The Lindens Stash Away My Axe of the Leviathan

I could have sworn I read this concept in Gwyn Llewelyn's blog -- or somebody who knows what the Lindens are going to do about five minutes before ... this was deliberate.) I'm all for Lindens doing something about inventory and the asset server ... items. Doesn't having to pull that up into every one's inventory lag the asset server? Or how does [more...]

Date: 2009-01-13 08:16:10

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Best of KCLau’s Money Tips 2008

2008 is an exciting year for me. I was able to build more income streams and therefore increase my overall income compared to the previous year ... Debt Do you have the assets to pay for your liabilities? Personal Asset Inventory Template How [more...]

Date: 2009-01-11 23:00:36

OpenSim goes Hyper - The Hypergrid

“Hyper” is what I usually call a person that’s suffering from the tricky combination of to much coffee, to much stress and not enough sleep ... cheaper than User A does on Grid A. Digital rights management fail? Probably. So trust will become ... the url of their home asset and inventory services.” Too long? Ok, one more time: “Hypergrid means ‘ [more...]

Date: 2008-12-20 01:04:51

RFID tags could help manage data center assets

Data center staffers are typically not employed to maintain inventories of hardware assets, ... adoption, said Jonathan Collins, U.K-based principal analyst by the RFID & contactless group at ABI ... of the extreme point of 2013. IT managers can use passive or active RFID technology. With passive [more...]

Date: 2008-10-17 03:25:38

China: are Chinese policymakers getting it right?

Author: Yiping Huang, Citigroup and ANU China enters 2009 in a vastly different situation from what it was in a year ago ... headline production and GDP data overstate the slowdown in underlying demand. Growth of fixed asset ... by inventory adjustment. Given the collapse of commodity prices and the darkening clouds surrounding [more...]

Date: 2009-01-08 14:53:49

Circuit City discusses possible sale

Here’s an excerpt from Circuit City’s press release issued Friday morning: On January 5, 2009, ... or as individual assets - including the sale of inventory. Presently, the company is engaged in significant ... into a transaction that will result in an asset liquidation process commencing soon after the sale hearing [more...]

Date: 2009-01-09 17:09:10

Madoff to Remain Free, Judge Rules

Madoff to Remain Free, Judge Rules - WSJ.com. A federal judge today denied prosecutors’ request to jail money manager Bernard Madoff for allegedly ... billions of dollars of investor funds, can remain free but must give the government an inventory ... injunction and asset freeze in a civil-fraud case brought by the Securities and Exchange Commission [more...]

Date: 2009-01-12 23:20:34

10 Russian start-ups that rocked the web in 2008

It’s the most wonderful time of the year, especially when you’re a web professional. Not reindeers, but lists keep flying around your head ... and content production, raised $8 million from Moscow Venture Fund (Allianz Rosno Asset Management ... (LogneX), online inventory management solution provider, raised seed round from Ambient Sound [more...]

Date: 2008-12-23 10:37:52

The Great Reinflation

Responding to growing concern about the quality of the Federal Reserve System’s assets, ... ). Even if you revalued this inventory, it would still total less than $300 billion, or 12% ofthe Fed’ ... , U.S. Treasury securities still made up half the Federal Reserve’s asset base. Today, however [more...]

Date: 2009-01-07 16:53:47

Car Talk

Car Talk by Steven D Fri Dec 12th, 2008 at 08:54:36 AM EST Place your bets ... the short term, are too great, and the asset values that would secure this new debt financing would ... of the automaker's hard assets (e.g., inventory, factories, receivables) are directly tied [more...]

Date: 2008-12-12 23:43:48

Release: ToutVirtual VirtualIQ Pro 3.0

The Indian startup ToutVirtual is slowly trying to reemerge from the oblivion where two years of almost zero progresses put it ... , but this new 3.0 at least has some interesting features: Physical and virtual asset and inventory [more...]

Date: 2009-01-13 19:33:43

What’s The Value Of Your Web Business?

If you own a web-based business, no matter how small, then that business is worth something ... entrepreneurs start small, often at home. Their only assets may be their computer, their software ... , inventory, and possibly even a building — the standard methods of valuation make a lot of sense [more...]

