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Accused 911 Terrorists Were Reading The Economist At Their Arraignment

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At the 911 terrorist arraignment at Gunatanamo this past Saturday, one detainee, Ali Abd al Aziz Ali, reportedly appeared to be reading the Economist magazine.   At one point, he handed it to a detainee sitting behind him, Mustafa al Hawsawi, who leafed through it.   It’s bad enough that these guys get to read the Economist ever.   But the idea that they’re reading a magazine at their arraignment is infuriating.   These guys are military prisoners, enemy combatants.   Why are they given magazines to read at a legal proceeding?     &n

Be More Social By Using One Of These Link-Shortening Add-Ons For Firefox And Internet Explorer

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For advisors, successful social networking requires engaging your prospects and clients with targeted content about topics that implicitly communicates your expertise and value proposition. Generating content is crucial but painstaking. So here below are three link shortening tools that make social networking easier.

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As Advisors Consider Moving To The Cloud, The Google Versus Microsoft Battle Is Starting To Tilt In Favor Of Microsoft

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Google last Saturday released the full report published by the Federal Communications Commission of its 17-month investigation of Google’s Street View project, a report that The New York Times says “draws a portrait of a company where an engineer can easily embark on a project to gather personal e-mails and Web searches of potentially hundreds of millions of people as part of his or her unscheduled work time, and where privacy concerns are shrugged off.”   The revelations caused Robert X. Cringely of Infoworld today to this grim conclusion: "Clearly Google believe

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Cloud Storage Feature War Is About To Begin Pitting Dropbox, Google, And Microsoft In A Battle

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A cloud storage feature war is about to begin, pitting Dropbox, Google, and Microsoft against one another. Google Drive is expected to launch any day, and competing services Dropbox and Microsoft's SkyDrive are preparing for battle with their own feature enhancements.

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Half Of RIAs Plan To Move To The Cloud This Year And 25% Are Already There; Microsoft Is The Favorite Over Google

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  About half of all RIAs will move to their email, calendaring, document storage and productivity suite to the cloud this year, and about a quarter have already made that move, according to a poll by Advisors4Advisors.   Of the 26% of respondents who have already migrated their core IT stack to the cloud, 47% have moved to a Micosoft solution while just 11% have moved to Google Apps.

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