Paulson, in other words, raised the specter of “moral hazard,” or the government’s inadvertent promotion of reckless lending, trading and other risky behavior by guaranteeing that banks won’t be allowed to fail. And he risked bringing up his own Wall Street lineage to bring home the point. When the Treasury and its central bank opened the Primary Dealer Credit […] For more visit Source:www.investment-blog.net

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Google announced on Friday the release of a number of updates to its Blogger publishing platform–well, sort of. The updates have gone into Blogger in Draft, the service’s beta platform, with the expectation that they’ll eventually become full features.

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By Jed Horowitz Of DOW JONES NEWSWIRES NEW YORK (Dow Jones)–Enough already with the cliches about the perfect storm. For the large investment banks, it’s almost a cataclysm. Let’s start with the basics. When the broad equity market suffers, brokerage stocks inevitably do worse. (When it rains on the market, in that storm analogy, it […] For more visit Source:www.investment-blog.net

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Viigo's flagship RSS reader is now only one data destination of many.

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Another Yahoo department has cause for concern. Up until last week, Yahoo Go was top dog in the mobile widget arena, pulling everything from weather, news, and finance to local listings, Flickr photos, and search onto Yahoo Go 3.0 beta, the company’s rich application for smartphones. But Viigo 3.0 beta has added many of the same elements to what’s essentially a faster-loading and more visually straightforward wrapper.

I’ve sung Viigo’s praises when it was flexing new-found muscle as a superb RSS reader for Windows Mobile and BlackBerry devices. The new beta, released June 19, still retains its RSS-fetching core, but news is now one tab of nine. Like Yahoo Go, Viigo 3.0 beta will report on sports scores, weather, entertainment, stocks, travel, and local listings.

The resemblance to Yahoo Go’s more famous 3.0 beta has not been lost on Viigo CEO Mark Ruddock, who said in an interview with CNET Download.com that the similarities between the two content programs are more coincidental duplication than deliberate emulation.

“[Viigo’s] services reflect the services we believe will initially be the most interesting,” Ruddock said. While it’s true that Viigo will necessarily have to mirror much of Yahoo’s content in order to make it as the “everything” source for mobile data, Viigo’s engineers will have to work hard to introduce features that surpass its greatest rivals. “It’s the way we’ll compete with anyone in this space,” he added.

Viigo's weather-reading channel, in cahoots with Accuweather.

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Here’s Viigo’s vision. First, there’s filling in the features laid out in this first beta build, many of which are mere placeholders marked by screenshots of sneak previews. Next come back-end changes that’ll mash up content for richly integrated data on a results screen. And as always, there’s gaining new partnerships with content providers, among them a major music label with whom Viigo would like to offer band and concert information and audio tracks and podcasts. Opening up an XML-based development platform in Q1 is expected to also populate Viigo with content and new functionality.

Until then, Viigo 3.0 beta is in good shape for forging ahead and quite possibly for besting Yahoo Go. The product isn’t yet where it ought to be, admits CEO Ruddock. The old RSS mainstay cries out for a visual overhaul to match the new look; the full feature set has yet to be completed; and the home screen demands customization–just ask users wondering why Canadian football deserves to be the third-most valued channel on their reader. That slot obviously belongs to the SPL.

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A blog post from Facebook product manager Naomi Gleit early on Friday announced an update to the site that initially might seem extremely minor: after years of using the grammatically abhorrent reflexive pronoun “themself” to describe actions in members’ activity feeds (i.e. “Dwight Schrute tagged themself in the album ‘…

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While not nearly as cool as the Muxtape playlist viewer we wrote about a few months back, if you’re looking to add a little extra eye candy to your bookmarks folder, it’s worth checking out an extension called Bookmarks Preview. When installed, it adds two new views to your bookmarks folder that let you surf your bookmarked sites with small thumbnail previews. You can either view them in a huge grid, or Apple Cover Flow-style, which will scale up each thumbnail to a maximum of about 440 pixels wide.

Each time you bookmark a new site a thumbnail will be created and stored away. It will also go back into pre-existing bookmarks and grab thumbnails the first time they’re added, giving you a rather massive library to look at. My collection took about five minutes to get converted and came up about 50 percent blank. There’s currently no way to have it go out again and fetch newer, updated versions–something I hope is added in a later version.

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Related: Five ways to master bookmarks in Firefox 3

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Google announced on Friday the release of a number of updates to its Blogger publishing platform–well, sort of. The updates have gone into Blogger in Draft, the service’s beta platform, with the expectation that they’ll eventually become full features.

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Google announced on Friday the release of a number of updates to its Blogger publishing platform–well, sort of. The updates have gone into Blogger in Draft, the service’s beta platform, with the expectation that they’ll eventually become full features.

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Even the name is adorable: CherryPal. This tiny 10.5 oz Computer is coming soon and will use no more than 2 watts of power without sacrificing speed. The triple-core processor uses only 20% of the components of traditional computers and will begin up in only 20 seconds, promising to be faster than Vista and Mac’s OS-X … though it doesn’t take much to be faster than Vista.

It can be so fast with so few parts by using cloud computing. So while the Computer itself has just 4GB of flash storage, 256MB of memory, and 400MHz of processing, it will be able to access resources from a third-party provider in a data center.

So not only can it be small and fast, it will also be virus-free, not needing constant virus protection upgrades that take up room and slow it down. It’ll have standard features like two USB 2.0 ports, Ethernet with jack, headphone level stereo audio, and a 10 watt AC-DC adapter to charge it up.

Creators state the small size will provide a great energy savings, and combine that with the low cost of the personal itself, they state it’ll be “the most affordable, greenest personal on the market.” Official prices aren’t out yet, but Inhabitat’s sources state it’ll be well under $400 … just add on the cost of the monitor, keyboard, and other accessories, which can be found very affordably for those of us who care about the affordability factor.

When I first read the title, I was expecting to read about something that would be solar powered or use recycled or clean materials in the creation. Sounds like CherryPal, though far cuter than other cheap “green” personal out there, only has low power usage as its leg up on the competition.

As for “green,” the low-power thing is kind of a so-what feature. With the leaps and bounds being made in low-power, high-ability computers, I don’t think this will be in the lead for long, if at all, which I suppose really is a good thing for all of us if it means more personal that use less power on the market.

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