Stephen Goldsmith a high-profile deputy to Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg

Stephen Goldsmith a high-profile deputy to Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg...

Stephen Goldsmith, a high-profile deputy to Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg who came under fire for the city’s poor response to a crippling blizzard in December, announced on Thursday that he would leave his position after just 14 months in office.

Mr. Goldsmith, a former mayor of Indianapolis, was brought in by Mr. Bloomberg last year with much fanfare: a Harvard professor and expert in innovation poached from the ivory tower to reinvent city government.

Stock market plunge U.S. economy far from robust recovery

Stock market plunge U.S. economy far from robust recovery ...

Thursday's stock market plunge was a reminder that the U.S. economy remains far from the sort of robust recovery that would swell tax coffers and sink unemployment rates. While we feel the need to caution readers that a one-day drop in the Dow of 512.76 points, even on top of several days of losses, can lead to overreactions, there are a few troubling aspects to this development.

US markets fear recession

US markets fear recession ...

Concerns over the weak U.S. recovery and Europe's inability to tame its spreading debt crisis have turned an intense spotlight on the monthly non-farm payrolls report.

"The report is going to be very critical. One of the things that has been the largest headwind to economic growth has been the high unemployment rate," said Jason Ware, a senior research analyst at Albion Financial Group in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Kraft Foods Inc. (KFT) is splitting up in two Companies

Kraft Foods Inc. (KFT) is splitting up in two Companies ...

NEW YORK (Dow Jones)--Kraft Foods Inc. (KFT) is splitting up in two, putting its global snacks and North American grocery businesses in separate baskets.

The surprise move, announced Thursday, comes after Kraft last year became the second largest global food company with its acquisition of Cadbury PLC.

Software AG: Only a quarter of the digital workflow

Software AG: Only a quarter of the digital workflow...

The digital change is still far from complete: so far are only 20 to 25 percent of the digitized work processes in the company, said the head of Software AG, Karl-Heinz Streibich, on Monday at the CeBIT IT fair in Hanover.

A new postal code online use of Apple appears: Mall Parquesur in Madrid

A new postal code online use of Apple appears: Mall Parquesur in Madrid...
Many of you what you have sent to us using our contact form: Apple job page has appeared a new location in which the company seeks staff: postcode 28916 Madrid, where the Parquesur shopping center in the area of Leganés. Therefore arouse suspicions of a new Apple Store in the Centre.

Federal Network Agency reduced termination charges final

The rates for calling to mobile phones could go on. The Federal Network Agency on Thursday set the new mobile termination charges are fixed for good. Accordingly, the four mobile network operators may retroactively from 1 December 2010 to just over half as much cash for calls from competitors' networks as before.

Apple products came in third highest-grossing films of 2010

In the past we talked about Apple's close relationship with Hollywood and the television industry but recent data underline and confirm what many already guessed: Apple is the true and undisputed king of product placement. Many remember the iPad slipping at the Grammy Awards, details of Wall-E or Toy Story 3 iMac but things are going much further.

Swisscom earned less because of Fastweb's daughter

Provisions for the Italian broadband subsidiary Fastweb, Swisscom has the lower profit last year. Sales of the largest telecommunications company in Switzerland was very light.

VAT and free cancellations: the regulator out of his silence

The regulator, the DGCCRF, remind operators of their duties and rights of consumers facing rate increases of fixed and mobile packages.....more

Cancellations without charge: Frédéric Lefebvre reminds operators to order

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Faced with the unwillingness of some operators, the Secretary of State for Consumer Affairs requires that the obstacles can be overcome on the road of subscribers wishing to leave their suppliers.....more

Companies: SFR launches new range of Fixed Mobile Unified Communications

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Corporate Business Pack can include assigning a single phone number to a landline, mobile and relocate the standard. The offer was made in close collaboration with Microsoft. Explanations with Paul Corbel, SFR Business Team boss.....more

Marketshare: Hot time for Apple, Google, and RIM

The latest figures from Nielsen show that the situation between the owners of smartphones in the United States has become very hot, and some of the figures compiled by the company are nothing short of interesting....more

Camilla appears on radio soap opera on

Prince Charles' wife Camilla is playing with in a soap opera. The Duchess of Cornwall will perform in the BBC Radio series "The Archers", as the British broadcaster said. The royal visit was announced on Wednesday during the show. The 63-year-old will her role as president of the National Osteoporosis Society in appearance to enter into....more

Amazon invites the Oracle Database engine in its cloud services

The supply of public cloud of Amazon is growing. The company tells us the service and storage S3 (Simple Storage Service) knows an unstoppable rise, notes Silicon.fr ...more

A quarter of the app are used only once

People are buying molbili device must have some discretion about how to use their apps, with 26 percent of downloaded applications that are used only once in their life on a device...more

Head virtual VISA payments in Europe

The iWallett is a step closer to reality. Visa Europe today announced and launched the first commercial use of payments via iPhone. The news of an iPhone can use the NFC going crazy in the last few weeks, and we do not be surprised to see a new phone to Apple can make payments quickly and secure digital, replacing our credit cards...more

Apple has the largest gain in smartphone market

If you are crying because Android has become the most popular smartphone operating system ever, and Apple is losing a few percentage points, do not worry, because the accounts are always done in the bank. Although Apple has in fact only 4.2 percent of the entire mobile phone market (considering not only smartphones, then) the company of Jobs alone takes 51 percent of earnings in the sector...more

Openleaks founder defends his project

Wikileaks had not only to withstand the stresses caused by external pressure from governments and institutions during the past year. Also there at the very heart of the organization on account of, among other things, the leadership of Julian Assange. Openleaks can be understood as a result of these disagreements and no better than its founder Daniel Berg Domscheit to tell these and many more...more

Nintendo saw its profits drop by 74% over the last nine months

Faced with declining sales of its Wii and DS, Nintendo has released a revenue decline of 31.7% on year for the period April to December 2010. The group anticipates a 60% fall in profits at the end of its fiscal year...more