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Chrome OS: The reflective phase
in The CIO Weblog, on July 10, 2009
...e five reasons encompass most of the other arguments I have heard in this vein so far:
Linux is hard to love
We aren't ready to run everything on the Web
Microsoft is a formidable opponent...
Do you still have faith in Obama's stimulus plans?
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on July 10, 2009
...ew that fixing the country's problems, especially its struggling economy, would require a long, hard slog. I knew, too, that things weren't magically going to get better because we had a new p...
Chrome OS: The Fight is Finally on for Microsoft and Google...
in Bizinformer, on July 10, 2009
...such as e-mail, word processing, and multimedia through the Internet rather than from a user's hard drive. In otherwords, Chrome will be an operating system for people who believe in cloud compu...
Freecom Hard Drive Secure: Added layer of security to your data
in The RFID Weblog, on July 10, 2009
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From now on stealing data will not be a piece of cake for the thieves from your external hard drives with the availability of RFID backed Freecom external HDD . The Freecom external HDD is secur...
The Mercedes Folding Bike
in Wangtam, on July 9, 2009
... MySpace
• Updated MyDoom responsible for DDOS attacks, says AhnLab
• Windows boss named president as Microsoft reshuffles execs
• Analyst: iPhone 3GS, Palm Pre gang up on BlackBerry sales
• W...
Why it matters if your neighbor's struggling to pay the mortgage
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on July 9, 2009
...osures drag down housing prices for everyone else. If you need to sell your house, it's awfully hard to compete with the foreclosed property going for $100,000 less than market value.
Foreclosed...
LaCie’s LaCinema Rugged External HDD Is One Tough Media Server
in The Gadgets Weblog, on July 9, 2009
... harshest of conditions, but that has not stopped Lacie from producing the LaCinema Rugged External Hard Drive complete with HDMI and Component video ports.
The device, which comes in 250GB, 320GB, ...
T-Mobile USA Launches myTouch 3G Android Phone
in HackITLinux, on July 8, 2009
T-Mobile USA today announced the start of the pre-sale period (from July 8-28, for current subscribers only) for the $200 myTouch 3G , the company's newest Android-based mobile device. Retail availability of the device will begin on August 5th.
"The MyTouch 3G is very similar to ...
Apple's lack of enterprise ambition
in The CIO Weblog, on July 8, 2009
... which he answers unequivocally "no." Reisinger lays out all the usual points; Apple is a hardware, rather than software business, with a decidedly consumer focus, limited experience and lit...
Palin shoots the media
in Sox First, on July 7, 2009
...The Alaska Constitution protects the right of free speech, while simultaneously holding those "responsible for the abuse of that right." This is fascinating because the The NYT and Washingt...
Save On Car Insurance by Raising Your Deductible
in The Personal Finance Weblog, on July 6, 2009
...get it, they often leave it alone. Unfortunately, this can mean that you are throwing some of your hard-earned money away. Saving money, however, means that you need to be willing to analyze your curr...
Apricorn Promises to Beef Up 5th Generation iPod Storage
in The Gadgets Weblog, on July 6, 2009
...eople who need even more that 120GB of storage.
They are selling a combo kit that includes a 240GB hard drive and an 850mAh replacement battery. This kit also comes with the necessary tools to crack ...
Another stimulus package
in Sox First, on July 6, 2009
...package. Besides the economy, there is another reason and it's political. A recovery that's hard to read and goes nowhere will erode Obama's high approval rating which is really the bedroc...
USB 3.0 Is Coming Soon to Make Your PC Even More Obsolete
in The Gadgets Weblog, on July 3, 2009
...f Taiwan as early as this summer. Certainly, but the end of the year, holiday PC's and external hard drives will be hitting the shelves.
USB 3.0 allows for transfers of data up 5GB/s. Yes, that i...
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 ...
Madoff's tough spell
in Sox First, on July 1, 2009
...s in the prison library. And he will probably be sent to a medium to high security prison and get a hard time from other prisoners wanting to make a name for themselves. "If they see an opportuni...
