Thu - August 27, 2009

Snow Leopard available


Lots of goodies: Easy PDF text selection; More speed; QuickTime X; and many other refinements!


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Wed - October 15, 2008

CNN's Fareed Zakaria talks with Lee Kuan Yew


About his life as prime minister of Singapore

Video part 1 part 2

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Sun - June 19, 2005

How Podcasting Works




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Fri - May 6, 2005

The Return of Japan, Inc.?


Japan's economy, a powerhouse during the roaring 1980s, has been in the dumps since 1989. Today, however, signs are starting to appear that the world's second-largest economy is waking up again.

In this special report, which is being published in English and Japanese, Knowledge@Wharton presents insights from the Wharton Fellows program in Tokyo on issues ranging from the rebound of the Japanese economy to the strategies of companies such as Harley-Davidson and Yahoo! as they build their enterprises in Japan

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Posted at 11:00 AM    

Greenspan says fears growing protectionism


Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan said on Thursday he feared what appeared to be a growing move toward trade protectionism, saying it could lessen the U.S. and the world's economy ability to withstand shocks


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Tue - May 3, 2005

Social Security reform is simply a diversion


The president just ended a 60-day whirlwind tour to try to sell his Social Security plan. But almost everyone inside the Beltway, and a growing number outside, know it's going nowhere.

... snip, snip ...

Because Social Security is a place holder. As long as it remains on the domestic agenda, it blocks consideration of the real domestic crisis President Bush doesn't want to touch: the health care system.

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Mon - May 2, 2005

Study: 20 Million U.S. Workers Lack Health Insurance


More than 20 million working Americans have no health insurance, with close to one in four employed people going without health care in some states, according to a report issued on Wednesday.

And 41 percent of these uninsured Americans report have trouble seeing a doctor when they need to, said the report from the non-profit Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. This compared to 9 percent of insured adults.

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Posted at 01:34 PM    

Wed - April 27, 2005

Microsoft says PC users drowning in info


Computer storage technology is getting so cheap a person could record every conversation of a lifetime and decades of photographs, but experts must improve search systems so users can make sense of such mind-boggling amounts of information

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Microsoft is also asking Washington for help. Rashid said he was meeting with lawmakers and others this week to press for education improvements, more research spending by government and relaxed immigration rules to let companies hire more foreign employees.

Rashid said he expects a 30 percent decline in computer science graduates from U.S. schools within two years, citing surveys showing a 60 percent drop in interest in the subject among incoming freshmen

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Tue - April 26, 2005

Russia's Putin: Soviet Collapse a Tragedy


MOSCOW - Russian President Vladimir Putin told the nation Monday that the collapse of the Soviet empire "was the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the century" and had fostered separatist movements inside Russia

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Posted at 03:13 PM    

Fri - April 22, 2005

Business education: its changing faces


It may not be an overstatement to say that the country (Bangladesh) is now caught in a frenzy of business education. Institutions with new programmes on business education regularly enter an already crowded market. The breadth and flexibility of these programmes catering to the various needs of business is enormous.

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Posted at 12:43 PM    

Traffic signal operations poor


A new survey being released Wednesday says the nation's traffic signal operations are largely inefficient, leading to frustration and unnecessary delays for motorists, wasted fuel and more air pollution as vehicles constantly stop and go.

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Posted at 12:41 PM    

Environmentalists Mull Future of Movement


As the world marks the 35th anniversary of Earth Day on Friday, environmentalists are debating the future of a movement that seems to be losing the battle for public opinion


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Fri - April 15, 2005

Failing Nations Threaten U.S. Security


... It is now widely recognized that weak states pose a range of security threats, including being staging grounds for terrorist recruitment and training, international crime and trafficking, and likely locations for the outbreak of disease and economic collapse.

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Posted at 09:11 AM    

Personal responsibility waning, experts say


... almost none of the leaders of the country's great institutions ever step forward and take responsibility for failure or even honest mistakes. It is sometimes imposed by others, notably juries, but less so by the broader American society and virtually never invoked voluntarily in politics, business, religion or popular culture.


