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Scary study on how lack of IPOs is harming US economy

The cart before the horse?With low skilled/educated labor and low negative savings rate, I don't think the ingredients for a fundamental rebound exist in the US. I guess Wall Street would like to continue to be able to fleece us, but hopefully, being taken once is enough for most investors....

Tags: Sarbanes-Oxley, Regulatory compliance, Regulations, Sarbanes-Oxley Act, economic destruction, same policy, IPO, carbon tax, USSR, socialist

Discussion threads 2009-11-06

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Green building boom

Somebody please explain something here.How can these green building--and associated manufacturing--jobs not be the same old "not green" jobs just slid into a new spot? Are these in addition to the "not green" jobs. Are the old "not green" just canned and dropped from the rolls of humanity....

Tags: Recruitment & Selection, McGraw-Hill Construction, job

Discussion threads 2009-11-11

Will there be a new energy and air pollution law?

NOIf we the People have anything to say about it this legislation will die a quick death."cap and trade" = the economic destruction of the US based on junk science.This is the largest fraud ever perpetrated against the people of the World.It's not about the environment. It's about power, money,...

Tags: Litigation, pollution

Discussion threads 2009-11-02

40 years ago the Internet was born - now it devalues everything it touches

you are devaluing your proffesionshame on you.internet is one of the greatest invention in human history.Establishing walled islands on the InternetThe Internet is like a huge river, or better yet, sea, that allows users to move from small island to small island web application, to find the things they care...

Tags: Web site development, e-reader software, e-reader, Internet, Web site

Discussion threads 2009-10-29

The really inconvenient truth: real price of our energy

I've blogged before about the need for a new energy calculus. Not just market and whosesale costs to the user of the energy. Economics and business have a notoriously short-sighted, narrow-minded set of considerations. Haven't we just re-learned that ancient lesson from the hedge funder corruption and...

Tags: Coal, Inconvenient Truth, Energy, Food & Beverage, Mortgages, Manufacturing, Finance, Capital Structures, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-10-17

Head 'em up. Move 'em out. Keep those clunkers rollin'

Head 'em up. Move 'em out. Keep those clunkers rollin'Wow, this is a real tech issue.NOT.Oh come on! :) A tree hugger like you?Doesn't want Congress spending a measly 3 billion dollars to add 10 MPG to a million drivers?Think of all the *gasoline* that won't be burnt!...

Tags: clunker

Discussion threads 2009-07-31

"Cooling trend" and global warming

"Cooling trend" and global warming"It?s because of money."That's the only true part of this blog.Yes, money explains why this blog is in ZDNet in the first place. Tech geeks need to be indoctrinated with tree hugging stuff as well.I'm not so worried about Global Warming...... than I'm concerned with the...

Tags: global warming

Discussion threads 2009-07-16

Google ChromeOS: Have people taken leave of their senses?

Reading the commentary from the likes of TechCrunch, Mashable, The Guardian and even our own esteemed Sam Diaz on the pre-launch (you've got another YEAR to wait) you'd think the Google ChromeOS was the closest thing to the second coming of Jesus Christ. Get a grip people. First up MG...

Tags: Google Inc., Operating System, Microsoft Corp., Netbook, Register, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Linux, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Open Source, Hardware, Software, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-07-08

News to know: Apple, iPhone 3GS; Google Voice; Blu-ray; Bartz

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Jason Hiner: Apple thumbs nose at Palm, reports 1 million iPhone 3G S units sold in 3 days CNBC:...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Google Inc., Information Technology, Voice, Andrew Nusca, Apple Inc., Apple iPhone 3G, Blu-ray, Carrier Strength, Microsoft Windows 7, Smart Phones, Strategy, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Management, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-06-23

SAPPHIRE and The Story of Stuff

Annie Leonard’s Story of Stuff sustainability presentation has been doing the rounds in American classrooms and has stoked up many on both sides of the political divide. On one side, parents tell of angst ridden kids now wondering about the ecological footprint of Lego and on...

Tags: Sustainability, General Motors Corp., Annie Leonard, Sustainability Question, James Farrar

Blog posts 2009-05-19

The coming wireline business implosion (and how you'll wind up paying for it)

Is the wired telecom business just as doomed as beleaguered automakers like GM and Chrysler and the newspaper industry? It's quite possible a few years down the line. And this wireline fallout will have ramifications well beyond the usual suspects such as AT&T and Verizon. Simply put, cutting the...

