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The Mercedes Folding Bike

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Google releases an OS after all

And the development project, much sought and speculated over for years now, has been hiding in plain sight the whole time: Google's Chrome web browser project. Since Google has done little more than announce the operating system so far, all the speculation over who this is aimed at and w...

G8 squibs it on climate change

On the face of it, the news , the decision of the G8 leading industrial countries to try and limit global warming to just 2C (3.6F) above pre-industrial levels by 2050 is heartening. But look between the lines and you'll see it's nothing to get excited about. First, we don't know ...

T-Mobile USA Launches myTouch 3G Android Phone

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 ...

The world's oldest bible reunited online

• The world's oldest bible reunited online • HTML 5 Cheat Sheet (PDF) • Twitter意外中止用户帐户 官方证实存在并修复 • Paging Dr. Grey • Nokia denies plans phone running Google's Android • Apple may add micro projectors to iPhones, iPod touches • Internet, Twitter blocked in China city after ethni...

Madoff's tough spell

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 Kozlowski (8 to 25 years), Bernie Ebbers (25 years) and Jeff Skilling 24 years and 4 months). Mado...

Europe Gets Universal Phone Charger Standard and I am Jealous

© juhansonin I love 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 Europe is about to have a unified cell phone charging standard. I am absolu...

Oprah Winfrey - Kreuzfahrt als Belohnung

© Alan Light Das nenne ich mal einen netten Betriebsausflug: die US-Moderatorin Oprah Winfrey hat ihren Mitarbeitern mal eben eine Kreuzfahrt spendiert. Das berichtet Promiflash , wo es zu diesem Thema heißt: Ihre neueste Geste der Dankbarkeit richtet sich an ihr gesamtes Kollegium. Ihre 10...

Did Sonia Sotomayor's mortgage views help send county into recession?

You'll often hear conservative commentators 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: Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, along with other advoc...

CIA recruits bankers

If you've been retrenched as a banker or hedge fund manager, don't worry. There's plenty 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&qu...

The Man Who Might Have Saved General Motors

On April 1, 2009, Bob Lutz, GM's vice-president of global product development, stepped down from his esteemed position. This move may have been unexpected but I think I know why he did it. First, for those of you unfamiliar with a man whom we automobile journalists affectionately dubbed "...

PCAOB chairman Mark Olson quits. What now for Sarbanes-Oxley?

The big news around now is the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board announcement that its chairman Mark Olson is resigning "to establish new priorities". Whatever that may mean. The interesting part about this announcement is that it comes a few weeks after the US Supreme Court...

Time Warner Inc. Announces Plan to Separate AOL

• Time Warner Inc. Announces Plan to Separate AOL • Bing! Microsoft Prepares For War With A Revamped Search Engine (Screenshots) • AOL Spinoff Approved Last Night by Time Warner Board: Here Are the Inside Details (Not in the Press Release) • AOL Spinoff Approved Last Night by Time Warner Boar...

Adobe Presentations Online

• Adobe Presentations Online • 荷兰皇家壳牌有限公司新CEO宣布进行重大重组，合并三个部门 • 商业周刊：俄罗斯公司为何投资Facebook • 金山软件第一季净利1亿元同比增77% • 网上"黄牛"倒卖信用卡积分 • "快女"网选出现造假事件 真实性成争议 • Computer Keyboard Typing Course • Seven Questions About the Zune HD • Kutcher threatens to stop Twittering • Time ...

Pay cuts fail to save HP jobs

Despite the across-the-board pay cuts HP CEO Mark Hurd made (and I lauded ) two months ago, the latest quarterly results have proven disappointing and the outlook no better, leading the company to announce that it will be making recession-related layoffs after all... 6000 jobs over the next ...

Amgad Jewelry

Fine Color Diamond Jewelry Offering a vast array of some of the rarest natural color diamonds in the world, Amgad is one of the world's foremost suppliers of natural color diamonds. With a reputation for quality and service spanning over 40 years, Amgad offers consumers an unmatched selecti...