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Tue - April 12, 2005

Alternative tax can snare filers who take lots of tax breaks


If you claimed several exemptions and took lots of deductions on your tax return, you could be hit with a bigger tax bill than you expected

The AMT was designed in 1969 to ensure that wealthy taxpayers didn't use loopholes to escape paying their fair share of taxes. That year, it was revealed that a few years earlier 155 filers with the then-exorbitant income of $200,000 avoided paying any federal taxes.

The U.S. Treasury Department says that around 16.2 million taxpayers now are likely to face the AMT, and project that the tax will affect a whopping 46.4 million taxpayers in 2014.

Why the increase? Because the tax is not indexed for inflation. Without that annual adjustment, your yearly raises of a few percentage points have been moving you closer or even into the income realm that the tax law deemed 36 years ago as prime AMT bait.

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Posted at 03:57 PM    

Mon - April 4, 2005

Many Germans Want Berlin Wall Back


Nearly a quarter of western Germans and 12 percent of easterners want the Berlin Wall back -- more than 15 years after the fall of the barrier that split Germany during the Cold War, according to a new survey.


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Report: Human Damage to Earth Worsening Fast


Humans are damaging the planet at an unprecedented rate and raising risks of abrupt collapses in nature that could spur disease, deforestation or "dead zones" in the seas, an international report said on Wednesday.


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Fri - March 25, 2005

Recession Alert


It's a historical fact that not one recession in the past 40 years has been forecast in advance by any major poll of economists.

A recession has not begun and is not necessarily imminent in the coming months. However, certain trends suggest that a recession will become increasingly probable over the next 12 months to 18 months. And if underlying pressures are not resolved, it will almost become a certainty by 2007.

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Posted at 03:31 PM    

U.S. Relying More on Foreign Investors


America buys more than it sells and spends more than it earns. So who bankrolls the shortfalls?

Foreign investors. The shortfall on all trade and investment income with the rest of the world swelled to an all-time high of $665.9 billion in 2004, according to the Commerce Department (news - web sites).

"The United States has to get the money from somewhere and that is basically coming from foreigners," said David Watt, senior economist at BMO Nesbitt Burns, about the current account deficit.

Foreign investors finance the deficit in a number of ways. When foreign companies sell Americans cars, clothes and other goods, those businesses are willing to be paid in dollars. That money is then invested in U.S. stocks, corporate bonds and Treasury securities.

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Wed - March 16, 2005

Real Estate Reliance May Hurt California


California's hot real estate market is destined to cool down -- and when it does, the state's economic recovery could be over, according to a report to be issued today.

Half of the private-sector jobs created in California in the last two years are connected in some way to real estate. Meanwhile, property values in the last four years have swelled $1.7 trillion, the equivalent of about 35% of the total personal income in the state since 2001.

This sharp increase in home equity has spurred consumer spending that, in turn, has fueled more economic growth.

"We have an economy that's rolling along on the basis of a false sense of wealth," said Christopher Thornberg, a senior economist with the Anderson Forecast team.

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Since 2000, California has lost so-called external jobs that cater to the national or international economy -- making computer chips or T-shirts, for example -- as it gained jobs that cater to other Californians, in retail, nursing or real estate.

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Tue - March 15, 2005

Crisis? Not in Social Security. Deficits drive the problem


2009. That's when the cost of paying benefits to the first wave of retiring baby boomers will begin exposing the accounting gimmickry that is the true driver of the Social Security "crisis."

.... Left unchecked, chronic deficits will more than offset any good that comes out of Social Security reform. Deficits make the government more beholden to its creditors, many of them foreign. As the national debt surges, so does the portion of the budget dedicated to paying interest on that debt. And though interest rates paid by homebuyers and others have remained remarkably low in recent years, continued borrowing is likely to force them up in coming years.

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Fri - March 11, 2005

What Matters Most Depends On Where You Are


Global village was always an idealistic oxymoron. Politically, culturally, and economically, the differences among nations loom far larger than any differences that might exist among neighborhoods made up of small clutches of homes and shops.

