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Wednesday, February 16, 2011
Monday, February 14, 2011
Microsoft to Add Multitasking, Internet Explorer 9 to Windows Phone Later this Year
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Monday, January 31, 2011
Prediction: In Two Years, Apple Will Have Less Than 50 Percent of the Tablet Market
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Saturday, January 29, 2011
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Tuesday, January 11, 2011
HOW BIG IS WALMART?
Some Interesting Stats
2. This works out to $10,000 profit every second!
3. Walmart will sell more from January 1 to St. Patrick's Day (March 17th) than Target sells all year.
4. Walmart is bigger than Home Depot + Kroger + Target + Sears + Costco + K-Mart combined.
6. Walmart is the largest company in the history of the World.
7. Walmart now sells more food than Kroger & Safeway combined, keeping in mind they did this in only 15 years.
8. During this same period, 31 supermarket chains sought bankruptcy.
9. Walmart now sells more food than any other store in the world.
10. Walmart has approx 3,900 stores in the USA of which 1,906 are Super Centers; this is 1,000 more than it had 5 years ago.
11. This year, 7.2 billion different purchasing experiences will occur at a Wal-Mart store. (Earth's population is approximately 6.5 billion.)
12. 90% of all Americans live within 15 miles of a Wal-Mart.
13. The value of product for Walmart passing through the port of San Diego each year is a larger sum than 93% of ALL countries' Gross National Product (GNP) and that is only ONE port. One way that Walmart gets it's stuff.
14. Of the 1.6 million employees, only 1.2% make a living above the poverty level.
15. Walmart's head office is located and centralized in Bentonville, Arkansas. Due to this fact, there are more millionaires per square mile there than any place on Earth.
16. The official U. S. Government position is that Walmart's prices are 'no lower' than anyone else when compared to a typical family's weekly purchases. That's the view of the statisticians at the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) responsible for calculating the consumer price index (CPI).
17. 92% of everything Walmart sells, comes from China. Another 4% comes from Chinese owned companies in the U.S. or in 3rd world countries. (Yes, China is in charge here alright) SCARY.
18. Walmart and MOST large companies, take out life insurance on it's employees, without their knowing. If an employee dies, ALL the insurance moneys go to the companies (i.e. An employee making $18,000 per year, dies, and the company might make as much as $1 million). Most often these moneys, coming from what is commonly referred to as "Dead Peasant Life Insurance Policies", is paid out to executives as bonuses. (A common practice)!
19. Walmart now averages a "profit" (not sales) of $36 billion per year.
Sunday, January 2, 2011
The Mysterious Case of The 'iPad 2' Cases
Protective cases purportedly made for a new version of the iPad, posted for sale on Chinese e-commerce site Alibaba.com, have fueled some of the latest speculation about the rumored sequel to Apple’s red-hot tablet computer. In fact, they drew enough attention that someone with pull appears to have objected to the listings.
- Screenshot of a listing on Alibaba.com offering protective cases purportedly for an Apple iPad 2.
Apple has yet to publicly disclose any plans for an iPad 2. But gadget bloggers in the last week seized on pictures from Alibaba.com, a trading platform for smaller businesses in and outside China, as evidence of the new features that a second-generation iPad might have. In particular, they said the cases proved that the iPad 2 will include a camera on its back surface, since circular holes were depicted on the backs of the mostly silicon cases in the Alibaba listings. The cases were priced at a few dollars or lower and available in colors including bright pink and green.
But someone—it’s unclear who—doesn’t seem to appreciate all the attention: Alibaba.com was asked to remove the listings. “We do not know whether these products are what they say they are, but we have received a legitimate takedown request and are removing the listings,” Alibaba Group spokesman John Spelich said Wednesday.
Mr. Spelich declined to comment on the source of the request, and Apple did not reply to a request for comment.
Several listings for iPad 2 cases had been removed by Friday, but at least two were still accessible as of Friday afternoon in Beijing. Mr. Spelich said the company is in the process of removing all the listings.
It’s unclear what the specific objection was to the listings on Alibaba, and who the overzealous merchants that posted them are. The companies listed southern China phone numbers in their Alibaba.com profiles, suggesting they’re based there. A man who answered the phone at one of the companies, called Fullchance Industrial Co., claimed that it works with Hon Hai Precision Industry and said Fullchance possesses firsthand material regarding the features of a new iPad, making the design of their case “extremely accurate.”
The man declined to give his name or to elaborate, saying the matter was “very serious.”
Hon Hai, which assembles Apple’s iPhone and iPad, among other gadgets, is the world’s largest electronics contract manufacturer by revenue. The Taiwan-based company, whose main factories are in southern China, is known for carefully guarding its customers’ trade secrets.
A spokesman for Hon Hai said he saw no connection between Hon Hai and the listings on Alibaba.com. A second Hon Hai spokesman called remarks such as those made by the man from Fullchance “hostile.”
Asked how they knew the design details of the iPad 2, other merchants selling the cases on Alibaba declined to comment, or simply hung up immediately.
–Owen Fletcher
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Thursday, December 23, 2010
Wednesday, December 22, 2010
US Regulators Partly Follow Canada's Net Neutrality
The U.S. regulator of telecommunications has adopted Internet neutrality rules allowing traffic management that in some ways look remarkably like those of Canada.
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In a 3-2 decision on Tuesday, members of the Federal Communications Commission adopted rules forbidding wireline broadband providers from engaging in “unreasonable discrimination” in the way they give subscribers access to legal Web content.
That’s similar to wording the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications (CRCT) used in 2009 when it said providers can’t be “unjustly discriminatory nor unduly preferential.” One big difference is that the CRTC has a big stick – the non-discrimination rule is backed by federal law, the Telecommunications Act, which for years has prohibited carriers from discriminating in the delivery of services. The act gives the commission clear authority to regulate carriers.
[Read the entire CRTC decision here]
Also like the CRTC policy, the FCC says American wireline Internet providers must spell out to subscribers details of their traffic management rules.
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The Most Important Free Speech Issue of Our Time
This Tuesday is an important day in the fight to save the Internet.
As a source of innovation, an engine of our economy, and a forum for our political discourse, the Internet can only work if it's a truly level playing field. Small businesses should have the same ability to reach customers as powerful corporations. A blogger should have the same ability to find an audience as a media conglomerate.
This principle is called "net neutrality" -- and it's under attack. Internet service giants like Comcast and Verizon want to offer premium and privileged access to the Internet for corporations who can afford to pay for it.
The good news is that the Federal Communications Commission has the power to issue regulations that protect net neutrality. The bad news is that draft regulations written by FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski don't do that at all. They're worse than nothing.
That's why Tuesday is such an important day. The FCC will be meeting to discuss those regulations, and we must make sure that its members understand that allowing corporations to control the Internet is simply unacceptable.
Although Chairman Genachowski's draft Order has not been made public, early reports make clear that it falls far short of protecting net neutrality. [...]
Tuesday, December 21, 2010
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