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- Motorola and Verizon announced DROID for 6 Nov at $199.99
- Gonna be an ugly season for retailersI don't see how many people still want to spend on these expensive gadgets / Win7 / iPhones.It will be worse next year with a proliferation of super cheap very functional Internet devices. Microsoft will find profit margines evaporating.Maybe the phone I've been waiting...
- Tags: Telecom & Utilities, Smart phones, Motorola Inc., phone, Verizon Communications Inc., screen size
- Discussion threads 2009-10-28
- Banks and auto sector got bailed out, are telecom providers next?
- I kid you not :)Pensions got killed in the bailouts of the banks, except those that got insurance from AIG that bet against all the shenigans of Wall St. But sure enough AIG flops because it can't cover all the insurance bets it made on the mortgage backed certificates floated...
- Tags: Telephony, Financial Planning, Benefits, Telecom & Utilities, Personal finance, payroll solutions, American International Group Inc., insurance, telecommunications, Wall St., bank
- Discussion threads 2009-10-27
- The Open College Textbook Act of 2009
- 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...
- Tags: Government, Vertical industries, textbook, Open College Textbook Act
- Discussion threads 2009-10-02
- LoanCalc 1.2.3.0 (Mobile)
- This calculator does ?on the fly? calculations for a number of loan types and loan ratios. Perfect for the realtor, finance manager, or student. Use for mortgage, automotive, or personal loans.Includes calculations for: Interest only Loans Principle + interest Front-end Ratio Debt to Income Loan to Value Stock sale Inflation
- Tags: Mobile, Calculation, Mobile Enhancement Studios, Mortgages, Advertising & Promotion, Personal Finance, Financial Accounting, Currency & Foreign Exchange, Finance, Capital Structures, Marketing
- Software downloads 2009-08-08
- Why Windows 7 should be free
- Why Windows 7 should be freeAm I the only one who had zero problems with Vista?This issue has been debated thoroughly across zdnet, so I have no desire to rehash it. But I am still not convinced that Vista's problems are systemic...and I think they are more a PR issue....
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2009-07-01
- Mortgage Prelude 2.6.4 (Windows)
- While Mortgage Prelude serves as a powerful mortgage calculator that computes such items as your monthly payment, amortization schedules, interest, etc., it is so much more than a common mortgage calculator. One of its most distinguishing features is that it uses the guidelines set forth by the Federal National Mortgage...
- Tags: Fannie Mae, Microsoft Windows, Loan, NorthStar Solutions, Mortgages, Finance, Capital Structures
- Software downloads 2009-06-20
- IRS eyes taxing your work mobile phone
- IRS eyes taxing your work mobile phoneIRSMore money to spread around.. GREAT WORK IRS..Another fine example of no new taxes for people under $250,000. YEA, what I thought and can you say " I TOLD YOU SO"..You asked for it you got it...In the UKHMRC do consider a work provided...
- Tags: Taxes, Free trade, Personal finance, Telecom & Utilities, Cellular phones, Tax Code, tax, Internal Revenue Service, phone, mobile phone, mobile
- Discussion threads 2009-06-12
- Survey: 37% of employees would become insiders given the right incentive
- Would you sell sensitive company data if you're offered the right incentive? Using the current economic situation, or pure greed as an excuse, 37% of employees surveyed at this year's Infosecurity Europe event said that they are keeping their options open. What type of information are they...
- Tags: Incentive, Insider, Survey, Sales Force Management, Marketing Research, Sales, Marketing, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2009-04-29
- India's Nano to challenge global auto industry
- India's Nano to challenge global auto industryWhy don't we have a Nano in this country?What we need in a global market place is tech like this to even our costs out here in the states. If we are to compete with a world economy and try to make ends...
- Tags: car, Nano
- Discussion threads 2009-03-23
- The IBM buys Sun Story
- The IBM buys Sun StoryTruthIf Sun get "owned" by IBM than they brought it onthemselves. They let SPARC performance lag for yearsand did not listen to their customers. If they hadembraced open source and x86 earlier (circa 2000/1)than they would have turned the tide but there was alot of residual...
