June 27, 2006

Well Put

http://www.itwire.com.au/content/view/4765/106/
"As a casual non-European observer, where technology is concerned, one would have to be a little bit frightened about what is taking place on the Continent right now. With the rest of Europe looking on approvingly, France and the Scandinavian triumvirate of Sweden, Denmark and Norway are attempting to censure Apple for tying one piece of its intellectual property to another piece of its intellectual property."

Posted by isam at 09:50 AM | Comments (0)

June 26, 2006

EBAY

Seriously, DUH!

"A study by South Korean physicists confirms what some of us have taken for granted for a long time: a single bid at end of auction nets the most wins. From the article: 'Plugging all those data into the model and testing the outcome in terms of how the auctions turned out, the team found that the probability of submitting a winning bid on an item indeed drops with each bid. "Our analysis explicitly shows that the winning strategy is to bid at the last moment as the first attempt rather than incremental bidding from the start." The study appears in the current Physical Review E journal.'"

Posted by isam at 02:42 PM | Comments (0)

June 25, 2006

BRAVO

http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/060625/buffett_s_benevolence.html?.v=13

"The world's second-richest man, Warren Buffett, became one of the world's biggest philanthropists Sunday with the announcement that he would bequeath the bulk of his roughly $44 billion fortune to the foundation established by billionaire Bill Gates and his wife."

Posted by isam at 09:25 PM | Comments (0)

June 02, 2006

Will the real Sammy G Please Stand Up

http://www.sammyg.moonfruit.com/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/birmingham/faith/2004/02/sammy_g.shtml

Posted by isam at 12:26 AM | Comments (0)