It?s a common enough argument around the world at the moment, that various unhealthy behaviours increase the costs to health care systems. Thus those unhealthy behaviours should be taxed more heavily so as to pay for the costs to those health care systems. The only problem with the argument is that it is entirely gibbering ...

pubblicato il: 22/03/2012 - 15:57

Kids use synthetic pot because it doesn't show up in most drug tests. But it can have serious long-term consequences for a young brain.

pubblicato il: 22/03/2012 - 15:57

Asian business sentiment soars according to a new survey by INSEAD & Thomson Reuters: Asian business people are nearly twice as optimistic today than they were in the last quarter of 2011, and much less negative about their future prospects according to a quarterly survey published today of Asia's leading corporations and their outlook for the next six months.

pubblicato il: 22/03/2012 - 15:57

At almost every business two things are happening: The footprint of IT is rapidly expanding and the IT department is losing control of what end-users are doing. Reactionary IT managers are attempting to maintain control, clearly a losing battle. In a world teeming with SaaS applications and Bring-Your-Own-Devices, people are going to use what they ...

pubblicato il: 22/03/2012 - 15:26

Celebrity, if held by the right person, can effect positive change more quickly than well-intentioned government leaders, captains of industry or anybody else.

pubblicato il: 22/03/2012 - 15:26

Spring has arrived and Ace Hardware has launched a campaign for their paint line Clark+Kensington, which ingeniously injects a little romance into the home improvement season. The Clark+Kensington line has been available since last September, but the store has seen a significant increase in its Quality score since the launch of its recent campaign at ...

pubblicato il: 22/03/2012 - 15:26

I don?t know about you but $600 a month to actually use a new iPad as they?re designed to be used does sound a little over the top for me. The problem is that the networks which supply the data which the LTE equipped iPad slurps in such quantity aren?t priced right for the amount ...

pubblicato il: 22/03/2012 - 15:26

If you're underwater on your mortgage ??? i.e., you owe more than your home is worth ??? you may be wondering how long it will be before you'll resurface. While most experts agree we've reached (or are at least near) the bottom in terms of home prices, nobody is predicting a broad-based price recovery anytime ...

pubblicato il: 22/03/2012 - 15:26

When eBay, the world's largest online marketplace, built its first-ever data center in South Jordan, Utah, it wanted to not only design and build the site to LEED Gold standards, it wanted to use clean energy to power much of the sprawling facility. This wasn't simply part of eBay's company-wide commitment to sustainable operations, it ...

pubblicato il: 22/03/2012 - 15:26

Private, for-profit nursing homes and other nursing care facilities have experienced stable revenue growth and improving profitability in recent years, according to a financial statement analysis by Sageworks, a financial information company. But with an election-year budget battle heating up in , it's clear that proposed fresh cuts to major benefit programs such as Medicare ...

pubblicato il: 22/03/2012 - 15:26