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How can a supply chain react to unexpected events (similar to Michael Jackson's death)?
in Supplychainer, on July 5, 2009
...sing it.
- Diversifying suppliers: Using different suppliers in different countries helps us to scale up and down easier and if an economic downturn occurs in one part of the world, the risk and o...
全球前 100 名最佳投资网络 VC
in Wangtam, on July 1, 2009
最近的一项报告根据风险投资者的网络化程度，评选出具备最佳网络的前 100 家风险投资商。
该报告认为 ，风险投资者的网络化程度越高，网络越好，投资回报率就越高。该报告指出，风险投资者的网络是与由其他与其进行联合投资的投资者所组成的。风险投资拥有的联合投资者越多，网络就越好。风险投资商的网络规模与回报率之间的关系，可以为其投资带来更好的交易流、人才、顾问、潜在客户和退出可能。
该报告对 2006-2008 年间为超过 3300 家创业公司提供融资支持的 2700 个投资者进行了分析，并根据网络化程度评分，评选出具备最佳网络的前 100 家风险投资商。请见下表：
1 德丰杰
2 红杉资本...
Madoff gets the max! What now?
in Sox First, on June 30, 2009
...al if people think they can get away with it. "There may not be anyone who can improve on the scale and ingenuity of Madoff's fraud. However, it is a recurring theme in human nature that som...
3rd Party Blog
in Wangtam, on June 23, 2009
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• Google Chrome 2.0.172.33 Stable
• 全球欢庆夏至到来
• Is freely available research better disseminated?
• Services from Zoho, Software from Microsoft: Announcing Zoho Office for SharePoint
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Georgia Tech opens a new supply chain center in Costa Rica
in Supplychainer, on June 21, 2009
...( ZLC ) and recently added some new members to this collaboration from Latin America and called it SCALE . I personally think the motivation for such expansions are creating more profit out of intern...
Social Entrepreneurship using Facebook
in Audeamus - How dare we..., on June 21, 2009
I don't know how many of you have a personal profile in Facebook (I guess most of you at the website has grown to more than 200 million users) but what I have found out recently is that Facebook is not only a website for sharing photos and contact info. with friends but also a good way of st...
Fiber for Nerve Repair Derived from Chitosan and Polyester
in The Biotech Weblog, on June 19, 2009
...the mechanical strength of the synthetic polymer.
Researchers combined the fibers at the nanometer scale by first using a technique called electrospinning to draw the materials into nanometer-scale f...
Zirconite Jewelry
in The Jewelry Weblog, on June 19, 2009
...iamond, one of the hardest materials known to man is rated 10, at the top of the hardness scale. The hardness of Zirconite cubic zirconia ranges between 9.0 and 9.1, while ordinary cubic zirconia ra...
The Coming Solar Revival
in IfEnergy, on June 15, 2009
... guardedly optimistic outlook came Tuesday... and follows an abysmal period in which new commercial-scale solar business has stalled due to the lack of bank funding for projects. The defunct investmen...
GM or Chrysler: Which one is a better option for Fiat?
in Supplychainer, on May 27, 2009
... to the merger of Fiat with two American auto-makes Chrysler and GM (Opel part). Besides economy of scale and other motivations, I believe Opel option is a better candidate from supply chain point of ...
Infosys CEO interviewed
in The CIO Weblog, on May 20, 2009
...s to do so). To whatever extent enterprises are working with cloud services, it is still on a small scale and apparently under the corporate radar. Cloud computing is all but a foregone conclusion at ...
The deplorable state of mathematics education today
in The CIO Weblog, on May 17, 2009
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By now you've surely all heard the basic argument from the article a million times: these wide-scale service outages indicate a basic lack of stability and character of unreliability in utility c...
Why stricter laws won't work
in Sox First, on May 13, 2009
...ou don't choose at all, you just comply. "What history teaches us is that on a very large scale, such as what happened in the Soviet Union, if people don't practice making responsible de...
微软确认将于 12 月正式发售 Windows 7
in Wangtam, on May 12, 2009
刚才在洛杉矶的 TechEd 2009 会议上，微软 Windows 业务高级副总裁 Bill Veghte 确认，微软确认将于 12 月正式发售 Windows 7。公司旗下的另一款产品，适用于客户端及服务器版本的 Windows Server 2008 R2 也将于同期上市。
微软同时表示，将在今年 7 月向此次年会的参加者放出 Office 2010 的技术预览版。微软的一位产品经理 Ward Ralston 则表示，这并不意味着 Office 2010 步入了正式发布前的阶段。微软尚未公布该产品的发布日期。
微软在半月前推出了首个 RC 版的 Windows 7，这也意味着该...
