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02 May 2008
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Business Intelligence Drives More Effective Decisions, Utility Professionals Reflect at EUCG’s 35th Anniversary Workshop
"The EUCG membership spent a great deal of workshop time sharing best practices and discussing individual business intelligence and performance management programs," said EUCG President Stephen Saunders of Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA). "Rapid decision making is becoming increasingly important within ...
Amazon sues New York over tax
Amazon.com has filed a lawsuit challenging New York state's new law forcing online retailers to collect sales tax on shipments to state... ... has filed a lawsuit challenging New York state's new law forcing online retailers to collect sales tax on shipments to state...Startup to Offer Alternative TV System
By PETER SVENSSON NEW YORK - A startup is betting that people are tired enough of their cable and satellite bills to take a look at an alternative pay TV system that combines a number of different technologies to deliver programming. Silicon Valley-based Sezmi Corp.Food Price Crisis
Global Pulse / LinkTV - May. 3 (News Analysis) - (VIDEO - 4:20) Global food prices soar and the world's poorest people go even hungrier. Food riots fuel political crises in some nations. Nations pledge more aid. Will it be enough to stop what some world leaders call a 'silent tsunami of hunger?'NewsTrust Rating: 4.0 from source rating - Review It
Pentagon’s Accounting Mess
Portfolio - By Scott Paltrow - May. 3 (Special Report) - The basic defense budget for 2007 was $439.3 billion, up 48 percent from 2001, excluding the vast additional sums appropriated for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. According to federal regulators and current and former Pentagon officials, the accounting process is so obsolete and error prone that it's virtually impossible to tell where much of this money ends up. While the department's brass has made a few patchwork improvements, billions are still unaccounted for...NewsTrust Rating: 3.6 from source rating - Review It
Radiohead Figures Out How To Sell 99-cent Song for $4.95 to 2,250 People
Portfolio - By Kevin Maney - May. 3 (Blog Post) - The contest certainly is another interesting experiment by Radiohead in how to sell music in the Internet Age. The band posted five "stems" of the song on iTunes -- one each for bass, drum, guitar, keyboards and voice. Each cost 99 cents. Buy all five and mix them together using music software like Garageband or Cakewalk, and you hear the actual track as Radiohead intended it. Total cost $4.95...NewsTrust Rating: 3.6 from source rating - Review It
Exercise Your Brain, or Else You’ll … Uh …
New York Times - By Katie Hafner - May. 3 (News Report) - Nintendo's $19.99 Brain Age 2, a popular video game of simple math and memory exercises, is one. Posit Science's $395 computer-based "cognitive behavioral training" exercises are another. MindFit, a $149 software-based program, combines cognitive assessment of more than a dozen different skills with a personalized training regimen based on that assessment. And for about $10 a month, worried boomers can subscribe to Web sites like Lumosity.com and Happy-Neuron...NewsTrust Rating: 3.6 from source rating - Review It
Pursuing the Next Level of Artificial Intelligence
New York Times - By John Markoff - May. 3 (News Report) - "The world is noisy and messy,"... [Daphne] Koller said. "You need to deal with the noise and uncertainty." That philosophy has led her to do research in game theory and artificial intelligence, and more recently in molecular biology. Her tools led to a new type of cancer gene map based on examining the behavior of a large number of genes that are active in a variety of tumors...NewsTrust Rating: 3.6 from source rating - Review It
Higher Offer by Microsoft Brings Yahoo to Table
New York Times - By Andrew Ross Sorking, Miguel Helft - May. 3 (News Report) - After a three-month standoff, Microsoft was in active merger talks with Yahoo on Friday, several people involved in the discussions said. Microsoft, which had threatened to abandon its bid or initiate an attempt to oust Yahoo's board, has increased its offer "by several dollars," one of the people said. But a deal was still far from certain. A person involved in the discussions said the chances of a friendly deal being reached were "still no better than 50-50."NewsTrust Rating: 3.6 from source rating - Review It
RIM and software giant SAP want to change the way people work
RIM and software giant SAP want to change the way people work ... Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) MONTREAL _ BlackBerry maker Research In Motion (TSX:RIM) and software giant SAP want to change the way that people work, allowing them to be tied even less to their offices and...FDA launches major hiring initiative
The FDA has reported that it is hiring hundreds of individuals with science and medical backgrounds to help meet the agency's responsibilities to assure the safety and efficacy of human and veterinary drugs, biological products, medical devices, food, cosmetics and products that emit radiation.John Hopkins plans mission to the sun
BALTIMORE, May 3 (UPI) -- Maryland's Johns Hopkins University said it is developing a spacecraft designed to go closer to the sun than any other probe has gone. ... The university's Applied Physics Laboratory was asked by NASA to develop the Solar Probe mission, which...The problem with Facebook (Steve/The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs)
Steve / The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs:
The problem with Facebook — This chart says it all. A new study discovers that the vast majority of Facebook apps are an utter waste of time. But oh yeah — Facebook is worth $9 billion, or $15 billion. And Slide is worth half a billion because it makes that super important FunWall application.
People close to talks say Screen Actors Guild scales back demands as talks extended
The Screen Actors Guild, hoping to reach a deal with major Hollywood studios before the union's contract expires next month, has scaled back its demands, two people familiar with contract talks said. ... The studios claimed the talks were being held up by a demand to...Yahoo-Google Pact May Be Close (Wall Street Journal)
Wall Street Journal:
Yahoo-Google Pact May Be Close — Yahoo Inc. could announce an agreement to carry search advertisements from Google Inc. within a week, as it braces for Microsoft Corp. to go hostile or abandon its unsolicited acquisition offer for Yahoo, say people familiar with the matter.