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...microprocessor in it could potentially hook up to your home network, either for content delivery or home automation," says Chris Kaminski, editor and founder of HomeNetHelp.com a networking-advice website based in Ferndale, Mich. In such a setup, the computer becomes a peripheral, just one other machine being fed from the outside. And your broadband-service provider would become your source for movies, music and games. The first step is to establish standards that allow providers to deliver these services to individual homes and control how content is used and distributed throughout that home's network. A cable standard...
...Arthur Andersen just get its call from the governor? Former CEO Joseph Berardino resigned last month convinced that the Justice Department's decision to indict the firm had been its death warrant; former Fed chief Paul Volcker, appointed earlier this year to oversee a restructuring effort, thought so as well. And the I-word has sparked a stampede of clients and overseas partners...
...then there's the Fed, for who a virtual tax on consumers and businesses means only one thing - higher prices, without higher profits or faster growth. High energy costs will force Alan Greenspan to step in with interest-rate hikes much sooner than he would like in order to control prices and avoid that 70s bogeyman, stagflation. The very thing that is helping the Middle East push those energy prices up - the nascent U.S. and global economic recovery - could be those price hikes' first victim...
These days Cramer pursues a media career full time, mainly on CNBC and Bloomberg Radio. In his book, Confessions of a Street Addict, you learn why he gave up trading for a living. Basically, Cramer got fed up with Cramer--not liking the obsessed lunatic he'd become and deciding to quit before he went certifiably bonkers. A lot of folks thought he had passed that threshold long...
...country's new provinces and a recently passed defense bill that allows the military to dispatch troops without presidential consent as signs of growing military influence. Some see this as Megawati's way of repaying favors to the generals who enabled her smooth transition to power after they grew fed up with the erratic rule of Abdurrahman Wahid. "The military has nothing to fear under Megawati," says Kivlan Zen, a retired general. "She owes them...