伊朗封锁Facebook和Twitter

• 伊朗封锁Facebook和Twitter • 李嘉诚郭广昌欲竞购国美电器股权 • 商业周刊 ： 挖掘网络友情背后价值 • Palm Eos on track for AT&T release second half of 2009 • HTC Lancaster is a QWERTY slider with Android for AT&T • Apple changes its mind, accepts Eucalyptus app • Hither Eucalyptus! • PatchMateXP Creates a Windows ...

Samsung i637 Jack Review

AT&T has recently launched the Samsung i637 Jack Windows Mobile 6.1 Standard Edition Smartphone. It is the successor to the Samsung Black Jack II and looks more like the Blackberry Bold. The new Jack is also upgradable to Windows Mobile 6.5. Here are the details of the device: Dimensions:...

Finally

I see Gartner is finally getting on board the "Skip Vista" bandwagon, a bit too late to be of much use to any audience which might have made productive use of the analysis, but anyway, you know, welcome. More surprising is the quote later in the same article from Senior VP for Wi...

The deplorable state of mathematics education today

Today's complimentary "[SAAS_PROVIDER_OUTAGE] Shows Cloud Not Ready For Enterprise" story brought to you by eWeek: "Google Outage Shows the Cloud May Not Be Enterprise-Ready." No, we're not really going to talk about math education here today (although this may of...

CostPlus supply chain chief steps down

Cost Plus, a specialty retailer of casual home living and entertaining products, has announced that Ray Whitley, senior vice president of supply chain, has left the company. According to Trading Markets , Mr Whitley's position will not be replaced and his responsibilities have been assign...

Facebook for Windows Mobile 6

• Facebook for Windows Mobile 6 • Twitter Follower Check - Quickly See Following Relationships • Speed Test: Windows 7 May Not Be Much Faster Than Vista • Twitterrific 2.0 Makes Twitter Terrific on the iPhone • OdyseeTV • Spitfire | Web Based Software CMS for Business • Elovivo • KIDO...

Fujitsu Ups the Ante on Data Security

© CarbonNYC My wife lost a Blackjack Smartphone a few years ago, and all she had to do was contact her IT department and the phone was wiped remotely. Some Blackberrys and even the iPhone can handle the simple task of remote wipe. Why is it then that we keep hearing in the news that a laptop ...

宝马汽车第一财季净亏1.52亿欧元

• 宝马汽车第一财季净亏1.52亿欧元 • Sorry Apple, Biz Stone says Twitter's not for sale • Can a Palm Pre multitask better than an iPhone? • Robot to create Facebook profile • South Carolina Gives Craigslist Ultimatum: Remove Prostitution Or Face Criminal Charges • Six Easy Ways to Graph Your Life •...

Norwegian Epic im Dali-Look

Wenn ich ehrlich bin: mir gefällt´s. Denn wer sagt, dass ein Kreuzfahrtschiff immer nur weiß sein muss. Die Norwegian Cruise Line hat ihr neuesten Schiff, die "Norwegian Epic" nun angestrichen und sich ein besonderes Feature einfallen lassen. So heißt es auf der Webseite des Daily Mirr...

Mother's Day Rally for Moms' Mental Health Features Top Mommybloggers & Parenting Authors

This Mother's Day - Sunday, May 10, 2009 - the first Mother's Day Rally for Moms' Mental Health will be held online, featuring 24 open letters to new mothers on the importance of maternal mental health. All of the letters will be written by survivors of and experts on perinatal m...

SOX and complacency

Has Sarbanes Oxley lulled us into complacency and a false sense of security? That's the suggestion from Georgetown University law professor Ethan S Burger in this piece Today's Financial Crisis, Corporate Governance, and the Issue of Third-Party Liability . The problem, he says, is ...

The next accounting battle

If you thought fair value was an almighty bun fight, you ain't seen nothing yet. The International Accounting Standards Board is tackling off balance sheet vehicles that have destroyed so much wealth and the Financial Accounting Standards Board plans to put out new rules for the United S...

Lost American Marques: Hupmobile

To modern ears Hupmobile , as the name of a car, might sound a little odd. Oldsmobile, yes, for Olds has a pleasant ring to it but Hupmobile? Still, that didn't prevent more than a million owners from buying and enjoying these mid-size, middle-class, and often distinctive motor cars until th...

