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oDDmON oUT writes:
Pursuant to a FOIA request, Bloomberg's has acquired numbers from the Fed on loans made to banks and businesses during the period 2007 — 2007.
A direct link to the spreadsheets in zipped format can be found here: http://bit.ly/Bloomberg-Fed-Data
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oDDmON oUT writes:
Techcrunch has a piece about Facebook's Project Spartan, which aims to deliver app store functionality through the use of HTML5 in the iOS Safari browser.
Given FB's shifting sands privacy stances, as well as their track record with their "trusted partners", I don't think I'd be alone in wondering if this wouldn't put a great big stake in the heart of the assertion that iOS is the most secure operating system in existence today.
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oDDmON oUT writes:
MSNBC is reporting that a Columbia Business School study shows that those who hold power over others make better liars.
According to one of the study's coauthors:
"“People in power are able to lie better,” said Dana Carney, a management professor at Columbia Business School and one of the co-authors of the study. “It just doesn’t hurt them as much to do it.”
For the average liar, she said, the act of lying elicits negative emotions, physiological stress and the fear of getting caught in a lie. As a result, she added, liars will often send out cues that they are lying by doing things like fidgeting in a chair or changing the rate of their speech.
But for the powerful, the impact is very different:
“Power, it seems, enhances the same emotional, cognitive, and physiological systems that lie-telling depletes. People with power enjoy positive emotions, increases in cognitive function, and physiological resilience such as lower levels of the stress hormone cortisol. Thus, holding power over others might make it easier for people to tell lies.”"
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oDDmON oUT writes:
Business Week has an interesting look at Apple's untargeted penetration into the corporate sector.
"Soon after Michele Goins became chief information officer at Juniper Networks in February, she decided to respond to the growing chorus of Mac lovers among the networking company's 6,100 employees. ... As long as the extra support costs aren't too high, she plans to open the floodgates. "If we opened it up today, I think 25% of our employees would choose Macs," she says.
Funny thing is, she has never received a single sales call from Apple. While thousands of other companies scratch and claw for the tiniest sliver of the corporate computing market, Apple treats this vast market with utter indifference. ...
And why not? In the March quarter, Mac sales blew away all forecasts, soaring 51% over the previous year, or more than three times the rate for the personal-computer industry. Throw in the iPod and iPhone, and Apple's total sales have surged from $5.2 billion in fiscal 2002 to $24 billion last year. Its share price has risen 2,300% over the past five years, giving the company a market capitalization, at $154 billion, that tops those of tech giants Hewlett-Packard (HPQ), Dell (DELL), and Intel. "
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oDDmON oUT writes:
While your mother may have told you that sitting too close to the tellie was bad for your eyes, the folks over at New Scientist have published a story relating that it's bad for your attention span:
"Watching television more than two hours a day early in life can lead to attention problems later in adolescence, according to a large long-term study."
What distinguishes this research is its longitudinal nature:
"The team studied the long-term habits and behaviours of more than 1000 children born in Dunedin, between April 1972 and March 1973. The children aged 5 to 11 watched an average of 2.05 hours of weekday television. From age 13 to 15, time spent in front of the television rose to an average of 3.1 hours a day."
It would be nice if....uh.....what was I doing?
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oDDmON oUT writes:
An article appearing today in Computerworld quotes polling results from a PatchLink Corp. survey, saying that the majority of it's enterprise customers feel there are no compelling security enhancements in Windows Vista, that they have no plans to migrate to it in the near term and that many will "...either stick with the Windows they have, or turn to Linux or Mac OS X".
A majority, 87%, said "they would stay with their existing version(s) of Windows".
This comes on the heels of a disenting view of Vista's track record in the area of security at the six month mark, which sparked discussion on numerous forums.
