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- Inside Apple’s chinese factory (FoxConn) — [VIDEO]
- Adam Lashinsky on Apple’s marketing — [VIDEO]
- Apple Macintosh’s OS X Mountain Lion — [VIDEO]
- EuroCopter unveils the EC130 T2. — [VIDEO]
- $1 million prize for LENR — [LINK]
- Native apps are reigning on mobiles, but Jakob Nielsen strategically bets on web apps. — [LINK]
- Steven Krivit continues to trash Andrea Rossi and his LENR technology. — [LINK]
- Interview with Adam Lashinsky — [VIDEO]
- Why some people are more innovative — [VIDEO]
- Forbes editor deciphers Steve Jobs’s Apple. — [VIDEO]
- Jason Ruspini rebuts Eric Zitzewitz on the regulation of political prediction markets. — [COMMENT]
- Eric Zitzewitz petitions the CFTC in favor of real-money prediction markets about politics. — [TEXT]
- Global warming is a big scam. — [LINK]
- A Swarm of Nano Quadrotors — [VIDEO]
- The Tragedy of the Commons — [VIDEO]
- Guy Kawasaki on Steve Jobs — [VIDEO]
- Inside Apple — [VIDEO]
- Mitt Romney’s taxes — [LINKS]
- A critique of Apple’s multimedia iBooks. — [LINK]
- Does Apple lack “generosity”? — [LINKS]
Monthly Archives: April 2011
Apple is *NOT* collecting your iPhone’s geo data. — [DEBUNKING]
- 3 Major Issues with the Latest iPhone Tracking “Discovery” – by Alex Levinson UPDATE: – Apple’s Q&A on the iPhone geo services. – Q&A: Jobs and Apple Execs on Tracking Down the Facts About iPhones and Location
The prediction market ideology still lives on. — [COMMENT]
David Pennock: Not to put too much faith into the unscientific Gartner hype cycle, but it does feel like a time of backlash responding to some early over optimism. As cooler heads prevail, and the technology speaks for itself, I … Continue reading
A city that outsources everything (but police and fire service) — [VIDEO]
Sandy Springs, Georgia = A fiscally responsible city.
Posted in Finance, Politics
Tagged America, cities, City, counties, county, Georgia, municipalities, municipality, Politics, Sandy Springs, United States Of America, US politics, USA
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Tax Me If You Can – (Tax Havens) — [VIDEO]
Following Tyler Cowen’s post at Marginal Revolution: – The truth about tax havens – Guardian – Tax Havens (PDF file) – Guardian – Secrecy Jurisdictions – Financial Secrecy Index
Posted in Business, Business Administration, Finance, Politics, The Global Economy
Tagged banking, banking system, banking systems, Cayman Islands, corporations, enterprises, Finance, Financial Secrecy Index, Liechtenstein, Nicholas Shaxson, offshore banking, Rudolf Elmer, Secrecy Jurisdictions, Switzerland, tax havens, Tax Optimization, Treasure Islands, Uncovering the Damage of Offshore Banking and Tax Havens, US banking system
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Bryan Caplan on kids and parenting — [VIDEO]
His presentation at Kauffman was great.
Paul Allen on 60 Minutes — [VIDEO]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4IM0SvIiMI4
Posted in History, Inventions & Innovations
Tagged 60 minutes, Bill Gates, CBS 60 Minutes, CBS News, doftware, innovation, innovations, Lesley Stahl, Microsoft, Paul Allen
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David Pennock agrees that snubbing BetFair was a mistake. — [COMMENT]
David Pennock: Due to gambling laws and stigma, the PM industry has tried to distance itself from gambling, betfair, etc., probably mistakenly.
Could the FBI seize InTrade’s domain name and kill the real-money prediction markets? — [SOLUTION]
- Pokerstars, Full Tilt & Absolute Poker shut down by FBI. SOLUTION: – Firefox Add-on ‘Undoes’ U.S. Government Domain Seizures. – MAFIAA Fire extension for FireFox. – Seized gambling sites should be added in their list.