Is plain vanilla the right goal?
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on June 30, 2009
...'re stuck with those higher payments, whether they can comfortably afford them or not.
The way responsible borrowers were supposed to use interest-only loans, though, was to make sure they could ...
Logistics cost in the U.S. is dropping
in Supplychainer, on June 28, 2009
...ts for 78 percent of transport by revenue and half of all business logistics cost, was particularly hard hit, rising just 1.3 percent compared with 4.4 percent for the other modes (rail, barge, air ca...
Dragging out the foreclosure mess
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on June 26, 2009
...eady left their homes and moved on. Yet, until their banks take possession of these homes, they are responsible for the condition of their homes. They may not be living in them, but they have to mow t... ... the house, where perhaps they raised their children, is not really theirs anymore.
Even the most hardhearted among us can see how this might be painful, no?
Unfortunately, it's a situation tha...
In Search of a Cool Summer: Da Lat, Vietnam
in Hidden Travel Gems, on June 24, 2009
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...
Can Wind Power Make a Profit?
in IfEnergy, on June 23, 2009
...ld come to only 18% of peak output, meaning that the juice would be worth $30,000 a year. It's hard to cover the interest on a $500,000 loan with a $30,000 annual payback. It's not an unusual ...
Did Sonia Sotomayor's mortgage views help send county into recession?
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on June 23, 2009
...e board did precede our current mortgage meltdown by two decades, so she can't be directly held responsible for the problems we're now having. However, he does blame the policies that she and ... ...er to find one villain in this story. And it's especially easy to blame the poor. It's much harder to face the real truth: There were countless villains in the mortgage-lending disaster.
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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 Entrepreneurhip at Stanford
in Audeamus - How dare we..., on June 21, 2009
.... Its JaipurKnee is a polymer-based knee joint that can be manufactured for less than $20. The team responsible for developing this product is now doing the field trials in India and has been fitted o...
Have a Ball - in Dublin...
in Wandalust, on June 21, 2009
... 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&quo...
Does Apple need Steve Jobs?
in Sox First, on June 20, 2009
...ear or in 10 years," he told Bloomberg . Still, short term share performance aside, it's hard to imagine Apple with Jobs' innovative drive and flair. Let's watch this space....
Recession drawing to an end. So what?
in Sox First, on June 20, 2009
...hird 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, th...
Taking a Chance
in Next Nine Months, on June 19, 2009
...ted looking forward to it.
Then it happened. We miscarried in the first trimester. It was really hard on my wife, as you might expect. But we're strong and we got through it and tried again. We ...
CIA recruits bankers
in Sox First, on June 19, 2009
...e motivator to serving their country, I think they'll fit in very well with us." It's hard to imagine any actually making that switch. Going from a hedge fund to the CIA is a massive cha...
Azotobacter vinelandii Genome Sequence
in The Biotech Weblog, on June 18, 2009
...ome allowed the team of researchers to identify the genes involved in respiration, including those responsible for respiratory protection. Genome analysis helped pinpoint the chromosomal location of t...
Keep Your Computer Clean & Make Better Digital Photographs
in Digital Shot, on June 18, 2009
...d job.
So the answer is do everything you can to speed up your computer, such as defragmenting the hard drive and deleting unnecessary programs and files.
And, download today's free program, Pl...
Apple Updates its Software While the Government Rethinks Law
in The Mobile Technology Weblog, on June 17, 2009
...layers in the rapidly growing sector.
In the meantime, President Obama asked Congress to repeal a hard-to-enforce tax on the personal use of work cell phones, appeasing the business community, phone...
I Am Making The SSD Jump Thanks to Kingston V-Series Kit
in The Gadgets Weblog, on June 16, 2009
...rtises up to 100MB/Sec read speeds. Kingston promises a 50% speed improvement over standard 7200RPM hard drives, and a 1 million mean time before failure. More importantly, the process to upgrade, and...