H1B: Frying pan to fire
in The CIO Weblog, on May 11, 2009
...ngly large pool of eager and well-educated foreign workers to fill domestic jobs helps ease the pay scale. Industry leaders as illustrious as Bill Gates have gone before Congress to testify in support...
SOX and complacency
in Sox First, on May 5, 2009
...39;t choose at all, you just comply. And history has shown us that when you do that on a very large scale, as occurred in the Soviet Union, they stop making responsible decisions. Like any skill, that...
Austin Healey Shines at Victoria BC Car Show
in Classical Drives, on April 27, 2009
...des a miniature passenger-carrying railway. I also noted ongoing construction of a pavilion for 1/4-scale streetcars. While I admire vintage streetcars and would go out of my way to ride on one yet, 1...
Skype 4.0.0.226 for Windows（含 Portable 版）
in Wangtam, on April 23, 2009
...cts drop down menu
• bugfix: Video did not always scale correctly
• bugfix: Skype occasionally crashed when uPnP port forwarding failed
• bugfix: Improved uPnP handling for Linksys WRTG54G owners
• bu...
VMware to announce VSphere today
in The CIO Weblog, on April 21, 2009
...it's going to be difficult for all but the most massive organizations to match the economies of scale of third-party cloud providers. Leaving aside the general conclusions of the recent McKinsey &...
Leon Popov Butterfly Rings
in The Jewelry Weblog, on April 20, 2009
... diamond from 0.50 carat up to 1.99 Carat.
$3590
Leon Popov's creations are sold through large-scale retailers and private individuals in USA, France, Italy, Japan, Germany, Brazil, Argentina, Co...
Model-Making Klutz Admires 1-6th Scale Corvette Engine That Runs
in Classical Drives, on April 17, 2009
...d a short life.
Thus you can imagine how awe-struck I was when learning of a near-finished 1/6th scale Chevrolet 327 cu. in. V-8 that actually runs! It was built by Jim Moyer, whose hobby is buil...
Henkel wins supply chain excellence award
in Supplychainer, on April 13, 2009
...ughout the supply chain. This has enabled it to effectively reorganize its supply chain on a global scale.
The award was presented to Henkel on the occasion of the "ebs Supply Chain Conference&q...
Yet Another Amazon Web Service
in The CIO Weblog, on April 2, 2009
...etitors.
Forward thinking users who already saw the potential of EC2 to service this sort of large-scale processing had been running Hadoop on privately rented instances already, but the Amazon imple...
Advertising market crash
in Sox First, on April 2, 2009
...ry is in serious trouble. "The 2008/2009 period is now a more serious advertising recession in scale, duration, and relative to the global economy, than the extraordinary 5.1% real-terms post-dot...
Clarifications on HP and Mark Hurd
in The CIO Weblog, on March 31, 2009
...ted, and generically evil, and I might not argue with you, but if you stack HP leadership up on the scale, I think they come off relatively clean. Well-meaning people differ on this, but in my view if...
The importance of corporate DNA
in The CIO Weblog, on March 30, 2009
...ons with many divisions and product lines might seem to disprove this immediately, but on a certain scale, a division might have a culture of its own which could substitute for that of the overall cor...
VIdeo: Protect Yourself During the Spring Allergy Season
in Allergies, on March 24, 2009
Has spring sprung in your neck of the woods? Here's a video courtesy of CNN featuring ways to avoid the worst of the spring allergy season:
Embedded video from CNN Video
Spring is a wonderful time of the year; I hope you get to enjoy it, too, despite the allergies!
More and More Americans Cutting the Cord
in The Wireless Weblog, on March 12, 2009
...this trend, with 26.2 percent of households using only wireless. Vermont is at the other end of the scale, with only 5.1 percent cutting the cord.
"These findings are important to CDC because m...
Managing IT costs
in The CIO Weblog, on March 11, 2009
...time to be aggressive internally. IT departments have been, and continue to be, threatened by large-scale utility computing and other on-demand resources. I sat in a room full of consultants the other...
Prognostic Test for Frontotemporal Dementia
in The Biotech Weblog, on March 10, 2009
...due to a shortage of progranulin long before symptoms appear. The blood test can be used on a large scale and is much more simple and user-friendly than the current genetic tests. This finding also of...
$5K Scholarships for Students with Asthma
in Allergies, on March 5, 2009
... graduate in the 2009 school year and hold a minimum cumulative grade point average of 3.5 on a 4.0 scale are eligible. Applications are now being accepted and the deadline to apply is April 30, 2009...
$50,000 In Scholarships Will Be Awarded To 10 Deserving Students With Asthma
in Straightfromthedoc, on March 5, 2009
... graduate in the 2009 school year and hold a minimum cumulative grade point average of 3.5 on a 4.0 scale are eligible. Applications for Schering-Plough's "Will to Win" college scholarsh...
