Obama launches http://www.keatingeconomics.com/

Featured . Politics . US Presidential Elections 2008

The Obama campaign has launched http://www.keatingeconomics.com/, a website that exposes McCain’s involvement in the Keating Five scandal. The Obama camp is pushing with it’s message that the McCain ticket is bad for the economy. When the savings and loan industry collapsed, Charles Keating’s failed company put taxpayers on the hook for $3.4 billion and more [...]

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Obama lead increases after VP debate

Featured . Politics . US Presidential Elections 2008

The Obama-Biden ticket is continuing strong since last Thursday's vice presidential debate. The debate clearly belonged to Biden as Palin continued with her folksy ways and choose to avoid answering questions and continued with
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HP acquires LeftHand networks for $360 million

Business and Economy . Technology

HP has acquired LeftHand Networks Inc., a storage virtualization and iSCSI storage area network (SAN) solutions company for $360 million in cash. LeftHand Networks’ solutions enable midsize companies and remote offices or branches of large
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The VP debate - a postmortem

Politics . US Presidential Elections 2008

Joe Biden Senator Joe Biden held his own during the debate and appeared knowledgeable and sincere in most of his responses. He had an emotional moment and almost choked while talking about raising his two children.
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Nokia 5800, Nokia’s first attempt at an iPhone competitor

Featured . Lifestyle . Mobile . Technology

Nokia has just launched the 5800 XpressMusic and it's a lot like the iPhone. As Nokia's first mass-market device with a touch screen, the 5800 is being positioned as a lifestyle device for music, just
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Update-4 : House passes bailout plan, Bush signs the bill

Business and Economy . Featured . Politics

Update: 10/03/08 - 4 The House has ok'd the revised bailout bill with a 263-171 vote. President Bush acted quickly and signed the bill providing his approval. The bill will provide money for banks to keep their
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OpenPandora - an open source handheld device!

Featured . Mobile . Technology

The OpenPandora project is ready to ship the first batch of 3000 open source Pandora handheld devices starting the end of September 2008. The system will cost about $330 in the US and is for
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WiMAX goes live in Baltimore with Sprint

Featured . Mobile . Technology

Sprint's XOHM mobile broadband service, based on WiMAX technology, is now live and operational in Baltimore. According to Sprint, the 4G network will offer high-speed mobile Internet browsing, social-networking tools, location-centric services
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[Update] Thank these Representatives for Dow crash toda

Politics . US Presidential Elections 2008

"Country First" John McCain, who claimed he would not take part in the debate without seeing a Wall Street bailout bill in place, did take part in the debate. Note that we are being
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It’s Wachovia now, Citi acquires banking assets

Business and Economy . Featured

Wachovia is the next big bank to fall and it's banking assets have been acquired by Citi. Under the terms of the agreement, Citi will pay Wachovia approximately $2.16 billion in stock and assume Wachovia's
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Google G1 to get DRM-free music from Amazon’s Music Store

Featured . Mobile . Technology

Amazon's MP3 is preloaded as an application in T-Mobile's G1, the first phone designed on Google's Android platform. G1 users will be able to purchase DRM-free MP3's from the store to listen on their
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10 Foreign Policy Questions for John McCain

Politics . US Presidential Elections 2008

The first Presidential Debate is on Friday and we still have a lot of confusion on McCain taking part in the debate. After all, he has "suspended" his campaign, and has rushed
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What does McCain think of Presidency?

Politics . US Presidential Elections 2008

If you are not outraged by John McCain's latest campaign adventure, you should be. McCain announced Wednesday that he is suspending his campaign to return to Washington and focus on the crisis on Wall Street.
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Campaign War (September 23)

Politics . US Presidential Elections 2008

The news of the day is Senate Banking Committee questioning Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke and Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson over their $700b bailout plan for the Finaincial firms on Wall Street. Political
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Google’s very own phone, the G1

Mobile . Technology

Google's very own Android phone has hit the market today. T-Mobile is launching the G1, the world's first Android-powered phone. Rumors have been floating around the Google phone
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Armani and Samsung launch the NIGHT EFFECT

Featured . Lifestyle . Mobile . Technology

Samsung and Armani have launched the latest luxury mobile phone, the NIGHT LIFE. The two companies are working together as part of an alliance for creating designer portable and home consumer electronics. The goal: consumer
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It’s over for Seinfeld and Gates, Microsoft launches new commercials

Technology

After a boring 3 ads from the duo of Seinfeld and Gates, Microsoft is realizing that the ads are just creating the wrong kind of image: a dull and boring company. No more, we speculate,
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Campaign War (September 22)

