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- Follow the money, it may lead to more green energy
- Exxon is the world's largest oil company. By some measures it's simply the world's largest company. The U.S. is the world's biggest military power, energy user and debtor nation. Together they think they can out-muscle a Latin American leader who may not even have the loyalty of...
- Tags: Venezuela, Green Technology, Exxon Mobil Corp., Sales Strategy, Sales, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-02-13
- "Alternative energy" gets a boost from oil country
- Venezuela seems determined to make America's alternative energy companies into successful greentech ventures. Today the Venezuelan national oil company "stopped all sales" to Exxon. This is just the latest salvo in the Exxon v. Venezuela heavyweight match. It began when Venezuela's government took control of all oil plants...
- Tags: Venezuela, Alternative Energy, Exxon Mobil Corp., Venezueal, Sales Strategy, Asset Management, Sales, Operational Planning, Business Operations, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-02-12
- Exxon v. venezuela and you're the loser in this battle
- Exxon claims it's won a round in its court battle against Venezuela. Venezuelan assets are now frozen in Britain and Netherlands. A lawsuit is in court int he U.S. as well. Exxon claims total Venezuelan assets valued at $36 billion dollars are now frozen. ...
- Tags: Venezuela, Lawsuit, Exxon Mobil Corp., Asset Management, Operational Planning, Business Operations, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-02-10
- venezuelan Bank Saves $3 Million Per Year With a More Efficient Claims Management Process
- A leading provider of financial services in Venezuela, Banco de Venezuela, a subsidiary of Spain's Grupo Santander, provides a full range of banking services to more than 2 million customers. The bank wanted to improve the time to resolve customer claims and address new regulatory requirements designed to regulate customer...
- Tags: Venezuela, Bank, Microsoft Corp., Venezuelan Bank, Banking, Financial Services
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- Texas oilman strikes blow for wind, predicts ever higher oil prices
- Texas oilman strikes blow for wind, predicts ever higher oil prices$5.00/gal!The Arabs will not stop until we are paying $5! http://fakesteveballmer.blogspot.comMake Them Sick; Then Sell Them The MedicineIt seems suspicious that a "texas oilman" who has control of oil, and therefore is a beneficiary of high oil prices would want...
- Tags: Gas Prices, oil, environmentalist
- Discussion threads 2008-04-27
- Alternative energy folks should be smiling as gas expected to soar in cost
- The U.S. government is preparing American drivers for $4 gasoline this spring. Meanwhile crude oil prices seem to be settled into a range just above $100/barrel. As long as the U.S. dollar stays weak and demand for oil doesn't drop considerably, there's no reason to expect lower oil prices....
- Tags: U.S., Alternative Energy, Gasoline, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-04-09
- The glide path to an open society
- The glide path to an open societyCuba, change?Not if the Cubans have a choice.You wrote:Cuba, under Raul Castro, shows signs that he wants to make his island nation more open to the outside world. He has allowed wider access to essential communications technologies, such as cell phones and the Internet...
- Tags: INTERNET, CUBANS, Cuba
- Discussion threads 2008-04-08
- The glide path to an open society
- The International Olympic Committee IOC, the Switzerland-based group responsible for Olympic event planning, has been putting pressure on China to open the Internet during the games in Beijing as part of host-nation commitment to media openness. As Ars Technica reported, the results have been decidedly mixed. Though Chinese Internet users...
- Tags: China, Government, Vertical Industries, Internet, Enterprise Software, Software, John Carroll
- Blog posts 2008-04-07
- China allows access to English Wikipedia
- China allows access to English Wikipediawhy don't we censor china?Heres a fun idea kids. Let's block china from accessing the American Internet. All I ever see come out of China is spam and lead tainted products. Im all for banning all Chinese ip space on our networks, who's with me?Already...
- Tags: NETWORKING, English Wikipedia, login attempt
- Discussion threads 2008-04-07
- Microsoft's OOXML gets ISO approval ... maybe
- Looks like Microsoft's Office Open XML will be an ISO standard after all. Maybe. Pundits – even OOXML rivals --predicted on Sunday that the Redmond, Wash. software giant has amassed the required number of votes to pull it over the goal line. Of course, a final vote...
