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Derivatives tripped up regulators: Geithner
in Sox First, on July 11, 2009
...ere's a lot of work to do and the proof of the pudding will be in the eating. As the New York Times reports, Geithner has not provided us with any details as to how the administration will defi... ... has not provided us with any details as to how the administration will define derivatives. Perhaps they're still working it out. In the meantime, the the big banks like Credit Suisse are now pour...
Create Zoho Creator Web Apps from Microsoft Access Database
in Wangtam, on July 10, 2009
...ly Web-Access Fee
• New York Attorney General Sues Tagged.com
• People Looking Good - TheSartorialist.Blogspot.com
• PopWatch Blog | Entertainment Weekly's EW.com
• Rollip - Create Polaroi...
If You LIKE the Clouds, You'll Love Google's Chrome OS (Maybe)
in Web 2.0, on July 10, 2009
...ble. Search Engine Land has a good analysis of all the different opinions available. And the NY Times has one of the best available overviews.
VentureBeat says there are some reasons that you ... ...best available overviews.
VentureBeat says there are some reasons that you won't like it. They're simple reasons: it won't deliver on its massively optimistic proimses and it won'...
Do you still have faith in Obama's stimulus plans?
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on July 10, 2009
...Do you have any faith in Obama's economic stimulus plans ? According to a story by the New York Times, a growing number of citizens no longer do.
According to the story, critics are lining up to ... ...alls. At the same time, housing foreclosures are still at record levels. And housing prices, though they've inched upwards during the last three months, are still far below where they stood just o...
SouthWest NanoTechnologies Announces $3 Million in Funding
in Nanotechbuzz, on July 10, 2009
... in Norman, OK, increasing capacity 100× and lowering unit costs by 90%," according to Small Times . "The company also has an applications development center near Boston."
More here...
Evident Technologies Files for Bankruptcy
in Nanotechbuzz, on July 10, 2009
... biotechnology company Invitrogen Corp. had sapped Evident financially," writes The Albany Times Union's Larry Rulison . "Bankruptcy documents show Evident owes the law firm represent...
Virginia Nanotechnology Park Moves Forward
in Nanotechbuzz, on July 9, 2009
...mmittee a green light to move forward with a preliminary marketing plan," writes The Roanoke Times' Jeff Sturgeon . "As envisioned, the proposed Virginia Nanotechnology Park would featu...
Blackberry - Erfolgsmodell App World
in BlackBerry World, on July 9, 2009
...m Meilenstein erreicht. Im April wurden die virtuellen Pforten geöffnet und nun verkündet die IT-Times bereits die 2000. Anwendung:
Entsprechend erfreut äußerte sch RIM-Manager Jeff McDowell im Ra...
Java vs. Mono
in Java Entrepreneur, on July 9, 2009
...
SD Times' David Worthington this week published an excellent article contending that Microsoft's Mono framework has become more popular for Linux desktop applications than Java .
...
Jackson's funeral: taxpayers foot the bill
in Sox First, on July 9, 2009
... for Michael Jackson's funeral? An expensive live event for a dead superstar. The Los Angeles Times reports that inquiries are under way into how the city ended up paying $1.4 million for the f...
Anticipating the CrunchPad
in HackITLinux, on July 8, 2009
...ower to operate smoothly."
More here from Electronista ... more here from the SF Business Times ... more here from ZDNet ... and more here from Gearlog .
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Los Angeles leads nation in mortgage fraud
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on July 8, 2009
...unately, there are always going to be scammers out there. The best defense is to be on guard at all times. If someone calls you out of the blue offering to help you reduce your mortgage payments, hang... ...ders will falsely inflate a purchase price to make it look like buyers have made down payments when they really haven't. In these cases, if the homes fall into foreclosure, lenders are unable to r...
Magellan Maestro 4700 is the Navigator You are Searching For
in The Gadgets Weblog, on July 7, 2009
...will help you chart a course based on past traffic patterns considering your destination and travel times; predictive traffic updates alone are worth the purchase price in my opinion. You also get the... ...llite connection almost everywhere, and AT&T may have "more bars in more places", but they don't have any at Mount Rushmore or Deadwood South Dakota. The Magellan Maestro 4700 would ...
Beware loan-modification scams
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on July 7, 2009
...If you want to read a chilling story, try this one published yesterday by the Los Angeles Times. It details the devastating effects that loan-modification scammers can have on their victims.