Throwing the book at Madoff
in Sox First, on June 16, 2009
...ts here . Some of it is truly harrowing and heart-breaking. Read through the stuff and it hits how hard these people have been hurt by the crime. Consider this: "We are in our mid 60s and began...
Unemployment: are the numbers lying?
in Sox First, on June 14, 2009
...performance. All that suggests is that the road back out of this recession is going to be long and hard. The pain will be around for a long time....
In Search of a Cool Summer: Lake Baikal, Siberia
in Hidden Travel Gems, on June 12, 2009
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...
Save Money on Air Conditioning This Summer
in The Personal Finance Weblog, on June 12, 2009
...ilters are clean and that the unit is functioning properly. This enables it to not have to work so hard to keep your home cool.
2. Plant shade trees near the house to help keep direct sunlight off t...
NIKA Water: Helping Body and Soul
in Straightfromthedoc, on June 12, 2009
...rom the press release I got:
The first CarbonFree® certified and one of the most environmentally responsible bottled waters on the market, NIKA offsets its carbon footprint by funding the planting o...
Archos Makes Sexy Portable Tablet Because Apple Won't
in The Gadgets Weblog, on June 12, 2009
...vel notebooks. It features an Intel ATOM™ Z515 processor, 1GB of RAM (upgradable to 2GB) an 80 GB hard disk, Bluetooth and WiFi. In Europe, the device will also come bundled with the antena and abilit...
Adobe Flash 10 wird mobil
in BlackBerry World, on June 11, 2009
...systemen wie Android, Windows Mobile, Symbian und webOS laufen. "Auf Basis der bisherigen Hardeware-Plattformen konnten wir nur eine abgespeckte Variante des Flash Players mit eingeschränktem Fun...
WD Announces 4TB My Book Studio Edition II for Mac
in On Storage, on June 11, 2009
...d USB 2.0 interfaces," writes GadgetReview's Christen da Costa . "Inside are two 2TB hard drives with WD GreenPower technology for power savings and fanless operation."
"The...
Hard times for logistics and transportation companies...
in Supplychainer, on June 11, 2009
... The economic downturn has given the logistics and transportation a hard time. To give some examples of the reasons:
- As people are buying less, there are less requests to transport products to ...
Who would buy a newspaper?
in Sox First, on June 11, 2009
...alked down the price. But then, he has done the same for his own mastheads. Based on that, it's hard to see anyone buying a newspaper....
Mugabe's lecture on fixing economies.
in Sox First, on June 11, 2009
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Hard to comprehend Africa. Robert Mugabe, who destroyed the Zimbabwe economy and has, according to the CIA World Factbook taken inflation to a gob-smacking 11.2 million per cent and unemployment...
Why the Vintage Racing League Should Matter to You
in Classical Drives, on June 10, 2009
... Those who go to great lengths to keep their hobby cars spotless and free from damage might find it hard to conceive that owners would take such risks but on the other hand, race cars were built to be...
Recession Forces More Golf Deals
in Eagle Par Birdie, on June 8, 2009
...memberships aren't cheap and are often complex. Plus you still pay an annual fee and you're responsible for spending a monthly minimum in the restaurant and bar.
Next came the coupon books an...
God versus Tiger
in Eagle Par Birdie, on June 8, 2009
...s they enter heaven.
God asks Arnie first: 'What do you believe?'
Arnie thinks long and hard, looks God in the eye, and says, 'I believe
in hard work, and in staying true to family an...
Reality TV, French style
in Sox First, on June 5, 2009
...he BBC reports, that the court felt that the effort the contestants put into the show constituted hard work. The show follows couples who are separated on a tropical island where single people to tr...
Introducing the Iomega eGo Portable Hard Drive for the Mac
in On Storage, on June 4, 2009
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Iomega this week released the new Iomega eGo Portable Hard Drive for the Mac , which boasts multiple interfaces and up to 500GB of capacity.
"Featuring both flavors of FireWire and USB...
What next for GM?
in Sox First, on June 4, 2009
...any's battle to come through might take it in a completely different direction. Still, it's hard to ignore film-maker Michael Moore's vision of what could be done. Moore argues the money...
