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Venture Capitalists’ Confidence Creeps Back - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com

By roosevelt @ Apr 08, 2009 03:03 AM 10 comments

Venture capitalists, who have been uncharacteristically pessimistic for the past year, are seeing signs of hope, according to the latest quarterly Silicon Valley Venture Capitalist Confidence Index.

Flight Was Normal Until 26 Seconds Before Crash - NYTimes.com

By roosevelt @ Feb 15, 2009 09:12 PM 10 comments

The commuter plane that crashed here Thursday appeared to be flying normally until just 26 seconds before it came down, the National Transportation Safety Board said on Sunday evening

Japan’s Economy Shrinks at Fastest Pace Since ’74 - NYTimes.com

By roosevelt @ Feb 15, 2009 09:10 PM 8 comments

Japan's gross domestic product, or the total value of the nation's goods and services, dropped at an annual pace of 12.7 percent in the October-December period, the government said Monday.

Obama Pick for Oversight Role Pulls Out Over Tax Issue

By roosevelt @ Feb 03, 2009 11:01 AM 5 comments

Nancy Killefer, who failed for a year and a half to pay employment taxes on household help, has withdrawn her candidacy to be the first chief performance officer for the federal government, the White House said Tuesday

At G.M., Innovation Often Suffers for Profits

By roosevelt @ Dec 06, 2008 02:05 AM 10 comments

General Motors did not apologize for anything in its first trip to Congress more than two weeks ago to plead for a federal rescue. The company’s only problem, it insisted, was the current financial crisis.

Wall Street Journal Daily News Top 5 / business & economy /

Lawmakers Grill Kashkari on Changes in TARP Plan

By roosevelt @ Nov 15, 2008 10:32 AM 8 comments

U.S. lawmakers kept up the criticism of the Treasury Department's management of the $700 billion financial rescue plan on Friday, accusing officials of being disingenuous in the way they sold the program to Congress.

Obama's Leads in 4 Key States Show Tough Road for McCain

By roosevelt @ Oct 15, 2008 01:13 AM 196 comments

Sen. Obama has double-digit leads in Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin, and he leads by a slightly smaller margin in Colorado, according to new Quinnipiac University polls conducted in conjunction with The Wall Street Journal and Washingtonpost.com.

U.S. to Buy Stakes in Nation's Largest Banks

By roosevelt @ Oct 15, 2008 01:04 AM 11 comments

Recipients Include Citi, Bank of America, Goldman; Government Pressures All to Accept Money as Part of Broadened Rescue Effort

Obama's 95% Illusion

By roosevelt @ Oct 15, 2008 12:55 AM 8 comments

It depends on what the meaning of 'tax cut' is.

Women Fall Head Over Heels for Shoe Makers' Arch Designs

By roosevelt @ Oct 15, 2008 12:55 AM 1777 comments

Six-Inch Spikes Are Painfully Hot Trend; A Balancing Act That Makes Models Cry

BusinessWeek Best Stories of the Day / business & economy /

Google's Chrome: The Danish Magic Inside

By roosevelt @ Nov 13, 2008 11:00 AM 3 comments

Danish JavaScript expert Lars Bak is the wizard behind Google's new Web browser, Chrome, which aims to change the way we use computers

Flying to Dubai on the A380 Jumbo Jet

By roosevelt @ Nov 13, 2008 10:59 AM 7 comments

The World Economic Forum in Dubai looked at designing a post-crisis global system. Getting there was a design experience in itself

VMware's Lofty Cloud Computing Goals

By roosevelt @ Nov 13, 2008 10:54 AM 9 comments

Former Microsoft executive Paul Maritz is now determined to turn his new employer, VMware, into a leader in cloud computing

Is That the Sound of the Silicon Valley Web 2.0 Bubble Bursting? - BusinessWeek

By roosevelt @ Oct 09, 2008 11:30 PM 9 comments

There’s just no way that the economy won’t have an impact on the tech economy and the Valley in particular, possibly a big impact.

The Stunning Collapse of Iceland - BusinessWeek

By roosevelt @ Oct 09, 2008 11:22 PM 7 comments

Even after the government's seizure of top banks, Iceland may face bankruptcy, with dire effects for huge Icelandic investments overseas

TechCrunch Daily Digest / technology /

RSSCloud Vs. PubSubHubbub: Why The Fat Pings Win

By roosevelt @ Sep 10, 2009 09:24 AM 6 comments

In the past few months, a lot of attention has been given to the rise of the real-time web. Today I want to take a look at two of the leading protocols that enable real-time notifications on the web.

Exclusive: Everything There Is To Know About Nokia’s Next Tablet

By roosevelt @ May 25, 2009 09:13 AM 7 comments

The N900 is very similar to the Nokia N97 aesthetically, having a 3.5? touchscreen above a slide-out QWERTY keyboard and many of the same design features. However, the screen of the N900 is significantly higher resolution (800×480 as opposed to 360×640)

Live Unveiling Of The Tesla Model S Sedan

By roosevelt @ Apr 02, 2009 03:23 AM 7 comments

Innovative electric-car startup Tesla is unveiling the latest addition to its lineup this afternoon in Southern California.

520 Tesla S Sedans Reserved In One Week: Company Gets $2.6 Million In Fees

By roosevelt @ Apr 02, 2009 03:13 AM 0 comments

The base price for the Model S, which will be available starting in 2010, is $49,900 after a federal tax credit of $7,500.

