· Banking Reform: Directors of bailed out companies just seem to skate away from company woes that occurred on their watch
http://bwbx.io/CqWJ
· The flip side to real inflation is fear of inflation will cause governments to stop stimulating the economy too soon.
http://bwbx.io/QvvK
· To survive the next decade, media companies will have to think more like Netflix Inc.
http://bwbx.io/FCJ3
· U.S. federal authorities investigating millions of dollars contributed by fraud suspect Allen Stanford to U.S. lawmakers
http://bwbx.io/278S
· Thomas Jefferson and fellow patriots might not have imagined new Republic would be land of the free and home of czar.
http://bwbx.io/tOak
· Treasuries fell, with the difference in yields between 2&10-year notes widening to a record amount on inflation concerns
http://bwbx.io/KnZO
· The newest “czar” risk squandering an opportunity to make some real headway toward improving security of defense systems
http://bwbx.io/bkUL
· Cybersecurity: It’s no longer tools but the skills.
http://bwbx.io/iGNG
· COUNTDOWN TO 2010: Decade of change for economy – Five economic highlights from the past decade.
http://bwbx.io/K1SV
· Banking Reform: Set consistent limits on borrowing across similar financial instruments and financial firms.
http://bwbx.io/9bd8
· Mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac receive unlimited financial assistance.
http://bwbx.io/gSwi
· Verizon limited user browser search boxes to only Microsoft Bing – part of $500m, five-year deal with Microsoft.
http://bwbx.io/Izjq
· What lessons telegraph hold for newspapers? The telegraph was first seen as a threat, but turned to their advantage.
http://bwbx.io/ZN7O
· Financial crisis began in securitized debt markets failyre at spreading risk, then seized up and failed just like banks.
http://bwbx.io/SUdj
· Australian Government has released draft to enable the deployment of optic fibre into greenfields estates.
http://bwbx.io/FFBl
· Comcast has agreed to put $16M into a fund to pay BitTorrent users that were inconvenienced by the ‘network management’.
http://bwbx.io/x8ve
· Borrowing by Avaya to finance the $900 million Nortel purchase leave little cushion for unforeseen challenges.
http://bwbx.io/kW6V
· The cybersecurity problem is growing faster than the solution – a few myths to be dispelled.
http://bwbx.io/O7sb
· Howard A. Schmidt, who was a cyber-adviser in President Bush’s White House to be Obama’s new cybersecurity coordinator.
http://bwbx.io/KN9N
· NBN (Australia) – Mass-market fibre services are to be based on Ethernet delivery, utilising GPON as access technology.
http://bwbx.io/QSsr
· Fed’s decision not to police abusive lending resulted in 1.1 million subprime loans between 2004 and 2007: (graph)
http://bwbx.io/Q9TC
· Banking Reform: “If you aren’t looking, how would you know there is a problem?”
http://bwbx.io/BVD6
· Fed’s traditional strategies to ease a liquidity crunch, increases the monetary base without being inflationary.
http://bwbx.io/kHsz
· Annual cost of IT failure is about $6 trillion. For the U.S., the annual cost is about $1 trillion – report.
http://bwbx.io/RuFV
· Avaya’s purchase of Nortel is final as of Friday, with Avaya promising integrated voice/data branch-office gear.
http://bwbx.io/llbW
· Helsinki public utility data center generate energy to heat 500 large houses, and benefit from much lower cooling costs.
http://bwbx.io/nM96
· Russian Soyuz spacecraft carrying three fresh crew members bound for the International Space Station blasted off Sunday.
http://bwbx.io/YLmr
· After a stormy session in Copenhagen, most countries agreed simply to “take note” of a watered-down agreement.
http://bwbx.io/JEPe
· 787 pics – The $10 billion plane–of which there are currently six–must go through about nine months of further tests.
http://bwbx.io/hr0A
· 787 – Deployment of the tail-mounted static trailing air data cone controller appears to have been the only glitch.