In the following collection of stories, Technology Review brings you the view from seven countries.

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Posted at 12:36 PM    

Fri - March 4, 2005

Carly's Way


As Told to Michelle Delio March 4, 2005

He charges, though, that starting in 2000 the can-do attitude was killed by management choices intended to placate nervous investors and board members rather than benefit the company and its workers over the long-term. He warns that sustained cut-backs to R&D budgets over the past half-decade may have irreversibly damaged H-P and the entire U.S. technology industry.

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Wed - February 23, 2005

Elizabeth Moore completed her dissertation


Randomized Controlled Trial of Early Mother-Infant Skin-to-Skin Contact and Breastfeeding Success


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Mon - February 21, 2005

Interactive Viral Campaigns Ask Consumers to Spread the Word


DURING the early days of Internet advertising, skeptics often argued that Web ads would never sell prosaic packaged goods effectively.

As more Americans become comfortable with the Web, though, major marketers are increasingly asking agencies to produce elaborate, interactive online campaigns - even for grocery store goods that hardly anyone researches or buys online.

One of the shiniest lures online is the developing field of viral advertising, in which companies try to create messages so compelling, funny or suggestive that consumers spontaneously share them with friends, often through e-mail or cellphone text messages. The goal is the exponential spread of ads that are endorsed by consumers' own friends.

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Tue - February 15, 2005

White House Turns Tables on Former American POWs


WASHINGTON -- The latest chapter in the legal history of torture is being written by American pilots who were beaten and abused by Iraqis during the 1991 Persian Gulf War (news - web sites). And it has taken a strange twist.

The Bush administration is fighting the former prisoners of war in court, trying to prevent them from collecting nearly $1 billion from Iraq (news - web sites) that a federal judge awarded them as compensation for their torture at the hands of Saddam Hussein (news - web sites)'s regime.

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Fri - February 11, 2005

U.S. Trade Deficit Hits All-Time High


WASHINGTON - The U.S. trade deficit soared to a record of $617.7 billion last year as Americans' appetite for all things foreign, from crude oil to cars, hit all-time highs. The United States even rang up a deficit in farm goods as imports of wine, cheese and other food products hit a record.

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Fri - February 4, 2005

What Is Nanotechnology?


A couple of Sundays ago, "CBS News Sunday Morning" ran my (David Pogue) segment about the coming era of nanotechnology.

We define nanotechnology as the manipulation and control of matter at the nano scale, nano scale being a billionth of a meter. It's about 70,000 times smaller than the width of a human hair. It's smaller than the wavelength of light, something you would normally not ever be able to see. And it's much smaller than anything we manufacture today.

The reason that it's so exciting, though, is not just that it's small. It's that everything changes at that scale.

The physics you may have learned in school is completely different. In fact, it's wrong and doesn't apply at that level.

Notions like temperature and electricity and magnetism are completely different.

For example, if you take a simple aluminum can, a Coke can, and grind it down to the nano scale, to a 20-nanometer particle, it would spontaneous explode in air. It becomes rocket fuel.

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Wed - February 2, 2005

Half of Bankruptcy Due to Medical Bills -- U.S. Study


WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Half of all U.S. bankruptcies are caused by soaring medical bills and most people sent into debt by illness are middle-class workers with health insurance, researchers said on Wednesday.

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Tue - February 1, 2005

Study shows some teens not as Web-savvy as parents


By Edward C. Baig, USA TODAY

Think the teenager in your house can out-surf you? Think again. So says a study of 13- to 17-year-olds released Monday by the Nielsen Norman Group. The results suggest that some businesses are using ineffective strategies to target a teen market of some 20 million.

The study found that, contrary to stereotype, teens as a group are not as adept as adults in navigating the Web.

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Posted at 05:27 PM    

Texas Teens Increased Sex After Abstinence Program


Mon Jan 31, 2005, 4:43 PM ET

HOUSTON (Reuters) - Abstinence-only sex education programs, a major plank in President Bush (news - web sites)'s education plan, have had no impact on teenagers' behavior in his home state of Texas, according to a new study.

