Compute Your Net Worth Once a Year

The following is a guest post from Marotta Asset Management ... . Compute your net worth by creating four lists.  Liquid assets: An asset is something you own that has significant value. A liquid asset can be sold in a matter of days. Include personal bank accounts [more...]

Date: 2009-01-13 17:34:21

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Satyam scandal threatens future foreign investment

BANGALORE - The head of Indian outsourcing firm Satyam Computer Services resigned on Wednesday, ... in India,” said R.K. Gupta, managing director at Taurus Asset Management in New Delhi. Raju, who founded ... , a management graduate from Ohio University, said in his letter, adding he was prepared to face [more...]

Date: 2009-01-11 22:45:48

Satyam Fraud: India’s Enron - The Fact’s

News courtesy-morungexpress.com BANGALORE : The head of Indian outsourcing firm Satyam Computer Services resigned on Wednesday, ... said R.K. Gupta, managing director at Taurus Asset Management in New Delhi. Raju, who founded ... to get off without being eaten,” Raju, a management graduate from Ohio University, said in his letter [more...]

Date: 2009-01-08 19:02:46

Outsource This!

The contract jobs I work on have been outsourced in part, mostly to India ... Gupta, managing director at Taurus Asset Management in New Delhi, told Reuters: “If a company’ ... .  That’s why this warms my cynical black heart: NEW DELHI — Satyam Computer Services, a leading [more...]

Date: 2009-01-07 18:00:44

Partner Programs For Better Returns on Technology Management

Computer manufacturers are feeling enormous pressure to present cutting edge products to the public. Even when the latest and greatest hits the shelves (preferably before competing products), new problems can present themselves. One of the biggest issues in terms of asset returns management [more...]

Date: 2009-01-06 16:05:11

India's Enron

The head of Indian outsourcing company Satyam Computer Services resigned on Wednesday, ... fourth-largest software services exporter, said in a statement that Satyam's profits had been massively ... governance system in India," said R.K. Gupta, managing director at Taurus Asset Management in New [more...]

Date: 2009-01-09 02:14:00

Asian Stocks Decline, Wiping Out 2009 Gains; Lenovo, BHP Slump

BLOOMBERG Jan. 8 (Bloomberg) -- Asian stocks declined, wiping out the benchmark index’s 2009 gains, ... Kong-based vice president of investment services at JPMorgan Asset Management Ltd., which manages ... Group Ltd. plunged 22 percent after China’s biggest personal-computer maker forecast its first loss [more...]

Date: 2009-01-08 03:20:08

NSE Bulk Deals to Watch - Jan 9 2009

Date,Symbol,Security Name,Client Name,Buy/Sell,Quantity Traded,Trade Price / Wght. Avg ... ,SELL,4199565,21.34,-09-JAN-2009,SATYAMCOMP,Satyam Computers Ltd,JP MORGAN FLEMING ASSET MGMT (EUROPRE ... COMPANY ASSET MANAGEMENT LLC,SELL,6042202,18.50,- [more...]

Date: 2009-01-09 13:46:00

Readings: Asian exports, Gold miners vs. bullion, Satyam earnings

Brad Setser: This really doesn’t look good World Beta: An update to the Gold Miners / Bullion Ratio Analysis . . ... , executives said. Satyam shareholder Lazard Asset Management LLC said it asked for information ... Earnings, May Be Broken Up Satyam Computer Services Ltd. will have to restate earnings and may [more...]

Date: 2009-01-08 04:45:32

BayTalkitec appoints Anil Sabnis, Senior Vice President, Business Strategies

/India PRwire/ - BayTalkitec, a market leader in the VAS & CIM (Customer Interaction Management) ... and computer telephony industries and in developing successful business strategies will be a great asset as we continue to develop our communication technology offering for global enterprises [more...]

Date: 2008-12-16 11:36:16

Acer Veriton S461 series business desktop PC

acer_S461.jpg The Veriton S461 is a no-nonsense desktop computer for business-cum-home users who want a decent machine at affordable price-point ... administrators which provides a complete blueprint of desktop hardware and software for centralized asset management. Specification: * Intel® Pentium Dual-Core Processor E2200 * Integrated Intel [more...]

Date: 2008-07-22 15:22:53

BNP Paribas India mutual fund unit exits Satyam

MUMBAI: The Indian mutual fund venture of BNP Paribas has sold its entire holding in Satyam Computer Services, a top executive said on Wednesday ... , Sundaram BNP Paribas Asset Management, told Reuters. "In January, we have sold... before [more...]

Date: 2009-01-12 06:39:00

PC Inventory Advisor v.3.2.628 added

PC Inventory Advisor fully automates the network computer software and hardware inventory process ... for all-in-one expensive asset management and helpdesk software. Product License: SW Source: None File [more...]

