Archive for March, 2009

Accountants to Cause the Banking Crisis

Friday, March 6th, 2009

Via Martin Varsavsky, I find a WSJ article where Steve Forbes gives a provoking view on the roots of the Banking Crisis. Mark-to-market or "fair value" accounting for financial institutions was re-established in 2007 in USA. The Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) rules that the balance sheet must reflect the "market" value ...

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Boxee: Hulu’s Dilemma

Monday, March 2nd, 2009

Boxee is getting so successful that many of its users are seriously considering to stop their Pay-TV subscriptions. Boxee is a cool open source software for Media Centers based on Mac or Ubuntu. This software transforms a Mac Mini, Apple TV or any Linux small-form PC into a social network  set-top-box. ...

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