Despite taking courses emphasizing abstinence-only themes, teenagers in 29 high schools became increasingly sexually active, mirroring the overall state trends, according to the study conducted by researchers at Texas A&M University.

"We didn't see any strong indications that these programs were having an impact in the direction desired," said Dr. Buzz Pruitt, who directed the study

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Posted at 12:02 PM    

Healthcare Overhaul Is Quietly Underway


By Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar Times Staff Writer

WASHINGTON -- Emboldened by their success at the polls, the Bush administration and Republican leaders in Congress believe they have a new opportunity to move the nation away from the system of employer-provided health insurance that has covered most working Americans for the last half-century.

In its place, they want to erect a system in which workers -- instead of looking to employers for health insurance -- would take personal responsibility for protecting themselves and their families: They would buy high-deductible "catastrophic" insurance policies to cover major medical needs, then pay routine costs with money set aside in tax-sheltered health savings accounts.

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Sat - January 29, 2005

Meth Becoming a Threat in Some Cities


By MARTHA IRVINE, AP National Writer

CHICAGO - Already known as a rural scourge, methamphetamine is becoming a problem in a number of U.S. cities. Meetings of the 12-step group Crystal Meth Anonymous have increased in Chicago from one night a week a few years ago to five a week.

In the Atlanta area, methamphetamine users account for the fastest-growing segment of addicts seeking treatment. Rehabilitation centers there are seeing an uptick in the number of women meth addicts, while officials in Minneapolis-St. Paul say they're treating an alarming number of meth users younger than 18.

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Fri - January 28, 2005

The Yahoo Factor


By Maya Dollarhide January 27, 2005

If the computer hard drive is the engine for the information age, then it derives its power from the ability to search and deliver information quickly and seamlessly.

Without a very good search engine -- one that pulls information not only from the Web, but also from the repository of information stored on the computer -- the vast power of a networked culture goes untapped.

People are left to their own devices when it comes to tracking down everything from an email to directions to the bank. And that is never good.

Conquering this market has been the primary -- but not the only -- driving force behind the search wars between Microsoft, Yahoo, and Google. Each has rushed to deploy its own desktop search engine, the second step (behind Web searches) in the all-encompassing search endgame.

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Sat - January 15, 2005

Prediction: India, China will be economic giants


Fri Jan 14, 2005 6:26 AM ET

By John Diamond, USA TODAY

By the year 2020, China and India will be vying with the United States for global economic supremacy, the nation's top intelligence analysts predict, and al-Qaeda will have withered away - only to be replaced by smaller, more splintered but equally deadly groups of terrorists.

The National Intelligence Council issued its once-every-five-year look at the future of the globe Thursday, contrasting optimism about dramatic global economic growth with concern that the same cyberpathways fueling economic development are also hastening the spread of violent, radical Islam.

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Fri - January 14, 2005

New FBI Software May Be Unusable


Thu Jan 13, 2005, 7:55 AM ET

By Richard B. Schmitt Times Staff Writer

WASHINGTON -- A new FBI (news - web sites) computer program designed to help agents share information to ward off terrorist attacks may have to be scrapped, the agency has concluded, forcing a further delay in a four-year, half-billion-dollar overhaul of its antiquated computer system.

The bureau is so convinced that the software, known as Virtual Case File, will not work as planned that it has taken steps to begin soliciting proposals from outside contractors for new software, officials said.

The overhaul of the decrepit computer system was identified as a priority both by the independent commission that investigated the Sept. 11 attacks and by members of Congress, who found that the FBI's old system prevented agents from sharing information that could have headed off the attacks.

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Posted at 06:55 PM    

Porn Business Driving DVD Technology


LAS VEGAS (Reuters) - As goes pornography, so goes technology. The concept may seem odd, but history has proven the adult entertainment industry to be one of the key drivers of any new technology in home entertainment. Pornography customers have been some of the first to buy home video machines, DVD players and subscribe to high-speed Internet.

