This is the electronic female duo band from Sweden, performing cover versions of songs by English electronic/pop music act the Pet Shop Boys. Isabelle Erkendal and Rosanna JirebeckYouTube - West End Girls - Domino Dancing Music Video Version 2
Thursday, April 30, 2009
YouTube - West End Girls - Domino Dancing Music Video Version 2
Competition from ... Video Games? :: Communications Technology
Research consultancy The Diffusion Group estimates that today 90 million households worldwide have game consoles, 41 million of which are broadband connected. Additionally, 22 million of these households already use these consoles to consume over-the-top (OTT) video services at least once a week.Competition from ... Video Games? :: Communications Technology
The week in geek: Has Terminator Salvation borrowed from Battlestar Galactica? | Film | guardian.co.uk
While McG himself – if his recent frat-boy style challenge to Michael Bay is anything to go by – does not appear to be the intellectual type, it looks like someone on the screenwriting team (The Dark Knight's Jonathan Nolan, perhaps) has realised that this is a concept that science fiction fans clearly enjoy grappling with. Terminator Salvation hasn't had much luck in terms of hype so far, what with the Bale rant and those rumours [or spoilers?] of a very silly ending indeed, but it certainly looks the part. And with this type of intelligent thinking on board, perhaps we've judged it too soon. The film hits cinemas in the UK on June 3 – what do you reckon?The week in geek: Has Terminator Salvation borrowed from Battlestar Galactica? | Film | guardian.co.uk
Elsewhere, the new Star Trek continues to garner strong reviews and plenty of hype. Having finally caught a screening, I can tell you it's unlikely to disappoint. This is a sharp, perfectly-paced, bracing blockbuster thrillride of a movie, which both reinvigorates the franchise and rids it of much of the baggage built up over 10 previous films and countless TV series. The CGI is near-perfect, the casting spot on and the ingenious design of some of the new spaceships and monsters makes George Lucas's recent efforts look like the hamfisted creations of a four-year-old messing about with Duplo.
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Joe Davidson - OPM Chief Thinks Telecommuting Has a Nice Ring to It - washingtonpost.com
Deep inside the current swine flu scare, there may be a silver lining for federal employees -- greater acceptance of telework in musty bureaucracies.Joe Davidson - OPM Chief Thinks Telecommuting Has a Nice Ring to It - washingtonpost.com
Although increased telecommuting has been a federal workplace goal for many years, statistics show a difference between theory and practice. Part of the problem has been managers who are reluctant to approve at-home working arrangements because they can't see -- which really means they don't trust -- staffers who aren't in their cubicles.
visualcomplexity.com | UUNET North America Internet Network
This map, from June 2000, represents UUNET's Internet backbone in North America. It shows its vast network infrastructure of Tier 1, Tier 3, OC3c, OC12c, OC48c and OC192c connections (corresponding to different bandwidths, from 1.5 Mbps to 10 Gbps respectively) as well as its major city hubs.visualcomplexity.com | UUNET North America Internet Network
Web 2.0 e-commerce technology will become mainstream in 2008, study says
Among PCG’s predictions for 2008: * Banner ads that incorporate more intelligence, better multimedia, and secure data capture will help advertisers better manage campaigns. * Online advertising will evolve into social advertising in which social network members promote products. * Single-purpose marketing applications, such as widgets, will offer marketers branding opportunities and create customer interactivity and loyalty. * Podcasts and other “new media” content will become mainstream, ushered in by the new era of mobile devices, such as the iPhone. * Indirect distribution will dominate video consumption as more companies utilize RSS and video web services.Web 2.0 e-commerce technology will become mainstream in 2008, study says
U.S. Takes Dutch Military as Role Model in Afghan Operation - WSJ.com
Dutch soldiers preparing here for deployment to Afghanistan say they are ingrained with the concept that economic development will be their primary mission, rather than solely pursuing extremists and Taliban fighters. Diplomats from the Netherlands' foreign ministry help to command the Dutch team in Uruzgan, home to 350,000 Afghans, and aid workers are embedded in the Dutch effort.U.S. Takes Dutch Military as Role Model in Afghan Operation - WSJ.com
Wednesday, April 29, 2009
Hey Laid-Off Journalists: The SEC Wants To Hire You
So what happens to enforcement as newsrooms lay off journalists? SEC Chair Mary Schapiro is worried.Hey Laid-Off Journalists: The SEC Wants To Hire You
Her message to journalists: come work for us!
Op-Ed: Reversing the Congressional Science Lobotomy | Wired Science
Beginning with a declaration during his inaugural address that we will “restore science to its rightful place,” President Obama has placed science and scientific process at the heart of his public policy and decision making. We see it in the $22 billion invested in science research and development through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. We see it in his appointments. And we see it in administrative policy changes.Op-Ed: Reversing the Congressional Science Lobotomy | Wired Science
Fastest Camera Ever Built Uses Lasers | Wired Science
Scientists have made the fastest camera ever. It can take 6.1 million pictures in a single second, at a shutter speed of 440 trillionths of a second. Light itself moves just a fraction of a centimeter in that time.Fastest Camera Ever Built Uses Lasers | Wired Science
The camera works by illuminating objects with a laser that emits a different infrared frequency for every single pixel, allowing them to custom-amplify a signal that would otherwise be too dim to see.
100 Days of Disquietude
One of his first bills, the Economy Act, reduced government spending in such areas as veteran benefits and the salaries of federal employees--and it actually exacerbated the nation's greatest problem, deflation. The National Industrial Recovery Act, the most popular legislative achievement of Roosevelt's first 100 days, created a corporatist behemoth that also promoted deflation by artificially increasing prices without increasing incomes. Its failure was visible well before the Supreme Court struck it down in 1935.100 Days of Disquietude
But in those early days, Roosevelt did more good than harm. He saved the financial system from collapse, almost certainly the most important event in the first 100 days, and perhaps in the first two years, of the administration. The "banking holiday" he declared immediately after his inauguration, the passage of the Glass-Steagall Act (which created the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, and whose repeal in 1999 is often blamed for much of our own present crisis), and the birth of the Securities and Exchange Commission (the undermining of which in recent years contributed to the financial collapse)--together, these measures helped the nation's financial institutions to survive, even if they did not immediately flourish. Other New Deal measures in these first months helped create a significant public works program, jobs for the unemployed, relief for people in need, and aid to the staggering farm economy.
