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 | There has been [URL="http://www.itpro.co.uk/blogs/daveyw/2009/01/13/no-crisis-in-it-security-budgets/"]much speculation[/URL] regarding job losses at Microsoft of late, and now the truth is out. Thankfully the scale of the damage is not as great as at first feared, and nowhere near the [URL="http://www.daniweb.com/blogs/entry3757.html"]15,000 job losses[/URL] talked about recently. It would seem that 1400 jobs are to … |
 | Hello I would like to know whether there is any Java API available including access to a stock screener like those from either Google or Yahoo. [url]http://screen.yahoo.com/stocks.html[/url] [url]http://www.google.com/finance/stockscreener#c0=MarketCap&c1=PE&c2=DividendYield&c3=Price52WeekPercChange®ion=us§or=AllSectors&sort=&sortOrder=[/url] Thanks |
| | Hello Python community, I've just finished building an app with Python and I'd like to share my experiences and get some feedback. This was from scratch (no code templates) all the way to compile and distribution on a Windows environment. Now all my colleagues at work are using the app …  |
| | Hello all: I am quite new to C++; so far I have used it for finance-related database management. I need to incorporate code for solving an algebraic problem and I am stuck on how to write the code. I would be grateful for any assistance! The problem I want to …  |
| | [CODE]See current output starting at page DROP TABLE EMPLOYEE; DROP TABLE JOB_TITLE; Create Table EMPLOYEE ( EMP_ID int NOT NULL, LAST_NAME varchar(20) NOT NULL, FIRST_NAME varchar(20) NOT NULL, EMP_ADDRESS varchar(25) NOT NULL, EMP_CITY varchar(25) NOT NULL, EMP_STATE char(2) NOT NULL, AREA_CODE int NOT NULL, PHONE_NUM int NOT NULL, HIRE_DATE datetime …  |
 | Well, there's one advantage to global warming: The Kodiak-Kenai Cable Company (KKCC) has announced plans to finance, design, build and operate an express undersea fiber optic cable connecting Asia and Europe, routed through the Arctic, according to an [URL="http://www.kodiakdailymirror.com/?pid=19&id=8381"]article[/URL] in the [I]Kodiak Daily Mirror[/I]. Construction of the $1.2 billion, 10,000-mile … |
| | A new normal? That’s what one financial services guru says America consumers can expect now that the housing market has collapsed and people are losing their jobs in droves. “The worst is yet to come," adds Howard Davidowitz, chairman of Davidowitz & Associates. He thinks that the once lofty American's … |
| | Hi, I am a total newbie to programming, so I do not know much about it. However I have created this very basic program which converts 2 currencies. I would appreciate it if I received some constructive criticism so I can improve my programming skills. Thanks, xka [CODE] #include <iostream> …  |
 | While companies worldwide look for ways to reduce costs, shed dead weight from their labor resources and streamline their businesses, it makes me wonder if Linux will survive the global economic meltdown. Oh, I know it will survive in terms of us geeks who use it and tout its goodness. … |
| | Hi guys, I've got a data scraping script that is not picking few html elements/fields that I need. I can't get the following elements: product title price and specification It could be that the xpath is not correct since the website has a lots of div/tables without any id or … |
| | Hi Dear all Its my table structure... [CODE=mysql]CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS `limsrentpayment` ( `PaymentMonth` varchar(15) NOT NULL, `SiteID` varchar(15) NOT NULL, `DurationS` varchar(25) NOT NULL, `DurationE` varchar(25) NOT NULL, `Amount` varchar(15) NOT NULL, `pDate` date NOT NULL ) ENGINE=MyISAM DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1;[/CODE] and data stored in it [CODE=mysql]INSERT INTO `limsrentpayment` … |
| | Just wondering what everyone else is thinking. Due to the ongoing economic situation and the fact that the stimulus has been a bust (unless of course you are working for the government!), I think more people will look to pay cash rather than use credit. Even with paypal and the … |
| | Can you please help me again ? I am trying to insert a form in to C# but keeps giving me errors and Iam still a beginner so dont understand what most of it says...[CODE]<%@ Page Language="C#" MasterPageFile="~/cars2.master" AutoEventWireup="true" CodeBehind="FinanceCalculator.aspx.cs" %> <script runat="server"> protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e) { … |
| | Hi.I need to choose and adult website name. Porobably with com* Do You have any ideas?  |
 | Ok I have been looking for this for a while it is the ultimate list of repositories for the Ubuntu 6.06 Dapper Drake distro. It will give you so many program choices you wont know what to do. simply goto your terminal and type sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list (I chose gedit … |
 | There has certainly been a lot FUD being spread around lately by the likes of [URL="http://www.comcast.com"]Comcast[/URL] about how [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peer-to-peer"]P2P[/URL] networks are filling up the Internet pipes. Just a couple of weeks ago, fellow Daniweb blogger, Davey Winder wrote (with tongue firmly in cheek), [URL="http://www.daniweb.com/blogs/entry2378.html"]The Internet is Full, please get off[/URL], …  |
| | I have a query that works, I wanted to add another sum from another table, but when I do, the all the SUM values are wrong this works [CODE]SELECT Clients.ClientID, Clients.WholeName, SUM(CASE WHEN Payments.Creditorid = 0 THEN Payments.Amount ELSE 0.00 END) AS 'Admin Fees', SUM(CASE WHEN (Payments.Creditorid = 3) THEN … |