The Ti... ...from alone. The Times' story cites other homeowners who lost their homes to foreclosure because they thought they had worked out arrangements with their mortgage lender to keep their residences. I...
Palin shoots the media
in Sox First, on July 7, 2009
...to Ms. Moore, and those who re-publish the defamation, such as Huffington Post, MSNBC, the New York Times and The Washington Post, that the Palins will not allow them to propagate defamatory material ... ...zzled funds. Now, Palin has hit back on Twitter : "Critics are spinning, so hang in there as they feed false info on the right decision made as I enter last yr in office to not run again....&qu...
Is barcode cheaper than RFID or vice versa?
in The RFID Weblog, on July 7, 2009
...stry that bar code is cheaper when compared to RFID and on the 35th birthday of bar code, New York Times ran an article which said:
Bar codes, after all, cost just half a cent each, while the elec... ...sult of wrong data and probably these factors are ignored by most of the companies and as a result they are not able to realize how much they tend to lose by not implementing RFID.
...
Pebble Beach Swamped, Calendar Needs to be Split
in Classical Drives, on July 6, 2009
...hat Pebble Beach has outgrown itself and maybe should be split into two or more events at different times in the calendar. Having said that, I acknowledge that a La Dolce Vita Scholarship Fund has b...
Giveaway: Samurai Helmet
in WebKinzBlog, on July 5, 2009
...ly deluxe gift bag item!
To enter:
-Post your username on the thread
-This time, you can AS MANY TIMES AS YOU WANT. Seriously, go nuts!
-Drawing will be held on Friday - good luck to everyone!...
已经确认 Windows 7 RTM 于本月 13 日完成
in Wangtam, on July 5, 2009
...rketer Filter
• SF Business Times: CrunchPad Inc. Formed With 14 Employees In Singapore
• New ways to search within a book
• First iPhone 3GS Jailbreak Hits The Web
• Michael Jackson's Mem...
The Month in Twitter - A Nobel Prize Coming?
in The Social Networking Weblog, on July 5, 2009
...Twitter Reschedules Maintanence Around iran Election
Twitter has been in the news a few other times. The new search engine, Bing, searches tweets (for Celebs, at least). Twitter also began ver...
Supply chain video: Preparing for the worst, managing supplier risk in the downturn (Part 3)
in Supplychainer, on July 5, 2009
...t of Robert Hanfield's talk in PMMS Leadership in Procurement: A Global Perspective in Troubled Times. In this part Robert touches upon issues such as early retirement policies, cash issues and sy...
How can a supply chain react to unexpected events (similar to Michael Jackson's death)?
in Supplychainer, on July 5, 2009
...cked many of his fans but also the company which was organizing the event. In a podcast by New York Times, I heard that the unexpected death has resulted in $150 million loss for the organizing compan...
Madoff hires prison consultant
in Sox First, on July 5, 2009
...f has hired a prison consultant, Herb Hoelter, to help find him the best possible jail. But as The Times reports, Hoelter will have his work cut out because 150 years means he has next to no hope of... ... should not trust anybody where he's at because the institutions are loaded with informants and they would like nothing better than to find something out on Bernie to trade to the FBI to use as a ...
Headache Online Tool: Headache U
in Straightfromthedoc, on July 4, 2009
...aybe you can blame your parents! Did you know that migraines can be hereditary, and affect three times more women than men? Whatever the pattern may be, get out some paper and start taking notes! The ...
What the jobless figures tell us
in Sox First, on July 3, 2009
...ers in the US, up 7.2 million from the start of the recession and it keeps going up. The Financial Times points out the obvious in this republished form here : "It is incredible that 19 months ...
Madoff's tough spell
in Sox First, on July 1, 2009
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Much has been said about Bernard Madoff's 150 year prison sentence. The Los Angeles Times points out the obvious : his sentence is a lot shorter than what was handed out to the likes of Denis... ...ity prison and get a hard time from other prisoners wanting to make a name for themselves. "If they see an opportunity to take that man out and be in the paper and make a name for themselves, wha...
Supply chain video: Preparing for the worst, managing supplier risk in the downturn (Part 1)
in Supplychainer, on June 30, 2009
...PMMS Leadership in Procurement: A Global Perspective in Troubled Times was an event organized some while ago in Montreal Canada. Since there are some interesting videos from the presentations in this ... ...tions producing commodity are going down. That of course means bad news for procurement officers so they need to think about it...
...
Succeeding on the Internet
in TJ's Weblog, on June 30, 2009
...succeed on the Internet.
