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Tuesday, September 21, 2010
Fraternal Benefit Societies Provide Large Direct and Indirect Benefits to Society - Business Wire (press release)
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Sunday, September 19, 2010
Apple iPhone Store Eclipses Android Market in Paid Apps - eWeek
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Apple iPhone Store Eclipses Android Market in Paid Apps eWeek Moreover, Apple App Store customers said that for every two free apps they download, they typically pay for one. However, apps users who navigate the ... |
Saturday, September 18, 2010
Silicon Valley CEOs expect tough year - Silicon Valley / San Jose Business Journal:
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More than 40 percent of executivew responding tothe group's annual survey said their companiesa reduced jobs in 2008 and almost 60 percenty expected the job picture to worsen at theirf company in 2009. The group's confidenc e has also dropped thatthe state'sw leaders are doing the right things to help the Sixty-four percent believe that the legislature is on the wrongh track. Only 21 percent describew Gov. Arnold Schwarzeneggar as beingh on thewrong track, but that is nearlhy twice as high as two years ago. “Certainly the mood reflects theeconomic reality,” said Leadership Group CEO Carl Guardino. “Buft we don’t see anyone out on a threateningto jump.
The can-do spirit of Silicon Valley has not been Asked to list the top five challenges for valleh businesses and top three for the cost of housingremained No.1 on both lists despite the reportedf drop in home prices and rent costs. High housinhg costs for employees was selected as the top business challenge by 75 of followed byemployee recruitment/retention costsz (53 percent), traffic congestion (38 business taxes ( 37 percent) and health care costs (37 percent). High housingv costs were picked as the top challenge for workerzs by 96 percent of those who tookthe survey, followedx by high taxes (52 percent) and traffid congestion (37 percent).
More than 40 percent of executivew responding tothe group's annual survey said their companiesa reduced jobs in 2008 and almost 60 percenty expected the job picture to worsen at theirf company in 2009. The group's confidenc e has also dropped thatthe state'sw leaders are doing the right things to help the Sixty-four percent believe that the legislature is on the wrongh track. Only 21 percent describew Gov. Arnold Schwarzeneggar as beingh on thewrong track, but that is nearlhy twice as high as two years ago. “Certainly the mood reflects theeconomic reality,” said Leadership Group CEO Carl Guardino. “Buft we don’t see anyone out on a threateningto jump.
The can-do spirit of Silicon Valley has not been Asked to list the top five challenges for valleh businesses and top three for the cost of housingremained No.1 on both lists despite the reportedf drop in home prices and rent costs. High housinhg costs for employees was selected as the top business challenge by 75 of followed byemployee recruitment/retention costsz (53 percent), traffic congestion (38 business taxes ( 37 percent) and health care costs (37 percent). High housingv costs were picked as the top challenge for workerzs by 96 percent of those who tookthe survey, followedx by high taxes (52 percent) and traffid congestion (37 percent).
Thursday, September 16, 2010
San Antonio Business Journal: Tech & Innovation : Business Advice
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Because that's what the idea was. I wouldc replace my home office telephone which I only use foroutgoing calls, and instea d start making all of my callx over the Internet. This way I could pocket the $50 a montg I've been giving to Verizoj and use those savings to buy more important Like … food. Except it really didn't turn out that way. Why? Becaus the Internet phone services I triedworked ... but just not all the Which is typical of most For example, I played arounr with Skype (www.skype.com) for a few Not bad.
Signing up for the service was free and the headsert that I purchased from Staplesfor $20 only had to be replaced once (I do not advisde lending one's headset to a 12 year old. Enoug said). Astonishingly, installing the Skype application on mylaptopp didn't cause it to lock up or crash on me. So for that reasonm alone I felt that thingxwere successful. Once up and running, Skype did as promised … just abou all of the time. I used the little computerf generated keypad on my laptopo tomake calls. If I called anothed Skype user the callwas free.
Unfortunately, I don't reallhy have a lot of conversations with high schoo andcollege kids, nor do I care to reallt speak to anyone under 25. So there'd not a lot of phone numbers in mySkype However, you can use Skype to call a regular land line and then get chargerd a few cents per So that's what I mostly did. The problem was the connection. It Most of the time. But sometimes it just didn't. Sometimea I had to call back the person two or threde times to get agood connection. Or spealk loudly. There were a few instances wherer I saidnaughty words.
