Tumblr (3.0; @talisikid)http://talisikid.tumblr.com/<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/521a7b222a12f8263be6259d98d83c9a/tumblr_mfsthxX2mo1roxy4to1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><blockquote><p><a href="http://flip.it/rAaFy">Chinese tea farmers are switching to coffee</a><br/> By David Pierson, Los Angeles Times, <a href="http://flip.it/rAaFy">latimes.com</a></p> <p>BUSINESS</p><p>More lucrative than growing tea, coffee enjoys a new popularity among China’s younger generation with a thirst for Starbucks and Nestle.</p><p>PU’ER, China — This remote south­west­ern city near the bor­ders of Laos and Myan­mar is named af…</p> </blockquote>http://talisikid.tumblr.com/post/39129316100http://talisikid.tumblr.com/post/39129316100Sat, 29 Dec 2012 10:25:09 -0500<a href="http://talisikid.tumblr.com/post/27886406345/business-meets-politics">Untitled: Business Meets Politics</a>: <p><a href="http://talisikid.tumblr.com/post/27886406345/business-meets-politics" class="tumblr_blog">talisikid</a>:</p> <blockquote><p>Just heard on Fox Business News that Dodd-Frank & new consumer protection agency was supposed to limit big banks but after the laws were written, they harm small banks instead, while protecting big banks. No duh. That’s been the pattern for several decades now. Who writes the laws? Who are the…</p></blockquote>http://talisikid.tumblr.com/post/27886444219http://talisikid.tumblr.com/post/27886444219Tue, 24 Jul 2012 00:04:40 -0400<p>Just heard on Fox Business News that Dodd-Frank &amp; new consumer protection agency was supposed to limit big banks but after the laws were written, they harm small banks instead, while protecting big banks. No duh. That&#8217;s been the pattern for several decades now. Who writes the laws? Who are the staffers? Who runs the agencies? That&#8217;s right, corporate/big business types. They write/implement laws to drive out their competition, esp small business. Who did they support last election? Obama. We must down size big business as much as we do big gov.</p>http://talisikid.tumblr.com/post/27886406345http://talisikid.tumblr.com/post/27886406345Tue, 24 Jul 2012 00:04:09 -0400<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3a6q9HVPE1roxy4to1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><blockquote><p><a href="http://gigaom.com/2012/04/29/the-phone-is-poised-to-usurp-the-computing-throne/">The phone is poised to usurp the PC’s throne</a><br/> By John SanGiovanni, Zumobi, <a href="http://gigaom.com/2012/04/29/the-phone-is-poised-to-usurp-the-computing-throne/">gigaom.com</a></p> <p>No one dis­putes the trans­for­ma­tive change that desk­top and mobile com­put­ing plat­forms have had on human com­mu­ni­ca­tion in recent years. While the hier­ar­chy of these devices is con­tin­u­ous­ly evolv­ing, phones are increas­ing­ly…</p> </blockquote>http://talisikid.tumblr.com/post/22112157752http://talisikid.tumblr.com/post/22112157752Mon, 30 Apr 2012 03:13:20 -0400<a href="http://mashable.com/2012/04/29/self-driving-cars/">Do People Really Want Self-Driving Cars?</a>: <blockquote><p>Mashable Video, <a href="http://mashable.com/2012/04/29/self-driving-cars/">mashable.com</a></p> <p>Who wants a self dri­ving car? Researchers at J.D. Power and As­so­ciates con­duct­ed a study to find out who would be will­ing to buy a car with such futur­is­tic fea­tures, and the reac­tion was cer­tain­ly not unan­i­mous. In this video, Adam F…</p> </blockquote>http://talisikid.tumblr.com/post/22112151822http://talisikid.tumblr.com/post/22112151822Mon, 30 Apr 2012 03:13:08 -0400<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3a6nsXFbd1roxy4to1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><blockquote><p><a href="http://mashable.com/2012/04/29/video-job-interviews/">Students Studying Abroad: Take Advantage of Video Job Interviews</a><br/> Josh Tolan, <a href="http://mashable.com/2012/04/29/video-job-interviews/">mashable.com</a></p> <p><i>Josh Tolan is the CEO of Spark Hire, which com­bines a video job board and online inter­view­ing plat­form to enrich inter­ac­tion between job seek­ers and employ­ers. Con­nect with him and Spark Hire on Face­book and Twit­ter.