http://bwbx.io/tzsk
· Copenhagen Pics – I’m frantic from worrying about global warming. I think about it all the time, and now I can’t sleep.
http://bwbx.io/AFfl
· Bank of England’s head of financial stability contradict argument banks/bankers would leave London without bonuses.
http://bwbx.io/ra8Y
· Volume of outstanding CDS contracts fell 14 percent to 36 trillion dollars (24 trillion euros), according to BIS.
http://bwbx.io/4B3y
· With Fannie and Freddie asymmetric payoff structure profits went to private investors and losses picked up by taxpayers.
http://bwbx.io/WiNW
· This list includes 10 of the biggest stories about smartphones in 2009.
http://bwbx.io/trL0
· Air Force Unmanned Aircraft Systems Flight Plan acknowledges encryption work began this year, not be finished until 2014
http://bwbx.io/NjF1
· Boeing 787 Dreamliner introduction of a next generation aircraft, and also a technological milestone.
http://bwbx.io/duQt
· Citigroup’s plan to extract itself from the government’s clutches did not happen.
http://bwbx.io/45tU
· Banks with $14.4 billion in total assets were closed on 12/18/09 in six U.S. states.
http://bwbx.io/m3E5
· From BPON to GPON to XG-PON, Verizon is ready to deliver serious bandwidth in markets Verizon thinks are profitable.
http://bwbx.io/VZUm
· Verizon completed field-test of XG-PON passive optical network system at 10Gbps downstream and 2.4 Gbps upstream.
http://bwbx.io/OpVs
· Raytheon announced an iPhone app called One Force Tracker (OFT), series of apps valuable to soldiers in the field.
http://bwbx.io/9yOZ
· Textron has performed the first “proof of concept” flight of an unmanned aircraft with 4DT flight management system.
http://bwbx.io/Vc5g
· Fifty-five customers have ordered 840 787s, Dreamliner the fastest-selling new commercial jetliner in history.
http://bwbx.io/KVip
· US Economy is designed to be a Free Enterprise economy.
http://tinyurl.com/yc8wvm8
· This is the way banker compensation works. There is this thing called the piggy banker spread (yield spread)
http://bwbx.io/QCMV
· How do introverted leaders thrive in extroverted business world? They seek to understand–and play to–their strengths.
http://bwbx.io/8GnE
· US shrinking current-account gap is reducing supply of dollars overseas.
http://bwbx.io/Vr56
· FCC: TV convergence as a way to help drive broadband adoption–99% of households have TVs vs. 76% with computers.
http://bwbx.io/UkOS
· U.S. Senators John McCain and Maria Cantwell proposed reinstating the Depression-era Glass-Steagall Act.
http://bwbx.io/TFbL
· While the overall credit conditions have improved, the small business credit crunch continues to deepen.
http://bwbx.io/iQDt
· Broadband stimulus is finally happening – $182 million in government grants, for a total of 18 projects.
http://bwbx.io/Kjo5
· Intel tried to block “superior” products by rivals and hurt consumer choice.
http://tinyurl.com/yckzbwk
· The industrial engineering and medical technology are the two areas that are really driving GE.
http://tinyurl.com/yceznwe
· Free enterprise economy consists of many components.
http://tinyurl.com/ybxqfm7
· Banking Reform: By rushing to cash in chips, the administration is gave up political leverage and additional profit.
http://bwbx.io/Lxws
· Australia plans to introduce an Internet filtering system.
http://bwbx.io/YVzV
· FCC: This is a little computer/smartphone. It shouldn’t matter if the Internet is accessed on a laptop or a cell phone.
http://bwbx.io/xx2I
· Federal regulators are seeking to close ‘terrestrial loophole’ allowing cable TV operators to withhold sporting events.
http://bwbx.io/LLlm
· Dreamliner’s parts are built by subcontractors as far away as South Carolina, Italy and Japan transported to Washington.
