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Speaking to the Northern Virginia Technology Council this week, Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates made the distinctly predictable prediction that during the next ten years there will be even greater technological advances than during the previous decade. Amongst the advances that Gates suggests are...
Read More | Mar 15th, 2008 | Comments: 1 | Last Comment: Mar 15th, 2008
Anyone with an interest in the history of computing will know that the first mechanical computer was invented by one Charles Babbage, British mathematician and visionary. If you happen to be in the vicinity of the Science Museum in London you can even see a working difference engine, something...
Read More | Mar 11th, 2008
It's not exactly a great time for CEO's and other boardroom types to be squawking over executive pay - especially over the prickly topic of who decides how much cash & compensation corporate managers should take home with them.
But even in a tough economic climate where shareholders are...
Read More | Feb 20th, 2008
Ugh . . . .
Another lousy week for tech stocks. For the whole stock market, for that matter.
But technology stocks bore the brunt of it. Let's look at some of the bigger players.
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Read More | Feb 15th, 2008
It's cold up here in Bucks County, PA today - so cold that Al Gore's ego froze in the middle of a speech on global warming. Of course, the former vice-president blamed the deep freeze on - you guessed it - global warming.
Thanks folks, I'm here all week. Don't forget to try the veal.
I'm tempted...
Read More | Feb 11th, 2008
Even as U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson reassured us on Friday that the economy "would not go into recession" in 2008", some people, especially consumers, aren't buying it.
This is exactly what I'm talking about when I vent over the power of perception and the media's glee in talking down...
Read More | Feb 9th, 2008 | Comments: 1 | Last Comment: Feb 10th, 2008
Are technology companies getting a raw deal over a new international accounting rule?
Plenty of tech company CFO's seem to think so. In a survey released this week by BDO Seidman, LLP, an accounting and consulting group, about half - 49% - of all chief financial officers at U.S. technology...
Read More | Feb 5th, 2008
Let's all take a breather at the end of another topsy-turvy week on Wall Street, where things have calmed down as of mid-morning on Friday (the Dow Jones Industrial Average is off a mere four points at 11:30 AM EST, and is actually up for the week . . . but the media doesn't want you to know...
Read More | Jan 25th, 2008
Keeping track of the economic news is getting nerve-racking - akin to watching a train wreck in slow motion.
In the past 24 hours we've seen . . .
- A Fortune magazine study showing that about 75% of Americans who think we're either already in a recession or are heading toward one (no surprise...
Read More | Jan 18th, 2008 | Comments: 1 | Last Comment: Jan 19th, 2008
If you've been following this blog, you know I'm no nay-sayer on the economy. A realist, yes, but I won't wave pom-poms for a recession like so many others in the media.
That said, I don't think there's any doubt that 2008 will be short of a robust year for technology. And that's okay. Economies...
Read More | Jan 16th, 2008