- Tags: Microsoft Office, ISO, Microsoft Corp., OpenDocument Format, OOXML, Iso standards, Process Improvement, OpenDocument Format (ODF), Quality, Business Operations, Emerging Technologies, Paula Rooney
- Blog posts 2008-03-31
- Alternative energy? BIG investment, as we've been predicting. Teensy compared to Big Oil
- Four major components of the alternative energy industry are expanding rapidly. They continue to garner ever more investment. A new market study shows major year-to-year investment growth for biofuels, wind power, solar photovoltaics, and fuel cells. A study by Clean Edge shows the sector's investment cachet and...
- Tags: Oil Company, Asset, Alternative Energy, Oil, Exxon Mobil Corp., Investment, Asset Management, Operational Planning, Business Operations, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-03-21
- Which way is the wind blowing? Into your face
- The headwinds are picking up because the economy is slowing down in America. That's what the "experts" tells us. So crude oil was over $100 per barrel Tuesday because of weak dollar, and because the U.S. doesn't control its own energy supply and we're the self-proclaimed rich...
- Tags: Food, Energy, Headwind, Food & Beverage, Manufacturing, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-02-19
- So where do we get our oil?
- So where do we get our oil?Oil tankersAmazing isn't it? Hundred or thousands of tankers a day plying the oceans and you'll have maybe one leak every two or three years.Or was there some other point you were trying to make?Wrong LogicThink of all of those Oil Tankers out in...
- Tags: Oil Tankers
- Discussion threads 2008-02-11
- Exxon v. venezuela and you're the loser in this battle
- Exxon v. Venezuela and you're the loser in this battleIs this ZDNET or Meet the Press?I thought that ZDNET was about computers and technology. Are you folks so lazy that you need to report on oil and politics?I can read this crap on CNN or Fox, I don't need...
- Tags: oil, Hugo, Exxon Mobil Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-02-11
- So where do we get our oil?
- Here are the figures from the Department of Energy for the top six oil importers to the U.S. November, 2007, a typical month. CANADA 1,919 SAUDI ARABIA 1,530 MEXICO...
- Tags: Oil, Ocean, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-02-10
- Can medical inflation be controlled?
- Everyone talks about medical inflation. But no one does anything about it. (Picture from Majorconflict.com, a liberal blog.) A quick look at the figures gathered by Watson Wyatt today make that point clearly. Medical inflation is a global phenomenon. Whether you run it privately...
- Tags: Health Care, Inflation, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Currency & Foreign Exchange, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Finance, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-02-06
- There's still a lot of life left in desktop office suites
- There's still a lot of life left in desktop office suitesSlight CorrectionThe author said: "Until now, Sun supported only StarOffice, which is based on the OpenOffice code base"OO is based on the Star code base, which Sun donated.Which will be faster, Google adding offline capabilities, or MS addingonline capabilities. Also,...
- Tags: Word processors, OpenOffice, OPEN SOURCE, desktop office suite, OOo, Sun Microsystems Inc., word-processor, online word-processor, security
- Discussion threads 2007-12-16
- Proposed solar plant not worth its salt?
- Parts of Africa have an abundance of solar energy. Remember that NOAA gobalmap we showed you? It clearly shows that some of that blazing sun reaches into South Africa. So it seems like a plan to put a huge, world's largest they claim, solar-powered generating...
- Tags: South Africa, Semiconductors, Telecom & Utilities, Hardware, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2007-12-11
- Green tech does not meet U.S. Senate's standards
- So if there is any energy bill that passes the U.S. Congress anytime soon, it will not have any requirement that utility companies use more alternative energy to generate electricity. Green tech does not play well on K Street and in some conservative states, it seems. This is not...
- Tags: Alternative Energy, Green Technology, U.S. Senate, Standards, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2007-12-07
- Next week: oil and troubled waters
- There are two international events next week that pertain to energy markets and the future of green tech. First, the OPEC oil cartel meeting will make a short-term determination that will affect oil prices. The OPEC meeting is Wednesday in Abu Dhabi, and already it's sending crude oil...
- Tags: OPEC, Oil, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2007-11-30
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