NBC has been the punch line of many jokes in the television industry for the last few years. They have been getting pummeled in TV ratings with a generally poor lineup of shows. Oh yeah, and that whole Jay Leno/Conan O’Brien drama really added some fuel to a fire that was already burning uncontrollably. However, in [...]
Amazon announced this week that they have a new and improved Kindle ebook reader and will begin shipping them in about one month to about 100 countries. If you have read any of my past posts regarding the Kindle, you know that I am not a big fan of the device. However, I am slowly starting [...]
If you have ever thought that marketing is overrated and is not as useful to a business as advertisers would have you believe then you are mistaken. A good marketing campaign can do wonders for a company, regardless of whether the product or service is new or already established. There are hundreds of good examples [...]
As you may or may not have heard sizeable natural gas discoveries have been made in the past 18 months or so in Israel. The reserves are located in the Mediterranean Sea, off the coast of the northern Israeli city of Haifa. The location of this find is completely within the territory of Israel, but close [...]
The U.S. government on Monday announced that jailbreaking an Apple iPhone is not illegal and iPhone owners who choose to do this will not be punished by the law in any way. This is a significant decision in favor of the consumer and against Apple Inc. Apple said in early 2009 that jailbreaking the iPhone [...]
The U.S. government is facing an important decision about a particular set of tax cuts that divide the country along political party lines. These are not tax rates that affect most people, only about 2%-3% of the U.S. population. However, these are the top income earners, so the total dollar figure is more than it [...]
I recently stumbled upon an interesting article in the Toronto Star (click here to read it) about the development of offshore wind turbines. Anyone that lives in the northeast United States or southern Ontario knows that the electricity grid in the region is sometimes not up to the task of meeting the energy needs that [...]
On Friday, the EU released the results of the European bank stress test. This stress test has been in the news for a little while now as experts and investors were waiting what the outcome would be. You may remember the term ’stress test’ being used a lot a little over a year ago because that’s [...]
Since 2007, when GM had to sell their financing company, GMAC, they have had a somewhat tougher time leasing and selling their vehicles to people with less than optimal credit. In the past when they owned their own financing company, they were able to approve customers that had a bad credit rating which was caused [...]
On Wednesday, Facebook announced that they have 500 million members. This is an astronomical figure for any site to achieve. The rate in which they are growing is even more astounding. They have somehow managed to double in size since last year and they are gaining 50 million new members every month. They are doing [...]
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