Google Unveils New Tool To Dig for Public Data - washingtonpost.com
The tool, called Google Public Data, is the latest in the company's efforts to make information from federal, state and local governments accessible to citizens. It's a goal that many Washington public interest groups and government watchdogs share with President Obama, whose technology advisers are pushing to open up federal data to the public.Google Unveils New Tool To Dig for Public Data - washingtonpost.com
Microsoft Launches Social Media Tool
It is aimed at the consumer and connecting people in the traditional social media way but with added functions, such as mapping and the ability to define a specific area of interest, neighborhood or community. It allows consumers to send out notifications to specific individuals, which could prove valuable during emergencies.Microsoft Launches Social Media Tool
Tuesday, April 28, 2009
Careers - Employment Economics - Japan to Foreign Workers: 'Here's Money, Now Go Away'
One Japanese government official, Jiro Kawasaki, a senior lawmaker of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, was quoted in The New York Times as saying: "We should stop letting unskilled laborers into Japan. We should make sure that even the three-K jobs are paid well, and that they are filled by Japanese," he said. "I do not think that Japan should ever become a multiethnic society."The three-K jobs refer to "kitsui, kitanai, kiken -- hard, dirty and dangerous," mostly in manufacturing, which is going through very hard times in Japan, and most parts of the world.Careers - Employment Economics - Japan to Foreign Workers: 'Here's Money, Now Go Away'
The BroadbandCensus.com List of NTIA Comments | BroadbandCensus.com Blog
The BroadbandCensus.com List of NTIA Comments has been updated to include substantive comments filed between March 10 and April 15, currently with 248 comments. If you have a question about, or suggestion for, the BroadbandCensus.com List of NTIA Comments, please e-mail Cody Williams, williams@broadbandcensus.comThe BroadbandCensus.com List of NTIA Comments | BroadbandCensus.com Blog
British government backs down over database plan - washingtonpost.com
LONDON -- The British government said Monday it wants communications companies to keep records of every phone call, e-mail and Web site visit made in the country. But it has decided not to set up a national database of the information, a proposal that had been condemned as a "Big Brother"-style invasion of privacy by civil liberties groups.British government backs down over database plan - washingtonpost.com
Television Broadcasting Industry Research in the US by IBISWorld
The industry continues to experience strong competition from the digital cable and satellite TV industries. The cable TV industry, in particular, represents a significant threat to future industry growth. A number of factors point to low growth in advertising revenue, including forecast low economic growth, the declining overall share of the TV audience, and competition from new media. The bleak outlook for this industry has already prompted News Corp to expand its satellite TV interests.Television Broadcasting Industry Research in the US by IBISWorld
Frankenfood Gets Supersized | Wired Science
“The major message of the paper is that it’s possible to engineer crops with multiple nutrients,” said study co-author Paul Christou, a plant biochemist at Spain’s University of Lleida. “If you look at other nutritionally enhanced GM crops, up until now people have only been able to increase levels of one nutrient or vitamin.”Frankenfood Gets Supersized | Wired Science
Monday, April 27, 2009
Local Tech-Savvy Duo Steps Onto Federal Stage - washingtonpost.com
Chopra, Virginia's secretary of technology, last week was named the nation's first chief technology officer, although he still awaits confirmation by the Senate. The long-awaited announcement comes six weeks after the administration named Kundra, former chief technology officer for the District, to the post of federal chief information officer.Local Tech-Savvy Duo Steps Onto Federal Stage - washingtonpost.com
The chief technology officer will focus on overall technology policy and innovation strategies across departments while the chief information officer will oversee day-to-day information technology spending and operations within agencies.
They will work within the White House with direct access to the president. Chopra will be in the Office of Science and Technology Policy and Kundra in the Office of Management and Budget.
Local Tech-Savvy Duo Steps Onto Federal Stage - washingtonpost.com
Chopra, Virginia's secretary of technology, last week was named the nation's first chief technology officer, although he still awaits confirmation by the Senate. The long-awaited announcement comes six weeks after the administration named Kundra, former chief technology officer for the District, to the post of federal chief information officer.Local Tech-Savvy Duo Steps Onto Federal Stage - washingtonpost.com
The chief technology officer will focus on overall technology policy and innovation strategies across departments while the chief information officer will oversee day-to-day information technology spending and operations within agencies.
They will work within the White House with direct access to the president. Chopra will be in the Office of Science and Technology Policy and Kundra in the Office of Management and Budget.
Howard Kurtz - The Media Elite's Secret Dinners - washingtonpost.com
As white-jacketed waiters poured red and white wine and served a three-course salmon and risotto dinner, the White House chief of staff spent two hours chatting with some of Washington's top journalists -- excusing himself to take a call from President Obama and another from Hillary Clinton.Howard Kurtz - The Media Elite's Secret Dinners - washingtonpost.com
G.E.’s Breakthrough Can Put 100 DVDs on a Disc - NYTimes.com
Holographic storage has the potential to pack data far more densely than conventional optical technology, used in DVDs and the newer, high-capacity Blu-ray discs, in which information is stored as a pattern of laser-etched marks across the surface of a disc. The potential of holographic technology has long been known. The first research papers were published in the early 1960s.G.E.’s Breakthrough Can Put 100 DVDs on a Disc - NYTimes.com
Kim Hart - Stimulus Opening Doors in Health Care IT - washingtonpost.com
But more than $19 billion in stimulus money intended to revamp the nation's health system has piqued the interest of some local tech companies that have in the past shied away from the complex industry. And for companies with expertise in the business, stimulus dollars mean new opportunities.Kim Hart - Kim Hart's The Download - washingtonpost.com
Kim Hart - Engineering a Smart Grid For Energy's Future - washingtonpost.com
Smart-grid projects require many components -- digital meters and software systems, for example -- allowing both smaller and larger firms to compete. Current started out aiming to provide broadband service over power lines, but shifted to providing the grid communications system when utilities' adoption of Internet via power lines was slower than expected. GridPoint initially produced appliances to store energy produced by solar panels.Kim Hart - Engineering a Smart Grid For Energy's Future - washingtonpost.com
Internet Users in Developing Countries Drag on Sites’ Profits - NYTimes.com
Web companies that rely on advertising are enjoying some of their most vibrant growth in developing countries. But those are also the same places where it can be the most expensive to operate, since Web companies often need more servers to make content available to parts of the world with limited bandwidth. And in those countries, online display advertising is least likely to translate into results.Internet Users in Developing Countries Drag on Sites’ Profits - NYTimes.com
Sunday, April 26, 2009
MINTS - Minnesota Internet Traffic Studies
The press is full of alarms about "exafloods" of traffic, primarily video, that might overwhelm the Internet. This is motivating calls for new business models, with many implications for issues such as "net neutrality" (see MW2007, And2007, MI2007, and McC2006). But there is very little solid data about what is happening on the network, and many conflicting estimates. As one striking example, at the end of 2005, John Chambers, the CEO of Cisco, claimed that Internet traffic was growing at about 100% per year Boslet2005, and similar claims are common (e.g., Roberts2006). Chambers also predicted both in 2005 and in a keynote at the NXTcomm conference in June 2007 Chambers2007, Duffy2007 that growth might accelerate towards 300 to 500% per year, and that the internal Cisco corporate network traffic load is currently growing at such rates. On the other hand, in August 2007, Cisco released a pair of white papers Cisco07a and Cisco07b which estimate that worldwide Internet traffic growth has been around 50% per year over the last few years, and project similar growth for the next few years. (See also the article DW2007 that draws on the Cisco white papers and other sources.) Thus even within a single company, and one that plays a central role in making the Internet function to boot, there are wide disparities in growth estimates, between 50 and 100% per year for current growth rates, and between 50 and 500% per year going forward. And there are some far more outlandish estimates floating around, including a Converge! Network Digest story that claims current Internet traffic is about 1,000 times as high as it actually is. So how can anyone make reasonable plans for the future? And in particular, how can we avoid on one hand a capacity crunch that strangles vital communications, and on the other hand another debacle like that of the turn of the century, when well over a hundred billion dollars was wasted in the United States alone building networks on the false assumption of "Internet traffic doubling every 100 days"?MINTS - Minnesota Internet Traffic Studies
Poindexter's Still a Technocrat, Still a Lightning Rod - The New York Times
It was Admiral Poindexter's technological expertise that permitted him to create a back door, named "private blank check," in the e-mail system to circumvent normal White House channels, according to David A. Wallace, a specialist in electronic records at the School of Information at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. The system made it possible for the admiral to oversee the illegal activities of Col. Oliver North.Poindexter's Still a Technocrat, Still a Lightning Rod - The New York Times
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Force Behind New Copyright Law - washingtonpost.com
Ms. Ringer believed, above all, that copyrights should protect the creative people in American life -- the authors, songwriters and performers whose work was too often printed, plagiarized or broadcast without permission. By 1955, she was writing papers and commissioning studies on how the nation's copyright laws should be revised.Force Behind New Copyright Law - washingtonpost.com
For years, Ms. Ringer devoted much of her time to drafting a new, comprehensive copyright act and educating congressmen about why it was needed. Foreseeing the rise of the Internet, she inserted provisions into the law to protect authors from the unauthorized reproduction of their work, even by means not yet devised.