http://bwbx.io/p8H3
· Test pilots Mike Carriker and Randy Neville were the only people aboard Boeing 787 Maiden Flight ,‘A Joy’
http://bwbx.io/7pya
· $700 billion financial bailout averted an economic meltdown is unlikely to deflect public anxiety about an unemployment.
http://bwbx.io/zHvo
· Bernanke will need luck as well as skill to succeed on the road to neutral.
http://bwbx.io/mjAO
· Social networking: Tainted posts or Twitter messages can move quickly and intermittently into search results.
http://bwbx.io/pG4d
· Boeing’s strategic planners ultimately judged the market dead right with the 787, and reversed Boeing’s fortunes.
http://bwbx.io/XnFY
· Airbus A400M military transport isn’t viable without a “significant contribution” from government customers.
http://bwbx.io/ecqF
· Airbus first Military A400M military airlifter in Seville, Spain, completing a successful maiden flight.
http://bwbx.io/kIer
· President Barack Obama: “I did not run for office to be helping out a bunch of fat cat bankers on Wall Street.”
http://bwbx.io/Q737
· If banks cannot be allowed to go bust then government giving guarantee must be in sufficiently strong financial position
http://bwbx.io/LuDj
· The “outsourcing” of judgments to small number of rating agencies is a key cause of explosive growth in credit markets.
http://bwbx.io/i0y3
· Boeing vs. Airbus: A 40-Year Rivalry in pictures.
http://bwbx.io/ekuu
· NASA and the industry face challenges in building the pipeline to replace retiring workers.
http://bwbx.io/dZat
· Inability of the federal government to restore fiscal balance may reduce consumer confidence and real economic activity.
http://bwbx.io/rNcb
· Killer bullet to the U.S. economy could be the shrinking of available credit to private business.
http://bwbx.io/lsNw
· With new Xerox ink, circuits can be printed just like a continuous feed document without the clean room facilities.
http://bwbx.io/2NHs
· 2009 WordPress Themes Collection
http://tinyurl.com/y92ab6r
· Pimco advisory business on complex investments now topping $1 trillion in assets.
http://bwbx.io/K2nw
· Cisco Australia: NBN Co’s minimalist network would place an additional investment burden on access seekers.
http://bwbx.io/1e9Q
· Average consumer does not complain to FCC, and FCC doesn’t know what to do with the complaints it does receive.
http://bwbx.io/RZyj
· U.S. House of Representatives began debating the most sweeping changes to financial regulation since Great Depression.
http://bwbx.io/F8Sh
· Wall Street banks are on track to pay a staggering $26 billion in bonuses for 2009 performance.
http://bwbx.io/pvm3
· U.K., U.S., France and even Goldman Sachs Group Inc. looking to trim banker pay. Bloated local govt. compensation next?
http://bwbx.io/KP
· NASA Mars Exploration Rover Spirit’s right-rear wheel indicate a troubled wheel, leaving rover four operable wheels.
http://bwbx.io/NL2F
· AT&T after whining in court about Verizon’s map ads is now whining to financial analysts about its customers.
http://bwbx.io/cGRm
· Net neutrality is of one of the most pressing First Amendment questions of our time to change society.
http://bwbx.io/adkF
· GE Chief: “The United States stands at the end of a generation when greed drove leaders and rewards became perverted.”
http://bwbx.io/F91B
· NBN (Australia) plan to build a low-touch, self-serve, business and operational support to keep the network simple.
http://bwbx.io/HlLE
· Countries pegging tightly their exchange rates and low interest rates risk excessive borrowing and asset price bubbles.
http://bwbx.io/naQa
· Inventors and Innovations Worried About the U.S. Patent Reform Act of 2009
http://bwbx.io/5abz
· BoA fully repaid the U.S. government the $45 billion in aid it took during the height of the financial crisis.
http://bwbx.io/rCpd
· The purloined e-mails of climate scholars work is a drop in a global flood of evidence something critical is going on.
