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- SocGen: it's worse, they knew.
- The French finance ministry has slammed Société Génerale, saying they knew there were deficiencies in their approach to controlling risk prior to rogue trader Jérome Kerviel's disastrous run. Finextra reports that: French Finance Minister Christine Lagarde told reporters that SocGen failed to apply appropriate controls over Jérome Kerviel, who...
- Tags: Bank, Risk Management, Finance Ministry, Financial Services, Financial Planning, Strategy, Financial Accounting, Security, Finance, Management, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-02-04
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- Ballmer seeks to justify Microsoft's bottomless-pit online spending
- Ballmer seeks to justify Microsoft's bottomless-pit online spendingBallmer Justifies Bottomless PitIt's called his STOMACH.Where is the return on these investments?They are no closer to competing with Google than before Ballmer started this spending spree. When people think "search" they think Google. It's that simple. No one thinks Yahoo or...
- Tags: Financial accounting, Microsoft Corp., Steve Ballmer, 3M Co.
- Discussion threads 2008-07-24
- Speculation over possible Skype backdoor
- There's growing speculation coming out of Europe that there's a backdoor in Skype that allows remote eavesdropping of telephone conversations. A report in the reputable Heise Online says the issue was discussed at a meeting with ISPs last month where high-ranking officials at the Austrian interior...
- Tags: Skype Technologies S.A., Telecom & Utilities, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Internet, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-07-24
- Inside the mind - and config - of Terry Childs
- Inside the mind - and config - of Terry ChildsGuilty of Incompetency in Office Politics, Being a JerkThe word is that Childs was the sole keeper of the passwords for months if not years, and management was aware of the situation during this period.The new director of security took a...
- Tags: Workforce management, IT Field, Terry Childs
- Discussion threads 2008-07-23
- What people hate most about health insurance
- What people hate most about health insurancetry medicaid if you want a real headacheIf you think your paid insurance is bad, try living on SS or SSI, yet being expected to make co-pays on everything they can find to ding you on, it may sound like no big deal if...
- Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Insurance, health care, health insurance
- Discussion threads 2008-07-23
- The App Store's buggy update process
- The App Store's buggy update processI got mine to updateBasically when it gave me that "find all the updates" screen, I would just look for version numbers that had changed (this is easy to do now that everything is 1.0 generally, it will only get harder as time goes on,...
- Tags: Desktops, Apple iPhone, Apple Inc., App Store, cryptic error message, Apple Macintosh
- Discussion threads 2008-07-22
- Yahoo: Microhoo, Icahn drama cost us $22 million; Economy soft
- The Carl Icahn proxy battle and Microsoft buyout drama appears to have been a slight distraction for Yahoo, which is seeing slowing display ad demand amid a weak economy. Yahoo on Tuesday reported second quarter net income of $131 million, or 9 cents a share, on revenue of...
- Tags: Revenue, Jerry Yang, Advertisement, Yahoo! Inc., Operational Accounting, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-07-22
- E-gold owners plead guilty to money laundering
- E-gold owners plead guilty to money launderingGoodbye privacy?Cash leads to crime, too. Should we enforce credit/debit card payments only? If so, let's ban gold trading altogether!I will be obvious and boring then...[Please excuse my poor "Engrish" and my rushed-up style.]Hi guys.I don't agree with your opinion and thought a very...
- Tags: Identity theft, Taxes, Free trade, Financial accounting, Financial Planning, Financial services, bank transaction, e-Gold, tax, financial
- Discussion threads 2008-07-22
- Microsoft's search ambitions are its Vietnam
- Microsoft's search ambitions are its VietnamMicrosoft's search ambitions are its VietnamThe simple answer is no. Microsoft has Google envy? Since when? Google has been in constant decline for a couple of years now. Microsoft on the other hand has been growing. Their interest in search is...
- Tags: Tools & Techniques, Live Mesh, Microsoft Corp., Google Inc., software
- Discussion threads 2008-07-18
- From Chapter one: Data Processing and the IBM Mainframe
- From Chapter one: Data Processing and the IBM MainframeGood PostIn those days i was the Manager of Technical Services and Computer Operations and remember not too fondly the innumerable meetings, courses, seminars required to implement changes. The technique "Structured or Top-down programming" was used to insure data integrity when program...
