
Tech Revival Lifts Silicon Valley
Monday, December 20, 2010
The local unemployment rate remains far higher than the 4.9% in late 2007 and is above the national 9% unemployment rate.
source
Labels: california, employment, recovery, san jose, silicon valley, tech, unemployment, wsj
Pew Survey: No Generation Gap in Internet Use
Sunday, December 19, 2010
Labels: generation, internet, online, pew, pew research center
Wireless carriers openly considering charging per service
Labels: allot, allot communications, att, communication, dpi, mobile wireless, net neutrality, openet, verizon, vodafone, wired
Friday, December 17, 2010
Labels: consumer, dot-com, dotcom, internet, proprietary, social, splinternet, standard
Thursday, December 16, 2010
Labels: blu-ray, console, download, microsoft, msft, nintendo, playstation, sony, stream, streaming, video, video-on-demand, vod, web browsing, wii, xbox
Monday, December 13, 2010
2/3-rds of Group promotions are profitable for companies
Friday, December 10, 2010
iSuppli says media tablet sales to overtake desktop PC sales in 2013
Labels: desktop, forecast, isuppli, media tablets, mobile, notebook, pc, smartphone
The tax deal
Labels: budget, cbpp, lincoln-kyl, washington, washington post
Johnny Bench: There are 3 Types of Pitchers
Monday, December 6, 2010
"There are three types of pitchers you have to deal with. Some you just have to tell what town they're in, remind them where they are. Some you remind them about mechanics, and some you have to bust their tail. You have to make them your friend and have them trust you."
Source
Labels: bench, chronicle, giants, pitcher, posey, san francisco, schulman, sfgate, shea
Saturday, December 4, 2010
Thursday, December 2, 2010
Labels: communication, facebook, internet, social media, telegraph, twitter, youtube
Competitive Mobile Broadband Table
Wednesday, December 1, 2010
Labels: att, broadband, hspa, mobile, sprint, verizon, virgin, wimax, wireless
"Economists' Grail: A Post-Crash Model"
Monday, November 29, 2010
"In the wake of a financial crisis and punishing recession that the models failed to capture, a growing number of economists are beginning to question the intellectual foundations on which the models are built. Researchers, some of whom spent years on the academic margins, are offering up a barrage of ideas that they hope could form the building blocks of a new paradigm.
Today's models emerged from a revolution of their own. In the 1970s, economists were struggling to figure out how policy moves, such as raising taxes or cutting interest rates, could change how people behave. They were also eager to subject their own reasoning to the unforgiving judge of mathematical logic.
So they populated their models with rational people who can calculate the value of various possible moves and choose the optimal path. A person deciding whether to buy a car, for example, would take into account the potential return on investing the money, the probability that car prices will rise, and the chances that an increase in tax rates will cut into her disposable income.
By translating peoples' preferences into equations, and finding the point at which they meet those of firms and other players, the models forecast an exact trajectory for the economy. That feature makes them very attractive to economists, who can plug in a change in interest rates and see precisely how the move might affect an entire country's output for the next few years.
The problem...is that the models bear too little relation to reality. People aren't quite as rational as models assume...Advocates of traditional economics acknowledge that not all decisions are driven by pure reason.
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To keep things simple, economists leave out large chunks of reality. Before the crisis, most models didn't have banks, defaults or capital markets, a fact that proved problematic when the financial crisis hit. They tend to include only households, firms, central banks and the government. They also commonly use a single equation to represent each player, impairing the models' ability to explain the unexpected outcomes that can emerge when millions of different people interact.
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'Economic forecasts have never been very good, and it's not clear that if we stick with the methods we're pursuing we'll do any better...We need to try something new.'"
Source
Labels: economist, economy, financial crisis, intellectual, model, paradigm, rational, reality, revolution, wall street, wall street journal, wsj
Lab-grown vehicle concept: Mercedes-Benz BIOME
Labels: auto, biome, car, daimler, mercedes, organic, vehicle
Space debris
Black Friday Check-Ins
Labels: adage, best buy, check-in, commerce, costco, lbs, location-based services, retail, target, walmart
6 budget categories account for nearly 86% of the federal budget
Labels: budget, defense, deficit, federal, government, income, interest, medicare, pension, social security
Overall, companies plan to hire 3% more graduates across all degree levels than they hired last year
Sunday, November 28, 2010
Labels: employment, graduate, hire, michigan st., michigan state, wall street journal, wsj
Saturday, November 27, 2010
Labels: bailout, bloomberg, EMEA, eur, europe, ireland, portugal, spain
Friday, November 26, 2010
What is the web thankful for?