Supply chain video: Getting supply chain on the boardroom agenda

According to a new poll in Supply Chain Summit in Europe event, half of the companies don't have supply chain representation in the boardroom even though it's quite important. That's why Cranfield University prepared a short video discussing the topic with with Dr. Richard Wilding. ...

Novelist Hammers Out Novel on Smartphone

© Teo When it comes to smartphone typing, I am all thumbs, or maybe I am not thumb enough. Which ever the case, I can barely work my way around a competent email on my iPhone let alone type an entire document. I cannot imagine what sci-fi author Peter Brett went through. He knocked out ov...

SM-HE16 RFID Tag: Survival of the Fittest

How about an RFID tag which survives in temperatures where even lead fails to maintain its shape? This is what William Frick intends to achieve with its latest range of RFID solutions aimed at high heat applications. Their Double Teflon-Coated RFID tag can survive in extreme temperatures and ...

Louisiana Supreme Court Rules In Favor Of Board Certified Interventional Pain Physicians -- Ensuring Patient Safety

Here is new information regarding the American Society of Interventional Pain Physicians (ASIPP) and their recent victory in Louisiana preventing non-physicians from performing interventional pain techniques . From the press release I have received: ASIPP and the Louisiana Society of Inter...

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Oracle 出价 74 亿美元收购 Sun

Oracle 同意以 74 亿美元或每股 9.50 美元的价格收购 Sun ，预计该次并购于今年夏季完成。 Oracle 公司总裁 Safra Catz 称，预计该并购交易完成的第一财年，将促使 Oracle 公司依非国际公认会计原则（Non-GAAP）计算的每股盈利至少增加 15 美分。 Catz 指出，预计其收购 Sun 电子计算机公司的业务在并购第一财年将为 Oracle Non-GAAP 运营利润贡献 15 亿美元 ，第二财年贡献逾 20 亿美元。而并购 Sun 电子计算机公司第一财年将实现的每股收益要高于 Oracle 并购服务器软件供应商 BEA 系统公司的计划每股收益...

New LG Viewty II GC900 Phone announced

LG has officially announced the new Viewty handset known as the LG GC900 . It comes with a powerful 8 Megapixel camera featuring an Intelligent Shot Mode, which automatically analyzes scenes and adjusts camera settings making it easier to take pictures. Here are the details: Display: 3 inches ...

Elan Microelectronics demoes Multi-Touch on Android

A taiwenese company known as Elan Microelectronics has recently demonstrated Multi-Touch technology on the Android OS and they are also planning to sue Apple for stealing their Multi-Touch technology. The following video provides a demonstration of the Multi-Touch feature on the Android OS and it se...

New Hedge Fund Manager at SilkInvest

FSA regulated specialist asset management firm, Silk Invest Ltd, has hired John Bates, former Head of Credit Research Africa at investment bank Renaissance Capital, to spearhead its move into Frontier Fixed Income, an emergent hedge fund asset class. "We will offer a liquid Frontier M...

Xcaret: Cancun's Natural History Park

There's a lot to do in Cancun without taking in educational or cultural events. I could probably occupy my time there completely with just eating and slouching on the beach. But if you decide to expand your horizons beyond that, Xcaret , Cancun's natural history park, is an excellent pl...

10 secrets of the downturn leader

What are the secrets of the downturn leader? What sort of strategies are needed during a recession. I identify 10 of them in my piece here . The 10 secrets are communication, keeping up staff morale, maintaining or even increasing productivity, maintaining your own morale, looking at your ...

American Airlines Dropped The Ball. Repeatedly

© Job Garcia They got lucky. 138 passengers continued on with their day even after an engine caught fire shortly after American Airlines Flight 1400 departed Lambert-St. Louis International Airport back in 2007. The pilots, while thankfully bringing the McDonnell Douglas MD-80 jet safe...

Seattle TechExecs CIO Panel Forum

I left Seattle TechExecs CIO Panel Forum earlier today burning with unanswered questions. The event was interesting and informative, but I couldn't help but feel that it didn't live up to its potential as not a lot of forum-like activity happened until the very end. I was perhaps most inte...