Politics . US Presidential Elections 2008

The day begins with both Barack Obama and John McCain announcing new television ads to be used nationwide. Barack Obama's ad "Article" links John McCain's plans for health care to current financial crisis
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Barack Obama’s Speech on Economy at Green Bay

Politics . US Presidential Elections 2008

The era of greed and irresponsibility on Wall Street and in Washington has led us to a perilous moment. They said they wanted to let the market run free but instead they let it run
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Google increases search market share in August

Business and Economy . Technology

Google is one of the most popular web destination among internet users. The company continues to grow it's online search market share and currently holds top spot. According to comScore's August search engine rankings, Google
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Online advertising hit by wall street crisis

Business and Economy . Featured . Lifestyle . Online Advertising . Technology

The financial meltdown is having a big impact on online image based advertising revenues. According to a study by the Neilsen group, financial services companies are hurting and cutting down on ad spending. Compares to the
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Bush administration proposes a $700 billion, tax payer funded, bail out

Business and Economy . Featured

The Bush administration is trying to fix the recent financial meltdown by proposing a mammoth treasury bailout of unprecedented magnitude - $700 billion to buy bad assets using tax payer dollars. The proposal has
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Campaign War (September 19)

Politics . US Presidential Elections 2008

John McCain's campaign starts the day by trying to connect Barack Obama with Fannie-Freddie collapse. John McCain campaign Ad - "The Advice" Time magzine's Karen Tumulty senses John McCain is playing race card
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Biggest bank bail out in decades

Business and Economy . Featured

The fed is working on, what amounts to the biggest bail out for banks in over a decade. With AIG, Lehman Brothers, Merrill Lynch, Morgan Stanley, Washington Mutual all falling prey to their own
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Yahoo search to webplay music

Featured . Lifestyle . Technology

Yahoo has teamed up with RealNetworks to integrate music playback to it's search results. Beginning today, users who search for an artist with available content on Yahoo! will be able to click & play music
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Google Maps for Mobile has street views, walking directions

Featured . Lifestyle . Mobile . Technology

Google maps now offers street view on java powered and Blackberry mobile devices. Street View can be launched from
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Sandisk tight lipped but Samsung sings

Business and Economy . Featured . Technology

Sandisk issued a statement yesterday about rumors that Samsung may be acquiding the flash memory maker. It's business as usual it seems "SanDisk periodically has conversations with multiple parties, including Samsung, regarding a variety of potential
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HP announces massive layoffs as EDS acquisition completes

Business and Economy . Featured . Technology

As HP integrates it's acquisition of EDS, the company has announced restructuring of it's combined workforce. HP will shed approximately 7.5 percent! of it's employees or about 24600 heads. About half of the reductions
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Market Meltdown: Jim Cramer looses it in a financial armageddon prophecy!

Business and Economy . Featured

Well! See Jim Cramer go nuts over the state of the financial markets. This is before Bear Sterns goes under and all the mayhem breaks loose on wall street. You got to appreciate his passion.
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Intel leapfrogs AMD with 6 core processor

Featured . Technology

Intel has announced it's 6 core Xeon high performance processors based on it's 45 nm process technology. The Intel® Xeon® Processor 7400 Series, code-named Dunnington, will support up to 6 cores with 16
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Amazon’s IMDB now lets you watch free movies!

Featured . Online Video . Technology

Amazon's IMDB has launched free online videos including popular TV shows and hollywood movies. Over 6,000 full-length feature films and TV episodes can now be watched free on IMDb.com. The announcement also introduces an easy
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Best Buy acquires Napster, what?

Business and Economy . Technology

Best Buy, the consumer technology retailer, has purchased Napster, a pioneer in digital music entertainment. Napster agreed to be acquired at $2.65 per share in cash for a purchase price of approximately $121 million. This is
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Update: Dow slips below 11000, Lehman Brothers files for Bankruptcy protection, Merrill bought by BOA

Business and Economy . Featured

Update: The Dow Jones is down 500 points and closed below 11,000 erasing about $700 billion in shareholder wealth. In a shocking turn of events over the weekend, financial firm Lehman brothers has filed for federal
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Google invests in satellite broadband company

Featured . Technology

O3b Networks Ltd. has secured the backing of Google for it's broadband satellite network. O3b Networks is building a new telecommunications infrastructure offering low-latency links from 1 Mbps to 10 Gbps for core
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Chrome pushes Firefox to include Private/Porn mode in 3.1

Technology

With Google's Chrome browser now available in beta for Windows, Firefox is already changing it's product roadmap. A post on the development lists has revealed renewed focus from Mike Connor, Firefox 3 development
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Zetta, cloud storage company, raises $10 mil

Business and Economy . Cloud Computing . Technology

Zetta, a provider of cloud storage solutions for enterprises, today announced that it has closed a $10.68 million Series A financing round
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