Indian business and economy after the Mumbai attacks (Friday 26th of December 2008 10:08:00 AM)
The terror attacks in Mumbai on November 26, 2008 may have unsettled corporate India, but only
temporarily. In the face of adversity, corporate India stood united to overcome this crisis,
and emerge stronger, determined to ensure that the attacks did ...
(more)Portable CD players see a resurgence in the UK (Monday 08th of December 2008 10:12:00 AM)
digg_url = 'http://digg.com/gadgets/Portable_CD_players_see_a_resurgence_in_the_UK'; Unless
you have some unexplained fetish with gadgets of yesteryear, you maybe haven't been paying
close descant to how many brands of manageable CD players your local ...
(more)Smartphone numbers are in: iPhone sales exceed Windows Mobile sales for first time (Thursday 04th of December 2008 02:01:00 PM)
Gartner's latest and greatest dissection of the global smartphone gang is in, and there are
quite a few interesting nuggets tucked within all those percentages. For starters, the sector
still managed to grow 11.5% in Q3 2008 compared to a year prior, ...
(more)Palm's preliminary quarter-end results show drooping revenues, bleak outlook (Tuesday 02nd of December 2008 01:54:00 PM)
Remember when we used to write about Palm in order to talk about its devices and / or business
expenses budget budget system(s)? Man, those were the days. Now, it just seems like one
sadness-filled report after another, and just days after hearing that ...
(more)Circuit City announces store closure plans, full list of locations revealed (Monday 03rd of November 2008 03:34:00 PM)
Filed under: Misc. GadgetsYesterday news broke that Circuit City would promulgate the ominous
closure of 155 retail locations, and this morning the company third edition by the news. story
its next plan of action in a lengthy press release, the electronics-maker ...
(more)Circuit City to shutter 155 stores, locations to go public tomorrow (Sunday 02nd of November 2008 08:40:00 PM)
Filed under: Misc. GadgetsAccording to a slew of tips we've received, Circuit City will be
closing down 155 of its retail locations, apparently even before Black Friday. Right now
details are sketchy, but it seems that the company's inherited "holiday ...
(more)"My Street" Bailout Proposal (Friday 03rd of October 2008 08:50:00 PM)
Is it just me, or does it seem like this bailout thing is working a little backwards. I keep
hearing of a bailout package for Wall Street that is suppose to help Main Street, but what
about My Street? I don't see how using my ...
(more)McCain suspends campaigning for crisis? (Thursday 25th of September 2008 07:00:00 AM)
Is this a joke? This is purely political, John McCain is trying to come off as not being
political but he is being that. He is a patriot, no question. He loves this country. This is
also a good way to save some money when ...
(more)Fed bails out AIG in $85B deal (Wednesday 17th of September 2008 05:29:00 PM)
Well the government is just putting itself into more debt that is going to cost us more tax
money. In America, we tax everyone to keep our flow of money and hope that people buy new cars
and clothes. This is going to get us ...
(more)Economy back on table (Wednesday 17th of September 2008 04:18:00 AM)
“Let’s be clear,” Mr. Obama said sternly. “What we’ve seen the
last few days is nothing less than the final verdict on an economic philosophy that has
completely failed.”With the Dow Jones dropping 500 points in one ...
(more)ForexGen Trading Currencies (Tuesday 19th of August 2008 11:21:00 PM)
CurrencyThe currency market is one of the most popular markets for speculation due to the
enormous size of currency trading and liquidity. Any currency has a value relative to all other
currencies in the world. Currency trading has many real benefits ...
(more)ForexGen | Fed Increases Liquidity (Tuesday 19th of August 2008 12:15:00 AM)
In a bid designed to placate skittish investors, America's Federal Reserve Bank announced
that it will extend the duration of its liquidity facilities at least through 2008 and possible
into 2009. It is hoped that the continued enabling (which began ...
(more)Is the UK Headed for a Recession? (Monday 28th of July 2008 01:15:00 AM)
GDP growth slowed in the second quarter, but the British pound managed to rally. The pace
of growth has fallen from an annualized rate of 2.3 to 1.6 percent, the lowest level since the
first quarter of 2002 and equaling the 15 year low. Weak ...
(more)Sony Ericsson sees net profits fall 97%, looks to cut 2,000 jobs (Friday 18th of July 2008 07:32:00 PM)
Filed under: Cellphones
Sony Ericsson warned the world just over a fortnight ago that things
wouldn't be too rosy when it came time to proclaim Q2 results, and rosy things are not. Even
though the handset maker was hoping and praying to break even at ...
(more)MSM Noticing That Patent Gridlock Stunts Innovation (Wednesday 16th of July 2008 05:35:28 PM)
Trichard tips a column on the article page at that most traditional of regular media, the Wall
Street Journal, arguing the point (obvious to this cooperative for a decade) that the US patent
system costs more than the value it delivers. The columnist ...
(more)Windows in Brazil Costs 20% of Per Capita Business Income (Sunday 04th of May 2008 09:24:28 AM)
Mjasay writes "Ever wonder why open source is so popular in Brazil and other BRIC nations? As
one study suggests, one big reason may well be Microsoft's punitive pricing, which exceeds 20
percent of Gross subject Income for businesses in Brazil (and 7.8 ...
(more)Wisest Words this whole god damned recession (Tuesday 18th of March 2008 03:26:00 PM)
"There's no doubt that the American people know that the economy has turned down sharply. So to
me much less important is the label that's placed on it today. Much more important is what we
do about it," - Henry Paulson, US Secretary of ...
(more)DRM-Free Music Spells Trouble? (Thursday 24th of January 2008 03:45:12 AM)
Digitaldame2 writes "Many opponents of DRM have been overjoyed at recent efforts to free media
from its grip. But PC Mag Editor-in-Chief Lance Ulanoff believes the whole world has gone mad.
His view is that our digital economy will collapse this way, ...
(more)The desolate state of the American economy (Monday 20th of August 2007 12:45:00 PM)
While in Germany I read a funny, if misguided, article in a small local news rag. It made fun
of the state the American economy is in, which you can tell by one telltale sign: the US Mint
has issued yet another wave of one ...
(more)An introduction to the World of Domain Names (Domain Industry) (Wednesday 04th of July 2007 09:38:00 AM)
An
introduction to the World of Domain Names
(Domain Industry)
I
will be writing here about the domain names, this huge, huge
market
which is exploding all ...
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