The Panic of 2008-09

The financial crisis is more than just a global recession. It's a Panic, according to Kevin Warsh , a member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. In a speech to the Council of Institutional Investors, Warsh compares the conditions to the Panics of 1837, 1857, 1873, 18...

Fake Accounting Standards Board strikes again

As if last week's ruling the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB), which I have renamed the Fake Accounting Standards Board, wasn't bad enough. The FASB has ruled that companies can use their own judgement in assessing what an asset's worth under fair value, which in effect me...

Giving banks permission to lie

More fallout from the Financial Accounting Standard Board's latest attempt to make the banks happy. From now on, it should be called the Fake Accounting Standards Board. As Peter Schiff, the CEO of Euro Pacific Capital writes , the FASB's decision allowing companies to use their own j...

G20 and FASB: the banks win again

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown might proclaim the G20 summit as the beginning of a "new world order" but the reality is the financial crisis will be around for some time yet. Don't get too worked up about markets' celebrating the trillion dollar G20 deal. It's a suck...

Revisiting FAS 157, Again

Back in January we reported on how changes to FAS 157 were putting a hurt on financial institutions and many businesses. Now those rules are being softened, according to BusinessWeek . After intense pressure from lawmakers and some factions of the financial industry, the Financial Accounting Stan...

Clarifications on HP and Mark Hurd

Perhaps predictably, my praise of HP's handling of the recession touched a raw nerve, particularly among HP (or former HP) employees. Unfortunately this morning is also when our comments and editing system has decided to have a conniption (I'm looking at you, Amazon [just kidding... I b...

Getting the recession right

I've spent my share of time haranguing all the companies out there who are busily and arbitrarily slashing costs and headcounts in response to the financial crisis; now it's time to acknowledge one that has by and large gotten it right: Hewlett-Packard. I've already mentioned my ap...

Insomnia a Growing Problem for Many: Conventional Cures Are Not Always Enough

© lewis chaplin Topic: Running On Empty: Insomnia a Growing Problem for Many Conventional Cures Are Not Always Enough Expert: Gayle Green, 510-847-5640 (cell), Professor, Scripps College (Claremont, Ca), and author of Insomniac Contacts: Mary Bartlett, Scripps College, (909) 621-8223, mbar...

New directions on the IFRS roadmap

Earlier this month, I ran an interview with International Accounting Standards Board member Warren McGregor on a number of issues including the question of whether the United States would adopt the global accounting rules of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS). In that interview...

Accounting reshuffle

What happens when you are not happy with the accounting rule-makers? 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 a "systemic regulator"...

Squeezing accounting independence

The rule maker for accounting standards is coming under pressure again. Once more the Europeans are putting the heat on the International Accounting Standards Board to change the rules and let the banks hide their losses. The trouble is the IASB has already compromised its independence and cou...

Hedge Fund Manager Joins Water Reclamation Company

Long time hedge fund manager, Eric D. Pedersen has been appointed to The position of Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board of Directors at fresh water reclamation company, STW Resources, Inc. Pedersen has over 20 years of mergers and acquisitions and financing transaction experi...

Interview with Warren McGregor, IASB board member

I recently had a chat with Warren McGregor who is a member of the International Accounting Standards Board . Here is the interview. SOX FIRST: Last year, the IASB got rolled by the Europeans and was forced to change the rules to help banks avoid taking a hit. Are you still coming under press...

Counterpoint: Employers snoop away!

Photo courtesy of iStockphoto , Image# 6321121 Meridith Levinson posted an editorial yesterday calling on job-seekers to stand up to employers who are doing background research on the Internet and demand respect for their privacy. Your first thought on that is probably "Great timing! Y...

Nokia 5800 XpressMusic Is a Fine Music Player

True Story... I canceled two XM subscriptions this week. First, I wasn't happy with the rate hike, and then I was not happy with the going out of business death scream that XM/Sirus seems to be doing. Instead, I have been using an iPhone and FM transmitter. The system is not perfect, but i...

