Week numbers in Google Calendar

One would think this is an easy peasy feature to add, in business it's useful anyway. I finally found something that seems to work reliably and display week numbers on sunday or monday depending on when you start your week. go to Google Calendar Week Numbers

our financial industry partnership

I'm very excited by our new partnership in the financial indsutry go have a look at our news release.

Remember Gordon Gekko - why him now?

Read the post here When Greed Is Good.  I find it odd that in the times we are now, that good old Gekko would be right on something! This was a great movie needless to say. Gekko was far from being respectable and represents every thing the people in the US (main street as the in the know people say) now despise of WallStreet. Still let's face it the US is the US, where on the NewHampshire plate one can read "Live Free or Die", my point - it's the land of show me the money attitude. One where regulations are not going to do half as good as the entrepreneurs who wants to make a buck stepping up to the table and putting on some bets. Let's make sure this time that if they cook up something like the mortgage mess we're in some guidelines will be in place to catch the problem early.

I read the post and I thought he is right about banking on the private money to get this mess in ord order. When I go one step further, I know the private money will find a ways to make a lot of money out of this, and not all of the ways really good for the long term. When longterm is no longer considered, or even mid term, we're in trouble, this is where I think a little more intervention from the state is necessary, as much as I think regulations are no good they are legitimate.

from the fun to talk about department - President Elect's blackberry

It's no secret that Obama thinks very highly of his blackberry. Several times we've read that he was dreading the prospects of giving it up for security reason now that he is the most powerful man in the world. The NYT has an interesting slant to the story. They are trying to put a value to such endorsment, is it 10M, or 50M that RIM would have to pay? In a way the fact that it's all genuine, no strings attached is making Obama's comments about the Blackberry even more valuable. At the end of the day kudos to RIM for creating such a great product such that someone of the stature of Obama is endorsing it publicly to the world! Congrats RIM!

Blackberry vs IPhone

It's the third of fourth time I stumple on this story. Basically it speaks about the fight RIM and Apple are on for the smart phone market. The new products from RIM (Storm, Flip, Bold) have been good for RIM to get their momentum back from apple. Apple is really closing in fast on RIM though, and RIM can't sit on their laurels too long. The bit that is most interesting to me is the perception of consummers toward the storm vs the iphone. Analyst are all up in arms about the fact that iPhone has 77% of its owners 'very satisfied' about their iPhone, and RIM only has 33%. It's an important data point, still is it that important? Since when are Apple owners not hugely proud of their apple wares, and since when business users (read BB owners) are all emotional and franctic about their BB. We're speaking of two kind of people, one looking for the cool, simple and the remarkable experience - the apple brand promise. The second group looking for the device that will work, will be reliable, get the job done - Blackberry brand promise. Any thoughts?