"The basic human rights of individual authors throughout the world," she warned in a 1975 speech, "are being sacrificed more and more on the altar of . . . the technological revolution."
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Saturday, April 25, 2009
Federal Authority Over the Internet? The Cybersecurity Act of 2009 | Electronic Frontier Foundation
Essentially, the Act would federalize critical infrastructure security. Since many of our critical infrastructure systems (banks, telecommunications, energy) are in the hands of the private sector, the bill would create a major shift of power away from users and companies to the federal government. This is a potentially dangerous approach that favors the dramatic over the sober response.Federal Authority Over the Internet? The Cybersecurity Act of 2009 | Electronic Frontier Foundation
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Thursday, April 23, 2009
Tech Played Role In Hunt For Craigslist Killer -- InformationWeek
Just days after the debate over whether Craigslist essentially promotes prostitution by allowing users to post ads online, police said that the Internet helped them find Philip Markoff, a 22-year-old medical student arrested in connection with the shooting death of Julissa Brisman in a Boston hotel.Tech Played Role In Hunt For Craigslist Killer -- InformationWeek
Police said that a 29-year-old woman reported being robbed at gunpoint less than two weeks ago after meeting a Craigslist user in a hotel room in an affluent section of Boston. Four days later, Brisman, a 26-year-old New York City model, was shot to death as she tried to flee a hotel room in Boston. She went to the hotel to meet someone who responded to her Craigslist ad for massages. Two days later, a 26-year-old woman reported that a man tried to rob her at gunpoint in a Rhode Island hotel. That victim also met the perpetrator through a Craigslist erotic services ad.
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Fundamentally Different
Now how does this apply to the Obama administration? Its relationship to the Sixties is similar to the Sixties' relationship to the New Deal. It is reviving and expanding the regulatory state of the Sixties, particularly in the areas of the environment, consumer protection, worker safety, and financial regulation. It is attempting to make good on the promise of universal health insurance that failed in Congress in 1971. It is also committed to tax reforms and social programs that will redress post-Sixties inequality. The Obama budget, for instance, contains $100 billion in tax increases on the wealthy and tax cuts for everyone else. It would also make college more accessible to lower- and middle-income students.Fundamentally Different
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Zecure Wins New Awards for its Acquirer SAFE Fraud Solution - Yahoo! Finance
Acquirer SAFE won the top award in both the 'Secure e-Commerce solution' category and the 'Security Solution for Finance' category- a testament to Zecure's mission to provide its customers with the best possible e-commerce fraud management solutions. Winners in other categories include Oracle and Cisco.Zecure Wins New Awards for its Acquirer SAFE Fraud Solution - Yahoo! Finance
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Rural Riddle: Do Jobs Follow Broadband Access? - washingtonpost.com
s of Lebanon and Rose Hill diverged. One attracted two large companies that created 700 good-paying jobs for residents. In the other, only a few home-based businesses got off the ground.Rural Riddle: Do Jobs Follow Broadband Access? - washingtonpost.com
President Obama has touted broadband as a means toward transforming rural and low-income areas, setting aside $7.2 billion in the stimulus plan to help create jobs and close the "digital divide." He has been joined in his support by a chorus of countries, including Australia, which recently said it would spend $31 billion laying fiber and other networks to get ahead in an emerging high-tech global economy.
