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Off the Shelf: The Quandary of a Superpower as Others Race to Catch Up Two politically divergent experts concur in recent books that the U.S. in the 21st century will remain the globe’s leading power despite a plethora of challenges. Home > Rss Directory > Business > NY Time |
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Hoping to get SOA off the shelf Mike Kavis wrote an interesting blog entry that explains why SOA is not just a technology to leverage legacy applications, but it's also good for startups. This got me thinking about how vendors could make it easier for startups or existing small businesses to begin t Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Massive ice shelf collapsing off Antarctica - CNET News.com BBC BulgariaMassive ice shelf collapsing off AntarcticaCNET News.com - 9 hours agoScientists are citing "rapid climate change in a fast-warming region of Antarctica" as the cause of an initial collapse of the Wilkins Ice Shelf.Video: Major of Antarctic Ice Shelf Br Home > Rss Directory > General > Google News |
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State of the Art: Your Photos, Off the Shelf at Last A company offers to scan 1,000 photos the same day they are received, for $50. What’s the catch? Home > Rss Directory > Business > NY Time |
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Microsoft vs. VMware: Rumble in the virtual world Two weeks ago, VMware found itself squarely in Microsoft's crosshairs -- and chaos followed. VMware lowered its revenue expectations for the year earlier this week. Its stock took a nosedive, which likely led to President and Chief Executive Diane Greene's sudden resi Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Spinning off fabs would be risky for AMD, analysts say Recent comments from AMD about controlling manufacturing costs have led to speculation that the company may divest its chip fabrication plants, but some analysts say that wouldn't make sense for AMD.The comments Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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PHOTO IN THE NEWS: Giant Antarctic Ice Shelf Collapses - National Geographic National GeographicPHOTO IN THE NEWS: Giant Antarctic Ice Shelf CollapsesNational Geographic - 5 hours agoMarch 25, 2008—New satellite images reveal what scientists call the "runaway" collapse of an enormous ice shelf in Antarctica as the result of global warmi Home > Rss Directory > General > Google News |
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Guitar Hero, Rock Band and the Rock 'n' Roll Money Machine The booming success of the Guitar Hero and Rock Band franchises has dropped a bomb on the music biz. Record labels and rock stars alike are eyeing new revenue streams as gamemakers compete for musical talent, scramble to secure rights to original master tapes and bring in aging artists to re-re Home > Rss Directory > General > Wired News |
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Guitar Hero, Rock Band and the Rock 'n' Roll Money Machine The booming success of the Guitar Hero and Rock Band franchises has dropped a bomb on the music biz. Record labels and rock stars alike are eyeing new revenue streams as gamemakers compete for musical talent, scramble to secure rights to original master tapes and bring in aging artists to re-re Home > Rss Directory > Technology > Wired News |
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ARM to show off Android platform ARM will demonstrate Google's Android on an early prototype device at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona next week, one of several demonstrations of the mobile platform that will occur at the conference, Google said Thursday. Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Off The Shelf: The Deluge Before the Dollar IN A Nation of Counterfeiters (Harvard University Press, $29.95), Stephen Mihm takes us back to the screwball days between the American Revolution and the Civil War, when the dollar did not exist. Home > Rss Directory > Business > NY Time |
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The McCain Move Everyone assumes that the most important New Hampshire primary development was the comeback of Sen. Hillary Clinton and the blow to the juggernaut of Sen. Barack Obama. Those developments were undeniably momentous, but in the long run, a case could be made that the Republican result -- the victory b Home > Rss Directory > General > Political Wire |
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PC World cuts £250 off the price of Apple's MacBook Air Yes, there's a catch... Want a MacBook Air for £949? Pop over to PC World's website and order the skinny Apple and an HSDPA wireless broadband package from carrier 3 and the retailer will knock £250 off the price of the Air.… Home > Rss Directory > General > The Register |
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Market Values: Good Banks Are Punished With the Bad Banks that had seemed to come through the crisis with their capital intact played catch-up in the latest leg of the race to the bottom. Home > Rss Directory > Business > NY Time |
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Off the Shelf: When the Splurge Takes Its Toll On the way up, financial toxic waste was sold as “a new paradigm.” Now, on the long way down, the response is “Help, the sky is falling!” Home > Rss Directory > Business > NY Time |
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Off the Shelf: So What if $1 Million Isn’t What It Used to Be? One million dollars is a nice round number to aim for as you plan for retirement, and is the focus of two new books. Home > Rss Directory > Business > NY Time |
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Off the Shelf: Some Mutual Fund Numbers Look Great, but for Whom? The public stock markets are in the throes of one of the biggest and most egregious financial scandals in modern history, according to author Louis Lowenstein’s new book. Home > Rss Directory > Business > NY Time |
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Off the Shelf: How Murdoch Got Lost in China The phenomenal success of the News Corporation, of which Rupert Murdoch is chairman, owes a lot to his shaking up the business side of media properties — and to risk taking. Home > Rss Directory > Business > NY Time |
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Off the Shelf: A Rock, a Hard Place and an Exit Strategy A new book explores the causes of the economic disconnect one might feel, working harder to get ahead financially and yet seeming to remain in the same place, and other frustrations. Home > Rss Directory > Business > NY Time |
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Art and ASCII: The Stories Behind All Those Brackets, Slashes, and Carets : Many of Japan's most popular Web memes emerge from the millions of daily posts on the BBS called 2channel. So do some very elaborate and creative works of ASCII art. 2channel is a text-only bulletin board, but users have circumvented that restriction and created a whole new form of illustration Home > Rss Directory > General > Wired News |