</i></p><p>Study­ing…</p> </blockquote>http://talisikid.tumblr.com/post/22112121194http://talisikid.tumblr.com/post/22112121194Mon, 30 Apr 2012 03:11:52 -0400<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3a6mroyrV1roxy4to1_400.jpg"/><br/><br/><blockquote><p><a href="http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-google-probe-20120429,0,7046776.story">Full FCC report on Google Street View reveals new details</a><br/> By Jessica Guynn, Los Angeles Times, <a href="http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-google-probe-20120429,0,7046776.story">latimes.com</a></p> <p>The Google engi­neer who wrote the code enabling Street View cars to cap­ture data from unpro­tect­ed wire­less net­works told fel­low engi­neers and a man­ag­er that he had done so, the FCC report says.</p><p>SAN FRAN­CIS­CO — New rev­e­la­tions in a…</p> </blockquote>http://talisikid.tumblr.com/post/22112105083http://talisikid.tumblr.com/post/22112105083Mon, 30 Apr 2012 03:11:15 -0400<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3a6kltW4C1roxy4to1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><blockquote><p><a href="http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/04/ranger-12-a-1964-proposal-to-extend-the-ranger-lunar-program-1964/">Ranger 12? A 1964 Proposal to Extend the Ranger Lunar Program</a><br/> By David S. F. Portree, <a href="http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/04/ranger-12-a-1964-proposal-to-extend-the-ranger-lunar-program-1964/">wired.com</a></p> <p>In the sum­mer and fall of 1962, NASA Head­quar­ters planned at least 18 mis­sions in the Ranger series. Some would have imaged the moon’s sur­face to cer­ti­fy poten­tial Apol­lo land­ing sites, while oth­ers would have had a more pure­ly…</p> </blockquote>http://talisikid.tumblr.com/post/22112072822http://talisikid.tumblr.com/post/22112072822Mon, 30 Apr 2012 03:09:57 -0400<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3a6icmwho1roxy4to1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><blockquote><p><a href="http://www.theverge.com/2012/4/29/2986862/hp-pavilion-dv6t-dv7t-ivy-bridge-laptops-available">HP’s Pavillion dv6t and dv7t laptops updated with Ivy Bridge processors, shipping on May 8th</a><br/> By Nathan Ingraham, <a href="http://www.theverge.com/2012/4/29/2986862/hp-pavilion-dv6t-dv7t-ivy-bridge-laptops-available">theverge.com</a></p> <p>Intel offi­cial­ly launched its long-awaited Ivy Bridge proces­sors last week, and since then a num­ber of man­u­fac­tur­ers have released new prod­ucts tak­ing advan­tage of this new archi­tec­ture. HP’s already launched some new desk­tops, and n…</p> </blockquote>http://talisikid.tumblr.com/post/22112038690http://talisikid.tumblr.com/post/22112038690Mon, 30 Apr 2012 03:08:36 -0400<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3a6h691Zh1roxy4to1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><blockquote><p><a href="http://gigaom.com/cleantech/why-solar-will-thrive-in-india-coal-is-a-mess/">Why solar will thrive in India: coal is a mess</a><br/> By Katie Fehrenbacher, <a href="http://gigaom.com/cleantech/why-solar-will-thrive-in-india-coal-is-a-mess/">gigaom.com</a></p> <p>India is strug­gling to add more elec­tric­i­ty capac­i­ty for the coun­try’s rapid­ly grow­ing econ­o­my, but the domes­tic coal indus­try is an absolute mess, points out arti­cles in the New York Times and the Econ­o­mist this month. That…</p> </blockquote>http://talisikid.tumblr.com/post/22112020571http://talisikid.tumblr.com/post/22112020571Mon, 30 Apr 2012 03:07:54 -0400<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3a6g1XuCZ1roxy4to1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><blockquote><p><a href="http://gigaom.com/mobile/as-mobile-data-zooms-voice-sms-revenues-slow/">Mobile data is growing, but voice & sms slowing</a><br/> By Om Malik, <a href="http://gigaom.com/mobile/as-mobile-data-zooms-voice-sms-revenues-slow/">gigaom.com</a></p> <p>The iPhones, the Androids, the iPads and hot-spots — what­ev­er might be the devices, but one thing is for sure: the demand for mobile broad­band is con­tin­u­ing to grow unabat­ed. Two dif­fer­ent reports, one from Aka­mai and anoth­er from Cheta…</p> </blockquote>http://talisikid.tumblr.com/post/22112003194http://talisikid.tumblr.com/post/22112003194Mon, 30 Apr 2012 03:07:13 -0400<a href="http://techcrunch.com/2012/04/29/mccann-thetime/">McCann Invests $4M in Israeli Incubator ‘thetime’</a>: <blockquote><p>Roi Carthy, <a href="http://techcrunch.com/2012/04/29/mccann-thetime/">techcrunch.com</a></p> <p>With a $4M invest­ment, McCann World­group has bought a 15% stake in Israeli incu­ba­tor ‘thetime‘.</p><p>This move isn’t a par­tic­u­lar­ly sur­pris­ing con­sid­er­ing ‘thetime’ was found­ed by Ilan Shiloah, who for the past 10 years has been chair­m…</p> </blockquote>http://talisikid.tumblr.com/post/22111983094http://talisikid.tumblr.com/post/22111983094Mon, 30 Apr 2012 03:06:29 -0400<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3a5xuZ9gy1roxy4to1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><blockquote><p><a href="http://thenextweb.com/au/2012/04/30/australia-is-investigating-why-its-software-and-downloads-are-more-expensive-than-in-the-u-s/">Australia is investigating why its software and downloads are more expensive than in the U.S.</a><br/> Jon Russell, <a href="http://thenextweb.com/au/2012/04/30/australia-is-investigating-why-its-software-and-downloads-are-more-expensive-than-in-the-u-s/">thenextweb.com</a></p> <p>The Aus­tralian gov­ern­ment inves­ti­gat­ing the price of down­loads and soft­ware in the coun­try, as it bids to under­stand why com­pa­nies like Apple and Microsoft charge Aus­tralian cus­tomers more.</p><p>The House of Rep­re­sen­ta­tives is…</p> </blockquote>http://talisikid.tumblr.com/post/22111709359http://talisikid.tumblr.com/post/22111709359Mon, 30 Apr 2012 02:56:18 -0400<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3a5x3Tkm31roxy4to1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><blockquote><p><a href="http://www.engadget.com/2012/04/30/microsoft-research-home-automation-homeOS/">Microsoft Research wants to automate your house, introduces HomeOS</a><br/> Steve Dent, <a href="http://www.engadget.com/2012/04/30/microsoft-research-home-automation-homeOS/">engadget.com</a></p> <p>Ever won­dered if you could con­trol your house’s cli­mate, secu­ri­ty, and appli­ances — along with your PCs and periph­er­als — using Microsoft soft­ware? That day may soon dawn, as its Research arm has start­ed test­ing its home automa­tion…</p> </blockquote>http://talisikid.tumblr.com/post/22111697120http://talisikid.tumblr.com/post/22111697120Mon, 30 Apr 2012 02:55:51 -0400<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3a5lm5ZWg1roxy4to1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><blockquote><p><a href="http://thenextweb.com/uk/2012/04/30/online-food-ordering-giant-just-eat-gobbles-up-64-million-in-new-funding/">Online food ordering giant Just-Eat gobbles up $64 million in new funding</a><br/> Jon Russell, <a href="http://thenextweb.com/uk/2012/04/30/online-food-ordering-giant-just-eat-gobbles-up-64-million-in-new-funding/">thenextweb.com</a></p> <p>UK based Web take­away ser­vice Just-eat has raised $64 mil­lion in fresh fund­ing, led by Euro­pean pri­vate equi­ty firm Vit­ru­vian, which will help it funds its con­tin­ued expan­sion into new mar­kets.