Tags: Bailout, Business, Craig Moffett, Finance, Financial Planning, Free Trade, Larry Dignan, Network, Networking, Personal Finance, Phone, Taxes, Telecom & Utilities, Telecommunications, Telecommunications Company, Telephony, Verizon Communications Inc., Wireline

Blog posts 2009-05-18

What Obama can do for and to open source

What Obama can do for and to open sourceSorry we let you down.It doesn't surprise me though. We are very focused on our agendas. The Obama Administration presents a large field of issues. The only thing I can say so far is that his choice to fill...

Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, Obama, open source

Discussion threads 2009-05-16

IT failure contributes to UK bank collapse

IT failure contributes to UK bank collapseThat's the price for choosing windozeIf the bank went with the FOSS and Linux, today would have been profitable not bankrupt.WowI didn't even see one mention of Windows in the article. I bet Linux can save us all from the looming economic destruction and...

Tags: UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, Operating systems, Java, information technology, Linux, F/OSS, J2EE, bank, Microsoft Windows, IT Failure

Discussion threads 2009-04-01

Politics of climate change overhwelming the science?

Politics of climate change overhwelming the science?RE: Politics of climate change overhwelming the science?Energy conservation is great and benefits everyone. Carbon credits are phony. Much warming data is built on computer models that don't show any warming unless a "correction factor" is added.If Al Gore is so serious about climate...

Tags: Taxes, Free trade, Personal finance, TVs, Energy Conservation, Carbon Credits, tax, Humanity!, climate change, Obamasiah, Climate Change

Discussion threads 2009-03-28

AMD CIO: Key to success is fusion of business acumen and tech innovation

The intersection and fusion of business insight and technological innovation is the key to creating successful new business models, said AMD Chief Information Officer Ahmed Mahmoud today in the keynote of Wharton Business School's 13th annual business technology conference, "Future Unleashed," in Philadelphia. In a "fireside chat"...

Tags: Innovation, Information Technology, IT Professional, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Technology, Strategy, Management, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2009-02-27

The coal war heats up

Coal is a major source of energy in the U.S. just as the U.S. is a majro producer of coal. We do not need to import coal the way we import two-thirds of the petroleum we consume. While we do import a small portion of the coal we...

Tags: Coal, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-02-14

Will Wikipedia fail?

Simply stated: according to cyberlaw professor Eric Goldman, Wikipedia will fail. According to Ars Technica, Goldman fancies Wikipedia, but thinks that the site contains the "seeds of its own destruction" -- and the online encyclopedia will need to choose between being "high quality" and "open" to survive....

Tags: Wikipedia, Wiki, Online Communications, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2009-02-12

News to know: Windows 7; Tax software guide; Extending your system's life

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily .  For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage Robin Harris: Give your system a mid-life kicker Ed Bott: How well does Windows 7 handle 512MB? Andrew Nusca: ZDNet's Ultimate Tax...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Google Inc., Phone, Microsoft Windows 7, Tax, Microsoft Corp., Intel Corp., Smart Phones, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Microsoft Windows, Telecom & Utilities, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, Operating Systems, Software, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-02-09

The WWII German Army was 80% Horse Drawn; Business Lessons from History

The bulk of the German Armyâ€"the dough feet of the normal infantry divisionsâ€"moved on shank's mare. The rifle companies' transport consisted of three-horse wagons, on which the troops loaded their packs, as did this outfit on campaign in Russia in the summer of 1941. Lone Sentry.com ...

Tags: Weapon, Machine, Collaboration, Groupware, Strategy, Enterprise Software, Software, Management, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2008-12-06

Shipping news: Globalization halted by credit crisis

DK Matai, chairman of the ATCA Open has written a very interesting article about global shipping of bulk cargo and how it has come to a halt because of the lack of letters of credit. Just five months ago it cost about $234,000 to rent a 170,000 tonne Capesize...

Tags: Cargo, Financial, Raw Material, Vessel, Globalization, Great Unwind, Reports, Financial Accounting, Finance, Tom Foremski

Blog posts 2008-11-22