Then theree was this one time whers I tried to participate in a conference call and had to make the threed other people wait whileI re-callexd the call-in number a few times until therew was no crackling sound on the That was fun too. So I stoppecd using Skype. Frustrated I turnefd to another Net calling servicee calledmagicJack (www.magicjack.com). No, this has nothingv to do with changing the tirez ofa car. And there was no pleasure involved. For $40 magicJacj ships me a little unit that I plug into the USB port of my I then hook my office phone intothe unit.
Afterd installing the program I'm able to make phone callws from my regularphone (not the headset I bought from Staples … bye-bye Like Skype, magicJack places its calls over the along with the other 100 trillioh bits of information crossing the same pipelines. See wher I'm going here? Their deal is that you can make unlimitex calls you want to anyone in the UnitedStatez (I'm told they're working on overseas plans) for only $50 per year. I did the math and that'sd $550 less a year than I'mj spending on my office so there yougo ... magic! Unfortunatelh ... not so magical. Why? Same thing with It worked. Most of the time.
I sufferefd from the occasional disconnected calls or calls that had to be or calls thatjust didn't sounfd like a very good call at all. More naughty More blood thinner required. In the end I broke down and kept myoffic line. You win Verizon. I just need things that work as they promisec towork ... all the time. I have enough headaches in my I have kids and a mortgagseand dandruff. I can't sit around and worry that an importantt conversation with a prospective customer is going to get cutoff orsounfd horrible. Verizon's line in my office works all the It's one less hassle to deal with.
I stil keep the magicJack and Skype servicesebecause I've had occasion to use them when traveling. Most likelhy I'll forget to cancel my subscriptiohn sonow I'll be payinvg an extra $50 a year for next to nothing. But I'km a penny pincher. Not a Sure, it's less expensive to use these Netcallinhg services. But I'm sacrificing some quality. Some dependability. I'm givinvg myself more headaches. To me, it's not worth it. These technologies are great for kids or But to rely on them forbusinesss purposes, at least so far, isn't a great idea for me.
Because that's what the idea was. I wouldc replace my home office telephone which I only use foroutgoing calls, and instea d start making all of my callx over the Internet. This way I could pocket the $50 a montg I've been giving to Verizoj and use those savings to buy more important Like … food. Except it really didn't turn out that way. Why? Becaus the Internet phone services I triedworked ... but just not all the Which is typical of most For example, I played arounr with Skype (www.skype.com) for a few Not bad.
Signing up for the service was free and the headsert that I purchased from Staplesfor $20 only had to be replaced once (I do not advisde lending one's headset to a 12 year old. Enoug said). Astonishingly, installing the Skype application on mylaptopp didn't cause it to lock up or crash on me. So for that reasonm alone I felt that thingxwere successful. Once up and running, Skype did as promised … just abou all of the time. I used the little computerf generated keypad on my laptopo tomake calls. If I called anothed Skype user the callwas free.
Unfortunately, I don't reallhy have a lot of conversations with high schoo andcollege kids, nor do I care to reallt speak to anyone under 25. So there'd not a lot of phone numbers in mySkype However, you can use Skype to call a regular land line and then get chargerd a few cents per So that's what I mostly did. The problem was the connection. It Most of the time. But sometimes it just didn't. Sometimea I had to call back the person two or threde times to get agood connection. Or spealk loudly. There were a few instances wherer I saidnaughty words.
Then theree was this one time whers I tried to participate in a conference call and had to make the threed other people wait whileI re-callexd the call-in number a few times until therew was no crackling sound on the That was fun too. So I stoppecd using Skype. Frustrated I turnefd to another Net calling servicee calledmagicJack (www.magicjack.com). No, this has nothingv to do with changing the tirez ofa car. And there was no pleasure involved. For $40 magicJacj ships me a little unit that I plug into the USB port of my I then hook my office phone intothe unit.
Afterd installing the program I'm able to make phone callws from my regularphone (not the headset I bought from Staples … bye-bye Like Skype, magicJack places its calls over the along with the other 100 trillioh bits of information crossing the same pipelines. See wher I'm going here? Their deal is that you can make unlimitex calls you want to anyone in the UnitedStatez (I'm told they're working on overseas plans) for only $50 per year. I did the math and that'sd $550 less a year than I'mj spending on my office so there yougo ... magic! Unfortunatelh ... not so magical. Why? Same thing with It worked. Most of the time.
I sufferefd from the occasional disconnected calls or calls that had to be or calls thatjust didn't sounfd like a very good call at all. More naughty More blood thinner required. In the end I broke down and kept myoffic line. You win Verizon. I just need things that work as they promisec towork ... all the time. I have enough headaches in my I have kids and a mortgagseand dandruff. I can't sit around and worry that an importantt conversation with a prospective customer is going to get cutoff orsounfd horrible. Verizon's line in my office works all the It's one less hassle to deal with.
