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Currency events--budgetary black hole

Currency events--budgetary black holeJebbing the ballotDid you Americans even vote for Bush? I read this:http://www.gregpalast.com/bestdemocracymoneycanbuychapter1.pdfIts a pretty damning indictment of vote fixing in 2000, focussing on Jeb Bush & crews antics.Do the world a favour, vote against Bush in 2004 and do it by enough of a margin to overcome...

Tags: Financial Planning, Operational accounting, low savings rate, low dollar, savings rate, interest rate, Jeb Bush, Candle Corp., investment

Discussion threads 2004-02-02

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Amazon's Black Friday HDTV deals include Panasonic plasmas

SAMSUNG TV'sIt is shocking that anyone would suggest to buy any LCD or Plasma TV made by Samsung label in the USA. This brand has proven to be the largest failure of TV's many within the first year of use, and few if any repairs available anywhere in the USA....

Tags: TVs, TV & Home Theater, Monitors & displays, Amazon.com Inc., TV, Black Friday HDTV, Panasonic Plasmas, Panasonic, HDTV, Samsung TV

Discussion threads 2009-11-25

Who wants tea with their turkey?

Push comes to shove.....I still believe Reid will throw down the reconciliation card. I'm sure he doesn't want to, but he won't accept defeat. If he can't get the sixty, he'll settle for 51.Which is a shame, because while the stated goals of this bill are admirable, in...

Tags: Vertical industries, GOP, Dana, Lieberman Software Corp, tax

Discussion threads 2009-11-23

Scary study on how lack of IPOs is harming US economy

The cart before the horse?With low skilled/educated labor and low negative savings rate, I don't think the ingredients for a fundamental rebound exist in the US. I guess Wall Street would like to continue to be able to fleece us, but hopefully, being taken once is enough for most investors....

Tags: Sarbanes-Oxley, Regulatory compliance, Regulations, Sarbanes-Oxley Act, economic destruction, same policy, IPO, carbon tax, USSR, socialist

Discussion threads 2009-11-06

Deck the halls with LED

Sounds OKSounds like a reasonable idea although the cost of LED lights is quite high ($30?).lehnerus2000$30 for LED lights?We buy sets here for $15... and considering that the power consumption is so much lower that they quite literally pay for themselves in the savings on my electric bill, they're worth...

Tags: Engineering, light-emitting diode

Discussion threads 2009-11-03

Are you a mobile broadband hog? Should that be your problem?

Well, if I am a light user, I DO NOT want to pay for the hogs that drive upcosts for the carriers. I want a dirt cheap plan, that will immediately throttle me if I start hogging, or, possibly give me the option to pay more if I want to...

Tags: Smart phones, Wireless and Mobility, Network technology, Apple iPhone, mobile broadband, AT&T Corp., broadband, mobile, UNLIMITED

Discussion threads 2009-10-07

Gadget Gal's daily deals: MSI Wind Top touchscreen PC, 8GB Zune MP3 player, Sony BRAVIA HDTV

A MSI Wind Top touchscreen PC, a Microsoft Zune 8GB MP3 player, and a Sony BRAVIA 40-inch LCD HDTV. Here are your daily deals for Thursday, October 1st, straight from the Gadget Gal: 1. Get the MSI AE1900 Series Wind Top All In One 18.5-inch Touchscreen PC...

Tags: Touch Screen, Sony Corp., PC, MP3 Player, Microsoft Zune, HDTV, MSI Wind, Keyboards, Monitors & Displays, Media Players, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Digital Music, Digital Media, Hardware, Peripherals, Components, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Jennifer Bergen

Blog posts 2009-10-01

Revisiting RIM: Are the enterprise storm clouds brewing?

In the context of the scenario...it could very well come down to iPhone v. RIM. If, as posited, businesses adopt a BYOP model. That kind of thing doesn't matter what wireless network your using, if they'll open exchange up for you to hook your iPhone to. Which may - and...

Tags: Smart phones, Handhelds, data plan, Apple iPhone, AT&T Corp., BIS, RIM BlackBerry, Verizon Communications Inc., Research In Motion Ltd.

Discussion threads 2009-09-30

Gadget Gal's daily deals: Sony BRAVIA HDTV, 1TB Western Digital HDD, Magnavox HDTV

A 40-inch Sony BRAVIA LCD HDTV, a 1TB Western Digital external hard drive, and a refurbished Magnavox 32-inch LCD TV. Here are your daily deals for Thursday, September 24, straight from the Gadget Gal: 1. While supplies last, Sony Style is taking off $300 from the ...