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Understanding How the Dow Jones Is Calculated -- Seeking Alpha
In order to keep the DJIA consistent the "divisor" must also change. The current divisor is published on page C4 of the Wall Street Journal daily. The current divisor as of April 17, 2009 is .125552709. To get an idea of what this means we'll divide 1 point by the divisor and we get 7.9647. This means that a 1 point change in any of the 30 stocks will move the index up/down by 7.9647 points. For example, we'll say that 28 of the 30 Dow components finish the day unchanged but BAC and C both moved up 1 point, we could calculate the index average change by dividing 2 by the divisor...Understanding How the Dow Jones Is Calculated -- Seeking Alpha
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Wednesday, April 22, 2009
The Great Brazilian Sat-Hack Crackdown
CAMPINAS, Brazil — On the night of March 8, cruising 22,000 miles above the Earth, U.S. Navy communications satellite FLTSAT-8 suddenly erupted with illicit activity. Jubilant voices and anthems crowded the channel on a junkyard's worth of homemade gear from across vast and silent stretches of the Amazon: Ronaldo, a Brazilian soccer idol, had just scored his first goal with the Corinthians.The Great Brazilian Sat-Hack Crackdown
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Energy and Commerce Committee
The Subcommittee on Communications, Technology, and the Internet will hold a hearing titled, "Communications Networks and Consumer Privacy: Recent Developments" on Thursday, April 23, 2009, in 2322 Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing will focus on technologies that network operators utilize to monitor consumer usage and how those technologies intersect with consumer privacy. The hearing will explore three ways to monitor consumer usage on broadband and wireless networks: deep packet inspection (DPI); new uses for digital set-top boxes; and wireless Global Positioning System (GPS) tracking.Energy and Commerce Committee
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A Pentagon Cyber-Command Is in the Works - washingtonpost.com
The new command would affect U.S. Strategic Command, whose mission includes ensuring U.S. "freedom of action" in space and cyberspace, and the National Security Agency, which shares Pentagon cybersecurity responsibilities with the Defense Information Systems Agency.The Pentagon plans do not involve the Department of Homeland Security, which has responsibility for securing the government's non-military computer domain.A Pentagon Cyber-Command Is in the Works - washingtonpost.com
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I.M.F. Puts Bank Losses From Global Financial Crisis at $4.1 Trillion - NYTimes.com
In a report released Tuesday, the I.M.F. estimated that banks and other financial institutions faced aggregate losses of $4.05 trillion in the value of their holdings as a result of the crisis.Of that amount, $2.7 trillion is from loans and assets originating in the United States, the fund said. That estimate is up from $2.2 trillion in the fund’s interim report in January, and $1.4 trillion last October.I.M.F. Puts Bank Losses From Global Financial Crisis at $4.1 Trillion - NYTimes.com
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Susan Moeller: Media Literacy 101: The Ethics of Photoshopping a Shirtless Obama
In the world of news, that's unethical. The rule of thumb is, if you want to change what's in the photo, choose another photo. Making Obama into a man wearing brilliant red surfer trunks, instead of a more modest black pair, making the image more dramatic by having him walking out of darkness, and changing the exposure so he looks more gilded changes viewers' ideas about who the man is.Susan Moeller: Media Literacy 101: The Ethics of Photoshopping a Shirtless Obama
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Mythbusting The WSJ's Stats About Pro Bloggers
“452,000 of those using blogging as their primary source of income” is drawn from a Mediabistro rewrite of numbers from Technorati’s State of the Blogosphere reports. Technorati’s are the longest-running and most valuable, and consistent, series of blogging studies over time, but like any study’s numbers, they can be easily misrepresented: here, Penn relies on them for the datum that bloggers who reach 100,000 uniques a month can earn $75K a year. But if you read the source, you find this:Mythbusting The WSJ's Stats About Pro Bloggers
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Susan Moeller: Media Literacy 101: The Ethics of Photoshopping a Shirtless Obama
In the world of news, that's unethical. The rule of thumb is, if you want to change what's in the photo, choose another photo. Making Obama into a man wearing brilliant red surfer trunks, instead of a more modest black pair, making the image more dramatic by having him walking out of darkness, and changing the exposure so he looks more gilded changes viewers' ideas about who the man is.Susan Moeller: Media Literacy 101: The Ethics of Photoshopping a Shirtless Obama
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Tuesday, April 21, 2009
Adobe Extends Flash Platform to Digital Home | Studio Daily
The Adobe Flash Platform for the Digital Home now enables the delivery of HD web videos to digital home devices via the Flash Video (FLV) file format. Consumers will be able to enjoy rich, interactive viewing experiences and amazing new ways to engage with HD content on televisions. Flash technology based applications will allow users to quickly switch between television programming and web content outside the web browser. With the optimized implementation of Flash technology, content providers are able to extend their reach to millions of connected digital home devices, and cable operators and device manufacturers are able to develop new services and powerful user interfaces that deliver immersive experiences. A preview of Adobe Flash technology for digital home devices is being shown in the Adobe booth (SL3320, South Hall) and during Adobe’s NAB Super Session today.Adobe Extends Flash Platform to Digital Home | Studio Daily
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E-Commerce News: Business Intelligence: Making Social Networks Pay, Part 1: Strategies and Technologies
However, that inconvenient reality hasn't impeded the current onrush of third-party, investor-backed startup companies now flooding into this market, intent on finding customers among the hundreds of millions of consumers who turn daily to the Internet and the social networking services to share with one another their opinions, advice, grievances, and recommendations about the products and services with which they interact.E-Commerce News: Business Intelligence: Making Social Networks Pay, Part 1: Strategies and Technologies
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100-MPG Delivery Van Is a Bright Idea | Autopia from Wired.com
AP: The ultimate pizza delivery vehicle.100-MPG Delivery Van Is a Bright Idea | Autopia from Wired.com
The Indiana company joins a growing number of automakers and startups promising to give us cars with cords in the next few years, but it's targeting the fleet market. It's a smart move, said Darryl Siry, a clean tech analyst with Peppercom, because there's a need for fuel-efficient fleet vehicles.
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D.C. First in Line for Free Mobile Digital TV; Other Cities to Follow - washingtonpost.com
The move into wireless technologies demonstrates the broadcast industry's push toward new revenue streams as traditional advertising money dries up amid the recession and as more people turn to the Web for their favorite TV shows. Broadcasters are able to carry their shows over more platforms as more stations convert from analog to digital signals.D.C. First in Line for Free Mobile Digital TV; Other Cities to Follow - washingtonpost.com
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Key to Oracle-Sun Deal: Storage, DB Hardware
1) Enterprise software giant Oracle has decided it wants to get into the storage and database hardware business, where there is plenty of room for growth, and it believes Sun is the right horse to ride at this time.2) Sun has deep and prosperous relationships with customers in the high-performance computing, telecommunications and government sectors that Oracle can now mine for more business.3) The price was right. Oracle won't have to finance much, if anything. The transaction actually nets out to about $5.6 billion after Sun's liquid assets (an estimated $1.8 billion) are taken into consideration; Oracle has $8.2 billion of its own in cash and cash equivalents.Key to Oracle-Sun Deal: Storage, DB Hardware
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Monday, April 20, 2009
Kim Hart - Local Players Like the Outlook for Web Video - washingtonpost.com
More households now have access to high-speed Internet. That growth has coincided with an increasing number of broadcast networks and niche cable stations that have put a larger and better selection of videos online, giving viewers the option of watching their favorite shows without having to pay for cable or satellite television service.Kim Hart - Local Players Like the Outlook for Web Video - washingtonpost.com
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Hybrid Hummer Promises 100 Miles per Gallon | Autopia from Wired.com
Raser Technologies will unveil the Raser H3 on Monday in Detroit. It promises a 90 mph top speed, off-road capability and a lithium ion-battery you can recharge in as little as three hours. What's more, the company says the drivetrain can be installed in other trucks and it hopes to have 2,000 converted vehicles on the road by the end of next year.Hybrid Hummer Promises 100 Miles per Gallon | Autopia from Wired.com
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Nudge-ocracy
Like the New Democrats who ultimately shaped the Clinton administration's agenda, Obama has a deep respect for the market and wants to minimize the state's footprint on it. He has little interest in fixing prices or rationing goods or reversing free-trade agreements. But, while he basically shares the New Democrats' instincts, he rejects their conclusions. Reacting against the overweening statism of their liberal ancestors, many New Democrats came to believe that if government largely got out of the way and let markets work properly, the natural result would be widely shared prosperity. You only need to view the extent of Obama's domestic agenda to know he doesn't agree.Nudge-ocracy
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ATIS IPTV Interoperability Forum Completes Phase 1 Work
The Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions (ATIS) announced today the release of five new standards – establishing IPTV’s foundational framework – created by ATIS’ IPTV Interoperability Forum (IIF).The completion of these documents signals the conclusion of “Phase 1” of the IIF’s three-phased Work Plan. Phase 1 completes the IIF’s standardization of linear television service (i.e. basic television) over an IP network.Work has already begun on the IIF’s Phase 2, which will enable interactive services, including on-demand applications and pay-per-view programming. The IIF's Phase 3, targeted to commence in 2011, will focus on IPTV's most demanding applications, such as multi-party video conferencing and next-generation gaming.The recently-completed Phase 1 documents are:ATIS IPTV Interoperability Forum Completes Phase 1 Work
* IPTV Linear TV Service (ATIS-0800018), which establishes IPTV’s fundamental building blocks for expansion into more advanced services, including pay-per-view and next-generation gaming.
