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Where will we live in 2025?

Where will we live in 2025?Well, we won't live in New Orleans, it will be under water. The sea levelis rising and the huricanes are getting stronger and more frequent. Just a matter of time. And, since the Republicans are still claiming that global warming is not a problem, we...

Tags: Free trade, Population Control, birth rate, developing country, income population

Discussion threads 2006-07-19

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Reid promises 60 on Saturday

promises, promises, promisesHe will not get his 60 on Saturday. There are enough senators with the backbone to avoid what will be an economic catastrophe for our nation.Obama created phantom jobsSomeone did bother looking into the jobs Obama claimed to save / create and found this:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1t3zZBhJ7wBlog not about Obama or...

Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, health care, Reid

Discussion threads 2009-11-19

7 Days of Windows 7 offers

really funnyhhahhaa............Great for US...... Horrible for the rest of the world,in Brazil I had to dig up, and dig up more, for me to get to see what was supposed to be the price of windows 7 here. Got redirected 3 times to the "windows store" in UK! and a...

Tags: Piracy, Microsoft Windows 7, income, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2009-10-22

What do Bill Gates and other billionaires see as the world's #1 problem?

Population growth is NOT a problemSpend a few days reading at http://globaleconomydoesmatter.blogspot.com/ and you will be convinced that DECLINING populations are the problem that we should be concerned about.RE: What do Bill Gates and other billionaires see as the world's #1 problem?Not often that I agree with you, but you...

Tags: capitalism, Bill Gates

Discussion threads 2009-09-29

YourWorld (Mobile)

Ever wondered where a little state exactly is, when they talk about it on TV or the newspapers? Curious about its background, geography, political situation, economy, religion, people? With YourWorld this and many other information is always in your pocket! YourWorld is like a mini encyclopedia about all the countries...

Tags: Mobile, AnguriaLab LLC, YourWorld, It', Internet, TVs, Telecom & Utilities, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment

Software downloads 2009-09-02

European music sales down 8.3% in 2008

Eat that and choke, RIAA!But seriously, the sad fact is that smaller demographic segments of the population are buying music. Looking at the NPD Group stats, purchasing music in any form is limited to very specific age groups and income levels, and those demo groups are declining populations, especially in...

Tags: Operational accounting, Personal finance, sales

Discussion threads 2009-08-29

"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

Helping corporations leverage the Web, using open source and the cloud

What do open source and cloud computing have in common? For Navid Safabakhsh, principal at San Francisco and Philadelphia-based interactive web development agency Freshout, it's that both technologies are low-cost, high-yield solutions to help corporations leverage the customer data they collect on the Web. ...

Tags: Web, Service, Channel Management, Open Source, Marketing, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2009-06-30

Activists push city endorsements of open source

Activists push city endorsements of open sourcegreat for vancouver i hope that the rest of the country will follow ... neither fighting it nor joining it, yetbut rather, observing.A large-scale implementation should be interesting, see how it matures and what issues they face.Hopefully they have a good project manager that...

Tags: Operational accounting, Personal finance, DC Current, income, open source, goodbye, city endorsement, activist, OH WAIT, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-05-15

Will OpenOffice survive the Oracle-Sun takeover?

Will OpenOffice survive the Oracle-Sun takeover?Lotus SymphonyWhat about Lotus Symphony? It's multiplatform, free and based in OpenOffice. Altough I'm a happy MS Office 2007 user and haven't used Symphony, it looks like an option in case OO "dies". http://symphony.lotus.comRE: Will OpenOffice survive the Oracle-Sun takeover?Sun and Oracle...

Tags: OPEN SOURCE, OpenOffice, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Office, Oracle Corp., Sun Microsystems Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-04-23

Apple disses netbooks, again

Apple disses netbooks, againWill they or won't they?!?[i]Does Apple have their head in the sand or are they intentionally hiding the fact that they?re going to enter the space?[/i]I think it's super interesting that Apple commands so much attention in a market niche they aren't even participating in. How much...

