Litigation involving the Detroit Water and Sewerage Department was settled last year, but with an uncertain leadership situation in the department’s top echelons and a growing sludge removal crisis, it seems the water department is still far…
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Detroit’s shrinking population deepens water department problems
International mobile phones have become very popular with international travelers especially business travelers who can now take their office with them wherever they travel. However, it is a very costly way to make international phone calls while on a trip. International cell phone carriers typical charge for incoming as well as outgoing calls and rates can be anywhere from $1 to several US dollars per minute
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International Cell Phones are a Convenient but Costly Option
There is a lot of talk about rupee appreciation in recent weeks. It is claimed that rupee appreciation is bad for exports growth and that RBI must trade in the rupee-dollar market so as to force the exchange rate back to (say) Rs.50 a dollar. I wrote a piece in Financial Express yesterday , about the real effective exchange rate, exports growth, and the Chinese exports miracle.
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The bogey of exports growth
If you are spending about $15/pm or so to make internationals calls then you can try unlimited calling plans. Unlimited global plans to make calls to India and other countries provide a very good deal. You just pay a monthly fees and make unlimited number of…
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Cordia : Unlimited Global Plans to Call India and other countries
You live in India, when was the last time you went abroad for a holiday or a business trip. And how much money you spent on your international roaming calling rates. If you are using your Indian SIM you are definitely paying too much on receiving calls as..
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Airtel World Sim Review : Save on International Roaming and call charges
Image by Riat via Flickr Satluj Jal Vidyut Nigam Ltd’s (SJVNL) initial public offer (IPO) looks attractively priced at a price band of Rs 23-26 per equity share and investors can subscribe to the issue for listing gains.The IPO, which opens today, would offer a 5% discount to retail investors.
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Satluj Jal Vidyut Nigam Ltd IPO – Apply at Cut Off
The New York-based Blackstone Charitable Foundation is expected this morning to announce a $2 million grant to bring a University of Miami entrepreneurship program to students at Walsh College and Wayne State University…
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Blackstone Foundation’s $2 million grant to fund entrepreneurship program
Now this is sure to make your jump and take notice – Datawind Ltd., a leading developer of wireless web access products and services has announces ultra – cheap UbiSurfer Netbook in Indian market . The Cost of this Netbook? Just 7999 rupees (around USD 180 ) Even if this is quite cheap – It does pack a lot of features in this.
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WOW ! A Windows Netbook for Rs. 7999 only !
What fate did those investors meet who shunned the shares of the Infosys during 2007-08, at a time when the Rupee had inched higher around 40s against the Dollar on the back of robust inflows into the country? Infosys is currently quoting at all time highs even as Indian benchmark Sensex is still way off from its peak levels.
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Finance Friday: Why Investors Should Buy Bharti Airtel stock ?
There is a “campaign” on twitter currently demanding that all of craigslist personals be shut down . If you follow links supplied by the twitterers echoing this demand, you’ll find a couple of themes: They recognize that “declassifying” adult services ads would simply push them back into the personals categories, therefore you need to eliminate all personals. They believe casual sex, and sex outside of marriage, is happening in CL personals.
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Shutting down CL personals
The Commonwealth Games is one of the largest sporting events to hit Delhi for a long time, maybe being the biggest event after the Asian Games in 1982. Getting the games here was a major event for Delhi, something that was hard fought
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Delhi waiting for the Commonwealth Games to begin; will atleast stop some of the frenzied construction
Husssshhh… Don’t say anything about it. It isn’t mother of all scams but with all kinds of allegations flying thick and fast, I truly believe that it is a “manufactured” dissent. The culpable media is the biggest culprit because we have had scams before or the ones that have not been unearthed as yet.
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Telecom Scandal: A Raja in dock
Oakland County lost an estimated 60,214 jobs in 2009 — more than the previous five years combined — and is expected to shed almost 10,000 more by the end of this year, according to an economic forecast prepared by the University of…
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Oakland County starting to turn corner on job losses, UM economists say
Below is a quick message to our Nokia app users from Karl Good, our Director of Applications: ====== The Truphone for Nokia mobile app is great for making free calls to other Truphone users connected to Wi-Fi, as well as reliable, great quality, low cost calls over the internet, even without being connected to Wi-Fi. It is also currently the only Truphone application that you can send text messages from. However, I know that there are a couple of features in our other Truphone applications, such as instant messaging, that are not currently available on our Nokia applications, and that not all Nokia devices are currently fully supported (Wi-Fi plus out of Wi-Fi calls). Our keen Nokia app users have certainly been vocal in letting us know how much they would appreciate these features/new devices being added! Our main focus for now is to bring all of our applications up to the same level, with the same great features.
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Truphone for Nokia update
I don’t normally find it easy to read tarot blogs – I just don’t know enough about tarot to ‘get’ it most of the time – but I’m delighting in Ginny Hunt’s post about Intuition and Making Shit Up . She’s definitely talking about people’s experience with the I Ching, too: What is this thing we call Intuition? So many, including myself, urge tarot novices to rely on this intangible concept, that “other knowing” “gut feeling” “flash” that some label psychic and others intuition, but what if you stare at the cards and see nothing but pretty, or not so pretty, pictures? No flash, no nothing? You rely on the ascribed meanings, you read the cards by rote, but what if you can’t see or feel or sense or intuit anything else? For ‘what if you stare at the cards and see nothing but pretty pictures?’ read ‘what if you stare at the words and see nothing but weird old imagery?’ For ‘you rely on the ascribed meanings,’ read ‘you do the rounds of the books of commentary in search of something that makes sense.’ Then comes one of my favourite bits: A still picture doesn’t provoke much in me but questions. Little did I know then that those questions were precisely the place to start listening
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Making up the answers
Comes with a full slide-out QWERTY keyboard, the Samsung Strive SGH-a687 for AT&T is another mid-range device with a focus around text messaging. What make it stand out from the crowd are its “chat-style” threaded texting feature and new AT&T cloud services, which significantly enhance your messaging experience.