Date: 2008-10-31 18:48:50

House Bill Aims to Stabilize Housing, Addresses Foreclosure and Stimulus

A bill that embraces the need for righting the housing market --- the first big step toward economic recovery --- was introduced Friday in the U.S ... the Treasury Department to develop a program, outside the Troubled Asset Relief Program, to stimulate ... purchases and clear inventory of properties, Chairman Frank has responded to the most critical [more...]

Date: 2009-01-10 02:45:00

GAO launches beaconing tag

Canadian firm GAO RFID Inc. has released a new 2.4GHz active beaconing RFID tag ... in asset locating and tracking and warehouse inventory management applications. The new tag ... receives a specific signal from a nearby RFID reader, a built-in LED flashes to assist the user [more...]

Date: 2008-09-09 19:12:00

MDOP 2008 R2 now available

Microsoft’s centralized desktop management tool has been updated to R2 and is now available to SA customers: ... : Localisation, Asset Inventory Service 1.5, and Advanced Group Policy Management 3.0. It’ [more...]

Date: 2008-10-06 14:44:49

TAT Technologies: The Sky's the Limit

TAT Technologies (TATTF) is an Israeli company that repairs and manufactures parts for airplanes ... cheaper. TATTF has cash of $44 million, accounts receivable of $21 million, and inventory of $38 million ... . Therefore, these three liquid asset items minus all liabilities actually add up to more than [more...]

Date: 2008-11-25 17:06:42

Bartronics India

The IT hardware and software segment sports many stocks that are at ‘attractive’ valuations ... in the areas of logistics and inventory management, time and attendance management and asset tracking [more...]

Date: 2008-11-10 02:58:00

Bulletproof REIT Bargains: How to Profit From the Inevitable Real Estate Recovery

Editor’s Note: Our colleagues at The Oxford Club have been sorting through the debris from the mortgage and credit crisis ... and racking up a safe, consistent dividend. It fits in perfectly with our asset allocation portfolio ... . According to the latest data, the inventory of unsold homes sits at 4.23 million, representing [more...]

Date: 2009-01-08 01:36:03

GAO Offers 433MHz Active Handheld RFID Reader

This light weight and palm-sized handheld reader is an ideal solution for localization and tracking merchandise, inventory, or other assets. [more...]

Date: 2009-01-08 18:03:22

Big Bath Accounting Fraud

One of the hardest accounting frauds to spot is big bath accounting ... , unscrupulous management would begin writing-off every expense and asset they could imagine. As a result, future ... of inventory, plant and equipment, write-off of an investment gone south and restructuring charges [more...]

Date: 2008-12-12 04:42:00

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

WSF Headline Roundup - 1/14/09 -  Happy birthday, Vikram; HSBC needs $30B?; Deutsche Bank loss; Barclays rejiggers board; Banks need bigger bailout; Geithner issues much ado about nothing; Toyota troubles; Ivy muni debt

WSF Headline Roundup - 1/14/09 -  Happy birthday, Vikram; HSBC needs $30B? ... Morgan Cuts Use of 3rd-Party Brokers Oil rises to near $39 on Bernanke comments Chrysler in asset sale talks; Renault denies Toyota sees U.S. inventory in line by May Toyota, Facing Crisis, Turns [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 13:18:43

Secrets to Improving an I.T. Services Practice Part 4

Last time we discussed the deliverables of the four business models in our continuing discussion: ... s. Software tools utilized by the provider to accomplish these activities will include asset management ... Scheduling & dispatching capabilities Time & expense tracking capabilities Inventory control [more...]

Date: 2008-12-14 20:08:10

Sad Moo’s -

Jacques Littlefield passed away last Wednesday in Portola Valley ... , California Academy of Sciences and the Filoli estate made him a real asset to our COWmunity ... ; and Soviet-era Russian tanks. The complete inventory is available here. Jacques was considered a scholar [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 18:42:57

Bush Wants The Rest Of The Money

Heard on the news that Bush wants the rest of the $750 Billion dollar bank giveaway before he leaves office. No strings attached of course ... , even month to month business inventory loans dried up. Bush and Paulson told us if we didn’t free ... their asset base using their welfare checks. Bush and Paulson’s well thought out plan [more...]

Date: 2009-01-10 17:11:27

There is, Perhaps, a Grimmer Truth

Lawrence rightly notes that the first round of oversight reporting to Congress on the bailout makes for grim reading ... , and foreclosure sales saturate the real estate market with lowpriced inventory, further pushing down home prices ... and fires while eroding the local tax base. Global asset write downs and credit losses relating [more...]

