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Mortgage Mantra (zip)

Mortgage Mantra is your personal mortgage consultant. Designed by mortgage experts, it offers you rigorous, independent financial mortgage calculators (5 different loan programs) and features that are winning acclaim from realtors and homebuyers. This product doesn't sell you loans in disguise but offers unbiased advice for the entire lifecycle of...

Tags: Financial, Amortization, Mortgage Mantra, Mortgages, Taxes, Free Trade, Finance, Capital Structures, Financial Planning

Software downloads 2005-10-12

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Tech CEOs: Will they step up in a downturn?

Technology CEOs worth their paychecks are going to use this economic downturn to revamp business models and position for the so-called post recession era. It sounds rather obvious, but why don't all CEOs follow this playbook? We've heard the mantra repeatedly: Reload in a downturn. And a...

Tags: Technology Company, Information Technology, CEO, Forrester Research Inc., Strategy, Social Networking, Management, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-12-02

Breaking the zero-day habit

* Ryan Naraine is traveling. Guest editorial by Mike Rothman Given that this blog is called "Zero Day," I think it's fitting that I'm calling for most security professionals to ignore most of what comes out of the security research community. To be...

Tags: Security Professional, Risks, Security, Ryan Naraine

Blog posts 2008-12-02

Subscription music services: Are we there yet?

Microsoft on Thursday announced a new music subscription model for its Zune music player and the big question in the back of the room is this: Will subscription music services ever become dominant? Sure, there are a few folks that subscribe to their music. And Microsoft has...

Tags: Microsoft Zune, Music, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-11-20

Members of right-wing UK party exposed

Members of right-wing UK party exposedAhhow calmly you relate the fact, with no apparent discomfort that a police officer could be fired for belonging to the wrong political group.So, you were cool with McCarthy, eh?WellCouldn't have happen to a nicer group of people :)RE: Members of right-wing UK party exposedOh...

Tags: Workforce management, BNP, right-wing

Discussion threads 2008-11-18

With Yang out as Yahoo CEO, Steve Ballmer licks chops

Jerry Yang is no longer CEO of Yahoo. After a short and stormy tenure as CEO Yang is back to being Chief Yahoo. Steve Ballmer, Microsoft and a search deal--if not outright acquisition--may not be too far behind. The official line from Yahoo Techmeme: Yahoo today...

Tags: Jerry Yang, Steve Ballmer, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., CEO, Corporate Governance, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-11-17

(Inside the SF Green Festival)

Inside the SF Green FestivalPatheticThe fads of the 1970s and they were legion were relatively benign next to this nonsense. I'm going to be dragged kicking and screaming into the 19th century by anti-humanists who would condemn their fellow humans to a subservient role to an infested ball of rock....

Tags: SF Green Festival

Discussion threads 2008-11-17

Give 'em the cash, forget fuel efficiency

The chorus of disagreement in Washington over a measly 25-billion dollars is something to behold. For the record that's less than 4% of the money that's been earmarked by the federal government to save the banks, insurance companies, the mortgage mills and other big-spenders on Wall Street and their...

Tags: Detroit, Cash, Mortgages, Insurance, Federal Government, Finance, Capital Structures, Business Operations, Corporate Insurance, Government, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2008-11-14

Challenging Silicon Valley to put poverty into a museum . . .

I'm not washing my right hand for a while because I used it to shake the hand of Muhammad Yunus, 2006 Nobel Peace Prize recipient and a person that I've held in the highest regard for many years. Mr Yunus gave the keynote speech at the Tech Museum's Tech...

Tags: Silicon Valley, Poverty, Bangladesh, Mr., Muhammad Yunus, Grameen Bank, Grameen Loan, Entrepreneurship, Leadership, Strategy, Management, Tom Foremski

Blog posts 2008-11-13

Cut the crap. Stop the off-gassing of the cows. Sure, but how?

Cut the crap. Stop the off-gassing of the cows. Sure, but how?SimpleStop eating meat and then all that money, time resources and effort that's spent in producing meat for the meat addicts can be put to better use.Less bowel cancer, heart and circulatory disease and hopefully a better attitude towards...

Tags: cow, meat

Discussion threads 2008-11-12

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

10 candidates who could become Obama's CTO

10 candidates who could become Obama's CTOHow about John McCain?:-)RE: 10 candidates who could become Obama's CTOPersonally, I think Gates would be the best choice. He is a visionary. Had his vision years ago, managed to podge together ideas and technology from other sources, and create the Windows empire.The only...

Tags: Government, Vertical industries, PRODUCTIVITY, Strategy, Obama

Discussion threads 2008-11-10

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

GM, Chrysler, and one specific IT Job

GM, Chrysler, and one specific IT JobNot just CAFEI think it's more than CAFE, it's also the myriad of safety/crash regulations and other government requirements that the auto makers have to meet that makes it harder. How do you think the WWII jeep would do in a side impact test?...

Tags: information technology, General Motors Corp., Chrysler LLC, car

Discussion threads 2008-11-08

Social to CRM to Enterprise: Not So Fast....

Darn, I missed it: Salesforce.com is opening itself up to Facebook. Or is it the other way around? I had received a belated invite to attend SFDC's Dreamforce from Marc Benioff, but too much real work prevented me from attending. So I had to read the press releases and my...

Tags: Facebook, Marc Benioff, LinkedIn, CRM, Advertising & Promotion, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Joshua Greenbaum

Blog posts 2008-11-04

Vertex42 Mortgage Payment Calculator (zip)

Use this simple spreadsheet to calculate and compare the monthly payment for different mortgages. See how soon you could pay off your home by making extra payments. Calculate the equity in your home after a specified number of years. Customize the spreadsheet to suit your needs. The download also includes...

Tags: Payment, Spreadsheet, Vertex42, Mortgages, Productivity, Operational Accounting, Finance, Capital Structures

Software downloads 2008-11-03

More optimistic views on the future of enterprise software

More optimistic views on the future of enterprise softwareBroad Brushes[i]So, let’s look at what’s tanking and try to find the solid, honest, well-managed sector that, despite its ability to deliver fair value and fair price, and reap fair profit, is dying on the vine: We can certainly exclude the bankers...

Tags: Mortgages, enterprise software

Discussion threads 2008-10-30

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

Windows 7 - user interface is king

Windows 7 - user interface is kingMaybe you should have used it a little more...You don't have to use XAML at all to build WPF apps. Every control, UI element etc is a .Net class, and if you like building up your object hierarchies with imperative code, then you can...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, XAML, Microsoft Windows Presentation Foundation, markup, XML, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-10-30

Why 'Event Driven Architecture' is more than 'Complex Event Processing'

Today's mantra: "EDA is an architecture; CEP is a technique..." Jack van Hoof, who has written extensively on all things EDA, says there have been one too many instances in which the terms EDA Event Driven Architecture and CEP Complex Event Processing have been...

Tags: Event, EDA, CEP, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Productivity, Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick

Blog posts 2008-10-28