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- Live Webcast: Calculated Risk: Inside the Billion-Dollar 'Gut' of Goldman Sachs
- While competitors were still betting big on mortgage-backed securities, Goldman Sachs began betting against such derivatives at the start of 2007, even though this was still the fastest-growing business on Wall Street. While it didn't escape the credit crisis without recording a loss in the last quarter of 2008 and...
- Tags: Business Structures, Charles Ellis, Ellis, Finance, Financial, Financial Accounting, Financial Services, Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Management, Personal Finance, Robert Arvanitis, Strategy, Webcast
- Webcasts 2009-02-11
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- With AppSense, making sense of managing the virtual desktop user experience
- As more enterprises turn to virtual desktop infrastructure to save money and leverage the infrastructure they already have, managing the user experience has become critical. But how do you maintain standardization across large organizations while keeping the user happy at each log on? AppSense...
- Tags: AppSense, Virtual Desktop, Desktop Virtualization, Virtualization, Desktops, Hardware, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2009-10-12
- The Death of Bunny Munro 1.0 (Mobile)
- The Death of Bunny Munro developed in conjunction with Canongate Books, contains full e-book application, unabridged audio book synchronized to the text, read by the author with an original soundtrack by Nick Cave and Warren Ellis, produced and sound-directed by Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard, and 11 videos of Cave...
- Tags: Mobile, Enhanced Editions, E-books, Personal Technology
- Software downloads 2009-09-15
- Works of Aristotle. FREE Author's biography & partial work in the trial 10.3 (Mobile)
- Indulge Yourself with the best classic literature on Your PDA. Navigate easily to any poem from Table of Contents or search for the words or phrases. Features Navigate from Table of Contents or search for words or phrases Make bookmarks, notes, highlights Searchable and interlinked. Access the e-book anytime, anywhere...
- Tags: Mobile, Biology, MobileReference, Business Ethics, Leadership, Management
- Software downloads 2009-09-10
- The Bronte Collection: Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights, Agnes Grey, Tenant of Wildfell Hall & MORE 10.1 (Mobile)
- Indulge Yourself with the best classic literature on Your PDA. Navigate easily to any poem from Table of Contents or search for the words or phrases. Features Navigate from Table of Contents or search for words or phrases Make bookmarks, notes, highlights Searchable and interlinked. Access the e-book anytime, anywhere...
- Tags: Tenant, Mobile, Biology, MobileReference
- Software downloads 2009-09-10
- Works of Aristotle. FREE Author's biography & partial work in the trial (Mobile)
- Indulge Yourself with the best classic literature on Your PDA. Navigate easily to any poem from Table of Contents or search for the words or phrases. Features Navigate from Table of Contents or search for words or phrases Make bookmarks, notes, highlights Searchable and interlinked. Access the e-book anytime, anywhere...
- Tags: Mobile, Biology, MobileReference, Business Ethics, Leadership, Management
- Software downloads 2009-09-10
- The Speakers Group: 'Women will be better represented'
- The last couple of weeks begot a bit of brouhaha when The Speakers Group posted a "top 10 list" of social media speakers that included only men. The Internet backlash was severe from a social media community up in arms, questioning why the speakers bureau couldn't find at least one...
- Tags: Women, Speaker, Blog, Social Media, Charlene, Gender And Diversity, Human Resources, Jennifer Leggio
- Blog posts 2009-08-04
- Poll: Blu-ray adoption is slow; big challenges ahead
- I have no plans to pick up a Blu-ray player anytime soon - and it looks like I'm not alone. The results of a Harris Interactive survey PDF released late last week revealed that 93 percent of Americans surveyed said they are not likely to buy a...
- Tags: TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Blu-Ray, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, DVD, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-06-22
- Adobe Web Awards at SxSWi 2009
- It's time for the award ceremony for SxSW Interactive. The event was held at the Hilton ballroom and hosted by Onion comedian Baratunde Thurston. The winners are listed below. I am very excited to dig though this list myself because these are the...
- Tags: Adobe Systems Inc., Web, Destination, Winner, Channel Management, Web Site Development, Internet, Marketing, Andrew Mager
- Blog posts 2009-03-15
- Netflix could have an open field as rival Blockbuster struggles
- Netflix, which has already proven to be recession resistant, could find itself with an open field of growth ahead as its primary bricks-and-mortar competition struggles. Throughout its history, Netflix has competed with Blockbuster. And its rival has sometimes made Netflix's profit margins shrink. But now the viability...
