Reuters - Federal Reserve Chairman
Ben Bernanke tackles financial stability in a key speech on
Friday but economists doubt he will provide solid clues about
future policy action to calm the credit crunch.
Reuters - Investors' growing belief in the
likelihood of a federal bailout of home-funding giants Fannie
Mae and Freddie Mac triggered a rally in the
debt prices of the two companies on Thursday while a steep fall
in their shares prices abated.
Reuters - Oil prices rose nearly 5 percent on
Thursday, the biggest percentage gain in more than two months,
driven by rising tensions between the United States and energy
behemoth Russia.
Three big banks settle with NY state over ARS
(Reuters)
Reuters - New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo
on Thursday said Merrill Lynch & Co Inc , Deutsche Bank
(DBKGn.DE) and Goldman Sachs have agreed to settlements
regarding their auction rate security sales practices.
FINRA probes 40 firms on auction rate securities: source
(Reuters)
Reuters - Financial industry enforcement agents
will review the auction-rate debt operations of about 40 firms
industrywide starting next week, sources familiar with the
investigation said on Thursday.
Trends & Innovations - Wednesday
(Investor's Business Daily)
Investor's Business Daily - The proportion of working-age Americans facing medical debt rose to 72 mil or 41% last year, up from 58 mil or 34% in '05, according to a new survey by the nonprofit Commonwealth Fund. About half of those facing health debt have up to $2,000 in bills, while 12% have more than $4,000 in debt and another 12% have more than $8,000. The survey also found most of those with medical debt said they had exhausted their savings, with some also tapping into credit cards, home equity or cutting back on food or heat to cover health care costs.
Creativity in memory management tasks involves using the past and memories thereof, even the most recent past. In fact, while you unfold your ideas and wait for the really creative moment, when everything gets a finishing touch, you must keep in touch with all recollections and be able to move them around in your head: put what was at the bottom on top, throw out what you don't need right now, reshuffle and apply new organizational principles and so on.
PMM Personal Memory Manager(c) was created to help you manage that.
Normally you have that magical moment when everything falls into place after looking at things from all sides or sleeping over it, evaluating all possible points of view, trying out several statements. Then, if you have a synthetic mind, you start all over, either because you did like the end result very much, or did not like it one bit!!
That is, if you put your analytical mind aside for a moment..
But what does that mean for all the knowledge you brought in, all the information you recollected and all data from your personal experience? Are all these less true? Can they not be reused?
Of course they can be reused and you will reuse them, especially if you like the product of your creative work. So you feel the need to be able to recall any of these bits and pieces whenever you need them. PMM can hold on to these for you and bring them to the forefront whenever you need them, in context, that is, with all their interrelations, references, linked documents etc.
Most likely you never suspected the information architecture you spontaneously created, behind it. Actually, it is your memory, your knowledge!
Then, that last step of putting in the finishing touch and being really creative, brings in much more and can hold on to much more significant content that you really want to focus on, than when you cannot use PMM in that moment of creation.
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Reuters - Comedian Jerry Seinfeld will star
in a $300 million marketing campaign for Microsoft Corp aimed
at burnishing the image of its computer operating system, a
person familiar with the effort said on Thursday.
Photosynth Stitches Photos Into a 3-D Web Canvas
(NewsFactor)
NewsFactor - Microsoft's name has never been synonymous with photography, visual imaging or innovative online applications. But its release Wednesday of Photosynth -- a hybrid software/service that allows users to create 3-D environments by stitching multiple photographs together -- suggests the company has more than a few cards up its sleeve.
Apple tries to de-bug iPhone
(USATODAY.com)
USATODAY.com - Apple acknowledged that a software update for the iPhone partly fixes the connection snags that have caused a global firestorm for the new iPhone 3G.
Salesforce.com stock drops on cautious outlook
(AP)
AP - Salesforce.com Inc. kept its financial guidance within the range of analyst estimates Wednesday, disappointing investors who expected a more bullish forecast from one of the Internet's most popular software services.
Microsoft Eases Server-Virtualization Restrictions
(NewsFactor)
NewsFactor - Microsoft has elected to jettison certain licensing restrictions that previously discouraged its customers from moving the software giant's server applications within a server farm at will.
NewsFactor - In a move that could help it avoid an iPhone 3G-like software drama, Google wants bug hunters to test its Android mobile platform. On Monday, the Android Security Team posted a message to introduce itself to the security research and vulnerability communities.