Date: 2008-11-27 21:00:00

Patni taps Fred Cohen as VP of business unit

Patni Computer Systems Ltd., one of the largest computer services companies in India, said Monday it has tapped Fred Cohen as vice president of its asset management practice. [more...]

Date: 2008-12-22 17:50:40

IT Pros Discouraged by Dismal Job-Hunting Results Should Find Much Brighter Employment Prospects in Alternative Fields

WESTPORT, Conn., Jan. 2, 2009 — The recession is heightening competition for a dwindling number of IT jobs, ... their IT requirements would be a credible candidate for a strategic alliance management position at a company ... . For example: An architect’s knowledge of best practices in systems design would be a strong asset [more...]

Date: 2009-01-02 10:50:55

How Shall We Then Invest?

Warren Buffett says buy. Jeremy Grantham says it will get worse. Both are celebrated value investors. Who is right? It all depends upon your view of the third derivative of investing. Today we look at valuations in the stock market. This is the second part of a speech I have given in the past few weeks in California and Stockholm [more...]

Date: 2008-10-30 18:56:27

Portfilio Theory.

(1). Introduction. The analysis of risk and uncertainty concentrates in some way on altering future returns to allow for uncertainty of outcome (e ... investment in a computer electronics firm we would usually demand higher returns ... , we can better the return earned by investors on the stock market by investing in a physical asset offering [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 09:55:09

Investing Strategy: Set it and Forget It (Except Once Annually for Rebalancing)

It’s very tempting to quickly peek at your investments to see if they’ve gone up or down in the past twenty-four hours. The same technology that makes our lives so much easier, computer software, can drive us insane ... occasionally pulled the trigger and rebalanced my 401(k) asset allocation when I shouldn’t have. These days [more...]

Date: 2008-08-07 12:00:26

Managing vPro Using Multiple Applications

Overview When designing a vPro deployment strategy it is important to understand the implications of your decisions on your ability to scale your ... may be different depending on the use case. For example, you may find yourself with a software ... software that uses vPro to manage a System Defense firewall. Both pieces of software would need access [more...]

Date: 2009-01-01 22:34:12

Digital Organization: Taming the Clamoring and Unruly Beasts

Once Upon a Giant, Snarling Collection... We creatives tend to be collectors.  After all, collecting is a common consequence of having a passion.  We collect tools, ideas, materials, and more, in preparation of creating.  Our collections inspire us while connecting us to things we enjoy, to our lives, and to each other [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 16:26:44

List of George W. Bush's Failures (this is just one president, isn't it?)

Failures : Full ListConsumers & WorkersLimited Ability To Block Dangerous ImportsFDA Enforcement Actions Way DownUSDA Challenged Over Meat SafetyLack ... Commission Has Not Met MandatesEmergency Management Hurricanes Expose FEMA WoesFEMA Trailers Filled ... Slow Toxic Chemical Risk StudiesScandal, Incompetence at Minerals Management ServiceEPA Misleads on [more...]

Date: 2009-01-13 04:49:00

10 Ways Personal Branding Can Save You From Getting Fired

Dan Schawbel is the author of Me 2.0: Build a Powerful Brand to Achieve Career Success (Kaplan, April 09) ... . OK, now for the tips: 1. Become an invaluable asset to your colleagues, professional network ... proficient, partially due to being raised in a sea of computer wires. Have you ever been asked to help [more...]

Date: 2008-12-10 16:03:04

Deal Journal] Bottom Feeding: Banco Santander of Spain is in advanced talks to take full control of Sovereign Bancorp, a big thrift holding company hurt by sour loans. Stayin’ Alive, Stayin’ Alive: Morgan Stanley revised the terms of its investment from Mitsubishi UFJ by granting the Japanese bank preferred stock with a 10% dividend, [more...]

Date: 2008-10-10 14:10:24

Ten years after

The Information Era has arrived. The Machine Age is over. The rules have changed. The sky has fallen in. Human resources are more important than natural resources, brains more important than brawn. Networks are connecting everyone and everything. Clocks run faster. In this topsy-turvy world, few things are predictable. %&#* happens [more...]

Date: 2009-01-10 18:33:01

Kenya Association of Manufacturers Positions Vacant

Kenya Association of Manufacturers, the premier representative organization for the manufacturing sector in Kenya wishes to fill the following ... in industry. Training in Energy Management will be an added advantage. S/he should possess good analytical and writing skills, be computer proficient and have strong presentation and communication skills [more...]

Date: 2009-01-11 09:49:22

Jobs’ sickness a “nutritional ailment”

Bloomberg, “Jobs Says He Is Being Treated for Nutritional Ailment” Jan. 5 (Bloomberg) ... s future. After returning to the company in 1997, he turned the money-losing Macintosh computer maker ... asset and its greatest risk,” said RBC Capital Markets analyst Mike Abramsky, who rates Apple “ [more...]