How Do You Assess Innovation?
in TJ's Weblog, on February 28, 2009
...ure." The third has to do with the innovation's place on something like a necessity-luxury scale.
I thought Scott's article was insightful. You can read it here .
Photo courtesy of ...
Good Cities for Cheap Hotels
in The Flyaway Weblog, on February 28, 2009
...te recently released hotel.info 's Value for Money index... The site rates hotel values on a scale of one to ten. And as the database builds, some places you might not expect come out as great ...
Is Mexico still a viable near-shore location?
in Supplychainer, on February 19, 2009
...guidelines." I think so too; however, I believe companies should revise the country's risk scale again and be tight for future investments to see if the situation will stabilizes in the near ...
Bad Money by Kevin Phillips
in Sox First, on February 17, 2009
...d housing credit bubble; fourth, roughly quadrupling US credit market debt between 1987 and 2007, a scale of excess that historically unwinds; and fifth, consummating these events with a mixed perform...
E+Co receives award for the development in energy
in Audeamus - How dare we..., on February 14, 2009
...ds of business and philanthropy to create sustainable social value that has the potential for large-scale impact.
Philip LaRocco, CEO of E+Co was recently awarded the Enterprising Social Innovation a...
Henry J. Kaiser's Baby, Yours For a Sweet Song From the 50s
in Classical Drives, on February 11, 2009
...ell with the times but the American public just wasn't ready. You, however, can own one in 1:18 scale from the Fairfield Mint for a mere $79.99. The Mint says it has over 160 parts, a fully- wir...
Wine Ratings - Gary Vaynerchuk Looks at Three 93-Point Chardonnays
in Celebrate Wine, on February 10, 2009
...ance , but I got distracted by his reference to the Wine Spectator and the Robert Parker rating scales.
Vinquire has a good explanation of the rating scales. While Spectator and Parker are the...
Taking Hypertable 0.9.2.1 for a ride.
in Googlestack, on February 3, 2009
... the first post in the series about tools and how you can leverage them to increase your ability to scale. In this post we're going to take a look how it is possible to store a large quantity of d...
ABS by Allen Schwartz Jewelry
in The Jewelry Weblog, on January 30, 2009
...s and prints of ABS fashion, ABS by Allen Schwartz jewelry is bold and dramatic . Colorful, large scale stones mix with traditional metallics in fluid, slinky silhouettes. Statement-making jewelry ...
Infor sells supply chain planning solution to Arco
in Supplychainer, on January 28, 2009
...ccurate forward visibility of orders."
"As a top 10 global software company, Infor's scale, commitment to R&D and continuous innovation was also attractive as we need to know that t...
Free Applications for Nokia/Symbian Smartphones
in The Smart PDA, on January 27, 2009
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ImageConverter: This application allows users to rotate, scale and convert images from one format to another. It supports both Series 60 5th Edition Smartphones with touch UI and S60 3rd Edition ...
Three Genes Linked to Obesity Identified
in The Biotech Weblog, on January 23, 2009
...en by our collaboration with our colleagues in France is going to become important for future large-scale genetic studies," Sladek continued. " Our suspicion is that a lot of the genetic cha...
Vitamin D Deficiency May Increase Risk Of Dementia
in Straightfromthedoc, on January 23, 2009
...vels in the elderly could be linked to cognitive impairment. Such were the findings of a new large scale senior population study .
The study, conducted on almost 2,000 adults over the age of 65, is...
Oil price futures
in Sox First, on January 20, 2009
..., the demand picture's radically different. The key difference is that today there are no large-scale next generation projects that are going to save the world. Commodity demand is exponentially h...
Outsourcing safely
in The CIO Weblog, on January 9, 2009
...ome to is inevitably outsourcing ... using a third-party provider to allow far vaster economies of scale come to play on your problems than your company could generate itself.
There have been a lot ...
Charles Krypell Jewelry
in The Jewelry Weblog, on January 9, 2009
...er the craft of sculpture and become a success. Once he discovered jewelry, he realized the smaller scale allowed him to design timeless pieces immediately.
Constantly pushing the boundaries of des...
Japan Wants To Expand "Green Business" & Create 1,000,000 New Jobs
in Exclusive from our news room , on January 6, 2009
...Not ones for doing anything on a small scale, the government of Japan is in the process of considering possible methods of increasing the country's "green businesses", and creating 1,000...
Common MapReduce misconceptions
in Googlestack, on January 3, 2009
... in the posts mentioned above were:
A giant step backward in the programming paradigm for large-scale data intensive applications
A sub-optimal implementation, in that it uses brute force instea...
Photovoltaik-Aktien ziehen an
in Fachplaner-Weblog, on January 2, 2009
...ds, Qaidam Basin, is generally regarded as one of optimal locations in China to build large scale on-grid solar power plant. "
...
