One can hardly expect MarketWatch, being in the Dow Jones stable of financial news powerhouses like the Wall Street Journal and Barrons to be the most impressive. But Marketwatch is making a superb case for itself with a)its independence of point of view and b)its willingness to take on major issues and not tow...
Jon Stewart of the Daily Show is making a case for being the best National News anchor. It shows how rotten the TV news has gotten when the Host with The Best F#@king News Team Ever and with the most baudy language, cheapshot headlines, and kiddies bathroom humor rises to the top of the...
Popular Mechanics has a very interesting article in its July 2010 issue – Energyland – The Race to Cheap, Sustainable Power. On the cover of the magazine PM promises “The truth about energy”, “No more hype-real world ideas to power our future”, “Debunking myths about: wind power, solar, shale oil, bio fuels”, “The Clean...
As noted here news coverage in the US TV media has been faltering badly, with Fox News being allowed to employ blatant lies and distortions while defiantly proclaiming itself as a source of “fair and balanced coverage”. But other networks, seeing Fox anomalous ratings success [the more you prolong and comfort public misconceptions the...
Takethe5th modestly notes that it has scooped the NYTimes on its Apple Bully Boy story. In today’s NYTimes the story headlined for the Technology section is: Long the Upstart, Apple Plays New Role: Goliath. Here is a summary of the NYTimes storyline: Apple is now seen by some as an anti-competitive...
BAM Investor has rattled Wall Street cages by releasing a prediction of a $45 Apple stock price as of 3rd quarter 2010, latest 1st quarter 2011. Ha! Poppycock and nonsense. Apple as of June 23 end of day is at $270 and the cash and equivalents alone is north of $27/share. Who do these...
For the past few weeks, a Labor revolt has been occurring in China … with hardly a peep about it in the TV media. First, there were the string of suicides at the Foxconn plant in Shenzhen which employs nearly 500,000 workers alone and manufactures almost all of Apple and Dell electronics and a...
Progress on smartphones and tablets which are touch and gesture enabled are moving so rapidly that laptops and PCs are in danger of becoming redundant. Well if not redundant, consigned to specialized development tasks. What has happened is that woefully untapped need for touch-enabled computing has been explosively released first with the iPhone then...
Takethe5th has been following the Apple versus Adobe debate with a bit of a jaundiced eye – wondering how Flash video and all its broad range of applications can run so fast on Windows yet slow on Macs . Adobe claims that the latest Flash player 10.1 has not been tuned quite...
There is no doubt that there is an emerging contest open now for becoming the next and new World Financial Center. The opportunity broke with the breakdown of financial responsibility on Wall Street and European financial centers plus the caving of fiscal discipline by many...
Both fascinating and frustrating reading. The story of Joseph Needham collecting together the history and legacy of China's technological triumph's is utterly fascinating. But frustrating is the failure of Winchester to shed clear light on why a)China did not already have such a hitorical trove in Beijing and b) why did China miss out on the Industrial Revolution while Japan, even more reclusive, did not.