Tip number 1: Do what you do best... Seems like a no-brainer, but often times when companies start out they want to be a one stop web shop. Durng our early days we took on p... ...number 1: Do what you do best... Seems like a no-brainer, but often times when companies start out they want to be a one stop web shop. Durng our early days we took on project management, design, deve...
Europe Gets Universal Phone Charger Standard and I am Jealous
in The Gadgets Weblog, on June 30, 2009
...e living in the United States, but for a technology buff and gadget head, it can be frustrating at times. Korea gets the most fantastic cell phones, and Japan has mobile television on everything, and ... ...ry Commissioner Guenter Verheugen, "People will not have to throw away their charger whenever they buy a new phone." That is something that we could use here in the states desperately. Think...
AgfaPhoto Is Producing A Tough Digital Camera For Tough Times
in Digital Shot, on June 30, 2009
...oof to 10 meters able to withstand reasonable abuse.
This is why I say it's a camera for tough times, although during today's tough economic times, it's also easy on the pocketbook.
Wit...
Jackson's estate: the blooduckers zero in
in Sox First, on June 29, 2009
...told it to the police. There was a nanny in the London papers Sunday almost bragging about how many times she had to pump his stomach. And the papers here were lousy with other writers acting as if th... ... the bloodsuckers from Jackson's life looking for ways to keep scoring off him in death the way they did in life,'' Lubica writes."Already there is talk that there might be a CD and D...
Giveaway: Series I Trading card bed
in WebKinzBlog, on June 27, 2009
...es I Trading Card beds!
To enter:
-Post your username on the thread
-This time, you can AS MANY TIMES AS YOU WANT. Seriously, go nuts!
-Drawing will be held on late night Tuesday - good luck to e...
WildCharge Evolves the iPhone to the Next Level
in The Gadgets Weblog, on June 25, 2009
...ge up to five devices simultaneously as long as you have the necessary skins and adapters.
Via NY Times
...
Has Intel finally broken into the cell phone market?
in Wangtam, on June 24, 2009
...s Considers Paid Access to Mobile News
• Qik For Android Alpha leaks, Immediately Hits The Market
• BzzScapes
• The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan
• TinyPetition - Create a petition today!
•...
Role of Genetics in Allergies and Asthma
in Allergies, on June 24, 2009
...allergies in the near future.
But how much of an influence does genetics really play? A New York Times report looks into it and concludes:
Unlike hair and eye color, they stem from the interactio... ...s really play? A New York Times report looks into it and concludes:
Unlike hair and eye color, they stem from the interactions of a multitude of genes, some conferring protection and others contri...
Bankers' pay soars despite crisis
in Sox First, on June 22, 2009
...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 cranking up pay for investment ban... ... of a rescue package put together by the German government. As Bloomberg's Ann Woolner notes, they should be offering apologies instead of demanding reward. Yes, the financial crisis has not st...
Russia and Japan to Collaborate on Nanotech
in Nanotechbuzz, on June 21, 2009
... will focus on selecting specific projects the two can work on together," according to Small Times .
"The main focus of the interaction will be the selection of specific projects from Jap...
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...
Jammie Thomas-Rasset Hit With $1.92 Million Fine
in P2P File Sharing, on June 21, 2009
...usic — was also on there, it kicks the percentage up even further..."
More here from Times Online ... more here from TorrentFreak ... more here from InformationWeek ... more here f...
Yescalate Brings You Business Information and Customer Reviews
in Audeamus - How dare we..., on June 20, 2009
... © Ed Yourdon
In these current times, social responsibility has never been more important in the business world. It's easy to find about whether large companies act responsibly. But how do yo...
Taking a Chance
in Next Nine Months, on June 19, 2009
...haven't been the same since.
About a year later, my wife was pregnant again and like so many times before, we lost it. This time it was different. We knew what we lost. It was terrible. We manag... ...halie
Let me start off by making it clear that I don't know what a woman goes through when they have a miscarriage. I know what I think they're going through, but as we all know, a woman...
Fiber for Nerve Repair Derived from Chitosan and Polyester
in The Biotech Weblog, on June 19, 2009
...lend required twice as much force to push the tube halfway shut as the other biomaterial, and eight times as much force as the collagen tube.
The new material showed promise for nerve guides but woul...