Tags: Sony Corp., Hard Drive, HDTV, Western Digital Corp., TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Monitors & Displays, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Hardware, Components, Jennifer Bergen

Blog posts 2009-09-24

Companies to offer free foreign travel for their sick

Wow, a great way to force our overpaid doctors to compete. Doctors should have a comfortable life, but, they do not need to earn 100x what they do in other countries.and if there are complications?If a US citizen travels abroad for a procedure and returns home, who will treat any...

Tags: Financial Planning, insurance

Discussion threads 2009-09-17

Travelaxe 2.75 (Windows)

Travelaxe is a hotel rate search engine that searches multiple travel websites and hotel websites at that same time for hotel rates and lets you compare the prices from each travel website side by side, highlighting the cheapest price found for each hotel. The amount you can save for each...

Tags: Hotel, Microsoft Windows, Web Site, Travelaxe Inc., Web Site Development, Web Technology, Internet

Software downloads 2009-09-10

Will GOP winning the battle force Democrats to war?

MAJORITY DONT WANT GOVT HEALTHCAREPeriod, end of story. Just about every survey shows most don't want the government anywhere near healthcare.Period, end of story. Time for govt to start respecting the will of the people.But Dana "the socialist" does..so he will keep going on - ad nauseam -...

Tags: Vertical industries, HEALTHCARE, Benefits, GOP, health care, government

Discussion threads 2009-09-01

Panel: too much to lose by moving to generic services and cloud?

It's basically the same pattern . . .It's basically the same pattern I've seen all the time: New technology comes around, people clamor over it and predict it will replace the "old" tech, the old tech ends up being better than the new tech in some ways, and they end...

Tags: Virtualization, Storage, cloud computing

Discussion threads 2009-08-10

Which clunkers for which new cars?

I like the Cash for Clunkers program1. It will reduce tail pipe emissions. By a very small amount, but a reduction all the same. The new cars are cleaner.2. It will reduce the amount of oil consumed for transportation. Again, by a minuscule amount, but a reduction none the less.3....

Tags: Cash-for-Clunkers, new car, car, clunker

Discussion threads 2009-08-07

McKinsey: Saving energy could have huge economic impact

McKinsey: Saving energy could have huge economic impactPlease, no more added bureaucracyThere will always be savings that can be extracted, but the crux is at what cost. To take a very simple example, electricity here in the Pacific NW is $0.10/KWH. Suppose tomorrow the price was suddenly $10...

Tags: Saving Energy, McKinsey & Co.

Discussion threads 2009-07-31

Out-Innovated by Management Practice Blowback - a Video Conversation with John Hagel

I had the opportunity to sit down for a discussion with John Hagel of Deloitte's Center for the Edge last week. My previous post about the 'Shift Index 2009' report is augmented by this video, and fellow ZDNet blogger Dennis Howlett attended the...

Tags: Innovation, Management Practice, Video, Motorcycle, Destination Point, Leadership, Strategy, Management, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-07-29

Assessing the Enterprise 2.0 marketplace in 2009: Robust and crowded

Assessing the Enterprise 2.0 marketplace in 2009: Robust and crowdedNice job, Dion!It might be interesting to create a follow-on study of business benefits realized by this roundup of tools.A single innocuous tool that doesn't rate highly according to your scoring methodology could have delivered a tremendous cost-savings or revenue windfall...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Assessing, Enterprise 2.0

Discussion threads 2009-07-29

It's official: Microsoft-Yahoo ink 10-year search pact; Regulator scrum begins

Updated: Microsoft and Yahoo made it official on Wednesday. The two companies announced a 10-year pact where Microsoft will power Yahoo search. Yahoo also becomes the sales force for Microsoft's premium properties. The companies said the search deal will accelerate innovation and bring more value to advertisers...

Tags: Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Regulations, Government, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-07-29

iHome 1.5 (Mobile)

With iHome you can perform complete analysis screens with multiple graphs to show affect of changing loan variables, all Functionality runs locally on iPhone, calculates standard loan repayments, multiple payment or compound frequencies, interest only and principal and interest loan type support, split loans, set a payout year for each...

Tags: Payment, Mobile, Loan, SouthFreo Software, Operational Accounting, Finance

Software downloads 2009-07-22

Savvis on Cisco's Unified Computing System

Bryan Doerr, Chief Technology Officer, Savvis and I communicated about Cisco's Unifed Computing System UCS. Here are his answers to some questions that were posed to him.  Since Savvis currently operates 29 data centers (a total of 1.4 million square feet of space), his views could be seen as...

Tags: Data Center, Virtualization, Environment, Cisco Systems Inc., Savvis Communications, Data Centers, Servers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2009-07-20