UTStarcom, Inc. (NASDAQ: UTSI) makes managerial changes

UTStarcom, Inc. (NASDAQ: UTSI) had a 3% increase in their share price after the company announced managerial changes on August 28, 2008. UTStarcom said their Chief Financial Officer and executive vice president Francis P. Barton will be retiring as of August 31, 2008. Mr. Barton currently is also on the board of [...]

Adaptec, Inc. (NASDAQ: ADPT) rises after acquisition announcement

Adaptec, Inc. (NASDAQ: ADPT) shares rose 3% over a day after the company announced they have agreed to acquire Aristos Logic . The definitive agreement was signed on August 28, 2008. Adaptec has agreed to pay approximately million for Aristos, a provider of RAID solutions. The Chief Executive [...]

Terrified by bailiffs

A frightened reader emails to ask what she can do about “terrifying” visits from bailiffs.
Teresa says: “We have been in serious debt and a really nasty aggressive bailiff called at my house, he shouted that I owed council tax had ten minutes to sort it or he would be coming in.
“Although I told him [...]

The Arctic Becomes an Island, Hurting Wildlife

For the first time in recorded human history, the Arctic has become an island to itself, completely separate from the landmasses that the Arctic ice normally stretches out onto. This distressingly historic event has been captured by NASA satellites, depicting both the Northwest and Northeast passages as ice free.
For the past few [...]

Amazon Deforestation on the Rise Again

With a constant need to look out for the planets ecosystems, it is always saddening to see that some governments simply are not. So when I saw the news that, over the past 12 months, deforestation in the Amazon rain forest had jumped 69%, I was literally shocked.
According to the National Institute for Space [...]

Amazon Deforestation on the Rise Again

With a constant need to look out for the planets ecosystems, it is always saddening to see that some governments simply are not. So when I saw the news that, over the past 12 months, deforestation in the Amazon rain forest had jumped 69%, I was literally shocked.
According to the National Institute for Space [...]

DNA nanotubes of programmed circumference for nanotechnology

The newest addition to the toolkit for using DNA as a nanotech building block is the ability to program the circumference of nanotubes made from DNA. From nanotechweb.org, written by Belle Dumé (requires free registration) ““:

Being able to synthesize nanostructures with controlled size is an important goal in nanotechnology. Now, researchers in the US have [...]

Meme that machine intelligence will surpass human intelligence gathers support

” by Stephen Shankland:

I hope Intel warned the Luddites and pessimists away at the door, because the chipmaker had a lot of bullish statements Thursday [August 21] about its belief that computers will become smarter than humans.
At the Intel Developer Forum here, Intel Chief Technology Officer Justin Rattner showed off a number of technologies in [...]

Football : Carthage Eagle attacker Chermiti will not play against Burkina Faso in World Cup qualifier

Tunis, August 29, 2008–It has just been announced in Tunis that the Carthage Eagles and Herha Berlin attacker Amine Chermiti, will not play against Burkina Faso on September 6, 2008 in Ouagadougou, in a combined African Cup and World Cup 2010 qualifier.
The attacker who suffered from a knee injury during a UEFA [...]

Creative Misspelling? Startegy?

Not my idea, unfortunately, but a nice play on words. We call this blog Up and Running, but what about Startegy, since it’s about starting up. No, sorry, it would always look like a typo.
The following is from on a blog called Metacool:
An innocuous typo I saw today got me thinking: What if we [...]