Date: 2008-12-12 18:35:13

NAR should put its money where its mouth is

I’ve hesitated to post this since I’m not sure how it will go over with other real estate agents (or my boss!). But, why not? ... purchases. It suggests using federal funds from the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP - $700 ... is, lowering borrowing costs would encourage more people to buy homes, reducing inventory [more...]

Date: 2008-12-20 16:35:30

Madoff’s Freedom Ignites Rage

U.S. Representative Anthony Weiner denounced a federal judge’s decision to allow Bernard Madoff to remain free on bond while awaiting trial for ... . The mailing violated a court-ordered asset freeze.Ira Sorkin, Madoff’s defense lawyer, said in court ... . He set new conditions, ordering Madoff to compile an inventory of all items in his home and barring [more...]

Date: 2009-01-13 02:05:00

Intel fourth-quarter revenue will be bad Permanent Link

Intel fourth-quarter revenue will be bad Posted on Wednesday, January 07 2009 @ 18:01: ... , because of further weakness in demand and inventory reductions by its customers in the global PC supply ... expectation of approximately $2.8 billion. Restructuring and asset impairment charges are expected [more...]

Date: 2009-01-07 17:00:43

Peter Schiff: A Financial Prophet

Watch this great video and see the scorning and scoffing of a man predicting a financial meltdown due to the housing situation ... is being held back by the countervailing pressures of bursting asset bubbles in real estate and stocks, forced liquidations in commodities, and troubled retailers slashing prices to unload excess inventory [more...]

Date: 2008-12-30 15:14:35

RV Dealer Profits Using New Sales Approach

Cincinnati, OH: The last week of 2008 proved more than profitable for Tom Raper's Fairfield, Ohio location, ... to spark consumer interest, the dealership hosted its first Asset Disposal Event which delivered more than ... Raper's Fairfield, Ohio store had successfully moved over $1 Million in inventory which included new [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 21:38:00

No Such Thing As A Pain-Free Recession

No Such Thing As A Pain-Free Recession Jennifer Rubin - 12.27 ... of bursting asset bubbles in real estate and stocks, forced liquidations in commodities, and troubled retailers slashing prices to unload excess inventory [more...]

Date: 2008-12-27 19:03:13

Desperation Has An Ugly Face

It’s Friday desk clearing time for this blogger. “A lot has happened since 2004 — in the housing market and in the lives of everyone associated with Vantage Pointe, the largest residential project ever to be built in downtown San Diego. Jennifer Bishop made a 5 percent deposit on a unit in Vantage Pointe in one of the first phases, she said [more...]

Date: 2008-12-05 19:49:04

The Different SAP Modules & Solutions For Your Business

by James Cox An ERP system is a real-time business support system that caters to the data needs of the whole corporation using a sole repository of information (a database) and a really sophisticated set of highly-customizable software modules ... regions of any corporation’s processes. Fixed on top of these already-integrated personalized modules [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 08:30:06

When things change, look at new competitors - Sears, Walgreen, Best Buy

Do you remember when Jim Cramer of Mad Money fame told his viewers to buy Sears Holdings because "his good friend" Ed Lampert, hedge fund manager, ... , benefits, pay and inventory - and Sears became a much smaller business.  But the value of having ... , store closings and inventory sell-downs, Sears profits exceeded expectations (read article here [more...]

Date: 2009-01-11 22:08:47

Harvard, Yale, Other Big Endowments Selling Private Equity Stakes at Big Losses

A year ago, major endowments, like Yale, Harvard, and Princeton were seen as the ne plus ultra of sophisticated private investors, ... to sell in a bad market is an illiquid asset. Even in good times, you take a discount for liquidity ... loan markets froze as of last August, leaving investment banks with lots of unsold inventory [more...]

Date: 2008-12-02 04:21:41

10 Memorable Cleantech Lawsuits From 2008

Any time business goes bad, you can expect lawsuits to follow; the cleantech industry is no exception, and the last year saw plenty of court action ... from electric car maker Tesla, six involving large solar manufacturing firms and one weirdo wildcard. Who’ ... , several law firms announced that they had filed proposed class-action suits against the [more...]