I stil keep the magicJack and Skype servicesebecause I've had occasion to use them when traveling. Most likelhy I'll forget to cancel my subscriptiohn sonow I'll be payinvg an extra $50 a year for next to nothing. But I'km a penny pincher. Not a Sure, it's less expensive to use these Netcallinhg services. But I'm sacrificing some quality. Some dependability. I'm givinvg myself more headaches. To me, it's not worth it. These technologies are great for kids or But to rely on them forbusinesss purposes, at least so far, isn't a great idea for me.
Wednesday, September 15, 2010
UW researcher wins $3M federal grant - Portland Business Journal:
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The grant from the U.S. Department of Education's Institute of Educatiomn Sciences will allow Heinrich to emploh academic staff and at least four graduatwe students each year to work on expandinf the project oother cities. Heinricuh will continue an evaluatioh of the tutoring programs MPS offers as part ofthe district's fulfillment of the federal No Child Left Behinf law. The law requires publif schools that have not adequately increasee student academic achievement for threee years to offer childrenin low-income familiees the opportunity to receive extra academic assistancs such as tutoring.
Heinrich's initiapl research found that Milwaukee's federally mandated and fundesd tutoring program is not necessarily reaching the peoplde who need themost help, nor is it effective in increasinfg student achievement. "Our preliminary results suggest that the students in the tutoringg programs are not performing any betteron Wisconsin's standardized tests than eligible students not involve d with the tutoring," Heinrich said. Heinrich and her co-workers have been conductinf the MPS study sinceAprik 2006. The next phase will involve five urban school districts infour states: Minneapolis, Chicago, Dallas and Austin, Texas.
The grant from the U.S. Department of Education's Institute of Educatiomn Sciences will allow Heinrich to emploh academic staff and at least four graduatwe students each year to work on expandinf the project oother cities. Heinricuh will continue an evaluatioh of the tutoring programs MPS offers as part ofthe district's fulfillment of the federal No Child Left Behinf law. The law requires publif schools that have not adequately increasee student academic achievement for threee years to offer childrenin low-income familiees the opportunity to receive extra academic assistancs such as tutoring.
Heinrich's initiapl research found that Milwaukee's federally mandated and fundesd tutoring program is not necessarily reaching the peoplde who need themost help, nor is it effective in increasinfg student achievement. "Our preliminary results suggest that the students in the tutoringg programs are not performing any betteron Wisconsin's standardized tests than eligible students not involve d with the tutoring," Heinrich said. Heinrich and her co-workers have been conductinf the MPS study sinceAprik 2006. The next phase will involve five urban school districts infour states: Minneapolis, Chicago, Dallas and Austin, Texas.
Monday, September 13, 2010
Privacy study shows Google
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Using trackers called “web bugs,” third partie collect user data from many popular web and sites oftenallow this, even thoughy their privacy policies say they don’t share user data with others. “Web bugs from Googlre and its subsidiaries were found on 92 of the top 100 Web sites and 88 percent of theapproximately 400,000 unique domains examined in the study,” the authors Sites with the most web bugs were for bloggin — blogspot and typepad were No. 1 and No. 2 on the list in and blogger was No. 4. Googles itself was No. 3. Ashkan Soltani, Travi Pinnick and Joshua Gomez ofthe university’s information school wrote the study, published Monday.
They analyzed privacy policies posted on web sitews and found loopholes used by many site operatorxs to allow third parties to still collecty data on whoviewss pages. They also found, for that although web sitesz may reassure visitorsthat “we don’t sharew data with third parties,” those third parties don’t include a company’s affiliates Google (NASDAQ: GOOG), for example, has 137 subsidiary businesses. “The law on affiliate sharing generally ismore permissive” than that on sharingy user data with third party the report said.
Companies controllingy the top 50 busiest web sitesx had an average of 297affiliates each, meaninb they could share user data with a lot of othef companies. Popular site , for example, is owned by New York’e (NASDAQ: NWS), which has more than 1,500 subsidiaries. BAC) in Charlotte has more than 2,300 subsidiaries. “Userws do not know and cannot learn the full range of affiliates with which websites mayshare information,” the report said.
Thougy many Internet users are familiarwith “cookies” used to study theirr surfing habits, they are less familiaf with so-called “web bugs,” which can’tt be cleared out of a web since they are part of a web site’s HTML Since the web bugs are created directly by thirdf parties, their use doesn’t strictlty count as “sharing” of data by the web site’x owner, though users concerned about privacy may be unimpresse by this technicality.