Tags: Netbooks, nettops & MIDs, netbook, Apple-diss, Apple-disses netbook, Apple Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-04-22

It's all downhill for Twitter, politics from here

This week, "tax protesters" gathered across America to dump bagged tea into symbolic bodies of non-potable water and Ashton Kutcher challenged CNN to a Twitter follower showdown. I admire anyone who takes to the streets for their ideas and recognize the power of media, even when it is lowered to...

Tags: Oprah Winfrey, Twitter, Taxes, Free Trade, Personal Finance, Financial Planning, Finance, Mitch Ratcliffe

Blog posts 2009-04-17

12Ghosts Lookup 9.52 (Windows)

Click your way through to data in a snap of a second that would otherwise cost you hours to find on the Internet or in a book. Whether you are just curious or need the information fast, you will find it in this user-friendly look-up tool. Look up zip and...

Tags: 12Ghosts, 12-Lookup, Internet, Web Site Development, Microsoft Windows, Productivity, Operational Accounting, Web Technology, Personal Finance, Operating Systems, Software, Finance

Software downloads 2009-03-19

Mobile-Banking Adoption and Usage by Low-Literate, Low-Income Users in the Developing World

Due to the increasing penetration of mobile phones even in poor communities, mobile-phone-enabled banking (m-banking) services are being increasingly targeted at the "Unbanked" to bring formal financial services to the poor. Research in understanding actual usage and adoption by this target population, though, is sparse. There appear to be a...

Tags: Usage, Banking, Financial Planning, Financial Services, Finance

White papers 2009-03-16

Music industry blames PirateBay for losses

Music industry blames PirateBay for lossesTruly spoken like an entrepreneur & gentlemen."I want Pirate Bay to close down. I want some compensation and I want it to be clear people cannot steal other people?s property without there being consequences. I don?t think it can be eradicated any more than any...

Tags: PirateBay, music, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-02-25

Bullet train plans still off target in US

Bullet train plans still off target in USI wonder if..I wonder if such a big and yet wealthy country has no single bullet train. I think thats why American uses the car wherever they go.No use of speaking about greenhouse effects, try start implementing'em.Cheers,Kathiravan Manoharanhttp://kathyravan.blogspot.comhttp://paisamechanic.blogspot.comkeep dreamingThe US not only doesn't...

Tags: bus system, Bullet train plan, Bullet Train

Discussion threads 2009-02-20

Calculating Risk: Panning for gold in Goldman

Calculating Risk: Panning for gold in GoldmanPat Leach wrote this story in 2006In "Why Can't You Just Give Me the Number?" (p. 55) by Patrick Leach, the Goldman approach to risk was highlighted as a best practice. To be fair, Pat couldn't have written this exact story in 06, but...

Tags: Asset management, GoldMan, Calculating Risk, gold, marin

Discussion threads 2009-02-10

Making comparative effectiveness partisan is malpractice

Making comparative effectiveness partisan is malpracticeA Couple Comments"Comparative effectiveness CE is a tool that tells doctors what is most likely to work, based on hard data, knowledge they can override if they are willing to defend their decision. What CE thinks works changes as the data changes."If you doctor isn't...

Tags: Taxes, Insurance, Personal finance, BPH, Hytrin, comparative effectiveness

Discussion threads 2009-02-05

Technology initiatives we should demand from the Obama administration

As much as many of us would like to continue to revel in the day, the inauguration with all of its rock-concert fanfare, pomp and circumstance is over, and it is finally time for the new administration to get to work. The 44th President of the...

Tags: Patient, Barack Obama, Administration, Broadband, Digital Television, TVs, Workforce Management, Tv & Home Theater, Broadband Internet, Network Technology, Telecommunications, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Human Resources, Networking, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2009-01-21

Microsoft study debunks phishing profitability

Do phishers actually make money, or is phishing an unprofitable business, scammers lose time and resources into? Taking the economic approach of generalizing how much money phishers make, a recently released study by Microsoft researchers Cormac Herley and Dinei Florencio (A Profitless Endeavor: Phishing as Tragedy of the Commons), states...

Tags: Microsoft Corp., Phishing, Cyberthreats, Spam, Viruses And Worms, Security, Spam And Phishing, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2009-01-08