- Tags: NetFlix Inc., Blockbuster Inc., Bankruptcy, Litigation, Personal Finance, Business Operations, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-03-03
- Five things every Windows beta tester should know
- Five things every Windows beta tester should knowThe top 5 included are listed as....VirusesWormsSpywareMalwareTrojansThese are the top 5 in which it seems like they cannot secure any Windows OS and the only ones who understand the operating system are 'hackers & virus writers'...Meanwhile, Linux distro's command the server market with...
- Tags: Servers, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Thurrott, server market, server, Microsoft Windows, Linux Distro, Apache Software Foundation, operating system
- Discussion threads 2009-03-01
- CIO for Hire: Ignorance may be bliss, but it???s also dangerous
- CIO for Hire: Ignorance may be bliss, but it???s also dangerousUnfortunately, this level of denial is human nature.Remind me why people use Windows and then have to go through this ordeal just to be secure?Very strange article. Just like author had to write something.So called "home-built" applications (given that they...
- Tags: Microsoft Office, Databases, Microsoft Access
- Discussion threads 2009-02-24
- Don’t Bet On The Calculator. Bet On The Thinker.
- Sure, Goldman Sachs thinks it knows best or it wouldn’t have created its own digital system for analyzing financial risks it faces, aka its SecDB database and security pricing system. But that is not what has protected it from making the kind...
- Tags: Finance, Financial Accounting, Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Management, Marketing, Pricing, Strategy, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld
- Blog posts 2009-02-11
- Uncalculated Risk: The Fall Of Housing Prices. What Goldman Saw.
- This is the U.S. Census Bureau's graphing of housing values from 1940-2000. Nationally, housing prices march upward for six uninterrupted decades. This kept up for another six years. But as the S&P/Case-Shiller Index, below, shows housing prices --...
- Tags: Finance, Financial Accounting, Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Security, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld
- Blog posts 2009-02-10
- McAfee Total Protection for Endpoint - Advanced Simplifies Security Risk Management at Ellis Hospital
- Ellis Hospital, based in Schenectady, New York, includes a 360-bed, full-service health care facility, a School of Nursing, a mental health clinic, the 40-bed Bellevue Women's Center, and three small patient centers for administering inoculations and drawing blood. Ellis Hospital needs to keep patient data and systems secure using minimal...
- Tags: McAfee Inc., Ellis Hospital, Patient, Health Care, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Security, Human Resources
- Case studies 2009-02-01
- Fighting the battle against identity theft
- Fighting the battle against identity theftMy mail and DL from Tx. and some checksThese items were taken. My apartment mail key was also snatched. Luckily the complex had old mail units and they were replaced shortly after id discovered what was going on. My license came up missing from...
- Tags: Jason Ellis, bank, identity theft
- Discussion threads 2008-11-20
- Using Flash and Silverlight to move web standards forward
- Via John Carroll I saw a blog post by Paul Ellis in which he talks about the shortcomings of open standards, or more specifically, standards bodies, and how that affects the open web. In short, it's led to the innovation and widespread adoption of proprietary technologies like Flash and Silverlight....
- Tags: Innovation, Web, W3C, Microsoft Silverlight, Standards, Alex Russell, Channel Management, Marketing, Ryan Stewart
- Blog posts 2008-07-15
- Bill Gates bids farewell
- Bill Gates bids farewellHe brought a lot to the computer world!Yeah, vicious predation, greed, and arrogance.iMiss BilliWill miss Bill. He brought a lot to the computer world!Bill Gates bids farewellA fine speech from a magnificent man! He had visions, he had missions, he had it all! The IT...
- Tags: Strategy, Microsoft Windows NT, Bill Gates, Abramoff, Preston Gates, vision, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-06-27
- Whispers will not kill fair use
- Boingboing reports, via Google lawyer William Patry, that some large entertainment companies have launched a "whisper campaign" aimed at killing fair use. Governments are being told, in effect, that the U.S. Copyright law is incompatible with the Berne Convention, an international treaty on which copyright laws worldwide...
- Tags: Use, Government, Vertical Industries, Servers, Enterprise Software, Software, Hardware, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-04-10
- Some systems showing incredible SP1 performance boost - Day 6
- Some systems showing incredible SP1 performance boost - Day 6Nothing to be impressed about ...Vista's performance was ridiculous, so any fix would show up as significant improvement.Now, the real question is how does the performance compare with the previous MS OS version (ie: XP). Base on what has being...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Performance management, tech world, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Vista, performance, SP1 performance boost, SP1 performance, incredible SP1 performance, SP1, Day 6, Microsoft Windows XP
- Discussion threads 2008-02-12
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