Wednesday, November 24, 2010
Labels: 2010, activities, blessed, experience, feelings, foreign, gratitude, internet, job, language, money, nature, people, thankful, thanksgiving, things, web
Tuesday, November 23, 2010
Labels: behavior, online, packets, privacy, web browsing, wsj
Connection speeds for Internet users worldwide
Twitter global heat map
United States Human Development Index
Saturday, November 20, 2010
Labels: appalachian, education, expectancy, good, standard of living
Labels: galaxy, ipad, media tablets, playbook, slate, streak, tab
Roubini Global Economics: Will the Fed scale up QE2?
Sunday, November 14, 2010
"One can tell a seemingly optimistic story - the threat of the double dip is behind us, setting the stage for a nice return to potential growth. But that story holds the dark side of persistent, pernicious low levels of labor utilization.
Still, I think now the Federal Reserve would have chosen the optimistic narrative had it not been for the obvious slowdown midyear. Which suggests to me they are not eager to do more, especially if growth settles back in at trend. Reinforcing that belief is the Warsh speech, which makes a strong case that further monetary policy is increasingly ineffectual and very risky.
But even more important, he makes clear a belief that only Congress and the Administration have the tools to restore growth. I imagine if that view is, or becomes, a widespread opinion among policymakers, we have seen the last gasp of quantitative easing.
They have abated the financial crisis, serving as the lender of last resort, and flooded the economy with cash. They have done what they can. The rest is up to the fiscal authorities."
Tim Duy
Labels: congress, economy, employment, federal reserve, financial crisis, montary policy, qe2, quantitative easing, Roubini Global Economics, tim duy, unemployment
The Irony of the US Economy in 2010: No Jobs + No One to Hire
Labels: coulson, economy, education, employment, federal, labor, randfish, spending, unemployment
SEO
Tuesday, November 9, 2010
Labels: digital, hubspot, infographic, local, seo, traditional
Travel Industry in 2020
Friday, October 29, 2010
Labels: amadeus, economics, gold rush, oxford, transportation, travel
Verion Wireless CEO Ivan Seidenberg: "The Marines landing on the beach aren't the ones who build the hospitals."
Labels: cnn, cnnmoney, fibre-optic, fios, innovation, seindenberg, verizon
Broadband in America: Come sooner, future
Thursday, October 28, 2010
Labels: broadband, fios, online, the economist, u.s., verizon
Study: Peak Facebook activity by day and time
- The three biggest usage spikes tend to occur on weekdays at 11:00 a.m., 3:00 p.m. and 8:00 p.m. ET.
- The biggest spike occurs at 3:00 p.m. ET on weekdays.
- Weekday usage is pretty steady, however Wednesday at 3:00 pm ET is consistently the busiest period.
- Fans are less active on Sunday compared to all other days of the week.
Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS): consumer prices grew at an annual rate of just 1.1% in August
Tuesday, October 26, 2010
Labels: casey research, cost of living, inflation, zero hedge
Gartner 2010 Hype Cycle
Wednesday, October 13, 2010
Gartner has examined the maturity of 1,800 technologies and trends in 75 technology, topic, and industry areas.
The Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies features technologies that are the focus of attention in the IT industry because of particularly high levels of hype, or those that may not be broadly acknowledged but which Gartner believes have the potential for significant impact.
High-impact technologies at the Peak of Inflated Expectations during 2010 include private cloud computing, augmented reality, media tablets, wireless power, 3D flat-panel TVs and displays, and activity streams, while cloud computing and cloud/Web platforms have tipped over the peak and will soon experience disillusionment among enterprise users.
Gartner
Labels: 2010, activity streams, adoption, augmented reality, cloud computing, gartner, hype cycle, mainstream, media tablets, peak, technology
Who's Suing Whom? - Major court cases in the telecom world
Tuesday, October 12, 2010
Labels: apple, google, hitachi, lawsuit, lg, microsoft, nokia, oracle, RIM, samsung, sharp, tech
Why The PC Is Not Dead
Monday, October 4, 2010
- Video will comprise 90% of all Internet traffic by 2013
- 20 hours of video are uploaded to YouTube every minute
- More than 1,000 pictures are uploaded to Facebook every second
- PC users worldwide have an estimated nine billion high-definition video files stored in their systems
Held Your Own or Lost Ground?