Corporate jets nosedive
in Sox First, on December 26, 2008
...in bailout dollars still owning and operating fleets. But, as the report says, some are starting to scale back. Citigroup still has four jets and a helicopter but its executives are being encouraged ...
Microsoft to cut 10% of its workforce
in Sox First, on December 24, 2008
Traditionally, software and PC sell like hot cakes over Christmas. But with the United States in recession and growing job losses, holiday sales are projected to plummet big time and retailers are discounting heavily. There's only so much you can blame on the appalling winter weather in th...
Hypertable version updates and some more
in Googlestack, on December 24, 2008
...out and ready to pick up here .
And as a Christmas bonus here's the link to an article, "Scale-out with Hypertable" by Doug Judd posted in Linux Magazine here (free registration requ...
Industrial Production of Succinic Acid Genetically Modified Bacteria
in The Biotech Weblog, on December 21, 2008
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A plant demo in France is planned towards the end of 2009 and the company expects to begin large-scale production by 2011.
...
Taliban Attacks United Nations Truck Convoy In Afghanistan
in Exclusive from our news room , on December 18, 2008
...While the United States' beleaguered military ponders how best to scale down and eventually vacate Iraq a reinvigorated Taliban has intensified its attacks on Western assets in Afghanistan.
Even ...
How Madoff played the SEC for suckers
in Sox First, on December 15, 2008
...office in Rockland Country, NY was only 13ft x 18ft large). This operation appeared small given the scale and scope of Madoff's activities." Why didn't the SEC pick this up. But an equal...
Restoration Hardware Offers Shelby Models in Two Scales
in Classical Drives, on December 12, 2008
...ware, a trendy furniture and decorating chain, is offering a line of Mustang classic models in 1:24 scale and 1:64 scale. It includes a silver '66 Shelby Cobra 427 S/C, blue Cobra Supersnake, red ...
What's this scalability thing about?
in Googlestack, on December 8, 2008
...n example goal of scalability as follows:
"Devise a software and hardware architecture that scales up by a factor of 1 000 000.That is an application's storage and processing capacity can ...
No quick fix for US housing market
in Sox First, on December 5, 2008
... numbers show that everything done so far has failed abysmally. What's needed is a radical full scale mortgage modification plan that will rescue distressed mortgage holders. That's why House ...
E&HT supply chain model needs to be adapted to the market needs
in Supplychainer, on December 4, 2008
...ing a distributor. Such distributors sell multiple brands of hardware and software so they can gain scale and serve these markets more effectively.
- The distributors also have well-established and ...
Die Mäusewaage wiegt keine Mäuse
in Daily Gadget, on December 1, 2008
... aus der Tasche fließen, oder?
Fotos: Herstellerfotos
Zu haben bei American Weigh Scales, Inc.
Via: Coolest Gadgets und via everythinusb
Als Maus sieht sie aus wie eine Maus.
...
Designer Jewelry Sale
in The Jewelry Weblog, on November 30, 2008
... a spring ring clasp. The pendant is just under 2 inches in length.
$86
Cherry Creek Dragon Scale Stud Earrings
An all over pattern of diamonds reminds me of dragon scales. The fine silver st...
Patagonia Fungus Produces "Myco-Diesel"
in The Biotech Weblog, on November 25, 2008
...ion of these compounds," Scott Strobel said. "If you can identify that, you can hopefully scale it up so you end up with better efficiency of production."
These findings have been publ...
Oral Immunotherapy to Treat Milk Allergies
in Allergies, on November 23, 2008
...ce and possibly treat dairy allergies. Bear in mind, however, that these results are based on small scale trials, under carefully controlled conditions. The milk immunotherapy study is reporting a tol...
Cheap oil and global risk
in Sox First, on November 21, 2008
...losses and low growth. Here's a list . Cheap oil might also have an impact on a geo-political scale. Iran's dependence on oil revenues is a worry, particularly amidst concerns that it might ...
Telemundo Moves from Yahoo to MSN
in Latina Viva, on November 18, 2008
...nclude some social media features.
"We partnered with Yahoo because they offered huge reach, scale and technology, but for the most part we brought the content," Alfredo Richard, Telem...
Exchange and Sharepoint Online officially released
in The CIO Weblog, on November 17, 2008
...one would imagine it would be lower than the published rate. That would make sense, as economies of scale make running Exchange internally more affordable for enterprises than small businesses.
In th...
BitTorrent Cuts Staff, Will Close Torrent Information Network
in P2P File Sharing, on November 12, 2008
...so it presumably has enough cash for now. But an online video site/service won't cut it without scale or enough backing, and as a P2P tech service provider, there's too much piracy-and-percept...