| | I swear, those things are like shurikens in these masses... I'm trying to make a loan calculator in python, as part of an assignment. I'm basing it off of two things. 1: [URL="http://www.efunda.com/formulae/finance/loan_calculator.cfm"]This website, which contains 3 different calculators.[/URL] 2: [URL="http://www.efunda.com/math/num_rootfinding/num_rootfinding.cfm#Newton_Raphson"]The link from the second calculator (my current pain)[/URL] I'm … |
| | Hi, I want to write a small desktop application which will fetch Live stock price from NSE/BSE or Yahoo finance website. In order to create such application I need the guidance that how shoudl I proceed with? The major problem I am facing is connecting a desktop application with intenet …  |
| | So today I got about 12 virus from a link, which was stupid of me but now i know. I disconnected my internet cord so nothing else could be downloaded. anyways I tried to run malwarebytes which was already installed on my computer so I click the shortcut, but it … |
| | I am using a tabifier to create a tabbed webpart within a tabbed webpart in Sharepoint 2004. My problem is that when I place the inner tabbed web part inside the outer tabbed webpart, one of the tabs on the outer tabbed webpart disappears. Can anyone help ASAP? If so, … |
| | Hi Guys, I am searching for Open Source Finance scripts such as Account Payable, Account Receivable, General Ledget etc in PHP. But I could n't find a good one. Is there any such open source scripts in PHP available over the web for download? If so, could you please give … |
| | The Department of Justice (DOJ) is investigating [URL="http://www.ibm.com"]IBM[/URL]'s computer market conduct and, depending on the outcome, it might just affect your beloved [URL="http://www.apple.com"]Apple[/URL] computers. As everyone knows, IBM is the major player in the mainframe computer market but now their business practice of not licensing other hardware makers to run … |
| | Windows 7 is coming next month. That's hardly news to any of you, I'm sure, but have you considered that this major OS release could be the catalyst to end the recession? I'm guessing not many of you have come to that conclusion, but consider this: Many, many companies steered … |
| | In address book of MS outlook 2003.Name ,Business Home,Office,Title is there.i simple want to Add New column.[COLOR="red"]Division[/COLOR]value like engineering/administration/Finance .... SO that .if user want to send to emailing to all the users of engineering.it should send on the basis of Division Category like engineering.Kindly let me know the idea.Any … |
| | I'm currently a software engineer and looking at staying within the technical/programming IT field for the forseeable future. I'd like to do an MBA to increase my knowledge of businesses/commerce in general. For instance being able to understand the economy much better, finance/stock market or how companies operate. A career … |
| | Apple released its [URL="http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2009/07/21results.html"]third quarter numbers[/URL] yesterday and by any benchmark they were impressive. Consider these numbers as [URL="http://www.macworld.com/article/141829/2009/07/appleq309.html?lsrc=top_1"]reported by Macworld[/URL]: * $8.34 billion in sales and a net profit of $1.23 billion * 5.2 million iPhones * 10. 2 million iPods * 2.6 million Macs (of which1.75 million were … |
| | Yesterday, [URL="http://www.apple.com"]Apple[/URL] [URL="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090609/bs_nm/us_apple1"]announced[/URL] significant price drops on many of its consumer products including the iPhone and Mac Air. This is an unusual move by Apple since it carefully controls its pricing--so much so that rarely, if ever, do its products go "on sale." So what's up with this big price … |
| | I received a newsletter from [URL="http://www.rpath.com"]rPath[/URL] concerning Lean IT and it occurred to me that Linux is the keystone in each one of the elements listed in it: Virtualization, Cloud Computing and Cost reduction mandates. As more businesses work toward saving money, they'll look for ways to save on IT … |
| | Well, well, well...Larry Ellison, [URL="http://www.oracle.com"]Oracle[/URL] CEO [URL="http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/press/018535"]added[/URL] [URL="http://www.virtualiron.com"]Virtual Iron[/URL] to his collection today. Congratulations, Larry. When is Oracle going bankrupt? Every time that I've seen a company acquire too many other companies in a short time period, they always end up in the dustbin. Oracle just acquired [URL="http://www.sun.com"]Sun[/URL] just one … |
| | Apple came out with its earnings report yesterday, and while all wasn't rosy for the Cupertino technology company, bottom line is they made money as earnings increased an impressive an impressive 8.7 percent in year over year earnings with net profits up 15 percent (as reported in [URL="http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/blog/2009/apr/22/apple-quarter-results"]the Guardian[/URL]). All … |
| | President Obama – who only weeks ago warned of the greatest financial meltdown since the Great Depression if his $1.1 trillion stimulus package wasn’t passed by Congress - now says that he sees a “glimmer of hope” that the financial trauma is ending and that things could be stabilizing. Call … |
| | Is it time to get back into the market? I don’t think so – if it walks like a sucker’s market, talks like a sucker’s market, and squawks like a sucker’s market, it’s a sucker’s market. Tech Ticker’s Aaron Task agrees. He says today that the U.S. still haven't dealt … |
