Friday, August 5, 2011

$16 trillion given in secret loans to businesses and banks

"The first top-to-bottom audit of the Federal Reserve uncovered eye-popping new details about how the U.S. provided a whopping $16 trillion in secret loans to bail out American and foreign banks and businesses during the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression." - Posted on Sen. Sanders' site
The Fed Audit - Newsroom: U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders (Vermont)

Customer Satisfaction Index for E-Business

ACSI
Great resource to find trends in E-business. The yearly customer satisfaction index report is now available. Google tops the list for search engines and Wikipedia is 12 points above Facebook for social media. Read more:
July 2011 and Historical ACSI Scores

NASA - NASA Spacecraft Data Suggest Water Flowing on Mars

This series of images shows warm-season features that might be evidence of salty liquid water active on Mars today
NASA released findings which point to evidence of water flowing on Mars during its warm months.
NASA - NASA Spacecraft Data Suggest Water Flowing on Mars

Skype - Android Market

Skype
The new version of Skype for Android now has video! Download it today:
Skype - Android Market

DisplayFusion: Multi-Monitor Taskbar, Multi-Monitor Screen Savers, HotKeys, Multi-Monitor Wallpaper, Windows Logon Changer and more...

Multi-Monitor Taskbar
For those using two or more monitors on their Windows computer, here is a software solution that gives more display capabilities:
DisplayFusion: Multi-Monitor Taskbar, Multi-Monitor Screen Savers, HotKeys, Multi-Monitor Wallpaper, Windows Logon Changer and more...

Underwater hotel room has guests sleeping with the sharks

The resort has been known to transform the underwater dining room into a private bedroom s...
Now this is just plain cool!
Underwater hotel room has guests sleeping with the sharks

HTC acquires Dashwire to bolster cloud services - and patent portfolio

Pay attention to this acquisition by HTC. HTC is gaining market share and with this "cloud-based" service, there will be new benefits to owning a smartphone, especially a HTC one.
HTC acquires Dashwire to bolster cloud services - and patent portfolio

AuthenTec releases SDK for fingerprint sensor applications on Android phones | Ubergizmo

Biometric security on smartphones would be a perfect solution. One swipe of your finger to approve a purchase or log into your phone. Read more:

Android owns over 40% of US smartphone share | Ubergizmo

comScore smartphone market share
Android owns over 40% of US smartphone share | Ubergizmo