Lenten Recipe: Shrimp and Olive Pasta

For those who observe the Lenten season, try the Shrimp and Olive Pasta with Wisconsin Parmesan Cheese , featuring fresh asparagus (usher in springtime!), olives and shrimp in a white wine sauce, tossed with rotini pasta and grated Parmesan cheese, courtesy of the Wisconsin Milk Marketing Boa...

Still in the dark on Steve Jobs

Last month, I did a blog entry slagging off at the Apple board and its total failure of corporate governance, keeping shareholders in the dark about Steve Jobs, his health and the likelihood or otherwise of him staying at the company. If nothing else, the board confirmed its ineptitude at the...

Dual Keyboard Smartphone Coming to AT&T

Pantech's latest smartphone poses the question; just how many keyboards is too many? Running Windows Mobile 6.1, their latest candy bar is known as the Matrix Pro and will feature not one but two slide-out keyboards. Successor to the Matrix released late last year, the new Matrix Pro is...

Passive Tags to work on power pulled out of thin air?

This is what scientists from University of Washington and Intel intend to achieve in the near future - passive tags which would work on power derived from air. If I talk in near technical terms then these tags would derive RF power from several sources such as radio, television, cellphone base ...

Samsung To Develop Android Equipped Phones

samsung has finalized plans to get on board with Google's much publicized mobile operation system, Android. The world's second-largest mobile phone maker said it will begin producing and selling more than three phone models running Google's open-source platform by the end of t...

HTC Magic coming to Vodafone soon

vodafone has announced at the MWC that it will soon be launching the second Android Smartphone known as the HTC Magic. The HTC Magic looks a lot like the T-Mobile G1 but it will be missing out on the physical QWERTY keyboard that was found on the G1. It will also come with a new firmware know...

SaaS expected to grow through the downturn

For a dim ray of sunshine in the middle of an otherwise gloomy day (gloomy, at least, for anyone watching the markets) I refer you to a recent study from IDC forecasting a continued expansion in the SaaS market despite our overall economic woes. This isn't just good news for SaaS investors an...

Now your active RFID Tags will last longer

Photo courtesy of iStockphoto , Image# 2922129 How about an RFID tag which delivers more than its potential? Planar Energy Devices has gone ahead and energized your active RFID tags. It has come up with a platform which integrates wireless RF harvesting/charging system and lithium ion battery ...

Ireland Hopes to Become Electric Car Hub

Justin Moresco had an interesting piece yesterday morning about Ireland's efforts to attract foreign investment by becoming a model for the switch to electric cars. The government of Prime Minister Brian Cowen originally proposed the plan back in November. As part of the Electric Vehicle pla...

Google Experimenting with AJAX Search Results

Photo courtesy of iStockphoto , Image# 863840 SEO Smackdown's Michael VanDeMar broke the news that Google now appears to be delivering AJAX-based search results. "AJAX can use more memory than pages generated by flat HTML, especially in Internet Explorer, so some older machines w...

An Olympic Sham

I received an email today from the folks at Mastro Communications in New Jersey. They represent one of the companies that's underwriting a website where golfers can "vote" to have golf added to the roster of sports in the 2016 Olympic Games. This June, the International Gol...

BP, Dominion Power Look to Bring Windmills to Bluefield

I attended a public hearing last night. Tazewell County, Virginia is considering an ordinance to regulate the construction of "tall structures" on ridge lines in the Central Appalachian county. BP Wind Energy and a power company called Dominion want to put 400-feet tall wind turbines o...

AOL 宣布裁员 700 人

TC 消息 ， AOL CEO Randy Falco 上周在致全体员工的备忘录中表示，受经济衰退的影响，公司将裁员 700 人。 Falco 在备忘录中称公司将裁员 700 人，占员工总数的 10%。同时还将冻结 2009 年全年的加薪计划。"全球经济衰退已经影响到每一个角落，包括我们自己。" Falco 表示。 本月初， AOL 的母公司时代华纳其 2008 年的营收预期下调了 3.7 亿美元，这意味着其旗下 AOL 的广告营收同比下降了 18%，大约为 6400 万美元。 上周，Google 承认其于 2005 年收购 AOL 5% 股份已成为一笔亏本生...