How Much Will Your Startup Be Worth In Three Years? Go Find Out.

By roosevelt @ Aug 07, 2008 11:09 PM 13 comments

The key factors in determining likelihood of success are the team, financial factors, the concept and advisors.

eWeek News Daily Picks / technology /

Microsoft Bing Beats Google But Users Stay Loyal to Google

By roosevelt @ Jun 26, 2009 09:58 PM 11 comments

Catalyst Group finds in a small case study that while users say Microsoft's Bing search engine provides an overall superior experience to Google's search engine, users will remain loyal to Google.

Google CEO Schmidt Says Worst of the Financial Crisis Is Over

By roosevelt @ Jun 26, 2009 09:57 PM 10 comments

Google CEO Eric Schmidt says that the worst of the financial crisis is almost over and the U.S. economy should begin to turn around by the fall. Schmidt is also optimistic about 2010.

Amazon.com, Google Come to the Rescue of Newspapers, Journalism

By roosevelt @ May 08, 2009 01:16 AM 11 comments

Amazon.com and Google use different venues on the same day to suggest the future of journalism and news delivery. Amazon.com's Kindle DX, the next

First Look: Large-Screen Amazon Kindle DX Debuts in New York

By roosevelt @ May 08, 2009 12:35 AM 9 comments

the Kindle DX, which now boasts a 9.7-inch display, is also designed for the best possible read of personal and business documents, such as PDFs, as well as must-reads such as The New York Times.

Tesla Motors Model S Backed by Google Founders Brin, Page

By roosevelt @ Apr 02, 2009 03:11 AM 169 comments

Tesla Motors Model S Backed by Google Founders Brin, Page

Engagdet + Gizmodo Best of The Day / technology /

Motorola Cliq Quick Hands On Impressions - motorola cliq - Gizmodo

By roosevelt @ Sep 11, 2009 11:28 AM 5 comments

I got a brief chance to handle the Motorola Cliq Android phone—no pictures yet, unfortunately—and came away pleasantly surprised. The phone itself is about as tall as an iPhone, but it's definitely thinner than most QWERTY sliders.

BioLogic FreeCharge Powers an iPod With Your Bike - Biologic freecharge - Gizmodo

By roosevelt @ Sep 05, 2009 04:14 AM 8 comments

So the BioLogic FreeCharge exploits this phenomenon, sticking a dyno on your wheel that charges a battery-powered USB hub. You plug something (like an iPhone) into the USB and it can recharge in about three hours.

Extreme Leisure: 10 Ultimate Ways To Spend That Extra Day Off

By roosevelt @ Sep 05, 2009 04:11 AM 7 comments

10 Ultimate Ways To Spend That Extra Day Off

Gizmodo - McCain Wants Predators to Provide Wi-Fi for Iranians - Wi-Fi

By roosevelt @ Jun 26, 2009 10:14 PM 7 comments

Reportedly, Senator John McCain wants Predators to provide with uncensored Wi-Fi coverage to the people of Iran.

Make Your Photos Look Like Google Streetview or YouTube In Real Life - Google Streetview

By roosevelt @ Jun 01, 2009 08:07 AM 5 comments

Here is a simple and funny way to make your still photos look like they are part of Google Streetview or an internet video, ready to be played.

TheServerSide & InfoQ Daily Digests / technology /

InfoQ: Article: 8 Reasons Why Model-Driven Approaches (will) Fail

By roosevelt @ Aug 08, 2008 03:04 AM 12 comments

Johan den Haan, Head of Research and Development at Mendix shared with us his extensive expertise in the field by focusing on 8 gotchas of Model Driven Engineering (MDE).

InfoQ: Undergraduate Textbook for Agile Development

By roosevelt @ Aug 08, 2008 03:02 AM 8 comments

This concise easy-to-follow textbook presents the crucial issues in software engineering using the agile approach to software development - one of the mainstream paradigms for the management of software projects and one that is being applied more and more extensively.

DeLorme Earthmate PN-40 GPS unit for those of you who go outside

By roosevelt @ Jun 26, 2008 02:26 PM 11 comments

DeLorme's Earthmate PN-40 GPS device sports some seriously interesting features that we couldn't pass up [Engadget]

First Release of Apache Sling

By roosevelt @ Jun 26, 2008 01:45 PM 9 comments

Sling is intended to bring back the fun to Java developers and make the life of a web developer easier

InfoQ: Liferay Portal 5.0 Released, Sun Joins the Team

By roosevelt @ Jun 26, 2008 01:42 PM 15 comments

Last month at JavaOne, Liferay, Inc. announced the release of the 5.0 version of their Liferay Portal product. The Liferay press release highlights a handful of the key tools and uses in the portal product:

Best J2EE Developer Articles Roundup / technology /

MapReduce programming with Apache Hadoop - JavaWorld

By roosevelt @ Oct 07, 2008 10:28 AM 6 comments

Are you amazed by the fast response you get while searching the Web with Google or Yahoo? Have you ever wondered how these services manage to search millions of pages and return your results in milliseconds or less?

Save the JMS for last - Java World

By roosevelt @ Jul 09, 2008 01:06 AM 18 comments

Asynchronous processing is a must for many Java EE or Web-based applications -- but who has time to set up and configure JMS? In this article Di Wang shows you how to decouple your architecture so that it accommodates both synchronous and asynchronous processing. Then you can develop your business logic synchronously and plug in the JMS at runtime.