Thursday, August 25, 2011

How it works

How it works


How Apple works: Inside the world's biggest startup

Posted: 25 Aug 2011 08:34 AM PDT

Apple doesn't often fail, and when it does, it isn't a pretty sight at 1 Infinite Loop. In the summer of 2008, when Apple launched the first version of its iPhone that worked on third-generation mobile networks, it also debuted MobileMe, an e-mail system that was supposed to provide the seamless synchronization features that corporate users love about their BlackBerry smartphones. MobileMe was a ...

The Steve Jobs Formula and Why It Works

Posted: 25 Aug 2011 08:46 AM PDT

Those of us who lived and worked in the glorious, adventurous era of computing that was the late 1970s and early '80s have a different perspective. I was a consultant and developer before I became a journalist in 1984. My colleagues from that time and I frame the iPhone and iPad in the broader context of a bigger history. The iPhone, I've seen and heard over the past several hours, has changed ...

How To Short A Bank Stock Despite A Short-Selling Ban

Posted: 25 Aug 2011 09:39 AM PDT

As the market freaks out over Europe's banks, Europe's financial regulators have enacted a short-selling ban on bank stocks. The AMF, the French stock market regulator, just announced it would extend the ban, which applies to financial firms, which are : the April Group, Axa, BNP Paribas , CIC , CNP Assurances, Crédit Agricole, Euler Hermès, Natixis, Paris Ré, Scor and Société Générale.

Stay-at-home mom misses career

Posted: 25 Aug 2011 09:16 AM PDT

Q. I have two children ages four and six, whom I love, but I get easily frustrated with the routines of being a stay-at-home mom. It sometimes makes me very short-tempered with the kids, and I'm often exhausted and resentful by the time my husband gets home, as he works late.

Leadership Lessons From Burning Man

Posted: 25 Aug 2011 08:03 AM PDT

Think the annual arts fest in the Nevada desert is nothing more than a week-long bacchanal? Think again. It's a a master class in how to create awesomeness. It's easy to dismiss Burning Man as nothing more than a bizarre hippie love-fest that takes place deep in the Nevada desert every year the week before Labor Day. But doing so misses the fact that it's an amazingly successful enterprise--and ...

Re-enactor takes pride in Civil War history

Posted: 24 Aug 2011 03:59 PM PDT

Every Civil War re-enactor tends to focus on parts of the war he finds most interesting, said William Polachek of Mountain Top.Polachek favors material culture and the life of the soldier."I know every battle out there and how it was fought," he said.

AP IMPACT: Some 9/11 charities failed miserably

Posted: 25 Aug 2011 08:40 AM PDT

Americans eager to give after the 9/11 terrorist attacks poured $1.5 billion into hundreds of charities established to serve the victims, their families and their memories. But a decade later, an Associated Press investigation shows that many of those nonprofits have failed miserably.

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