http://bwbx.io/dzgV
· U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner extended the government’s $700 billion financial bailout fund to October 2010.
http://bwbx.io/wSBR
· Broadband: Nation’s most experienced broadband providers were forced to sit on the sidelines.
http://bwbx.io/cEgj
· Broadband: Concern about potential for conflict of interest and unfair influence.
http://bwbx.io/Q8vY
· United Airlines placed a $10 billion-plus order for 50 wide-bodied jetliners divided between Airbus and Boeing Co
http://bwbx.io/OTsA
· Ericsson: Amount of labour required for our products is less and at the same time we are becoming more efficient –
http://tinyurl.com/y87qceu
· President Obama’s Stimulus 2.0 acknowledges limit to government ability to rebalance market economy.
http://tinyurl.com/y9ntcxo
· There is a paradox staring everyone in the face with the National Broadband Network in Australia –
http://bwbx.io/qrZp
· Bernanke says the economy faces “formidable headwinds.”
http://bwbx.io/oqpC
· Banking reform: Consumers need better protection from financial abuses
http://bwbx.io/wvKO
· Banking reform must separate the toxic mix of risky hedge funds with our consumer banking system.
http://bwbx.io/XJhV
· GE was an investor in NBC from its 1926 launch through 1932 and then owned NBC from 1986 to present.
http://bwbx.io/Ah5T
· Concern $7.2 billion broadband stimulus program is not sustainable, inconsistent , or lack effective monitor of funding
http://bwbx.io/Dyqk
· Biggest potential threat of Comcast and NBC combination is Internet video and its promise of à la carte programming
http://bwbx.io/T64q
· 26 Free Tools for Monitoring Your Brand’s Reputation by @PamDyer
http://is.gd/5etGs
· The best way to avoid backlash today is for social media’s practitioners is to shift the focus from promises to results.
http://bwbx.io/cCS0
· “The (Banking) industry needs to understand that the system was broken. The status quo is not acceptable.”
http://bwbx.io/IWqj
· The FTC is trying to find out a lawsuit filed by Intel earlier this year is an effort to disrupt Nvidia’s business.
http://bwbx.io/M4Fk
· Economic predictions: Information never gets to anyone at the same time, and the bigger customers usually get it first
http://bwbx.io/nlHi
· For 20 years nations have gathered annually to try to do something about climate change. May produce framework this year
http://bwbx.io/y3Fw
· The Red Balloons Hunt has been won by the M.I.T team –
https://networkchallenge.darpa.mil/default.aspx
http://bwbx.io/XYu9
· DARPA experiment looking at how information spreads virally on the internet with Red Balloon Hunt
http://bwbx.io/v7MJ
· Selling NBC Universal GE focus future growth: power generation, aviation, rail and medical-imaging, plus GE Capital.
http://bwbx.io/3SNy
· We will never have a sustainable system of cybersecurity until we change the economic equation that governs it.
http://bwbx.io/YVrH
· Fixing Universal Service is something which must be done. We’re spending $7 billion a year inefficiently.
http://bwbx.io/sizB
· Google is offering to handle your DNS lookups –
http://arst.ch/anm
via @arstechnica
· Siemens AG reported its first quarterly loss due to Nokia JV writedown –
http://bit.ly/5qtjK3
· Google offers online news compromise
http://www.reuters.com/article/technology-media-telco-SP/idUSGEE5B11Y120091202
· Nortel May Sell Optical Networks Unit to Ciena
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aT4_Ppq1xdfQ&pos=4
· Microsoft’s to allow Windows users to choose Internet browser they use, ending EU antitrust investigation.
http://bwbx.io/8SuD
· Alcatel-Lucent & Ericsson have announced strategy to be application broker between carriers and programmers –
http://bit.ly/8LF2px
· Debates on broadband policy mirror two perspectives perennially at war
http://arst.ch/akf
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