DOW JONES NEWSWIRES Stock-index futures point toward a sharply lower opening for Wall Street Tuesday, with a steep fall in Europe and continuing worries about rising oil prices expected to start the third quarter on a negative note. Dow Jones Industrial futures were off 111 points to 11228. S&P 500 futures were down 13 points to 1268. […] For more visit Source:www.investment-blog.net
A number of us at CNET News noticed that Facebook was having some outage issues on Monday afternoon, delivering “connection to the server was reset while the page was loading” messages to members of our editorial staff in New York, Boston, and San Francisco.
In that magical year for electric cars – 2010 – Tesla plans to have a 5-passenger electric Sedan out and on the road. The Model S is to have a 225 mile range on a single charge, not too shabby! But as is the case with Tesla automobiles, buyers had superior have padded wallets as the price is expected to be around $60,000, and likely higher as the release date approaches.
The announcement came on Monday at a press conference attended by California’s governor, Arnold Schwarzenegger, who has a $100,000 Tesla Roadster on order – not surprising considering his infatuation with powerful automobiles. We’ll leave the analysis open on that. …
The Model S is to be built in California, thanks to some incentives given by the state, including tax exemptions on manufacturing equipment and qualification for grants and special employee training programs. It’s pretty impressive to have California vying for your business, so we’ve high hopes that the new Tesla will meet expectations, despite the fact that there are few expectations on the automobile as of yet – the design and specs are still under wraps. We’ll keep updating as more info makes its way to the surface.
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NEW YORK (MarketWatch) — U.S. financial stocks fell early Tuesday, as the Financial Choose Sector SPDR , an ETF that tracks the financial stocks in the S&P500, lost 1.2%, while the Amex Securities Broker/Dealer Index slipped 0.3%. Investors are closely eyeing financial firms as the third quarter begins, and are maintaining negative outlook as the credit crisis continues […] For more visit Source:www.investment-blog.net
On Monday, Yahoo will begin the weeklong roll out of the new My Yahoo to users in all markets. The start page service is graduating from the much-coveted beta status, and integrating improvements made over the last several months like new and third-party content modules, a streamlined header, and advertising that’s not as in-your-face as previous iterations. (See full list of updates below.)
The move paves the way for Yahoo’s open-platform strategy, which was announced in late April. It lets developers create widgets that work on other Yahoo properties and OpenSocial in the hopes of expanding how and where content can be used.
All My Yahoo users should have the new version of by July 14.
From the release:
Custom-designed modules with more of great content from select publishers (such as New York Times, People, Wall Street Journal, etc.)
New and improved Yahoo! modules, including Top Picks from Your Page, Flickr, Note to Self, To Do List, Movie Showtimes, Scoreboard, Stock Portfolios, TV Listings, Calendar, Yahoo! Buzz, etc.
New modules that provide access to third-party services (i.e., Netflix, Gmail, POP mail, Facebook)
New header with easier customization tools for adding content and choosing options, as well as tabbed browsing for multiple pages
More control, with additional page layout options, a less intrusive advertising approach, and simple drag-and-drop functionality
Mippin, a mobile feed reading service I looked at back in late 2007, has undergone a world of change in the last 10 months. On Tuesday night, the site is launching a new version aimed specifically at iPhone users–a growing segment of the market which will soon be even larger with the forthcoming release of the 3G model.
This new version follows in the footsteps of older iterations, but has been tweaked to fit the screen a little better, as well as deliver an overall performance increase in page load times. The company has also laid the groundwork for an upcoming suggestion system (launching in just a few weeks) that’ll learn from and adapt to your daily reading habits to give you recommendations of blogs and stories you should be looking at. This new system is based not only on keywords and previous reading history, but what other users have been reading and subscribing to.
Earlier Tuesday, I spoke with Mippin co-Founder Scott Beaumon about this new version, along with what’s changed since I last looked at the product. Beaumon says that in 10 months Mippin has gone from covering 1,500 to 2,000 sites to tracking more than 92,000. From those, it’s accumulated 12 million articles that can be searched in Mippin’s story index.
One other thing that Beaumon is really excited about is how Mippin now handles the media found in blog posts. Besides pictures, audio and video regularly make their way into blog posts. Mippin would previously ignore this type of content. The new version will now convert Flash videos via a third-party service (in the background while you continue to browse), as well as natively play any audio files that have been embedded in posts. I gave it a spin on a non-YouTube video earlier–and while slow on EDGE it should be fairly nimble on the newer 3G handset or a hearty Wi-Fi connection.
The company has put together a comparison video of reading an RSS feed in Mippin compared with how long it takes to visit the normal page using gadget blog Engadget as a control. They’re calling it the Pepsi challenge, but I think a far fairer comparison would be to stack it up against Google Reader for the iPhone, which can accomplish a similar feat albeit without the back and forth buttons to skip articles.
Another major difference between the two is that you can set Mippin up to act as a mobile Web start page, with a choose group of feeds you want to read, along with customizable content Widgets (a la iGoogle). Google Reader mobile offers no such feat, but does let you open up several articles at a time on the same page. Beaumon states the team is working on an upcoming developer platform to let people create widgets for the start page element of the site, and share them in a centralized directory–something that should be popping up in the future.
Waiting for Apples' iPhone 3G encampment. Large tupperware container is full of worms.
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NEW YORK–A message to those of you thinking of hopping in line for the iPhone 3G at the Fifth Avenue flagship store here: there are thunderstorms predicted. Please stay home …
A look at new Gmail security features that let you know where else you're logged in.
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Gmail users now have some extra ways to make sure no one can snoop around in their e-mail accounts, a post Monday afternoon on the Official Gmail Blog explained. The …
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