One of the next big issues in which pornographers could play a deciding role is the future of high-definition DVDs.

The multi-billion-dollar industry releases about 11,000 titles on DVD each year, giving it tremendous power to sway the battle between two groups of studios and technology companies competing to set standards for the next generation.

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Thu - January 13, 2005

The Internet's Future? It Depends on Whom You Ask


January 10, 2005

By TOM ZELLER Jr.

Few topics inspire trips to the crystal ball like technology, although hasty predictions have often only provided future generations with quotes for cocktail party chat.

Ken Olson, founder of the Digital Equipment Corporation, remarked in 1977, for instance, that there was no reason anyone would want a computer in their home. And Harry M. Warner, a co-founder of Warner Brothers Studios, is well known for wondering, near the end of the silent-picture era, who would want to hear actors talk.

Still, as industries, courts, legislatures and other social institutions struggle to keep pace with each new technological innovation, the desire to peer around the corner is a natural one.

Last September, the Pew Internet & American Life Project, a research organization in Washington, sent out a survey asking 24 questions about the future of the Internet to a wide range of technology specialists, scholars and industry leaders. Some 1,200 responded and, as you might expect, widespread agreement is hard to find.


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Mon - January 10, 2005

Congress to explore tuition remedies


SAN FRANCISCO (CBS.MW) -- With college costs running as high as $40,000 a year, House and Senate education committees have tuition control on their to-do lists.

House Education and the Workforce Committee Chairman John Boehner plans to introduce legislation "to empower students and parents with information about college costs, and hold schools accountable for their tuition hikes," said U.S. Rep. Howard P. McKeon, R-Calif.

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Posted at 09:09 AM    

Alternative medicine as cost saver


SAN FRANCISCO (CBS.MW) -- Alternative medicine typically attracts those dissatisfied with conventional medicine or open to trying new treatments. But Americans cite another motivation for using herbal and other nonmainstream health remedies: Cost.

Last year, about 6 million Americans turned to complementary and alternative medicine, known as CAM, to treat conditions such as chronic pain and depression because conventional medicine was too pricey, according to a survey released last month from the Center for Studying Health System Change (HSC.) That amounts to 13 percent of the 38 million adults who used some kind of complementary medicine in the last year.

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Posted at 09:07 AM    

Sun - January 9, 2005

World On Brink Of Ruin


Stephen Roach, the chief economist for Morgan Stanley & Co. one of the most powerful investment banks and one of the 50 largest companies in the world, says Greenspan has "driven the world to the economic brink."

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Fri - January 7, 2005

With Japan aging, Toyota to staff factories with robots


TOKYO (AFP) - Toyota Motor will introduce robots which can work as well or better than humans at all 12 of its factories in Japan to cut costs and deal with a looming labor shortage as the country ages, a press report says.


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Tue - January 4, 2005

ABC News 2004 in review


A look at ABC looking back


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Thu - December 30, 2004

Hiring in 2005 set to improve


If the economists and survey-takers are right, job seekers should have an easier time finding work next year.

And the work won't all be in low-paying service jobs, some say.

From ongoing demand in financial services and health care, to the defense sector, technology -- and fields as diverse as truck driving and academia -- there's a fair amount of breadth to the coming hiring rise.

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Posted at 01:49 PM    

Marketing's Flip Side: The 'Determined Detractor'


Marketers have become fond of recruiting friendly trendsetters to promote their products, but modern technology may now force them to pay attention to another kind of agent of influence making the rounds: the determined detractor.

Determined detractors are persistent critics of a company or product that mount their own public relations offensive, often online. They have roiled corporate plans at least since Ralph Nader famously attacked the Chevrolet Corvair and other cars in his 1965 book, "Unsafe at Any Speed,"

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Posted at 01:46 PM    

Car salesmen keep deals in pocket


Car salesmen don't appear too concerned with overhauling their unseemly reputation these days, according to a recent Consumer Reports study.