Date: 2009-01-05 05:00:09

Will energy show us that inflation and deflation can occur at the same time?

At the beginning of this decade investment advisor Marc Faber told incredulous investors that rising economic prosperity in Asia signalled the beginning of a new bull market in commodities, but would also have deflationary consequences for consumer prices. How could these inflationary and deflationary effects coincide? [more...]

Date: 2009-01-13 06:32:00

Will energy show us that inflation and deflation can occur at the same time?

At the beginning of this decade investment advisor Marc Faber told incredulous investors that rising economic prosperity in Asia signalled the beginning of a new bull market in commodities, but would also have deflationary consequences for consumer prices. How could these inflationary and deflationary effects coincide? [more...]

Date: 2009-01-11 19:30:00

Avocent's Solutions Help Companies Save

Avocent headquarters in Huntsville, Al As budgets tighten, companies are looking for ways to do more with less ... collaboration tools. Today I would like to talk about data center management solutions, which can help ... where headcounts are shrinking at a greater rate than workloads. Avocent management team -- Ed [more...]

Date: 2009-01-08 02:53:11

Excerpted From Alchemy Live! Feed 1/14/09

10:53  What Anthony said earlier is true -- it's hard even to get a taste for the short side after what we saw yesterday ...   What isn't getting wasted? Treasury Bonds, the asset class the cover story hog at Barron's pronounced dead ... ? Was that it? marone. Where's the edge? There isn't one right now. We get oil inventory at 10:30 [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 16:08:48

Underwater In A Way We Have Never Seen

The Denver Post reports from Colorado. “David Craig knows how draining it can be to make payments on a home that is worth less than the mortgage debt on it. The Brighton-area resident and his wife have struggled the past two years to carry not one, but two, homes valued at less than what’s owed on them [more...]

Date: 2008-12-02 18:07:48

Good Brands at Lower Price!

Are you planning to buy fixed assets for your company such as computers and printers? Or are you planning to upgrade your old ones? Do you need a software or networking accessories? Or just want to buy an Apple Ipod for yourself ... . I also admire their great inventory of HP printers from ordinary inkjet printers, photo printers [more...]

Date: 2008-10-09 05:33:00

“turn assets into tax relief” by selling crown assets, paying down the debt and applying interest savings toward tax relief, which is exactly what the government’s own “tax back guarantee” policy does. You can read the complete Western Standard interview with Kevin Gaudet here. ( [more...]

Date: 2008-11-28 02:38:25

Ad Industry React: No Quick Fixes Expected For Post-Yang Yahoo

The news that Jerry Yang would be stepping aside as CEO of Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) cheered investors, but online ad industry execs aren't sure much has changed. And while shareholders would be thrilled by a Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) takeover, advertisers and publishers can't tell if that will ultimately prove positive either [more...]

Date: 2008-11-19 08:54:36

Ok, Now Buy the Homebuilders?

Every few months, a gaggle of investors collectively ask, once again, if now is the time to buy the homebuilding stocks ... is that maybe — once again — real estate has hit bottom. “The only problem with that theory ... in existing home sales,” says Robert Pavlik, chief investment officer at Oaktree Asset Management. “I’ [more...]

Date: 2008-11-25 10:32:00

Peter Schiff's WSJ op-ed piece

#fullpost{display:inline;}That second to last page in the first section of the Wall Street Journal continues to offer up commentary that you just don't see elsewhere in the mainstream media.Over the last month or so, as it has become increasingly clear that our monetary system may be at the root of many of our current problems, [more...]

Date: 2008-12-27 21:09:00

DrumBeat: December 9, 2008

Oil and OPEC: Can the Cartel Possibly Cut Production Enough? Just how daunting is OPEC’s challenge to rein in falling oil prices? Beyond its control, if economist and oil-market analyst Philip Verleger is right. Mr. Verleger, a former Carter administration official, academic, and energy-industry consultant, [more...]

Date: 2008-12-09 13:44:44

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

A look back at one of our favorite cheerleaders

Some of you who are long time readers of this blog and other bubble blogs remember the zeitgest of mid-2006.  There was a lot of angst in the air about what was happening with the residential housing market, and quite a few financial idiots posting on and on ad nauseum about how housing was a fantastic investment and how you should leverage [more...]

Date: 2009-01-13 22:38:28

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