Archive for March, 2011
First Person: The Effect of Japan’s Disaster on My Stock Yields
My stock portfolio has been devastated by the Tsunami in Japan.
Wyly brothers lose bid to dismiss SEC fraud suit (Reuters)
NEW YORK (Reuters) – The wealthy Texas brothers Samuel and Charles Wyly on Thursday lost their bid to dismiss a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission lawsuit accusing them of orchestrating a $550 million securities fraud and committing insider trading.
Google foe won’t take "no" on Buzz cash (Reuters)
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – An Internet privacy group that prodded U.S. regulators to scrutinize Google Inc is miffed about getting cut out of a class action settlement over the search behemoth’s Buzz social network.
mSpot Music vs. Amazon’s Cloud Player: The Battle of the Mobile Streaming Services (PC World)
Media streaming is nothing new to Android users; we’ve been enjoying our music from the cloud for some time, thanks to the mSpot Music app. Now, Amazon has its own media-streaming app called Cloud Drive. Both apps allow you to sync your desktop music folder to the cloud, so with either one you can access your media library via the associated Website or mobile app.
Google localizes search in Iraq and Tunisia (AFP)
SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) – Google on Thursday began providing searches and results localized for Internet users in Iraq and Tunisia. Google added google.iq in Iraq and google.tn in Tunisia, bringing to 184 the number of domains it operates worldwide in order to provide locally relevant results for queries to people depending on where they are
Rajaratnam trial lawyers push research defense (Reuters)
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Raj Rajaratnam did not pick stocks alone. He had a team of researchers at his Galleon Group hedge fund to grind through the rumor mill and anticipate a good bet
Microsoft skewers Google in EU antitrust complaint (AP)
BRUSSELS – Microsoft Corp. escalated its attack on Google Inc. by complaining to European regulators Thursday that its fiercest rival is an Internet bully that abuses its dominance of online search and advertising
New Google Tool Tells You How to Make Your Site Faster (Mashable)
Google has released Page Speed Online, a Google Labs project that analyzes any website for its speed and gives suggestions on how to improve it. The experimental tool is straightforward to use; just type in a website and Google will come back with suggestions for how to improve that website’s speed. The suggestions are ranked as either High, Medium or Low
Dow has best start to the year since 1999 (AP)
NEW YORK – The Dow Jones industrial average closed its best start to the year since 1999 Thursday, rising 6.4 percent in the first three months.
iPad not charging? Simple tips for charging the iPad via USB (Digital Trends)
This past weekend my wife pointed out to me that sometimes when the iPad is sitting in the Apple iPad dock, it says “Not Charging” despite being plugged directly into the wall outlet. My setup at home is the typical USB cable connector plugged into an AC wall outlet on one end, and then the iPad dock on the other. Nothing special here, heck, it wasn’t even plugged into a PC
