortage of truly independent directors. But the...
Diabetes Linked to Air Pollution
in Daily Diabetic, on January 19, 2009
...hy is this discovery so important?
One in three Americans is obese
One in six live in a city with poor air quality.
Current cases of diabetes are expected to double in the next twenty years.
Read ...
Motorola's Announcement Coincides With Poor Economic Conditions
in The Mobile Technology Weblog, on January 16, 2009
...er of 2007.
It cited weakness in consumer demand as well as customer inventory reductions for its poor handset sales....
Jeff Cooper Jewelry
in The Jewelry Weblog, on January 14, 2009
...elry is more difficult then engraved work, because there is nowhere to hide. You can't cover up poor quality metal and poor setting work. While the rest of the industry rides the waves of each tre...
Hedging the bets
in Sox First, on January 13, 2009
...uot;aiding and abetting liability," which would make it easier to sue lawyers, accountants and bankers working on behalf of a fund accused of illegal activity. But, Freed says, it won't go t...
Prevent Poisonings this Holiday Season
in The Parenting Weblog, on December 23, 2008
... may be decorated with paint that contains lead. Store them away if the ornaments are peeling or in poor condition and children or pets live with you.
If you have holiday visitors or are visiting an...
Morgan Stanley's Asia PE Chief Gets Axed
in China Venture News, on December 20, 2008
... departure from his new post underscores the brutal environment that private equity firms and their bankers face not just in Western countries, but Asia too."
While Mandal's job covered comp...
Why We Should Love the All-American Car
in Classical Drives, on December 17, 2008
...and yet I rarely see one in auctions, club shows, or offered for sale online. It's as if, being poor cousins to mainline sedans and 5-seat coupes, they've been consigned to the scrapyards of a...
UK Validation Study Initiated on Pathwork Tissue of Origin Test
in The Biotech Weblog, on December 10, 2008
... proof-of-concept validation study. "Since patients with cancer of unknown primary have a very poor prognosis, we hope that with this novel diagnostic test our oncologists will have new informati...
From finance failures to the FBI
in The CIO Weblog, on December 9, 2008
...y popular notion that the catastrophe on Wall Street was caused or significantly contributed to by poor IT leadership. Or at least they seem not to blame former Lehman Brothers' IT head Chad ...
Japan lurches from disaster to disaster
in Sox First, on December 9, 2008
...ing partner. There are serious concerns that China's November economic data is going to be very poor. But what makes it worse is that Japan is now the world's most indebted nation, worse than...
Google's Native Client
in The CIO Weblog, on December 8, 2008
...pany is taking could quickly make the technology a favorite with developers who currently have some poor choice when they are trying to leverage native code, being constrained by browser or platform s...
Will Obama's job plan work?
in Sox First, on December 7, 2008
...? Or is he going to pay prevailing wages? The fact is, that trying to employ millions of unemployed bankers, stockbrokers, financial services types, call center workers, or other white collar jobs...
How Broccoli Compound Fights Cancer
in The Biotech Weblog, on December 6, 2008
...showed that I3C inhibits the enzyme elastase, which at high levels in breast cancer cells heralds a poor prognosis: decreased response to chemotherapy, reduced response to endocrine treatment and redu...