</p><p>The fund­ing is the com­pa­ny’s larges…</p> </blockquote>http://talisikid.tumblr.com/post/22111504395http://talisikid.tumblr.com/post/22111504395Mon, 30 Apr 2012 02:48:58 -0400<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3a5j94V8v1roxy4to1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><blockquote><p><a href="http://techcrunch.com/2012/04/29/opera-mini-now-has-169-million-users-56-of-them-only-use-the-mobile-web/">Opera Mini Now Has 169 Million Users, 56% Of Them Only Use The Mobile Web</a><br/> Frederic Lardinois, <a href="http://techcrunch.com/2012/04/29/opera-mini-now-has-169-million-users-56-of-them-only-use-the-mobile-web/">techcrunch.com</a></p> <p>On the desk­top, Opera‘s brows­er is only a minor play­er com­pared to Inter­net Explor­er, Fire­fox, Chrome and Safari, but as a mobile brows­er, Opera com­petes head-to-head with Apple and Google. World­wide, depend­ing on which sta­tis­tics you…</p> </blockquote>http://talisikid.tumblr.com/post/22111464202http://talisikid.tumblr.com/post/22111464202Mon, 30 Apr 2012 02:47:33 -0400<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3a5hjMWxZ1roxy4to1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><blockquote><p><a href="http://www.theverge.com/2012/4/30/2987891/warner-bros-inside-the-script-casablanca-ben-hur-ebook">Warner Bros. releases ‘Casablanca,’ ‘Ben-Hur,’ and other scripts as enhanced ebooks</a><br/> By Sam Byford, <a href="http://www.theverge.com/2012/4/30/2987891/warner-bros-inside-the-script-casablanca-ben-hur-ebook">theverge.com</a></p> <p>Warn­er Bros. has launched <i>Inside the Script</i>, a series of clas­sic movie scripts in ebook form that come com­plete with extra mate­ri­als from the films’ pro­duc­tion. Titles avail­able at launch include <i>Casablan­ca</i>, <i>North by…</i></p> </blockquote>http://talisikid.tumblr.com/post/22111435227http://talisikid.tumblr.com/post/22111435227Mon, 30 Apr 2012 02:46:31 -0400<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3a5giMKil1roxy4to1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><blockquote><p><a href="http://gigaom.com/broadband/south-korea-europe-rule-planet-broadband/">South Korea & Europe top broadband speeds & usage</a><br/> By Om Malik, <a href="http://gigaom.com/broadband/south-korea-europe-rule-planet-broadband/">gigaom.com</a></p> <p>South Korea has the high­est broad­band pen­e­tra­tion accord­ing to data col­lect­ed by Aka­mai, which oper­ates a glob­al con­tent deliv­ery net­work. The Cam­bridge, Mass.-based com­pa­ny sees the num­ber of con­nec­tions to its net­work and ma…</p> </blockquote>http://talisikid.tumblr.com/post/22111417974http://talisikid.tumblr.com/post/22111417974Mon, 30 Apr 2012 02:45:54 -0400<a href="http://mashable.com/follow/videos/1612408932001-from-hbo-go-to-netflix-the-list-of-app-style-programming-solutions-/">The Future of TV Apps, A Sensitive and Popular Topic</a>: <blockquote><p><a href="http://mashable.com/follow/videos/1612408932001-from-hbo-go-to-netflix-the-list-of-app-style-programming-solutions-/">mashable.com</a></p> </blockquote>http://talisikid.tumblr.com/post/22111339072http://talisikid.tumblr.com/post/22111339072Mon, 30 Apr 2012 02:43:09 -0400<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3a58z4loM1roxy4to1_500.png"/><br/><br/><blockquote><p><a href="http://www.theverge.com/2012/4/29/2987396/jailbroken-ipad-windowed-app-management-cydia-quasar">Jailbroken iPads get windowed app management courtesy of Quasar</a><br/> By Sam Byford, <a href="http://www.theverge.com/2012/4/29/2987396/jailbroken-ipad-windowed-app-management-cydia-quasar">theverge.com</a></p> <p>The iPad may be at the van­guard of Apple’s “post PC” rev­o­lu­tion, but if you’re feel­ing a lit­tle reluc­tant to leave the old ways behind then Pedro Franceschi may have just the trick. His Quasar tweak brings window-style app man­age­ment to t…</p> </blockquote>http://talisikid.tumblr.com/post/22111288295http://talisikid.tumblr.com/post/22111288295Mon, 30 Apr 2012 02:41:23 -0400