* IPTVConsumer Domain Device Configuration Metadata (ATIS-0800022), which specifies the data structures (metadata) required to provide basic information needed to acquire IPTV content.
* Media Formats and Protocols for IPTV Services (ATIS-0800013), which is a comprehensive listing of the protocols and media formats required for the implementation of IPTV-related services.
* IPTV Terminal Metadata Specification (ATIS-0800029), which defines the data structure that facilitates the exchange of user-related data and the IPTV devices * Fault Codes for IPTV (ATIS-0800028), which includes a categorized listing of fault codes for IPTV functions and components.
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U.S. May Convert Bank Bailouts to Common Stock - NYTimes.com
In a significant shift, White House and Treasury Department officials now say they can stretch what is left of the $700 billion financial bailout fund further than they had expected a few months ago, simply by converting the government’s existing loans to the nation’s 19 biggest banks into common stock.U.S. May Convert Bank Bailouts to Common Stock - NYTimes.com
Converting those loans to common shares would turn the federal aid into available capital for a bank — and give the government a large ownership stake in return.
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India Launches Spy and Education Satellites - People's Daily Online
The Israeli-built spy satellite RISAT-2 will primarily keep an eye on the country's borders round-the-clock and help in anti-infiltration and anti-terrorist operations.India Launches Spy and Education Satellites - People's Daily Online
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Sunday, April 19, 2009
Business Graduates Looking Beyond Wall Street - NYTimes.com
After doing an internship at Goldman Sachs last summer and not being offered a full-time job there, Katie Shea, a senior at the Stern School of Business at New York University, is instead pursuing her dreams of entrepreneurship. She has founded a shoe company that designs and imports collapsible shoes that women can wear while walking to work and then stuff into their pocketbooks.Business Graduates Looking Beyond Wall Street - NYTimes.com
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For Japan's Young Families, a Little Good News - washingtonpost.com
The number of children here has fallen for 28 consecutive years. Japan has the world's lowest proportion of children younger than 15 and the highest proportion of people older than 65. Population loss will strip away 70 percent of the workforce by 2050, according to a recent forecast.For Japan's Young Families, a Little Good News - washingtonpost.com
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E-Commerce News: Internet Fraud: The Flourishing Fraud Economy
One reason is that the prices for some records have been falling for years and can't go much lower. Stolen credit card numbers now go for as little as 6 US cents each, if they're bought 10,000 at a time. The price can be $30 per card for smaller orders.E-Commerce News: Internet Fraud: The Flourishing Fraud Economy
Access to hijacked e-mail accounts: 10 cents to $100.
Bank account credentials: $10 to $1,000.
Scammers can hire people to "cash out" compromised bank accounts for between 8 percent and 50 percent of the amount they're stealing. Hosting for scam Web sites ranges from $3 to $40 per week.
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Why File Sharing Will Save Hollywood, Music | Epicenter from Wired.com
Nonetheless, sites like The Pirate Bay taught — and continue to teach — valuable lessons to the content industry. Even as music labels and movie studios try to sue peer-to-peer networks out of existence, these same networks have been preparing music labels and movie studios for the emerging social-media world, in which sales form only a small slice of the revenue pie, and what really matters is who likes what, and who pays attention to them.Why File Sharing Will Save Hollywood, Music | Epicenter from Wired.com
Facebook, MySpace, imeem, YouTube and other social media sites — which the labels now recognize as a major part of their revenue streams going forward — incorporate several aspects of Napster and other early, rogue file sharing networks: buddy lists, user uploads, filtering content by user, viral marketing, ad-supported content and the potential of mining valuable data. The complete DNA of social media was right there, from the very start of P2P.
And even in the early days, the labels were intrigued by the vast pools of user data available on networks like Napster and Kazaa, although they were reticent to take advantage of it.
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Verizon Introduces New One-Stop Web Portal for Small Businesses Across America - Yahoo! Finance
The centerpiece of the new business portal is the Verizon Collaboration Center, powered by Cisco WebEx technology, with voice and Web conferencing that enables users to collaborate with peers, clients and vendors in a virtual environment that works like an Intranet. Licensed users can share documents and calendars, discuss ideas, set goals, and manage projects and business operations. With the Verizon Web Meeting add-on, users can meet online - in real time - with co-workers, partners, suppliers and customers."With the Verizon Collaboration Center, small businesses can embrace today's most innovative collaboration technologies to solve problems collectively, accelerate decisions, increase productivity and create customer value," said Subrah S. Iyar, chief strategy officer, collaboration software group, Cisco. "Since this is all done online, travel costs are reduced and operating efficiency is increased."Verizon Introduces New One-Stop Web Portal for Small Businesses Across America - Yahoo! Finance
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‘Hyperlocal’ Web Sites Deliver News Without Newspapers - NYTimes.com
A number of Web start-up companies are creating so-called hyperlocal news sites that let people zoom in on what is happening closest to them, often without involving traditional journalists.The sites, like EveryBlock, Outside.in, Placeblogger and Patch, collect links to articles and blogs and often supplement them with data from local governments and other sources. They might let a visitor know about an arrest a block away, the sale of a home down the street and reviews of nearby restaurants.‘Hyperlocal’ Web Sites Deliver News Without Newspapers - NYTimes.com
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Prototype - Software That Monitors Children’s Virtual Playgrounds - NYTimes.com
VIRTUAL worlds for children and teenagers — Web sites like Neopets, Club Penguin and Habbo — are a big business. On these sites, children create an avatar and, with it, explore an imaginary universe. They can play games, chat and decorate virtual rooms or other spaces.Prototype - Software That Monitors Children’s Virtual Playgrounds - NYTimes.com
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Digital Domain - The PC Doesn’t Have to Be an Anchor - News Analysis - NYTimes.com
The growth in the notebook segment, even during the recession, should be understood as part of a larger shift from stationary to mobile computing. It’s the same trend that contributes to growing sales of smartphones, which also serve as featherweight computing devices.Digital Domain - The PC Doesn’t Have to Be an Anchor - News Analysis - NYTimes.com
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F.B.I. and States Vastly Expand DNA Databases - NYTimes.com