| | I read a [URL="http://tech.yahoo.com/news/infoworld/20090403/tc_infoworld/131038"]news story[/URL] by Paul Krill about how Linux OS Server shipments have and will continue to slip by double-digit margins in 2009. Windows Server shipments are hit hard as well but almost 5% less so than those of Linux. The original report came from IDC. The IDC … |
| | Microsoft has been active lately, showing some signs of spunk. I reported last week that Steve Ballmer was going straight after Apple at the McGraw Hill Summit (as I wrote in [URL="http://www.daniweb.com/blogs/entry4155.html"]Ballmer Wastes No Words Going After Apple[/URL]). This week we see the release of an [URL="http://byronmiller.typepad.com/byronmiller/2009/03/new-microsoft-ad-goes-after-high-price-of-apple.html"]ad campaign comparing Apple … |
| | Now that the news is out on IBM’s proposed $6.5 billion purchase of Sun Microsystems, analysts are in a lather over why Big Blue wants to make the deal. The Wall Street Journal originally broke the story, reporting that the merger “could help IBM in the finance and telecommunications markets … |
| | "Most Americans can easily find videos of water skiing squirrels on the Internet, but they’ll have less luck finding out whether their children's school buses and classrooms are safe, or if neighborhood gas stations are overcharging," said the Sunshine Week 2009 Survey of State Government Information online. Results ranged from … |
| | Is there a stimulus package on the way for those who use Linux and Open Source Software? You bet there is but it might not come from where you'd expect. Too many wasted stimulus dollars have already rained down upon those who wasted their own money but this time it'll … |
| | When Warren Buffett talks, Wall Street – and Main Street – listen. And now he’s talking about the future of the U.S. economy. In a wide-ranging, three-hour interview on CNBC yesterday, Buffett said, “the economy has fallen off a cliff.” Noting people have "changed their habits", Buffett seemed very frustrated … |
| | Crikey! And there I was thinking we were slap bang in the middle of a global recession. Things can't be that bad, I guess, if a retailer can find $5.1 million to pay for a new domain name. Yet that is exactly what Toys R Us has paid out in … |
| | Charlie Payne, sounding a lot like Revolutionary War pamphleteer Thomas Paine, says that we're in the 2009 version of “these are the times that try men’s souls”. Of course, the historical Paine once also said that those who want to reap the benefits of this great nation must bear the … |
 | Oh, the poor beleaguered BlackBerry Storm. It just can't catch a break. Mobile phone company Orange delayed its launch in the UK last year because of undisclosed "[URL="http://mobiletechaddicts.com/2008/10/09/orange-internal-statement-on-blackberry-bold-quality-issues/"]software issues[/URL]." The Bold's much anticipated arrival in the U.S. [URL="http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2008/11/the_blackberry_5.html;jsessionid=QK2ZU3QQNUR2QQSNDLRSKHSCJUNN2JVN"]got bumped back[/URL] nearly six months. Now sales of one of Research In … |
| | Two pieces of dispiriting information on the economy hit the big wire services today: The Associated Press -- The economy contracted at a staggering 6.2 percent pace at the end of 2008, the worst showing in a quarter-century, as consumers and businesses ratcheted back spending, plunging the country deeper into … |
| | Is there hope for stocks in 2009? At all? A University of Iowa business professor things so, and he claims he has the data to prove it. It’s all about upside potential – and the fact that Wall Street has already baked a lot of the bad news into the … |
| | You have to give Microsoft credit. They keep trying, even if what they are trying is copying Apple. This time they have announced they are going to open retail stores. Sound familiar? It should because it's what Apple has done so successfully with its Apple Store strategy. The problem Microsoft … |
| | Remember last month when DaniWeb [URL="http://www.daniweb.com/blogs/entry3847.html"]reported[/URL] how some 1400 jobs were to be lost at Microsoft? These losses forming the first part of a plan to trim costs which would see a total of 5000 Microsofties facing the axe. Well now, in the most bizarre of twists, it seems that … |
| | Just one follow-up note (as promised) on the Sirius XM situation. Just days before Sirius XM purportedly was going to default on its next loan payment, Direct TV came through with a $534 bridge loan to keep Sirius afloat so it can continue to reorganize – possibly as a takeover … |
| | The bearish global economic environment just keeps adding pressure to technology stocks. As gross domestic product (GDP) drops in bourses around the globe, tech traders are nervous, at least for the short term. Take Japan. The Land of the Rising Sun is seeing a decline in GDP, falling to the …  |
| | Earlier in the year I clipped out a few expert predictions on technology stocks for 2009. From time to time, I’ll check in and see how those stocks are doing. It’s only six weeks into the new year, and perhaps it’s not fair to check in so early. Still, conditions … |
| | Boy. What does a tech outfit have to do to get some love on Wall Street? Intel announces a $7 billion effort to upgrade a pair of chip manufacturing centers in the U.S. and Intel’s stock price actually drops by over 3% in Tuesday trading (to $14..44 per share). I’ll … |
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