Football Hall of Famers Want to Tackle EA in Court

On September 29, 2009

Football Hall of Famers Want to Tackle EA in Court

Two retired NFL players on Monday asked a judge to let them formally support a former college quarterback's legal fight with video game maker Electronic Arts. Herb Adderley and Jim Brown asked U.S. District Court Judge Claudia Wilken to let them file the legal document in support of former Nebraska Cornhusker Sam Keller, who sued EA and the NCAA in Oakland federal court last year.
On September 29, 2009

Starbucks Goes All Out in Via Instant Coffee Launch

Today is the national launch of Via instant coffee, and Starbucks is throwing itself into promoting the new product. Via first appeared in Chicago, Seattle and London stores several months ago, but now the coffee is making its debut across the U.S. and Canada. The official pitch is that Via is comparable to fresh-brewed coffee -- in fact, it's supposedly so superior it should hardly be considered as being in the same product category with existing instant coffee brands. As CEO Howard Schultz put it, Via will "transform the coffee industry." Starbucks has spent more on promoting Via than on any other product in its history. The company has bought television ads and created a mini web series, and it's...
On September 29, 2009

Best Posts of the Week (Sept. 29, 2009)

Whoops! We may be a day late with this weekly roundup, but a dollar short? Definitely not. Just look at what you missed, or overlooked, or should look at again, from last week: Start Using Microsoft Office Web Apps -- Today Find Broken Links in Your Word Documents with Document Hyperlink Checker Create Community Forums with Zoho Discussions Stop E-mail Hackers Cold with Tripwi.re Use Twitter on the Sly with Spreadtweet LapLink Simplifies XP-to-Windows-7 Migration How to Get Windows 7 Cheap or Free Say, what post(s) did you like best last week -- and why? We'd love to hear your thoughts!
On September 29, 2009

Hydrogen, the Dream Fuel, Shifts From Cars to Houses

Hydrogen has certainly taken its lumps in the ongoing debate over renewable energy. When President Bush provided a budget for research into using hydrogen in cars, he also kicked off a support movement that agitated continually in favor of hydrogen -- although many of its members appeared to not be aware that it had to be made from natural gas, at a significant net energy loss. The movement died down over time, helped along by an attempt from new Department of Energy head Steven Chu to kill hydrogen funding. Now, aside from a few lingering efforts by major car companies to draw attention to hydrogen fuel cells, it's rare to hear much about it. But wait -- enter the hydrogen-powered...
On September 29, 2009

New FDIC Proposal Aids Banks In Declaring Brighter Balance-Sheets

On the surface, it seems quite sensible that banks ought to prepay Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) premiums through 2012 in order to give the regulator some much-needed cash. A total 95 bank failures this year has left FDIC-coffers dry, to the tune of around $42 billion, according to reports. The pre-payment of premiums would give it another $45 billion in cash, helping it to soften the projected $100 billion blow created by further banking failures through 2013, according to officials. But as observers have pointed out before, the FDIC doesn't actually need to collect a pre-payment of premiums to do its job. That's because it already has a credit line of $500 billion, or roughly five times the amount...
On September 29, 2009

Easily Customize Your Print-Outs from Internet Explorer with Printee

Web pages are pretty much designed to waste ink. They're packed with frames and banners and ads and all sorts of debris that you don't want or need when you try to print something. You can choose to print a selection, and that sometimes helps, but you've probably found yourself wishing you could just select the parts of a page you want to print -- or not print. Amazingly, you can now do exactly that. Printee for Internet Explorer lets you click areas of a Web page to include -- or exclude -- from a print. Just select Printee instead of the usual print button from Internet Explorer's toolbar, and you'll get this elaborate new print setup control:   It...
On September 29, 2009

Emerging Economies to Lead Global Economic Growth

Emerging markets, not mature economies, will drive global financial growth in years to come, concludes a new report by the McKinsey Global Institute (registration required). Countries in Asia, Latin America and other developing regions got soaked last year as housing and credit bubbles in the U.S. and Western Europe popped. China took the biggest bath, with a $2.4 trillion decline in total financial assets. Rounding out the top 10 biggest losers were Russia ($800 billion decline); India ($600 billion); Brazil, Saudi Arabia and South Korea ($200 billion); and Israel, Malaysia, South Africa and the United Arab Emirates ($100 billion). In all, emerging economy financial assets fell by $5 trillion in 2008, showing that the perils of globalization can be as...
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