Amid rising questions about US President Barack Obama’’s handling of the economy, his job approval rating has gone six points down in the past month, a new CBS News poll has found.
Obama’s current approval rating is 57 percent, down by 11 points from its peak of 68 percent in April, and six points from last [...]
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Lloyd Chapman: OBAMA SHOULD SAVE CIT
July 14th, 2009 |
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CIT Group Inc. has been the number one Small Business Administration (SBA) 7(a) lender for nine consecutive years. They have also been the top lender…
Meredith Whitney Bullish on Goldman
July 13th, 2009 |
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NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks traded modestly higher Monday morning as investors were cautiously optimistic ahead of earnings reports this week, including key readings from the banking sector.
Investors had been cautious as they prepare for earnings reports this week, including from some of the nation’s largest financial firms. Banks have been among the hardest [...]
Karen Stabiner: Small Good News: Skinny Monkeys Might Want a Second Helping
July 13th, 2009 |
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Those underfed, longer-lived skinny monkeys are the hit medical story of the moment because they eat less and live longer, and what works for them…
AMD Announces Six-Core AMD Opteron Processors
July 13th, 2009 |
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AMD debuts three additions to the Opteron processors: Six-Core AMD Opteron HE processors that deliver up to 18 percent higher performance per watt and up to 18 percent lower platform-level power consumption.
– Technology giant and chip maker Advanced Micro Devices announced the
availability of three members of the Six-Core AMD
Opteron processor family that the company said address the rising demand for
balanced systems with increased performance but also greater power efficiency
for cloud computing an…
Nicholas Stephanopoulos: A Law Worth Saving
July 11th, 2009 |
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Racial discrimination in voting, while much reduced since the Voting Rights Act’s passage in 1965, remains all too prevalent in many parts of the country.
How To Spam-Proof Your Cell Phone, Inbox
July 11th, 2009 |
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Spam is the bane of computer users everywhere, accounting for more than 90 percent of e-mail. And, now, cell phones are getting spam.
Honduras Talks Fail To Reach Agreement
July 11th, 2009 |
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SAN JOSE, Costa Rica — Delegates representing the ousted and interim governments of Honduras failed to forge an agreement during a second day of talks and no fixed date was set for future negotiations.
The only consensus reached between…
Laptops with SSDs Bring Greater ROI, Research Says
July 10th, 2009 |
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As NAND flash capacities continue to get higher, notebooks with solid-state drives such as Toshiba’s 512GB SSD laptop become more and more useful for both business and personal purposes. But prices remain 20 percent to 40 percent higher than standard spinning disk drive portables.
– Industry analysts and vendors are predicting
that solid-state disks for computing and storage are the wave of the future
for laptop computers, and for a lot of reasons.
As NAND flash capacities continue to get higher Toshiba
has a 512GB laptop available, and 1TB units are only months away they…