Archive for May, 2011
The Economic Evils of Inflation
Needless to say, a policy of pegging the interest rate is a particularly vicious strategy. If it is put into practice, it causes economic damage on a grand scale. First and foremost, it is an inflation policy, and as such it brings all the economic and political evils that typically come with inflation. It allows [...]
Is a Guaranteed Investment Certificate for You?
Many people today are saving their money in High Interest Savings Account. However, smart people are investing their money in different vehicles as well. A wise decision would be to get in touch with a Financial Advisor and learn about different options. There are several factors that will decide which type of investment you should go with. [...]
Top Seo And Internet Marketing Tips And Tricks
SEO marketing tips are not hard to find and are abundantly and easily available all over the net. The sad part of this is that most of them are too outdated to be of any practical use or are so technical that they are understandable only to the experts. Here are some SEO marketing tips [...]
The 10 Best Ways to Secure Your Information
Along with the mushrooming size of the physical Internet, the ever-increasing volume of data being squeezed through it, and the wider range of information security is a growing concern. When you say “computer security”, what comes to mind most often are external threats: hackers, malware, viruses, botnets. But when you look at computer and IT trends, [...]
Remote Control Software Lets Workers Perform Their Work… Even If They’re Away From The Office!
Have you ever thought about setting up a solution which allows your employees to work from home on a temporary or permanent basis? If this is the case, you should be considering deploying a remote access solution which will make this possible. There are various remote access programs that can be used in order to [...]
Activision Sees Latest Call of Duty Game Breaking Records
Customers waited until midnight Monday to buy Activision’s Call of Duty: Black Ops. On Tuesday Activision, the maker of popular video games including Guitar Hero and Tony Hawk, began selling the latest version of one the company’s most popular game franchises, Call of Duty: Black Ops. The game went on sale at midnight nationwide and is [...]
Taking home the jackpot
(Fortune Magazine) — Brad Duke, 34, a manager for five Gold’s Gym franchises in Idaho, pocketed a lump sum of $85 million after winning a $220 million Powerball jackpot in 2005. He spent the first month of his new life assembling a team of financial advisors. His goal: to use his winnings to become a [...]
Why Is Wealth Management Important?
Wealth management is the process of investing your wealth and planning out a strategy so that your money “works” for you, ensuring that you will continue to be comfortable financially throughout your lifetime. Wealth management does not only imply that you are focused on saving money in the present; it also means taking that money [...]
4 Online Legal Marketing Trends Every Other Industry Knows About
Don’t you wish you had a crystal ball to peer into the future? Some way to tell what the next few years would bring? What would you do with that information? Would you put money on the Super Bowl? World Series? Or would you take the opportunity to move ten giant steps ahead of the [...]
OGC Announces XML Encoding Standard for Observations and Measurements
The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) membership has voted to adopt the OGC Observations and Measurements (O&M) XML Encoding Standard as an official OGC standard. This standard specifies an XML implementation for the OGC and ISO Observations and Measurements conceptual model (OGC Observations and Measurements v2.0, which is also published as ISO/DIS 19156), including a schema [...]
Use Remote Desktop Software For Your Connection Needs
Remote Desktop Software is today’s solution to different scenarios where you need to use PC remote access to get hold of data, email and other important information. Having this software installed on your computer will allow you to perform activities as if you are actually sitting in front of the computer. You can access all [...]
Google’s Real-Life Babelfish Will Translate the World
It was no coincidence that the man who eventually headed Google’s research division was the co-author of Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach, the standard textbook in the field. Peter Norvig had been in charge of the Computational Science Division at NASA’s facility in Ames, not far from Google. At the end of 2000, it was clear [...]
Commodities Help Stocks End Higher
Stocks climbed higher Thursday, reversing sharp morning losses, as commodities rebounded and defensive stocks strengthened. The Dow Jones Industrial Average gained 65.89 points, or 0.5%, to 12695.92, while the Standard & Poor’s 500-stock index gained 6.57 points, or 0.5%, to 1348.65, and the Nasdaq Composite gained 17.98 points, or 0.6%, to 2863.04. The market’s recovery [...]
Flow Through Shares, Bankers Acceptances or Oil & Gas Stocks?
The Middle East is the first name that comes in to the mind of people when talking about oil production. However, another leading producer of gas and oil is Canada. If you are looking planning to invest in Oil Gas Stocks, there are various options for you to choose from. To start with, trusts are a [...]
Social Media Fights Ugandan Anti-Gay Legislation
An online petition and social media movement helped save lives in Uganda’s homosexual community following the Ugandan Parliament’s attempt to re-introduce an “Anti-Homosexuality” bill that could sentence LGBT Ugandans to death for “aggravated homosexuality.” News about the bill broke late last week, and the international community immediately jumped onto social media to sign petitions and [...]
Cyber crimewave sweeps Canada
The number of botnets, phishing domains, and malicious networks residing in Canada has soared. Are crackdowns on command-and-control servers in the U.S. to blame? Canada has become a major hub of the central servers that manage and maintain networks of compromised computers, known as botnets, that are the backbone of many criminal enterprises. So far [...]
Remote Desktop Software For Home Users
Remote Connection programs are a very good tool for companies and other institutions. However, this does not mean that they are not suited for the home user. Far from that, there are many “personal” editions of remote access software programs that you can use. But, why would someone need a remote connection program for personal [...]
Mexico, U.S. border officials rail against video game
Every once in a while the subject of violent video games becomes a hot topic not only in industrialized countries but also in developing nations of Latin America. In 2009 a Brazilian Senator proposed barring “offensive” video games that “affect the customs, traditions of the people”. Last year the Cuban government was angry over a mission [...]
Gold Is Good, But Gold Mining Is Better
Prominent hedge fund manager John Paulson started a gold fund as a bet against the US dollar. While he invests in some gold derivatives, he is mainly placing his bet by taking stakes in various gold miners. Conversely, we’ve covered how John Burbank’s hedge fund Passport Capital owns physical gold. So while many hedge funds agree that [...]
Why Americans Should Invest in the Canadian Stock Market
While the United States government is placing many new regulations on banks, Canadian banks have been, and continue to be, more heavily regulated than their American counterparts. To investors, this means that the Canadian market is not subject to the wild swings of the NYSE. Most financial experts agree that portfolio diversity is a key [...]