While it's no secret that automakers like General Motors and Ford have relied heavily on cash back and financing deals to drive sales in recent years, dealers often keep the best offers from their customers in an effort to fatten the bottom line.

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Posted at 01:41 PM    

Sun - December 26, 2004

Conservative Students Target Liberal Profs


Traditionally, clashes over academic freedom have pitted politicians or administrators against instructors who wanted to express their opinions and teach as they saw fit. But increasingly, it is students who are invoking academic freedom, claiming biased professors are violating their right to a classroom free from indoctrination.

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Posted at 09:46 AM    

Thu - December 23, 2004

Automakers are loading new cars with an array of wireless communications and computing technologies


But despite the unending variety of safety, convenience, and entertainment features telematics can enable, it has thus far held little appeal outside the United States; even in the United States, only 2.2 million of 17.7 million new automobiles were equipped with telematics in 2003.

Automakers are loading new cars with an array of wireless communications and computing technologies known collectively as telematics. But despite the unending variety of safety, convenience, and entertainment features telematics can enable, it has thus far held little appeal outside the United States; even in the United States, only 2.2 million of 17.7 million new automobiles were equipped with telematics in 2003.

More at MIT Technology Review

Posted at 05:06 PM    

U.S. Slips in Attracting the World's Best Students


American universities, which for half a century have attracted the world's best and brightest students with little effort, are suddenly facing intense competition as higher education undergoes rapid globalization.


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Thu - December 16, 2004

Buildings to go up like never before


Residential and commercial development in the next quarter-century will eclipse anything seen in previous generations as the nation moves to accommodate rapid population growth, according to a Brookings Institution report Monday.

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Posted at 07:12 PM    

Google to Scan Books From 5 Big Libraries


Stacks of hard-to-find books are being scanned into Google Inc.'s widely used Internet search engine in its attempt to establish a massive online reading room for five major libraries

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Posted at 07:08 PM    

Council on Competitiveness Urges National Innovation


Businesses, academia, labor and government must do more to harness innovation-based strategies or risk ceding America's historic leadership as the world's economic power, warned the Council on Competitiveness in a new report issued today entitled "Innovate America: Thriving in a World of Challenge and Change."

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Posted at 07:05 PM    

Fri - December 3, 2004

Articles in the news


A listing of news story titles that exposes the multiple dimensions and elements of the changing social and economic picture


Posted at 11:38 AM    

IBM said to put PC business on the block


International Business Machines, whose first I.B.M. PC in 1981 moved personal computing out of the hobby shop and into the corporate and consumer mainstream, has put the business up for sale, people close to the negotiations said yesterday.


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Thu - December 2, 2004

Gartner: Half of US IT operations jobs to vanish


In an eyebrow-raising forecast, Gartner Inc. researchers said they believe that as many as 50 percent of the IT operational jobs in the U.S. could disappear over the next two decades because of improvements in data center technologies.


Posted at 07:14 PM    

Top Ten Technology Trends for 2005


The Red Herring Conference in Monterey, Calif., Dec. 6 - 8, Discusses Trends, Honors the 100 Most Innovative Technology Companies of the Year

Story

It would be interesting to check previous year predictions. Remember the Government Office of Technology Assessment that was disbanded sometime back?

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Posted at 07:13 PM    

Number of Small Businesses Continues to Grow


Nevada and Georgia Lead the Way

The number of businesses with one or more owners but no paid employees grew nationwide from 17.0 million in 2001 to more than 17.6 million in 2002, a growth rate of 3.9 percent, according to a report issued today by the U.S. Census Bureau. The rate of increase during the 2000 to 2001 period was 2.7 percent.