Mafia cashes in on crisis
in Sox First, on June 19, 2009
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Fascinating story in the Financial Times about how the Mafia has been cashing in on the financial crisis with two apparently "Japanese" men bringing $134 billion worth of fake Treasury... ...surprise anyone who has spent some time there. Still, maybe the mafia has something to offer here. They do, after all, have lots of cash. Ill-gotten or not, it's worth something and provides busi...
Giveaway: Musical Maestro Super Bed
in WebKinzBlog, on June 18, 2009
...per cool new Super Bed.
To enter:
-Post your username on the thread
-This time, you can AS MANY TIMES AS YOU WANT. Seriously, go nuts!
-Drawing will be held on late night Sunday - good luck to ev...
Look After YOur Man This Fathers' Day
in Straightfromthedoc, on June 18, 2009
...ve medicine at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn. "Women tend to see the doctor two or three times more than men."
So where does that leave us women? We nudge the guys in our lives to be ...
ASUS 与 Disney 联手打造儿童用 NetBook
in Wangtam, on June 18, 2009
当前经济衰退中，许多玩具公司避免推出高价产品， Disney 却逆势而行，打算在假期销售旺季来临前推出售价 350 美元的儿童 netBook 。
这款 netBook "Disney Netpal"将于7月底起在美国和加拿大的 Toys "R" US 店铺和 Amazon 销售。
美泰和孩之宝(Hasbro)等玩具公司以及 Toys "R" US 等零售商则认为，因失业率上升、楼市低迷及信贷紧缩影响到父母的消费能力，因此价格便宜的玩具会更受欢迎。
Disney 表示，这是该公司首次在北美推出笔记本电脑，五年前该公司曾试图...
U.S. Open vs The Weather
in Eagle Par Birdie, on June 18, 2009
...ominous element: the weather.
The forecast for the entire tournament just stinks. Rain, heavy at times, thunderstorms and showers are the projected story right through until early next week.
The c...
Does Obama's patchwork overhaul go far enough?
in Sox First, on June 18, 2009
...just not good enough. As New York University economics professor Lawrence White told the New York Times : "It's the equivalent of grabbing the rating agencies by the lapels, shaking them, a... ...f the financial services in 70 years. The reforms are to be applauded and are long overdue. But are they enough? Can they be undone or jettisoned? Will they stick? I have two problems with the change...
How MySpace fell behind
in Sox First, on June 17, 2009
...the number of users, MySpace went backwards. What caused this? Analysts have told the Los Angeles Times that much of it has to do with the MySpace fixation on its portal strategy portal strategy wh... ... bailouts (the banks should be so lucky) and will have to radically change their business models if they are to survive....
Could Childhod Obesity Be Declining?
in Straightfromthedoc, on June 16, 2009
...may be influencing a general shift in eating preferences among children.
Read full report at NY Times .
... ...ying a big part in these trends. Families may not be eating out as much, but that doesn't mean they're eating any better at home.
The findings, based on survey data by the Chicago market res...
Throwing the book at Madoff
in Sox First, on June 16, 2009
...perjury and theft, faces up to 150 years in jail. And his victims want exactly that! The New York Times reports that Madoff's victims, many of them widows and war veterans had sent 100 emails a...
How to Create an Action Plans
in Biz Plan Hacks, on June 15, 2009
Times are tough. In the midst of tough times, sometimes a business manage has to do something . But deciding to do something is different than deciding how to do something...
Entrepreneur.com had a good piece recently on creating an action plan. This is the number one secret to effective goal...
IBM's confusing cloud strategy
in The CIO Weblog, on June 15, 2009
...
On the first read-through of this New York Times' article on IBM's plans to entice the enterprise with cloud computing offerings, you might be pardoned for simply assuming that Big Blue... ...ting... yeah, that doesn't mean anything to me, either ) it doesn't instill much faith that they actually understand the concept.
That understanding is neither here nor there for potential cu...
Is Algae the Real Future of Biofeul?
in IfEnergy, on June 12, 2009
...airly lengthy piece looks at the state of biofuel from algea and points out that algae could be 100 times more productive per acre for biodiesel than soybeans. Plus, no one eats algae.
© neurmadic...
In Search of a Cool Summer: Lake Baikal, Siberia
in Hidden Travel Gems, on June 12, 2009
...ust 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 often under 80 degrees on those days. Temperatures at ...
Giveaway: Running shoe racer
in WebKinzBlog, on June 12, 2009
...ay a Running Shoe Racer!
To enter:
-Post your username on the thread
-This time, you can AS MANY TIMES AS YOU WANT. Seriously, go nuts!