- Tags: Corporate law, Investment, Servers, UNIX, Sun Microsystems Inc., IBM Corp., antitrust, stock
- Discussion threads 2009-03-19
- Calculating Risk: Panning for gold in Goldman's 'gut'
- All five investment banks that existed a year ago are gone. These are firms which put their own capital and the capital of big institutional and individual investors at risk, to merge or acquire companies. And were supposed to be experts at...
- Tags: Capital Structures, Finance, Financial Services, Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Management, Merrill Lynch & Co. Inc., Mortgages, Strategy, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld
- Blog posts 2009-02-09
- Forget 2006, let's go back to '96
- Like many of you, I have been waking up in the middle of the night wondering what's going on with the global economies and how the world will look in a few months when we adjust to the new economic reality. I started thinking about about the world when people...
- Tags: Salary, Benefits, Payroll Solutions, Personal Finance, Food & Beverage, Human Resources, Manufacturing, Phil Fersht
- Blog posts 2009-02-07
- ZDNet Undercover: How IT Helped Goldman Sachs Step Back from the Mortgage Mess
- How Goldman Sachs managed to swim against the tide as rivals forged ahead with collateralized debt obligations is a tale of the willingness to act and think independently, reports Tom Steinert-Threlkeld. The firm used computer models of its own creation and built sophisticated databases to follow the money at risk...
- Tags: Capital Structures, Finance, Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Human Capital, Human Resources, Information Technology, Management, Mortgages, Security, Strategy, Workforce Management
- White papers 2009-02-06
- What goes around comes around
- What goes around comes aroundThe picture is wrong.It should be a group photo of Congress, with Barny and Nancy front and center holding up their book called "How to Destroy an economy in 9 short years"Chapter 1 starts with the Community Reinvestment Act. Introduce an enforced social program where...
- Tags: Financial services, Chapter 4, Chapter 11, Chapter 7, bank, U.S. Congress
- Discussion threads 2009-01-27
- Advice for 2009: hug your job
- Advice for 2009: hug your jobI agree with your advice. Not on governmentThe government has limited ability to change the entire course of the economy quickly. The problem is too much debt at every level and not enough cash reserve. True in the government, business (big and...
- Tags: Vertical industries, Virtualization, Storage management, Storage area networks (SAN), job, government
- Discussion threads 2009-01-01
- We might not yet have seen the worst of the financial crisis
- We might not yet have seen the worst of the financial crisisI think you're rightThe ups and downs in the financial markets are more indicative of chaos than anything else, which can't possibly be good news.RE: We might not yet have seen the worst of the financial crisisThe doom mongers...
- Tags: Financial accounting, financial crisis, financial
- Discussion threads 2008-12-09
- The time is now for a Microsoft-Yahoo search deal
- The time is now for a Microsoft-Yahoo search dealThe chattering class???"The patience over Microsoft and Yahoo's never-ending deal dance is wearing thin among the chattering class–bloggers, analysts and folks sick of following this dysfunctional courtship" ...Why would companies like Microsoft and Yahoo let their business strategies be driven by "the...
- Tags: Yahoo Search, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-11-11
- Sub-prime and the other seven deadly bubbles . . .
- Now that the distraction from the election is gone, I wish there was another distraction out there because we still have a way to go in regards to the financial crisis. There seems to be a widespread perception that the mess caused by the sub-prime bubble has...
- Tags: Financial, Derivatives, Bubble, Philanthropia, Financial Services, Tom Foremski
- Blog posts 2008-11-08
- More optimistic views on the future of enterprise software
- With SAP’s decision to forgo its 2009 guidance a paradoxical beacon of truth in a falling market, I have decided to return from vacation a day early and get busy trying to gauge the market for enterprise software in the coming year. It’s not an easy task, needless to day,...
- Tags: Technology Sector, Enterprise Software, Recession, Dot-com, Joshua Greenbaum
- Blog posts 2008-10-30
- Streamline Your Debt 1.6 (Windows)
- Shave thousands of dollars and 10-15 years off your current mortgage by using a Home Equity Line of Credit HELOC and our software. By using our software and your HELOC, you can see how much you should send to your mortgage and when, to save you the most amount of...
- Tags: Streamline, Microsoft Windows, Amortization, Mortgages, Finance, Capital Structures
- Software downloads 2008-10-30
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