Friday, September 24, 2010
Labels: america, american, economy, finance, pew research center, recession
United Nations holds summit to discuss Millenium Development Goals
Wednesday, September 22, 2010
- In 1990, 62% of the world’s poor people lived in just two countries, China and India
- A dramatic fall in China’s poverty rate, from 60% to 16%, has therefore had a big impact on global poverty, which seems set to meet its 2015 target. But that is small comfort to the poor in many other countries where poverty has barely budged
- Goals such as those involving primary enrollment and reductions in child mortality are unlikely to be met, though some, such as access to clean drinking water, are likely to be exceeded.
Labels: china, development, economist, india, millenium, population, poverty, un, united nations
Why net neutrality is a distraction
Thursday, September 9, 2010
But that is not the case in America. Its vitriolic net-neutrality debate is a reflection of the lack of competition in broadband access. The best solution would be to require telecoms operators to open their high-speed networks to rivals on a wholesale basis, as is the case almost everywhere in the industrialised world.
America’s big network operators have long argued that being forced to share their networks would undermine their incentives to invest in new infrastructure, and thus hamper the roll-out of broadband. But that has not happened in other countries that have mandated such “open access”, and enjoy faster and cheaper broadband than America. Net neutrality is difficult to define and enforce, and efforts to do so merely address the symptom (concern about discrimination) rather than the underlying cause (lack of competition). Rivalry between access providers offers the best protection against the erection of new barriers to the flow of information online.
Labels: america, broadband, competition, infrastructure, net neutrality, operator, technology, telecommunications, the economist, wireless
Bernanke: "If the crisis has a single lesson, it is that the too-big-to-fail problem must be solved"
Saturday, September 4, 2010
Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke stressed the need for banks to hold more cash in reserve and face stricter regulations and told a panel investigating the causes of the economic crisis that the central bank's policies did not spur the collapse.
He cited ongoing negotiations on the amount of reserves banks must keep to cover their operations and recently passed US legislation as the key tools to tackle the risks posed by big banks.
"Monetary policy is a blunt tool; raising the general level of interest rates to manage a single asset price would undoubtedly have had large side effects on other assets and sectors of the economy."
AFP
Labels: afp, bernanke, economics, economy, federal reserve, montary policy, too-big-to-fail
Chart: U.S. interest rates since 1790
Friday, August 27, 2010
Things Need to Change in the U.S.
Thursday, August 26, 2010
During dinner at the Technology Policy Institute's Aspen Forum, Intel CEO Paul Otellini warned government officials that unless government policies are altered, people will not invest in the United States and cites the U.S.'s hostile legal environment towards business.
He used the example of factories, explaining that costs $1 billion more per factory for me to build, equip, and operate a semiconductor manufacturing facility in the United States and 90% of that additional cost of a $4 billion factory is not labor but the cost to comply with taxes and regulations that other nations don't impose.
He argues there is likely to be:
The only solution to escaping Google's record is a name change
Monday, August 16, 2010
"Every young person one day will be entitled automatically to change his or her name on reaching adulthood in order to disown youthful hijinks stored on their friends' social media sites." -Google CEO Eric Schmidt
...creepy...
Graphic: Patent Filings Per Research and Development Expenditure
Labels: expentiure, fast co design, fastco, infographic, innovation, patent
Thursday, August 5, 2010
Eric Schmidt
Chief Executive Officer, Google
Speaking at Techonomy Conference in South Lake Tahoe
Labels: eric schmidt, google, schmidt, technology, techonomy
Shane Robinson
Executive Vice President and Chief Strategy and Technology Office, Hewlett-Packard
Speaking at the Techonomy Conference in South Lake Tahoe
Labels: hewlett-packard, hp, information, shane robinson, techonomy
Tuesday, August 3, 2010
U.S. spends most internet time now spent with social networks, games
Monday, August 2, 2010
Labels: computer, games, internet, nielsen, notebooks, pc, pcs, social networks, u.s.
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