Date: 2009-01-05 16:56:51

Jeffrey Goldberg of The Atlantic tells Tel Aviv audience: "the guy who will be running the White House is essentially an Israeli"

Here's a quote that has gotten little play in the press over the last week. (I was going to say "remarkably little play," but then I realized there's nothing remarkable about it.) From the website of the Israel Policy Forum (via Philip Weiss who read about it via Richard Silverstein): On Thursday, November 6, IPF National Scholar Steven L [more...]

Date: 2008-11-14 00:55:25

Greenspan's Lament

Greenspan’s Lament Do you think Alan Greenspan ever saw “Casablanca”? ... that foolish bank lending and inflated asset values have damaged the financial system. Claude Rains said ... committee in his defense: “In recent decades, a vast risk management and pricing system has evolved [more...]

Date: 2008-10-23 19:42:33

Satyam: Just Another Scam, Tide Going Out

“It's only when the tide goes out that you learn who's been swimming naked.” –Warren BuffettOh man is the tide ever going out ... Falsifying Accounts (Update4): “Satyam Computer Services Ltd. Chairman Ramalinga Raju resigned after ... in the past month as a shareholder revolt blocked the asset purchases, a World Bank ban kept Satyam [more...]

Date: 2009-01-07 19:00:00

New Business Part 3 - Know What Your Attack Surface Is

Hiking near Ely, MN I’d like to move the discussion past the data and information point, and on to one of the other, ... of anti-virus/spyware/malware software running. Each operated in various areas of the enterprise ... , desktops, and laptops to ensure adequate and proper software licensing was in place [more...]

Date: 2009-01-13 16:29:33

Appraisal Fraud and Industry Standards Described in 2003 Official White Paper-RED FLAGS DESCRIBED IN DETAIL WITH EXCELLENT DIAGRAMS EXPLANATIONS AND DESCRIPTIONS OF BEST PRACTICES

loan_origination_mortgage_fraud_ffiecloan_origination_mortgage_fraud_prevention_response_nelsonRed Flags • Critical loan processing activities, such as  verification of income, employment, or deposit, is delegated to brokers. • Delegated underwriting allowed for correspondents that are new or lack an established track record with the FI [more...]

Date: 2009-01-09 15:33:10

If Holiday Retail Stats Don’t Have Economists Saying “Humbug,” Tuesday’s GDP Report Certainly Will

If it’s good enough for Wal-Mart… Looks like the discounting model pioneered by Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (WMT), the Bentonville, Ark.-based retailing giant, will make its way to some rather unlikely high-end retailers: Barney’s New York Inc. and Neiman Marcus Inc. have announced significant price reductions (up to 75%) [more...]

Date: 2008-12-22 13:35:50

Gates of Vienna News Feed 11/18/2008

The most ominous news story tonight: “IAF is Ready for Iran’s Nuclear Sites”.A period of great peril for Israel is fast approaching. Assuming that the mullahs have a nuclear capability, the most dangerous time will likely be between the inauguration of Barack Obama — when the United States will cease to be a credible deterrent to Iran — and the [more...]

Date: 2008-11-19 04:59:00

Storage Utilization Remains at 2001 Levels: Low!

I’ve been talking about storage capacity utilization for my entire career, but the storage industry doesn’t seem to be getting anywhere. Every year or so, a new study is performed showing that half of storage capacity in the data center is unused. And every time there is a predictable (and poorly thought through) [more...]

Date: 2009-01-08 01:36:24

SAP BUSINESS ANALYST

Title: SAP BUSINESS ANALYST Location: San Deigo, CA Term: Permanent Salary: $125k-$140k DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES: ... , asset management, and general ledger. Keeps up with new SAP FI, CO and PS developments to ensure ... or related field along with fourteen or more years of progressive experience in SAP project management [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 16:59:52

eStarling Impact IV Photo Frame Supports Video

eStaring is widely known for its multi-functional digital picture frame. Its previously releases are more than just simple photo frames for displaying art- piece; wireless connectivity, sending photo via email, RSS feeder and social network integration with varies image gallery sites such as PhotoBucket, [more...]

Date: 2008-12-09 18:38:39

Asian Stocks Fall as Commodity Producers, Automakers Decline

BLOOMBERG Jan. 13 (Bloomberg) -- Asian stocks dropped, sending the benchmark index down the most in a month, as falling metal and oil prices dragged on commodity producers and a higher yen dimmed profit outlooks for Japanese exporters of cars and electronics. Rio Tinto Ltd., the world’s third-largest mining company, lost 4 [more...]

Date: 2009-01-13 01:39:02

Participatory Learning and the New Humanities: An Interview with Cathy Davidson

Cathy Davidson is Ruth F. DeVarney Professor of English and John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies at Duke ... , Technology Advanced Collaboratory) and co-director of the Digital Media and Learning Competition ... Foundation Digital Media and Learning Competition, which featured it as a theme, “Participatory Learning” [more...]

