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Business - Sep 3, 2010 21:03 - 1 Comment

Obama's Recovery Summer fizzles as fall looms

WASHINGTON — Like all those big-budget Hollywood movies that generate buzz but bomb at the box office, the Obama administration’s much-ballyhooed “Recovery Summer” closed Friday with a Labour Day weekend whimper.

The bad news came in the form an August employment report showing the U.S. economy generated just 67,000 new private sector jobs in August — tepid statistics that have the White House and Democrats headed into a fall of political peril.

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Technology - Oct 30, 2010 11:55 - 1 Comment

Apple's latest MacBook Air laptop review

The 2010 MacBook Air models offer impressive improvements in both design and in performance when compared to previous MacBook Airs. But with just 2GB of RAM and the slowest Intel Core 2 Duo processors in the entire Mac lineup, we were interested in putting some of the build-to-order options to the test.

Luckily, our local Apple Store was more than happy to sell us the “ultimate” configurations of the MacBook Airs with twice the RAM and faster processors. The ultimate 11-inch MacBook Air takes the $1199 MacBook Air ( Macworld rated 4.5 out of 5 mice ) and adds 2GB of RAM (4GB of RAM total) and bumps the processor from the stock 1.4GHz Core 2 Duo to a 1.6GHz Core 2 Duo processor.

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Money - Oct 30, 2010 11:16 - 2 Comments

YouTube CEO Chad Hurley to resign

Chad Hurley, co-founder and chief executive of YouTube Inc., is no longer.

He is still the co-founder (and he always will be), but the 33 year-old streaming video baron said Thursday evening that he was quitting his job as CEO of Google Inc.’s video division.

“Right now I am in the process of transitioning into the role of adviser,” Mr. Hurley told assembled participants of the Founders International Web conference in Dublin Thursday evening, according to the U.K.’s Guardian newspaper. “Stepping down still being involved in the company but it’s given me an opportunity to work on new projects,” he said.

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