Technology

At TED2009, Tim Berners-Lee called for "raw data now" -- for governments, scientists and institutions to make their data openly available on the web. At TED University in 2010, he showed a few of the interesting results when data gets…

I am reminded of the 2002 Spielberg movie “Minority Report” when I think of the digital age, terrorism and privacy concerns.  The movie is interesting not just for its Big Brother overtones, but also because of its prescience on…

If you want to get a leading indicator of how retailers are doing, going online is definitely the best way to get up-to-the-minute data. Not only is the data coming out of online retailers much more real-time, there has also been a huge…

I want to take a break from banking and macro stuff and talk a little bit about technology. I wrote an article about Android a few weeks back. That was a more personal account on why I was switching from a Windows Mobile phone to Android,…

The Motorola Droid is the so-called iPhone killer. Is it the real deal?  Mossberg seems to think so. See also: Motorola's Droid Is Smart Success for Verizon Users – Walt Mossberg, WSJ

I have actually been on Twitter for some time now. But I wanted to update all of you with some social networking features the site now has and ways you can get more out of the content. Today, I will just talk about Twitter. Twitter I…

I recently switched from a Windows Mobile telephone to an Android-based mobile phone.  When I was making the switch, I had to decide whether I was going with the iPhone, which my wife uses. or to run with Blackberry or Android, a…

Pete Cashmore launched a blog called Mashable from his home in Scotland in 2005.  You may have seen the articles from the site in the links from time to time. Well, this happens to be the number 1 social media-focused blog on the…

Moodys pone en perspectiva negativa cdulas hipotecarias de Bancaja y CAM - Finanzas Moodys is downgrading Spanish savings banks. There is still significant weakness in the financial sector in Spain. The Spanish desperately want a…

Unfortunately I was out this weekend and did not post the 5 bank seizures by the FDIC on Friday.  They are below in the links. China's banks are an accident waiting to happen to every one of us - Ambrose Pritchard-Evans, Telegraph…