Excellent introduction to some of the ideas of empirical financial economics and mechanics of their technical exploration and investigation with SAS is provided by Boehmer et al. in "Using SAS in Financial Research". The book makes extensive use of CRSP and Compustat which are some of the most reputable databases...
Wrong PublicationAs a loyal reader of ZDNET, I'd like to see this blog dropped from this site. It belongs on the Huffington Post, not on ZDNET.Its as if I subscribed to an RSS feed from Popular Mechanics and every so often I'd get this link to a blog that...
Depressing...So much innovation happened in America in the 90's. Alot of what we have now was accomplished by American engineers, and now we are not being included anymore because of what? Arbitrage. Sad, Sad, Sad....Of courseBecause all these CEOs and wannabe businesspeople think quality doesn't matter so...
According to analyst reports, the volume of enterprise data doubles every 18 months - and a lot information is inaccurate, duplicated or out-of-date and needs to be managed. Commentary - Every corporate decision and operation relies on the quality of the organization?s underlying data. ...
StatPlus is easy-to-use statistical data processing software application. StatPlus has a very simple, graphical user interface that provides access to a wide range of powerful and flexible statistical tools. With StatPlus 2008, one gets a robust suite of statistics tools and graphical analysis methods that are easily accessed though a...
Today's support organisations are focused on two top-level metrics: financial results and customer satisfaction. For most, it's easy to track financial performance, but customer satisfaction is akin to speaking a foreign language. How do you quantify customer satisfaction? Download the Best Practices...
Intel spent a lot of time talking about inventories on its fiscal third quarter conference call. The industry is stocking up on Intel chips ahead of server refreshes and the launch of Windows 7. The nagging worry for many analysts: Will businesses and consumers show up to drive the upgrade...
The Pew Center on Global Climate Change is preparing a report on corporate energy efficiency, to be released in March 2010. Turns out Toyota is the big sponsor of this project, putting up a $1.4 million grant over three years. The data was SUPPOSED to be based...
Newly Expected Trend CompassI am sending you links on the newly expected Trend Compass which is still in our Lab.http://www.epicsyst.com/test/v2/babyboomers/http://www.epicsyst.com/test/v2/bank-trx/http://www.epicsyst.com/test/v2/advertising/Tell me what you think of the new look and feature.RE: Web data services extend data access and distribution beyond the RDB-BI straightjacketEpic Systems has developed a Data Visualization software "Trend...
ProfsWhat will the profs who force everyone to buy the latest edition of their own $125 textbook do now?Probably still the same thing.RE: The Open College Textbook Act of 2009You do know that this act will severely curtail the research that could lead to new curricula and textbooks?Why? It's because...
Does the size of a botnet really matter? It's all a matter of perspective. Contrary to the “common wisdom†that based on their size, big botnets are theoretically capable of infiltrating a huge percentage of enterprise networks, a recently presented study entitled "My Bots Are Not Yours!...
Intel hasn't released its 32nm Westmere processors yet, but executives spent the first day of the Intel Developer Forum IDF talking about technology even farther down road. In his keynote, executive VP Sean Maloney gave a glimpse of a desktop running Sandy Bridge, the new microarchitecture that comes after Westmere,...
It uses WINEBut I've noticed a number of performance issues and stability problems with it.ActuallyAs far as I've ever able to tell there's no practical difference between Picasa on Windows and Linux. StevenActually, it uses WineLib, so that it is more like a native application.But there are still all the...
Phishers don't just want to "bank with you", they also want to talk you into revealing the answers to your 'secret' questions, next to more sensitive information that would help them gain access to your online bank account. A new 'Chat-in-the-Middle' fraud tactic was recently discovered by...
Well what are other options?I'm not knocking your concern because it is a valid point. But does that mean we just leave everything open to bots and spammers? What could be done for the disabled? I thought reCAPTCHA had some ways of handling this.What about for the deaf-blind?Implement CAPTCHA or...
The Yahoo Finance application for the iPhone and iPod Touch brings you total coverage from your favorite financial source. It gives information ranging from broad market indices to the details on a specific commodity. It features organize the stocks you care about at a glance, market summary, get weekday financial...
Why Samsung?Inquiring minds want to know.Is it just because Sammy makes Sony's panels?RE: Why Samsung?Good question. MAYBE - Samsung reaches out to them more? Just speculating, but when I did retail computer sales (15+ years ago) we had vendors reps that were in the store all the time. They did...
Throughout the last two years, scareware fake security software, quickly emerged as the single most profitable monetization strategy for cybercriminals to take advantage of. Due to the aggressive advertising practices applied by the cybercrime gangs, thousands of users fall victim to the scam on a daily...
McKinsey, the venerable management consulting company, has produced their second piece of 'Web 2.0 in business' research this year. This is arguably a sign of the rapid maturation of the 2.0 technology and associated (and I'd argue more important) change management sector: the pricey consulting company...
The popularity of mobile applications for the Blackberry, iPhone and others has given new life to the concept of mobile banking - and the banks out there are pushing their customers to give it a try. Mintel ...
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