Until now, the federal government genetically tracked only convicts. But starting this month, the Federal Bureau of Investigation will join 15 states that collect DNA samples from those awaiting trial and will collect DNA from detained immigrants — the vanguard of a growing class of genetic registrants.F.B.I. and States Vastly Expand DNA Databases - NYTimes.com
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Wanted: Computer hackers ... to help government - washingtonpost.com
General Dynamics Information Technology put out an ad last month on behalf of the Homeland Security Department seeking someone who could "think like the bad guy." Applicants, it said, must understand hackers' tools and tactics and be able to analyze Internet traffic and identify vulnerabilities in the federal systems.Wanted: Computer hackers ... to help government - washingtonpost.com
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Ford Bets the Fiesta on Social Networking | Autopia from Wired.com
Ford is betting the success of the Fiesta subcompact on the blogs, tweets and Facebook updates of 100 people who will live with the cars and share their experiences online. It's a hell of a gamble, but if it pays off, Ford just might recast itself as a cool company with a great product -- no small feat for an American automaker.Ford Bets the Fiesta on Social Networking | Autopia from Wired.com
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Saturday, April 18, 2009
4 Reasons Apple Should Share the iPhone With Verizon | Gadget Lab from Wired.com
That's because Apple was never very interested in Verizon's current CDMA cellular standard, which is less popular among cellphone networks outside North America, Verizon CEO Ivan Seidenberg told The Wall Street Journal.4 Reasons Apple Should Share the iPhone With Verizon | Gadget Lab from Wired.com
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Netflix Subscribers See Red Over Cracked Blu-ray Discs | Gadget Lab from Wired.com
Blu-ray discs differ from standard-definition discs in the way they are produced and how they store data. Standard definition DVDs are two clear polycarbonate discs, each 0.6mm thick, sandwiched together with the data recorded on a very thin metal substrate in between, explains Adrienne Downey, senior analyst at research firm Semico.Netflix Subscribers See Red Over Cracked Blu-ray Discs | Gadget Lab from Wired.com
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Find a Job, Find Talent in the Film & Television Production & Post Industry | Studio Daily
Starz Media, LLC, is a programming production and distribution company operating worldwide. It includes the Film Roman, Overture Films, Anchor Bay Entertainment, Starz Animation, Toronto, and Manga Entertainment brands. Its units create animated and live-action programming -- including theatrical films -- and programming created under contract for other media companies. It distributes that programming, and programming acquired from outside producers, through home video retailers, theaters, broadcasters, ad supported and premium television channels, and Internet and wireless video distributors in the US and internationally. Starz Media is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Liberty Media Corp. that is attributed to Liberty Capital Group, www.starz.com and www.starzmedia.com.Career Center: Find a Job, Find Talent in the Film & Television Production & Post Industry | Studio Daily
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Director Alex Rivera on Third-World SF | Film & Video
With Sleep Dealer, director Alex Rivera re-imagines the science fiction film from a distinctly Latin American perspective. Set in Mexico, it conjures up a gritty future in which menial labor is conducted via virtual reality and memories can be sold on-line. Using both Super-16 and HD video, Rivera gives both rural and urban Mexico, as well as a mock reality TV show called Drones!, a distinctive look. Rivera creates an extremely promising debut, which uses science fiction to speak about the dilemmas and possibilities facing the Third World.Director Alex Rivera on Third-World SF | Film & Video
FBI's Secret Spyware Tracks Down Teen Who Made Bomb Threats
Sanders wrote that the spyware program gathers a wide range of information, including the computer's IP address; MAC address; open ports; a list of running programs; the operating system type, version and serial number; preferred internet browser and version; the computer's registered owner and registered company name; the current logged-in user name and the last-visited URL.FBI's Secret Spyware Tracks Down Teen Who Made Bomb Threats
Finextra: Nyse Liffe speeds up market access for Frankfurt
Until now, customers in the German financial capital have had to connect to NYSE Liffe by using the existing telecommunications infrastructure to reach the Exchange's Amsterdam or Paris Access Centres. From this quarter customers in Frankfurt will be able to order connections to one of two NYSE Euronext Secure Financial Transaction Infrastructure (SFTI) centres in the city. The SFTI network offers the lowest latency Exchange service from Frankfurt to NYSE Euronext's markets and the two new options will offer customers much faster access prioritising, respectively, resilience or cost, depending on which option they choose.Finextra: Nyse Liffe speeds up market access for Frankfurt
Thursday, April 16, 2009
More regulations mean more IT jobs | Adventures in IT - InfoWorld
Pettibone says there will be a huge amount of work with the FDIC, the SEC, and the Treasury Department, all of which are putting together regulatory systems for financial services."The government will be the fastest-growing job sector in the country," says Pettibone.And the icing on the cake? Government IT projects can't be offshored. They can be outsourced, but only to U.S. companies. Beyond that, I'd like to save discussing the financial services sector for another column, and instead turn to health care.More regulations mean more IT jobs | Adventures in IT - InfoWorld
THE PREDATOR STATE by James Galbraith
AS LIFE as we know it seemed to be ending—bailouts pushing $1 trillion on Wall Street, the stock market plunging, credit markets seized up around the world, with banks even refusing to lend to each other, never mind lending to their customers—James Galbraith and I talked. In his recent book, The Predator State, James Galbraith does what his famous father, John Kenneth Galbraith, never did: he makes a moral case. He argues that our country has been hijacked by the neoconservatives of the Bush administration. The "ideals" extolled by those neoconservatives—free trade, monetarism, balanced budgets, deregulation, privatization—are nothing more than a bunch of bull, says Galbraith. Moreover, he says, their true agenda was always greed. Taken together, these "ideals" came to represent a worldview whose basic principle was largely unchallenged by liberals. And what was that basic principle? Socialism—socialism for the rich.Books & Literature | THE PREDATOR STATE by James Galbraith
Americans' Tax Burden Near Historic Low - washingtonpost.com
With federal income taxes so low for so many families, a majority of those surveyed by Gallup last week said the amount of federal income taxes they pay is either "too low" or "about right," compared with 46 percent who said their tax bills are "too high" -- one of the most positive assessments of the federal tax burden since Gallup began asking the question in 1956.Americans' Tax Burden Near Historic Low - washingtonpost.com
The Online Collaboration Tools Guide - ReadWriteWeb
