Monthly Archives: January 2011

JPMorgan’s CEO Dimon Says More U.S. Municipalities May File for Bankruptcy

Posted on January 13, 2011 by mea

“If you are an investor in municipals you should be very, very careful,” Dimon said at the conference. via JPMorgan’s CEO Dimon Says More U.S. Municipalities May File for Bankruptcy – Bloomberg.

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Algorithms take control of Wall Street

Posted on January 11, 2011 by mea

Lexicon packages the news in a way that its robo-clients can understand. It scans every Dow Jones story in real time, looking for textual clues that might indicate how investors should feel about a stock. It then sends that information … Continue reading →

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INSANELY awesome solar eclipse picture

Posted on January 4, 2011 by mea

Earlier today Europe, Asia, and Africa got to see a nice partial solar eclipse as the Moon passed in front of the Sun, blocking as much as 85% of the solar surface. The extraordinarily talented astrophotographer Thierry Legault traveled from … Continue reading →

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2010 in IP addresses: 225 million down, 496 million to go

Posted on January 3, 2011 by mea

As of January 1, 2011, the number of unused IPv4 addresses stands at 495.66 million. Exactly a year earlier, the number of available addresses was 721.06 million. So we collectively used up 225.4 million addresses in 2010. 242 million, really, … Continue reading →

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