Forget the NCAAs, and the NBA?s rush to the best part of their season. The real reason you should be interested in basketball today is for what happens to Jeremy Lin, the NY Knicks? point-guard sensation ? or ?former & fast-fading? utility player. In fact, Jeremy Lin is everyman, and that is reason enough for ...

pubblicato il: 16/03/2012 - 07:24

The President of Darmouth College Dr. Jim Yong Kim is the White House's candidate to head the World Bank. ? President Obama made the announcement Friday, before leaving for a global nuclear summit to Korea; thus, ending weeks of speculations ever since Bob Zoellick the current head of the World Bank said he would retire ...

pubblicato il: 24/03/2012 - 03:50

Technology firms don?t generally talk about their deals with repressive regimes to sell censorship and surveillance technologies. So Brett Solomon, director of the digital freedom non-profit Access Now, is trying a different tactic to find the private sector partners of Pakistan?s censors: Process of elimination. With just one day left in Pakistan?s open invitation for ...

pubblicato il: 15/03/2012 - 23:54

China's influence in global commodity trading will rise in the coming years amid steady economic growth in the country,?? the president of the Hong Kong Mercantile Exchange, or HKMEx, ??said at a seminar in Shanghai yesterday. The country's share of global exchange-traded contacts "will only increase," said HKMEx President Albert Helmig. China accounted for 31% ...

pubblicato il: 24/03/2012 - 04:40

The President of Dr. Jim Yong Kim is the White House's candidate to head the World Bank. ? President Obama made the announcement Friday, before leaving for a global nuclear summit to Korea; thus, ending weeks of speculations ever since Bob Zoellick the current head of the World Bank said he would retire at the ...

pubblicato il: 24/03/2012 - 03:50

Big Data continues its Sherman?s march across tech memes in 2012.??For those in need of a big-data definition, try??Edd Dumbill?s: ?any information that?s too fast, too large or doesn?t fit what you have.? The opportunity is in mining these seams of information to yield useful analytical insights. The category is a fast-grower as IT buyers ...

pubblicato il: 24/03/2012 - 00:26

Times, they are a'changing.

pubblicato il: 24/03/2012 - 00:26

What? Is housing booming or something? No, not really, but at least it's not getting terribly worse. There have even been signs of improvement, like a dwindling supply of homes on the market and a rise in permits for new construction.

pubblicato il: 24/03/2012 - 00:26

That "Mad Men" is the best thing on TV right now might be self-evident to the millions of crazed fans who will don fedoras and sweater sets and swig Scotch and gin at their viewing parties Sunday night, but it was anything but obvious to the numerous TV executives who passed on the project in the years before it found a home at AMC. Creator Matthew Weiner's vision might have lingered in limbo forever had it not been for Christina Wayne, AMC's former head of original programming, who saw the potential in it that the others had missed. I chatted with Wayne, now president of Cineflix Studios, about the "Mad Men" phenomenon and her new passion project.

pubblicato il: 24/03/2012 - 16:45

You may think free speech means you can say anything you want. How about proselytizing to your flock about not paying taxes? It turns out that kind of speech is frowned on. In United States v. Hartshorn, the IRS actually got an injunction to silence Head Minister Kevin Hartshorn. Wasn?t Hartshorn harmless???Maybe, but as the ...

pubblicato il: 24/03/2012 - 15:55