- Tags: Mainframes, Servers, mainframe, Y2K, IS-department, data-processing, IBM mainframe, business rule, IBM Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-07-18
- From Chapter one: Data Processing and the IBM Mainframe
- The controls that developed around the 360 environment were all predicated on the primary concerns expressed by Finance management: that nothing interrupt processing critical to Finance. Thus virtually all of them derive from, or are subsidiary to, the service level agreement. by Paul Murphy
- Tags: SLA, IBM Mainframe, Data Center, Mainframe, Data-processing, IBM Corp., CoBiT Framework, CoBiT, Systems Documentation, Disaster Plan, Data Centers, Service Level Management, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, It Operations, It service Management, Paul Murphy
- Blog posts 2008-07-18
- Microhoo, MicroAOL, and challenging Google
- Microhoo, MicroAOL, and challenging GoogleContentUnless you're including content in your definition of an advertising platform, you've left out a most important factor. People look at ads because of what else is on the page. And that other material has to be located and purchased profitably.Yahoo has been successful...
- Tags: Web browsers, Financial accounting, Google Inc., Microsoft Corp., Yahoo! Inc., America Online Inc., advertisement
- Discussion threads 2008-07-17
- Evaluating the cost of solar
- J. Michael Horowitz of the Stanford Group moderates a discussion on ‘green‘ finance and operational and maintenance costs associated with new solar projects at the Intersolar Conference 2008 and Greentech Media conference. Panel guests include Bob Cart of GreenVolts, Robert Morgan of Ausra, Suvi Sharma of Solaria, and John...
- Tags: Cost, Conference, Financial Accounting, Finance, Solar
- Videos 2008-07-16
- Big Brother Getting Bigger Part 2: United Kingdom
- In a move to bring direct competition to the US on who can be the bigger, badder, more blatant Big Brother, the United Kingdom has apparently decided to create a database holding the telephone numbers and email accounts of everyone in Britain. The details of every phone conversation, SMS, and...
- Tags: Phone, Mr., Data Communications Bill, Internet, Storage, Databases, Telecom & Utilities, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Nathan McFeters
- Blog posts 2008-07-16
- Jerry Yang: Listen to ... Jerry Yang
- Jerry Yang, poker player, AP News It's been a bad year for Jerry Yangs. The one everyone knows, the Stanford student who is a co-founder of Yahoo, is getting pistol-whipped by Google, founded by other Stanford students. Yet he refuses to...
- Tags: Jerry Yang, Yahoo! Inc., Channel Management, Marketing, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld
- Blog posts 2008-07-10
- Yahoo's desperate search times call for open source
- Yahoo has opened its search for developers to customize in its latest step in what it calls its Open Strategy, a plan to make Yahoo a platform. The effort is dubbed Yahoo Search BOSS, which allows "allows developers and companies to create and launch web-scale search products...
- Tags: Yahoo! Inc., BOSS, RealNetwork, Open Source, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-07-10
- Google's secret project turns out to be Second Life
- Google's secret project turns out to be Second LifeIt it's Second Life but with so much moreAs you said, Google's Lively is pretty much a version of Second Life but it'll be 10x more successful. It won't be based on features, but on Brand power. "Google's brand in itself, represents...
- Tags: Google Inc., Second Life, secret project
- Discussion threads 2008-07-10
- MBA Calculator (msi)
- Our MBA's have created what we believe are the most necessary and common financial calculators used by finance professionals. Our calculator employs both a Windows based application and Excel spreadsheets to performs these complex calculations. Our software and spreadsheets are tools that are indispensable for investors, traders, persons engaged in...
- Tags: Trader, Financial, MBA, Investor, High Tech Logic, Financial Accounting, Finance
- Software downloads 2008-07-09
- How dependent are sites on search engines in May 2008
- Category Traffic from search engines Growth of search engine traffic Traffic from Google Growth of traffic from Google Health and Medical 45.76% 3% 30.86% 5% Travel 34.81% 11% 24.26% 21% Shopping and Classifieds 25.48% 2% 16.84% 8% News and Media 21.70% 7%...
- Tags: Search Engine, Search, NB
- Blog posts 2008-07-07
- Helpdesks and productivity
- Helpdesks and productivityGood start, and then...You lost it.1980 CalledThey want their mainframes back. :DWhy don't you explain your present value...calculation. Do you even know what present value means? What time period are we talking?Huh?You imply that on a Sun Ray platform the only problems are the applications or how they...
- Tags: Call centers, help desk, Sun Microsystems Inc., Sun Ray, PC
- Discussion threads 2008-07-03
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