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Computer & Internet
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Wednesday, 04 November 2009 |
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 Sitting comfortably in his Cupertino office, Apple's CEO Steve Jobs reviewed the media coverage of a new eBook Reader being developed. When asked about the unveiling of Amazon's Kindle in a 2009 interview with the New York Times, he had responded, “It doesn't matter how good or bad the product is, the fact is that people don't read anymore. Forty percent of the people in the U.S. read one book or less last year. The whole conception is flawed at the top because people don’t read anymore.” In fact, a recent polling done by the National Endowment for the Arts claimed that only 57% of Americans read a book in 2002, 4% less than the previous decade.
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Business
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Wednesday, 07 October 2009 |
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 Eleven of the top leaders from the largest food and beverage company in the U.S. talk about their three-year turnaround and their campaign to reorganize for growth.
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Finance
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Saturday, 26 September 2009 |
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 Banks establish school-based bank savings programs as financial education initiatives to help students learn about the importance of saving and other money management topics. This edition of Community Developments Insights discusses how school-based bank savings programs operate.
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Finance
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Saturday, 22 August 2009 |
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 Money launderers constantly are seeking new methods to perpetuate their schemes, providing endless challenges to struggling financial institutions. Money laundering has become so permeated throughout the financial sector that getting to the source has become increasingly difficult.
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Politics
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Saturday, 27 June 2009 |
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 This paper subjects Joseph Nye’s advocacy of soft power (recently repackaged as ‘smart’ power) to critical scrutiny, and reflects on the implications for US global leadership.
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Paper
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Friday, 26 June 2009 |
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 Google is not a conventional company. We do not intend to become one.!
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Computer & Internet
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Tuesday, 16 June 2009 |
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 Accordingly to recent news reports (NYT, WSJ), the Chinese government has mandated that, beginning July 1, every PC sold in China must include a censorship program called Green Dam.
This software is designed to monitor internet connections and text typed on the computer. It blocks undesirable or politically sensitive content and optionally reports it to authorities. Green Dam was developed by a company called Jin Hui and is available as a free download. We examined version 3.17. |
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Business
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Thursday, 11 June 2009 |
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Understanding Crude Oil Prices examines the factors responsible for changes in crude oil prices. The paper reviews the statistical behavior of oil prices, relates these to the predictions of theory, and looks in detail at key features of petroleum demand and supply.
Topics discussed include the role of commodity speculation, OPEC, and resource depletion. The paper concludes that although scarcity rent made a negligible contribution to the price of oil in 1997, it could now begin to play a role. |
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