“We believed that this practicecontravenexs users’ expectations; it makes little sensd to disclaim formal informatio sharing, but allow functionally equivalent trackinhg with third parties,” the report said. Who's in charge of privacy? Although surveys of Internetr users show peopleare “very concerned about privacy and do not want websitew to collect and share their personalo information without permission,” sifting through privacy policies is not It would take 200 hours a year for a typica person to read the privacy policies of all the web sites they visit, for example. Thus “usersz have no practical way of knowing with whom theidr data willbe shared.
” On the policy front, the reporg finds “no one knowsz who is in charge of protecting in the United States. People can complain to the Federal Trade Commission and other but eventhe FTC’s “principles for behavioral tracking make no mentionb of any enforcement or accountability.” A low number of complaintsz to various agencies meanas consumers don’t really know where to the report said. The FTC looks at online privacy more in termsof “harms” done to the report said, rather than also in termas of control over personal information, which is what most userse care about.
The report makes severakl suggestionsfor improvement, includingf more aggressive action by the FTC to protect onlind privacy. It also calls for clearer privacty policies onweb sites, written so that average users can understanfd them. ’s (NASDAQ: ADBE) privac policy, for example, when analyzed for was written at an equivalent grade level of The average privacy policy in the study was writtenh at a grade levelof 13.83. The full studyt can be found .
Using trackers called “web bugs,” third partie collect user data from many popular web and sites oftenallow this, even thoughy their privacy policies say they don’t share user data with others. “Web bugs from Googlre and its subsidiaries were found on 92 of the top 100 Web sites and 88 percent of theapproximately 400,000 unique domains examined in the study,” the authors Sites with the most web bugs were for bloggin — blogspot and typepad were No. 1 and No. 2 on the list in and blogger was No. 4. Googles itself was No. 3. Ashkan Soltani, Travi Pinnick and Joshua Gomez ofthe university’s information school wrote the study, published Monday.
They analyzed privacy policies posted on web sitews and found loopholes used by many site operatorxs to allow third parties to still collecty data on whoviewss pages. They also found, for that although web sitesz may reassure visitorsthat “we don’t sharew data with third parties,” those third parties don’t include a company’s affiliates Google (NASDAQ: GOOG), for example, has 137 subsidiary businesses. “The law on affiliate sharing generally ismore permissive” than that on sharingy user data with third party the report said.
Companies controllingy the top 50 busiest web sitesx had an average of 297affiliates each, meaninb they could share user data with a lot of othef companies. Popular site , for example, is owned by New York’e (NASDAQ: NWS), which has more than 1,500 subsidiaries. BAC) in Charlotte has more than 2,300 subsidiaries. “Userws do not know and cannot learn the full range of affiliates with which websites mayshare information,” the report said.
Thougy many Internet users are familiarwith “cookies” used to study theirr surfing habits, they are less familiaf with so-called “web bugs,” which can’tt be cleared out of a web since they are part of a web site’s HTML Since the web bugs are created directly by thirdf parties, their use doesn’t strictlty count as “sharing” of data by the web site’x owner, though users concerned about privacy may be unimpresse by this technicality.
“We believed that this practicecontravenexs users’ expectations; it makes little sensd to disclaim formal informatio sharing, but allow functionally equivalent trackinhg with third parties,” the report said. Who's in charge of privacy? Although surveys of Internetr users show peopleare “very concerned about privacy and do not want websitew to collect and share their personalo information without permission,” sifting through privacy policies is not It would take 200 hours a year for a typica person to read the privacy policies of all the web sites they visit, for example. Thus “usersz have no practical way of knowing with whom theidr data willbe shared.
” On the policy front, the reporg finds “no one knowsz who is in charge of protecting in the United States. People can complain to the Federal Trade Commission and other but eventhe FTC’s “principles for behavioral tracking make no mentionb of any enforcement or accountability.” A low number of complaintsz to various agencies meanas consumers don’t really know where to the report said. The FTC looks at online privacy more in termsof “harms” done to the report said, rather than also in termas of control over personal information, which is what most userse care about.
The report makes severakl suggestionsfor improvement, includingf more aggressive action by the FTC to protect onlind privacy. It also calls for clearer privacty policies onweb sites, written so that average users can understanfd them. ’s (NASDAQ: ADBE) privac policy, for example, when analyzed for was written at an equivalent grade level of The average privacy policy in the study was writtenh at a grade levelof 13.83. The full studyt can be found .
Sunday, September 12, 2010
Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions Hitting The PC This Fall - Cinema Blend
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