Collaboration tools and online storage applications offer many possibilities: online collaborative editing, synchronizing across computers, sharing multiple files and discussion boards, and sharing windows and documents on the spot, to name a few. The following review of major products in this space will help you choose the right collaboration tools for your needs.The Online Collaboration Tools Guide - ReadWriteWeb
Napolitano Defends Homeland Security Report on Right-Wing Extremism - washingtonpost.com
Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano responded yesterday to widespread criticism of a leaked domestic intelligence report warning local law enforcement agencies to be on guard for right-wing extremist groups seeking new recruits amid the nation's economic troubles.Napolitano Defends Homeland Security Report on Right-Wing Extremism - washingtonpost.com
N.S.A.’s Intercepts Exceed Limits Set by Congress - NYTimes.com
The legal and operational problems surrounding the N.S.A.’s surveillance activities have come under scrutiny from the Obama administration, Congressional intelligence committees and a secret national security court, said the intelligence officials, who spoke only on the condition of anonymity because N.S.A. activities are classified. Classified government briefings have been held in recent weeks in response to a brewing controversy that some officials worry could damage the credibility of legitimate intelligence-gathering efforts.N.S.A.’s Intercepts Exceed Limits Set by Congress - NYTimes.com
Wednesday, April 15, 2009
PIN Crackers Nab Holy Grail of Bank Card Security | Threat Level from Wired.com
Hackers have crossed into new frontiers by devising sophisticated ways to steal large amounts of personal identification numbers, or PINs, protecting credit and debit cards, says an investigator. The attacks involve both unencrypted PINs and encrypted PINs that attackers have found a way to crack, according to an investigator behind a new report looking at the data breaches.PIN Crackers Nab Holy Grail of Bank Card Security | Threat Level from Wired.com
http://kyokokit.startlogic.com/1701.html
Kyoko Kitamura is a vocal improviser residing in New York City. She does weird things with her voice and uses the laptop to make it sound even weirder.http://kyokokit.startlogic.com/1701.html
Walt Disney Expert Uses Science to Draw Boy Viewers - NYTimes.com
Ms. Peña and her team of anthropologists have spent 18 months peering inside the heads of incommunicative boys in search of just that kind of psychological nugget. Disney is relying on her insights to create new entertainment for boys 6 to 14, a group that Disney used to own way back in the days of “Davy Crockett” but that has wandered in the age of more girl-friendly Disney fare like “Hannah Montana.”Walt Disney Expert Uses Science to Draw Boy Viewers - NYTimes.com
Broadband Stimulus Should Require Maps First, Say Congressmen
If two congressmen get their way, the awarding of stimulus money for broadband projects would be contingent upon completion of broadband mapping. U.S. Rep. Cliff Stearns, R-Fla., and U.S. Rep. Joe Barton, R-Texas, recently suggested that only local governments in states with completed maps of broadband coverage should receive stimulus money for broadband projects.Broadband Stimulus Should Require Maps First, Say Congressmen
The congressmen argue that a map of coverage would ensure the stimulus money included in the Economic Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 goes to areas that are actually lacking broadband.
The high costs of running YouTube. - By Farhad Manjoo - Slate Magazine
YouTube's troubles are surprisingly similar to those faced by newspapers. Just like your local daily, the company is struggling to sell enough in advertising to cover the enormous costs of storing and distributing its content. Newspapers have to pay to publish and deliver dead trees; YouTube has to pay for a gargantuan Internet connection to send videos to your computer and the millions of others who are demanding the most recent Dramatic Chipmunk mash-up. Google doesn't break out YouTube's profits and losses on its earnings statements, and of course it's possible that Credit Suisse's estimates are off. But if the analysts are at all close, YouTube, which Google bought in 2006, is in big trouble. As Benjamin Wayne, the CEO of the rival video-streaming company Fliqz, pointed out in a recent article for Silicon Alley Insider, not even Google can long sustain a company that's losing close to half a billion dollars a year.The high costs of running YouTube. - By Farhad Manjoo - Slate Magazine
How Technology Won the Presidency, Pt. II
Improvements in hardware helped the team keep costs low. Luke Peterson, data architect for Obama for America, told me his $700 laptop easily handled voter registration data, in fact better than did the $5,000 workstation he used in 2004. But improved processor performance was aided to some degree by improved software, too. Peterson said the campaign used inexpensive software options — PostgreSQL, MySQL, etc. — where possible, saving budget resources for expensive items like SPSS licenses and an ArcGIS server for the Chicago office.How Technology Won the Presidency, Pt. II
U.S. Telecoms Eager to Build a Business Presence in Cuba - washingtonpost.com
The Cuban government has not been helpful in allowing its citizens access to communications technology, said David Gross, who was U.S. ambassador and coordinator for International Information and Communications Policy during the Bush administration. Now that the United States has opened the door, he said, "the question is whether the Cuban government will allow people to come inside."U.S. Telecoms Eager to Build a Business Presence in Cuba - washingtonpost.com
Cuba has the lowest percentage of telephone, Internet and cellphone subscribers in Latin America, according to Manuel Cereijo, a professor of electrical engineering at the University of Miami. About 11 percent of residents subscribe to land-line telephone service, and 2 percent have cellphone service.
Congressman Wants to Ban Download Caps | Epicenter from Wired.com
Massa, a longtime blogger at the liberal site DailyKos, says he will be joined by a "legion of activists" and called the fight against usage caps a "national issue of generational consequences." However, Massa's fight will not get far without support from powerful House members,including Virginia Democrat Rick Boucher who now controls a key committee on telecoms and the internet.Congressman Wants to Ban Download Caps | Epicenter from Wired.com
Critics say usage caps will cost users more and hurt innovation on the net — especially in new video services, as subscribers begin to calorie-count their internet usage.
TWC's new tiered pricing structure for its Roadrunner internet service starts at $15 for a plan that allows 1 GB a month with an overage charge of $2 per GB. (A GB of data equals about three hours of online video from Hulu.com and about half of a rented standard definition movie.) The company says bandwidth hogs need to pay their fair share and maintain that if the company doesn't get enough money to build new infrastructure, "internet brownouts" will be inevitable.
In a conference call with reporters Tuesday, Massa dismissed those arguments, describing TWC as a greedy, unregulated monopoly providing a utility service. His yet-to-be-introduced bill would seek to increase competition among broadband providers and regulate monopolies, he said, though he declined to give specifics."They are providing a utility and frankly you should not be able to impose cascading rate increases without justifying them," Massa said. "What Time Warner is saying is not true and their own SEC filings show that. This is AIG-style greed."