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Samsung Strive SGH-a687 – Designed for Quick and Convenient Messaging
When Brad Stone at the NY Times asked about craigslist’s charitable organizations, I let him know by email that “The craigslist Charitable Fund is a grant making foundation established and funded by craigslist.” He thanked me for this information several days before his deadline, saying he would be continuing to work on the story. Here’s what he printed however: There is also a newer organization, the Craigslist Charitable Trust, which was capitalized in 2008 with $2.7 million by Mr. Buckmaster and Craig Newmark, the company’s founder, according to public documents.
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craigslist Charitable Fund
We’re receiving inquiries about the gross inaccuracies and absence of fact checking I cited in Monday’s New York Time article by Brad Stone. There are quite a few, but I’ll start walking through them. Let’s start with this one: The ads, many of which blatantly advertise prostitution, are expected to bring $36 million this year, according to a new projection of Craigslist’s income
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Sad State of Affairs at the New York Times
A former risk management official at Detroit Public Schools and his assistant are among four people indicted today at U.S. District Court in Detroit, after allegedly converting over $3 million of DPS funds to personal use.
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Ex-Detroit Public Schools officials, vendors indicted for bribery, extortion
The City of Pontiac could see a budget windfall of more than $1.5 million this fiscal year from the sale of recently found stock shares and a new management contract for the Pontiac Municipal Golf Course.
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Pontiac gains $1.5 million from insurance stock, new management for golf course
On Monday May 10th I am co-hosting the second #140conf Meetup, together with Eric Greenspan, taking place at The Comedy Store in Hollywood, CA. This meetup is an opportunity to discuss the emerging Real-Time Internet and the effects on business and the second gathering for friends of #140conf in LA to get together and discuss issues of the day.
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Event: #140conf Los Angeles Meetup – Monday May 10th
The iPad is an intuitive multi-touch table-style device that embraces Apple ’s most advanced technology. Boasting a brilliant touchscreen display, a powerful A4 chip and additional innovative apps, the iPad is destined to revolutionize the way you browse the web, access email and view media. The iPad looks very much like a giant version of iPod touch , possessing the same slim, light and slick form factor
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Apple iPad – Way Better Than a Laptop or a Phone
Participants: Andy Carvin (@acarvin) – Senior strategist at NPR; Eric Kuhn (@CNN) – Audience Interaction Producer, CNN; Jennifer Preston (@NYT_JenPreston) – Social-Media Editor of The New York Times; Ryan Osborn (@todayshow) – Producer, NBC’s TODAY (panel moderator). – - – Tags: 140conf , social media , Ryan Osborn , Eric Kuhn , Andy Carvin , Jennifer Preston , Jeff Keni Pulver
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#140conf NYC: Real-Time News Gathering
From Techdirt ’s “ Banging Your Head on the Virtual Wall Department ” : The grandstanding of some Attorneys General never ceases — even when they created the “problem” they’re now grandstanding against. Case in point: Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal and his crusade against Craigslist
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Grandstanding Coverage
India's EVMs are Vulnerable to Fraud Contrary to claims by Indian election authorities, the paperless electronic voting systems used in India suffer from significant vulnerabilities. Even brief access to the machines could allow criminals to alter election results. In this video, we demonstrate two kinds of attacks against a real Indian EVM
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India’s EVMs are Vulnerable to Fraud
Northville-based Amerigon Inc. saw first quarter revenue more than double compared to the same period last year, driven by increased vehicle production and launches of new vehicles equipped with the company’s technology.
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Amerigon Inc. posts 1Q revenue of $24.2 million, double last year’s numbers for same period
Posted by Rick Whitt, Washington Telecom and Media Counsel There’s been a lot of debate about the best way to implement the National Broadband Plan and open Internet rules after the recent Comcast decision . Lots of smart people have recommended reasonable solutions to the FCC’s jurisdictional headache. We’ve said all along that what’s important to us is promoting an open Internet, and providing access for Americans to the best broadband possible
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What this is really about: keeping the Internet open for consumers
Now that I’ve discussed my return to the classroom and talked a little bit about assessment , homework , and my fledgling concept list , I want to move on to what we’ll actually be doing in class. As you can tell from the title, this will be broken down into multiple posts, with the total number still to be determined. First up is openers
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Transparent Algebra: In-Class Part 1 of TBD (Openers)
It is atypical for me to write a book review for this blog, but Nilofer Merchant’s “ The New How: Creating Business Solutions Through Collaborative Strategy ” is very respectable contribution to both audiences of this blog and the process of strategy development in general. In particular, the book does two important things beyond other strategy books: it breaks down the ivory tower of centralized strategy and addresses, in detail, the roles and responsibilities that each employee must fulfill in the new model, and the book explicitly documents a collaborative process that one can use to develop strategy, a process which from my vantage point has only been addressed either through mentorship and transfer of tacit knowledge or in fragments within other documents
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Book Review of “The New How” (Business Strategy Book)
Neighborhood Services Organization said it will be forced to lay off 14 people Friday and to discontinue its part in a program that helped get nearly 900 homeless people off the Detroit streets last year, in the wake of a nearly $1 million…
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Neighborhood Services to lay off 14 people, discontinue program for homeless