Back Up Your Digital Photos The Easy Way With This Free Software
in Digital Shot, on June 4, 2009
...ge that can make the task of file backup and, when you need to do it, easy transfer of data between hard drives.
The good folks at Paragon software are offering, only until midnight tonight though, t...
Xbox Project Natal Makes You Get Up and Move
in The Gadgets Weblog, on June 2, 2009
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The one thing I liked about the Wii is that my son had to stand up to play it effectively; it was hard to be lazy and play it. Microsoft has taken the whole "motion sensitive" and movement...
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 ...
Jewelry Sale at ARingThing.com
in The Jewelry Weblog, on May 31, 2009
...rdable.
Femi 18K White & Yellow Gold Diamond Ring
This is a striking contemporary ring, hard edged, accented with brilliant diamonds.
Diamond: 84 round accents, .42 ctw
Metal: 18K white a...
Summer Golf Deals
in Eagle Par Birdie, on May 31, 2009
... Golf in Niagara Falls
Summer is just about upon us in the northern hemisphere - hard to believe.
But there you have it, so it might be time to start thinking about a golf holiday - you know, ta...
How much is Facebook worth?
in Sox First, on May 30, 2009
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Hard to comprehend the extraordinary $200 million investment in Facebook by Digital Sky Technologies, a private Russian internet investment group. As reported in the Financial Times , it values F...
More bad news: Mortgage delinquencies on the rise
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on May 29, 2009
...iddle of 2006 or so.
The problem is, when you read the newspapers or listen to the radio, it's hard to remember that there was a time when the housing market wasn't just doing well, it was bo...
Economists predict recession ends this year. As if!
in Sox First, on May 27, 2009
...010. Still, they're hedging their bets, saying the recovery will be slow and painful. It's hard to believe them given how wrong they've been so far. A prime example is housing prices. Th...
Western Digital Unleashes Quite and Smart WD AV-GP Hard Drives
in The Gadgets Weblog, on May 26, 2009
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The reality for hard drives is that if you are not going to be a SSD (Solid State Drive), then you have to fast, big, and do a few tricks to stay relevant. Western Digital knows that better than a...
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...
British Airways axes first class: more to come?
in Sox First, on May 24, 2009
...t surprising to read the news report that british Airways has just got rid of first class. In hard times, there's less demand for first class and business class travel. With BA chief executi...
Cheap Food in London
in The Flyaway Weblog, on May 24, 2009
...restaurants like Fat Duck and St. John along with a whole slew of lesser-known gastropubs, it's hard to argue that the food here still categorically sucks. The Gridskipper piece looks at six place...
Using Video to Boost Your Profile
in BootStrapMe, on May 24, 2009
...'s a powerful marketing tool that can give your business' image a big boost.
It's not hard to make a video look pretty professional with an inexpensive camera and some simple, free tools:...
Social entrepreneurship in China
in Audeamus - How dare we..., on May 23, 2009
...s nice examples of how some Chinese companies are taking responsibility towards creating a socially responsible business and also the role of the entrepreneurs in this area.
One interesting one was ...
Easier imports to AWS
in The CIO Weblog, on May 22, 2009
...ient snail mail method of data transfer, where a business basically bundles up and sends a portable hard drive full of bits and some clerk in the basement at Amazon plugs it in and uploads it to the c...
How low will interest rates go? Who knows?
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on May 22, 2009
... 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 rates look good to you today, maybe you should ...
Tweeting Too Hard
in Wangtam, on May 21, 2009
...• Tweeting Too Hard
• Microsoft unveils Windows Media Center support for your Netflix queue
• Tweeting Too Hard: A site for shaming the twitteringly self-important
• Yahoo: We're Moving Fro...
MBAs and Entrepreneurs
in BootStrapMe, on May 21, 2009
...f Business at the University of Virginia. While I personally value education a great deal, it's hard to deny that talent and training are different things. Maybe we're coming back to a sane ap...