N.Y. Congressman Plans Bill Banning Internet-Usage Billing - 2009-04-13 15:13:07 | Multichannel News
Rep. Eric Massa (D-N.Y.) last Friday officially announced that he is drafting legislation that would "prohibit unfair tiered price structures from Internet providers.""I am taking a leadership position on this issue because of all the phone calls, e-mails and faxes I've received from my district and all over the country," Massa said in a statement April 10.The proposed law is in response to Time Warner Cable's plans to expand its trials of metered broadband service to four markets, including in the Rochester, N.Y., area which includes Massa's district. The freshman congressman last week blasted the MSO's plans as "monopolistic" and alleged it would force consumers to pay more.The Massa Broadband Internet Fairness Act will also "address the importance of helping broadband providers create jobs and increase their bandwidth while increasing competition in areas currently served by only one provider," according to the congressman's announcement.N.Y. Congressman Plans Bill Banning Internet-Usage Billing - 2009-04-13 15:13:07 | Multichannel News
Obama to Ease U.S. Telecom Restrictions in Cuba
“The move is part of an effort to open access to the Cuban people,” Meckler reports. “The initiative also includes lifting of long-standing restrictions on family travel and remittances to the island. Family will be loosely defined as a third-degree relative, a definition that was in place during the Clinton administration that extends to second cousins. The money can go to any Cuban, unless he or she is a senior government official.”Obama to Ease U.S. Telecom Restrictions in Cuba
Tuesday, April 14, 2009
A False Distinction - Alan Wolfe
The idea that liberalism comes in two forms assumes that the most fundamental question facing mankind if how much government intervenes into the economy. To me, perhaps because so little of the means of production lies under my control, this is a remarkably uninteresting subject. I think of the whole question of governmental intervention as a matter of technique. Sometimes the market does pretty well and it pays to rely on it. Sometimes it runs into very rough patches and then you need government to regulate it and correct its course. No matters of deep philosophy or religious meaning are at stake when we discuss such matters. A society simply does that it has to do.A False Distinction - Alan Wolfe
Just In: Security Software: Protection or Extortion? - washingtonpost.com
Security software is a scam. A rip-off. A waste of money, a pain in the neck, and a surefire way to bring even the speediest PC to a crawl. Half the time it seems to cause more problems than it solves. Oh, and one more thing: It's unnecessary.Just In: Security Software: Protection or Extortion? - washingtonpost.com
Just In: Security Software: Protection or Extortion? - washingtonpost.com
Security software is a scam. A rip-off. A waste of money, a pain in the neck, and a surefire way to bring even the speediest PC to a crawl. Half the time it seems to cause more problems than it solves. Oh, and one more thing: It's unnecessary.Just In: Security Software: Protection or Extortion? - washingtonpost.com
How Bernanke Staged a Revolution - washingtonpost.com
The pressure to act fast has, by all accounts, come from Bernanke himself. His relationships with staff members are warm, dating to his days as a Fed governor when he ran the equivalent of faculty seminars to help young economists develop their research. But sources who have been in contact with Fed staffers also say that he has prodded economists and lawyers to move faster and think more creatively to execute new programs being enacted.How Bernanke Staged a Revolution - washingtonpost.com
Monday, April 13, 2009
In Europe, Obama Faces Calls for Rules on Finances - NYTimes.com
Despite calls for unity from Mr. Obama and the British prime minister, Gordon Brown, the host of the Group of 20 meeting that will formally begin Thursday, a rift intensified over Anglo-American calls for greater fiscal stimulus spending and French and German demands for more intrusive global regulation of financial institutions.In Europe, Obama Faces Calls for Rules on Finances - NYTimes.com
Financial crisis to remove $40 billion from global retail banking technology market - Retail Banking
Many areas of IT spending will therefore remain resilient. IT spend in the branch will be maintained as banks look to technology in order to maintain service levels after headcount reduction, with banking operations (e.g. account administration/loans processing) growing in IT investment focus to support greater efficiency and drive lower cost base. Similarly, technology spend to support risk management and compliance will be maintained, however, banks will be looking to re-use existing systems as far as possible, so immediate technology vendor opportunity will be more subdued than many expect.Financial crisis to remove $40 billion from global retail banking technology market - Retail Banking
Security Fix - Web Fraud 2.0: Data Search Tools for ID Thieves
Data such as your Social Security number, mother's maiden name and credit card balance are not as difficult for ID thieves to find as most people think. I've recently learned that cyber crooks are providing cheap, instant access to detailed consumer databases, offering identity thieves the ability to find missing data as they compile dossiers on targeted individuals.Security Fix - Web Fraud 2.0: Data Search Tools for ID Thieves
Steven Levy on the Promise and Perils of Divorcing Your Cable Company
Enter Boxee, an open source application that, according to CEO Avner Ronen, strives to be the Firefox of video. The global browser funnels all that Internet content, as well as media you've downloaded, to your television. Though Boxee is still in its early stages, a couple hundred thousand head-firsters have already checked it out, most of them using the otherwise superfluous Apple TV box as the conduit for getting online content to the boob tube.Steven Levy on the Promise and Perils of Divorcing Your Cable Company
Tech Rumor of the Day: Barnes & Noble | Telecom | Financial Articles & Investing News | TheStreet.com
Barnes & Noble (BKS Quote), the nation's No. 1 bookstore chain, is working with a device maker and Sprint (S Quote) on a Kindle-like device, according to one wireless industry insider. The news comes a week after the CTIA wireless show, where sources say there was heavy speculation surrounding Barnes & Noble's plan to give eBooks another try.Tech Rumor of the Day: Barnes & Noble | Telecom | Financial Articles & Investing News | TheStreet.com
Fixing a broken system - Pensions & Investments
One of those models is Value at Risk or VaR, the widely used measure of risk of mark-to-market loss in a portfolio. An often overlooked component of VaR is that it assumes “normal” market conditions, and thus it has been criticized for failing to predict the magnitude of investors' losses suffered in the current crisis.Fixing a broken system - Pensions & Investments
Tech Rumor of the Day: Barnes & Noble | Telecom | Financial Articles & Investing News | TheStreet.com
Barnes & Noble (BKS Quote), the nation's No. 1 bookstore chain, is working with a device maker and Sprint (S Quote) on a Kindle-like device, according to one wireless industry insider. The news comes a week after the CTIA wireless show, where sources say there was heavy speculation surrounding Barnes & Noble's plan to give eBooks another try.Tech Rumor of the Day: Barnes & Noble | Telecom | Financial Articles & Investing News | TheStreet.com
Tech Rumor of the Day: Barnes & Noble | Telecom | Financial Articles & Investing News | TheStreet.com
Barnes & Noble (BKS Quote), the nation's No. 1 bookstore chain, is working with a device maker and Sprint (S Quote) on a Kindle-like device, according to one wireless industry insider. The news comes a week after the CTIA wireless show, where sources say there was heavy speculation surrounding Barnes & Noble's plan to give eBooks another try.Tech Rumor of the Day: Barnes & Noble | Telecom | Financial Articles & Investing News | TheStreet.com
Crisis Reshaping Wall St. as Stars Begin to Scatter - NYTimes.com
This is certainly a concern for the banks losing top talent. But other financial experts believe it is the beginning of a broader and necessary reshaping of Wall Street, too long dominated by a handful of major players that helped to fuel the financial crisis. The country may be better off if the banking industry is less concentrated, they say.Crisis Reshaping Wall St. as Stars Begin to Scatter - NYTimes.com
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