Date: 2009-01-08 01:45:00

Garbage in, toxic out

Never let a manager near a computer. Especially one of the “safe heads from the investment banks” ... that the people who ran the financial firms chose to program their risk-management systems ... of the risk-management group at RiskMetrics, a software company spun out of JPMorgan. “They wanted to keep [more...]

Date: 2008-09-24 03:27:29

Incident Summary Water loss 1/1/09

This was the handout provided and reviewed by Mike D'Angelo-----------------------------Incident Summary Water loss 1/1/09 Apparent power loss ... School about 5 :00 PM Checked school on computer and called people to investigate pump problem ... from fire that senior center had problem fire alarm going off, checked on computer and saw no heat. Sent [more...]

Date: 2009-01-08 03:23:00

Time management

We had 45 mm of rain (just under 2 inches) yesterday. Here are some of our chooks drinking the rain caught on their wire fence ... . One of the things we don't always think of as an asset is the time we have available to us every ... I had to learn to give me the full measure of each day was time management [more...]

Date: 2008-11-05 19:00:00

Developing a better CMS

For sometime now I’ve dreamed of creating useful software for my fellow designers and developers ... Management System was that last word: System. As a designer I don’t like having to hack up my beautiful ... system” that never seemed to work with me. The Solution Enter the CMT (Content Management Tool [more...]

Date: 2008-08-13 07:57:29

Record Your Assets

Record Your Assets If you’re a woman in business, you probably know how important it is to properly manage your assets, ... and there can end up adding up to hundreds of dollars. Following of a good accounting practice and asset management ... , or that can be sold, is considered an asset. For instance, most of us know that our computer [more...]

Date: 2009-01-01 16:14:30

I get it now: those Wall Street whiz kids were practicing alchemy

I get it now: those Wall Street whiz kids were practicing alchemy When I started learning about the underpinnings of the present financial ... years or so the “math guys” came in with a bunch of computer-generated proofs that demonstrated ... seemed irrefutable, and the computer number crunchers were supposed to be the experts [more...]

Date: 2008-11-19 18:32:32

Product review - Computrace LoJack for laptops

Filed under: Gadling Gear ReviewIn this product review I'm going to take a closer look at a piece of software that has the potential to recover your ... for today can help; LoJack for Laptops is a piece of software that combines 2 basic components into one security solution; one part is the software itself, the other is the LoJack theft recovery team [more...]

Date: 2008-09-17 15:00:00

If you're a "free" play, the deal is that you need "free" users. They're not freeloading, they're your path to profitability. Said another way, advertisers don't want you unless users want you. So, free users are actually your company's TOP asset. Eureka!

I swear I never get to come off smart on my blog because I'm too busy highlighting the obvious. (Sigh) ... software, hardware or consulting services, because that quid pro quo is very defined ... their businesses). You know, companies who offer free tools, content, features, widgets, wikis or otherwise [more...]

Date: 2008-07-29 01:55:56

WSF Headline Roundup - 1/8/09 -  SEC Probes Pequot again; Wal-Mart warns; India's Enron; Frank: TARP aid for munis; Mtge rates < 5%; BOE cuts rates to lowest since 1694!; Intel warns; Lower '09 metals prices?; Other retailers warn; MGM Mirage to cut debt

SEC Reopens Probe of Trading at Pequot Wal-Mart’s Fourth-Quarter Earnings Will Miss Forecast $1bn fraud at India IT group Satyam Accounting Scandal Erodes Confidence in India As scandal rocks Satyam, rivals may pick off clients U.S. House’s Frank Says TARP Funds Should Aid Muni-Bond Issuers PennyMac, Led by Ex-Countrywide Head, [more...]

Date: 2009-01-08 13:40:42

2008 Terrorism

As 2008 comes to a close we must look back at America's security and terrorism in general around the world ... , gaping holes in our security. Dave Gaubatz* comments on the recent Department of Homeland Security's ... the report itself to be a national security threat for America ??? more importantly for the children [more...]

Date: 2008-12-31 01:13:07

Gartner ITxpo 2008: The top 10 IT products

Gartner ITxpo 2008: The top 10 IT products Posted by Jason Hiner @ 1:45 am Categories: Gartner Symposium 2008 Tags: Information Technology, ... . It also provides GPS functionality. Although HP was on hand showcasing one of their Gobi-enabled ... and others (see chart below). Laptops using the Gobi chips will be a real boon for business [more...]

Date: 2008-10-20 08:45:20

Are you ready for the content boom?

Until the Web arrived, most organizations didn’t value content ... management software, which it then handed over to marketing, who in turn got a graphic design company ... s all beginning to change because content has become a hidden asset of great value. In the early [more...]

Date: 2008-07-23 17:57:58

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