From the desk of William J Curtis - Chief Executive Officer Robb Report MagazineFirstly, how dare these people at Standard & Poor's - an American company owned by McGraw-Hill - take the inappropriate, egotistical, and self-serving action of rating the United States of America’s credit as anything less than AAA?
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Feed SubscriptionDining at sea: It’ll soon cost you more
Effective Sept. 1, Celebrity Cruises is raising the fees for several specialty restaurants by roughly 15 to 33 percent, depending on venue.
Read More »London Rioters’ Unrequited Love For BlackBerry
Rioters in North London have been using BBMs to rally, presuming RIM's phone-to-phone, encrypted messages won't land in the hands of authorities. But in an increasingly familiar move, RIM has now pledged to work with those authorities
Read More »Tiger doesn’t see his world has changed
Tiger Woods stepped from behind a microphone, thankful to be done with a short interview that felt like an intrusion. He took 23 questions, most of them about his golf, a few others about his left leg, then walked off without looking at anyone.
Read More »Google Plus, Pseudonyms & Activists
Google Plus' stringent real-names-only policy appears to be hurting the new social networking site's popularity among activists worldwide. Will Google ever change their approach?
Read More »New guidelines say hot weather safe for young athletes – with precautions
American Academy of Pediatrics issues new guidelines just in time for steamy August practices
Read More »Leap Year, Series Finale: Life in 3D
Lisa goes into labor while her, Aaron, Bryn and Derek visit programming genius, Sergei Lenov, in the woods.
Read More »Breast cancer patient denied Medicaid coverage: Is he victim of sexism?
Medicaid program won't cover cost of surgery and chemo for 26-year-old South Carolina man because of "glitch" in law, program spokesman says
Read More »PGT: Perez on lookout for kid he snubbed
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Read More »6 Reasons to Stay Small
Author John Warrillow proposes an alternative to setting your sights on building a $200 million business: Focus on building a $2 million company instead. The generally-accepted dogma among entrepreneurs is "bigger is beautiful." You're nothing until you have some brand name investors on your board and 50 employees at your command.
Read More »IBM Partners With Portland To Play SimCity For Real
The Oregon city is the first to use IBM's app to help cities figure out how policy can affect the lives of their citizens. But can any algorithm quantify the whole experience of city living?
Read More »Meet Google’s Voice Hunter On A Quest For 300 Languages
Google wants Voice Search to master the Tower of Babel. So Linne Ha travels the world, gathering the language samples used to train it
Read More »How The BBC Is Quietly, Confidently Shaping The Future Of TV
This morning the BBC launched a whole new version of its iPlayer app, destined for connected TVs that sport a Net connection. In essence this means the BBC has taken its TV content online, added on-demand features, advanced search powers, playability on multiple platforms both mobile and static, and then fed all of its lessons back into an app...for TVs.
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