The New Factors Of Production And the Rise of Data-Driven Applications

The New Factors Of Production And the Rise of Data-Driven Applications


The New Factors Of Production And the Rise of Data-Driven Applications

Posted: 31 Oct 2011 12:14 AM PDT

Guest post written by Brian Gentile Brian Gentile is CEO of Jaspersoft, a provider of business intelligence software. Classical economic theory describes three primary factors, or inputs, to the production of any good or service: land, labor, and capital. These factors facilitate production, but do not become part of the end product (as a raw ...


Machinery Component Supplier Boasts China's Newest Billionaire Family

Posted: 31 Oct 2011 12:04 AM PDT

China, which ranks second in the world in the number of billionaires, celebrated a new billionaire family on Friday with the successful listing of Jiangsu Hengli Highpressure Oil Cylinder, a maker of excavator and oil cylinders. ??After a 3.4% rise in its shares at the Shanghai Stock Exchange on Friday, chairman Wang Liping, together with ...


Israel aircraft hit Gaza, 2 found dead (AP)

Posted: 30 Oct 2011 10:37 PM PDT

Palestinians mourn at al-Najar hospital in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, after an Israeli air strike, October 30, 2011. REUTERS/Ahmed ZakotAP - The Israeli military says its aircraft struck at a rocket squad that attacked Israel from the southern Gaza Strip, and Palestinians officials report that two men were found dead in the area.



NUTS: Apple Loads Up on Patents, Battles a Stronger Samsung

Posted: 30 Oct 2011 11:32 PM PDT

Apple won a key patent that heralds further lawsuits against Android and Windows competitors, while Samsung shot ahead in sales but still struggles in the courtroom. News Under the Sun is a weekly column rounding up all the events on in the mobile industry. Want the news but don?t want it every day? Subscribe to ...


Why E-Commerce Will Weather A Down Economy

Posted: 30 Oct 2011 11:30 PM PDT

Guest post written by Rob Wight Rob Wight is the CEO and co-founder of Channel Intelligence, an e-commerce technology company. Unemployment in the United States still hovers around 9 percent. The stock market has more dips and peaks than a mountain road. And many Americans are uncertain about their financial future. But there is a ...


Explosions rock Yemeni airbase

Posted: 30 Oct 2011 10:42 PM PDT

Fighter jets destroyed in Sanaa, prompting authorities to close the nearby international airport.


Security In A World Of Instant-On Computing

Posted: 30 Oct 2011 10:59 PM PDT

Guest post written by Jan Zadak Jan Zadak is executive vice president of Global Sales & Enterprise Marketing at Hewlett-Packard. There is no question that technology is a key underpinning for the way we live and work. Every day, our digital worlds become exponentially larger. We are demanding instant access from anywhere and any device. ...


China invokes Waco siege in denouncing Dalai Lama

Posted: 30 Oct 2011 10:51 PM PDT

BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese state media denounced the Dalai Lama on Monday for his views on reincarnation, saying that the exiled Buddhist monk was trying to revise history, compounding his crimes as a separatist.


More Than Facebook: The Time Is Right For Social Business

Posted: 30 Oct 2011 10:23 PM PDT

Guest post written by Alistair Rennie Alistair Rennie is IBM?s general manager for social business. The era of social business is here and it is becoming clear just how transformative it will be. But many are still asking, "What does social business really mean?" Companies are increasingly adopting social media technologies, using Facebook to reach ...


Snow blankets eastern US ahead of Halloween

Posted: 30 Oct 2011 04:33 AM PDT

October snow proves a treat for skiers but a nasty trick for many, causing travel chaos and power outages.


Saudi police arrest Canadian imam at Hajj

Posted: 30 Oct 2011 11:02 PM PDT

Witnesses say police beat prominent Shia Muslim leader from Edmonton who travelled to the kingdom for annual pilgrimage.


Thais hope flooded factories back up in 3 months

Posted: 30 Oct 2011 09:58 PM PDT

BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thailand hopes industrial estates swamped in the country's worst floods in half a century can be up and running again within three months, the prime minister said on Monday, as the center of the capital finally appeared to have escaped inundation.


VIDEO: 'Shocktober': Snow hits US East Coast

Posted: 30 Oct 2011 09:23 PM PDT

More than three million homes on America's east coast are without power after electricity supplies were knocked out by an unseasonably early snow storm.


Don't call our satellite 'space junk'

Posted: 30 Oct 2011 06:20 AM PDT

For thousands of astrophysicists around the world, the German Roentgen satellite ("ROSAT") was no mere rubbish; it was an old and important friend.


Jibril: Chemical weapons sites found in Libya

Posted: 30 Oct 2011 05:25 PM PDT

Two sites containing chemical weapons were found in Libya, National Transitional Council's outgoing prime minister Mahmoud Jibril said Sunday.


China's Pang Da, Fresh From Purchase Of Saab Stake, Says Net Gained

Posted: 30 Oct 2011 10:00 PM PDT

Shanghai-listed Pang Da Automobile Trade, the Chinese auto distributor led by billionaire Pang Qinghua that last week wrapped up an agreement??to buy part of troubled Saab Automobile, reported an increase in net??profit for third quarter today. Net??income for the three months to September rose by 92% to 299 million yuan, on sales that increased by ...


Citi's EMI Sale To Blavatnik On Hold?

Posted: 30 Oct 2011 09:58 PM PDT

It seems the music has stopped for EMI and Len Blavatnik--at least for now.


Deadly blast near UN building in Kandahar

Posted: 30 Oct 2011 11:03 PM PDT

Taliban claims responsibility for explosion which killed four people in southern Afghanistan.


VIDEO: 'Shocktober': Snow hits US East Coast

Posted: 30 Oct 2011 09:23 PM PDT

More than three million homes on America's east coast are without power after electricity supplies were knocked out by an unseasonably early snow storm.


Attack near UN guest house kills 3 in Afghanistan (AP)

Posted: 30 Oct 2011 09:39 PM PDT

FILE - In this Feb. 7, 2007 file photo, Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction (SIGIR) Stuart Bowen, center, flanked by then  IRS Commissioner Mark Everson, left, and then Deputy Attorney General Paul McNulty, gestures during a news conference at the Justice Department in Washington to announce the indictment of three former U.S. Army officers and two U.S. civilians as part of a bid-rigging scam that steered millions of dollars of Iraq reconstruction projects to a contractor in exchange for cash, luxury cars, jewelry and other pricey goods. As the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan wind down, the number of people indicted and convicted by the U.S. for bribery, theft and other reconstruction-related crimes in both countries is rapidly rising, according to two government reports released Sunday, Oct. 30, 2011. 'This is a boom industry for us,' Bowen said in an interview. (AP Photo/Kevin Wolf, File)AP - A suicide bomber rammed an explosives-laden vehicle into a checkpoint in a neighborhood near a guest house used by the United Nations in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar early Monday, killing three guards, Afghan officials said.