U.S. Census Bureau

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Posted at 10:36 AM    

Revenues for Cellular and Other Wireless Telecommunications


Revenues of cellular and other wireless telecommunications firms rose from $92 billion in 2002 to $104 billion in 2003, an increase of 14 percent, according to a U.S. Census Bureau report released today


Posted at 10:33 AM    

“Stay-at-Home” Parents Top 5 Million


The United States had an estimated 5.5 million “stay-at-home” parents last year — 5.4 million moms and 98,000 dads, according to a report released today by the U.S. Census Bureau. It contains the Census Bureau’s first-ever analysis of stay-at-home parents


Posted at 10:29 AM    

Sat - November 20, 2004

Greenspan Warns That U.S. Deficits Pose Risk to Dollar


Alan Greenspan came to the home of the euro today and warned anxious Europeans to expect little relief from the relentless decline of the dollar against their currency


Posted at 12:37 PM    

Thu - November 4, 2004

Worried about your retirement plans? Get a report card


With something as complex as planning your finances in retirement, it makes sense to go back to the basics. And what's more basic than A, B, C, D and F?

SAN FRANCISCO (CBS.MW) -- With something as complex as planning your finances in retirement, it makes sense to go back to the basics. And what's more basic than A, B, C, D and F?

"Finances can be a real abstraction for people (but) everybody knows how to relate to a report card," said Mo Barakat, a Los Angeles-based senior financial adviser with American Express, who uses letter grades to help his clients meet their financial goals.

"They're accustomed to wanting to strive for As and Bs. If you're a C student in the classroom, you typically know it. You could be a C student in your finances and never be aware of it," he said.

By Andrea Coombes, CBS.MarketWatch.com

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Posted at 08:35 AM    

U.S. faces ominous fiscal picture with huge deficit


Comptroller General David Walker's most troubling briefing paper shows the federal budget growing progressively larger until spending reaches nearly half the economy's total output in 2040

Comptroller General David Walker's most troubling briefing paper shows the federal budget growing progressively larger until spending reaches nearly half the economy's total output in 2040.

Now, federal spending is nearly 20 percent of gross domestic product, the economy's annual output, and many people think that is too big. In addition, the government collects 16.2 percent of GDP (news - web sites) in taxes. The rest is red ink.

In his briefing paper, Walker has a special name for each page of fiscal deterioration, each with differing assumptions about how the nation responds to budget challenges over the next 36 years.

"We start with a haircut," he said, thumbing through the pages that show federal spending starting to explode as Baby Boomers reach retirement. "The next page is a scalp, and then we go to decapitation and finally disembodiment."

Yahoo news

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Posted at 08:33 AM    

Mon - November 1, 2004

Laboratory Mice Produce Human Antibodies


Experimental drugs in testing

Laboratory Mice Produce Human Antibodies

Fri Oct 29, 2004, 9:10 PM ET

By LINDA A. JOHNSON, AP Business Writer

Top pharmaceutical and biotech firms, from Johnson & Johnson to Amgen Inc., have been signing deals with Medarex to use its genetically engineered mice as they seek to develop new drugs. The doctored mice have the rare ability to produce human antibodies, which can help fight disease just as natural antibodies do.

Already, about 20 experimental drugs using Medarex antibodies are in various stages of testing.

Connect, connect, connect

Source: Yahoo News

Google News Search: Laboratory Mice Produce Human Antibodies Medarex

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Posted at 07:30 AM    

Wed - October 27, 2004

Entrepreneurs in the news


Total confusion over the MEANING of entrepreneurship

This week there have been several "greatest" entrepreneur articles in the news (Google news search).

In chapter 1 of Peter Drucker's 1985 book Innovation and Entrepreneurship he explores the confused meaning that 99.9 percent (my experience) of the public and media attaches to these words.

Recently I've seen the follow thoughts attributed to Dr. Drucker:

Entrepreneurship involves finding innovations to meet unmet needs

An innovation is a CHANGE that creates a new dimension in performance

In Innovation and Entrepreneurship Dr. Drucker mentioned that innovations are introduced through strategies and the test of an innovation is its impact on the (social and economic) environment.

If the impact is marginal how can it be honestly called innovative?

If the competitive standing of the introducer is not that of the leader, how can they be considered great? They just created an opportunity for someone else.

This confused awareness leads to confused and unfruitful actions.

Connecting the dots ** ** ** ** Intel map?


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