-Drawing will be held on late night Sunday - good luck to ev...
Recession and marriage
in Sox First, on June 12, 2009
... (for that matter, 11% are postponing marriage) because of economic woes. Writing in the New York Times , John Hopkins University sociology professor Andrew J. Cherlin says the paradox is that it wi... ...urn. "The Depression destroyed the inner life of many married couples, but it was years before they could afford to file for divorce," Cherlin writes. "Today's economic slump could ...
ROI metrics for SOA
in The CIO Weblog, on June 11, 2009
...ributes versus other efforts? Or do you shut down every other cost-saving effort in these difficult times just so you can see how the SOA is doing? Is SOA the only thing affecting your application dev... ...time on them. You need them exactly when the effects are too fuzzy to ballpark or guesstimate; when they themselves are simply guesstimates of their own, I'm not sure I see the value.
If you'...
Hard times for logistics and transportation companies...
in Supplychainer, on June 11, 2009
...s to survive such periods, joint efforts with union organizations seem like good starting points as they result in savings and don't destroy morale as much.
...
Who would buy a newspaper?
in Sox First, on June 11, 2009
...e horse and buggy. In that context, it's fascinating to read the reports of how the New York Times is now selling the Boston Globe after cutting journalists' pay there by 23%. Whether they&... ...
Last month, I did a blog entry on Warren Buffett warning that newspapers had no future and that they would go the way of the horse and buggy. In that context, it's fascinating to read the re...
FDA's Annette McCarthy: We Can Manage Nanotech Food Safety
in Nanotechbuzz, on June 11, 2009
...safety should examine its 'impact on identity and toxicity.'"
More here from Small Times.
...
Rental Rates for that House at the Beach this Summer are Down
in The Flyaway Weblog, on June 10, 2009
...If you're thinking of renting a place this summer as part of your vacation, the NY Times says you should be very happy with the price you get in the current market - and it might pay you to shop... ...to the paper, houses on Cape Cod that usually go for almost $7,000 a week are down by about $1,000. They give examples of similar price cuts from New England to the Carolinas...
© terren in Virgin...
Will the Volt save GM?
in Sox First, on June 10, 2009
With Toyota unveiling its third generation Prius, it's time to ask whether GM's Volt will be able to match the competition. Or for that matter, save GM. We read in the report here that the car comes with a new four cylinder engine with more horsepower and special braking, which recap...
Wells Fargo accused of pushing bad loans on African-Americans
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on June 8, 2009
...ortgage loan officers are supposed to be looking out for the best interests of their clients at all times. They're the experts. When they push a certain loan at borrowers, they're supposed to ... ...henever I tell people that borrowers shouldn't always be blamed for the bad mortgage loans that they take out, I get sneers. These borrowers should have done their homework before taking out a mor...
Subprime and racism
in Sox First, on June 7, 2009
...eing targeted in a federal lawsuit alleging it steered blacks into subprime mortgages. The New York Times reports that Well Fargo employees employees referred to blacks as "mud people" and t... ...uot;ghetto loans". Furthermore, there are claims that the bank targeted black churches because they had so much influence. A New York Times analysis reveals that black households making more than...
Aneesh Chopra, Chief Technology Officier
in The Search Engine Weblog, on June 7, 2009
... also a new Chief Information Officer, Vivek Kundra. And he was appointed before Chopra.
The NT Times has published an interview with Chopra that spells out how he sees the job. The article poin... ... Chopra has four objectives (articulated recently to Rahm Emanuel, the White House chief of staff). They are:
Economic growth through innovation
Addressing presidential priorities through innovati...
Barcelona: Things to Do
in Wandalust, on June 7, 2009
...been to Barcelona , but not in this millennium/ I'd love to go back.
I saw a piece in the NY Times not long ago on tings to do in the city. At least it was an article on things the author of th...
Giveaway: Prom-tastic
in WebKinzBlog, on June 5, 2009
... giveaway two of them.
To enter:
-Post your username on the thread
-This time, you can AS MANY TIMES AS YOU WANT. Seriously, go nuts!
-Drawing will be held on Sunday night - good luck to everyon...
Self Foot Examination Against Needless Diabetic Amputations
in Daily Diabetic, on June 4, 2009
...y of nerve disorders caused by diabetes, are present in about 70 percent of diabetic patients. Sometimes there are no symptoms and other times there may be tingling or loss of feeling, very commonly i...
