The late winter storm now pounding the northeast US isn't the only freak weather event currently in progress. Hell itself has frozen over, and the proof is that, for the first time in history, Intel is partially outsourcing the fabrication of one of its CPUs to a foundry. Intel and TSMC have jointly...

When Will Thalheimer alerted me to Siftables, via a video of a presentation given by David Merrill at TED, it lightened my day. What a great idea - a genuinely groundbreaking educational innovation that opens up all sorts of new possibilities, particularly for the teaching of maths and English. It m...

Isn’t life a bitch? No sooner than Singapore is ranked as the world’s most competitive nation by another think tank, the economy tanks. It’s the worst slump in at least 33 years, reports Bloomberg. And things are not going to get much better soon, the prime minister said the other day. It’s ...

Like everyone else in the entire computing supply chain, Taiwanese chip foundry TSMC saw a sudden and precipitous drop in revenue in the final quarter of last year, but unlike many others, it's being relatively open about how hard it was hit, and about how long it thinks it will be before things rea...

The port of Singapore has been so badly hit by the global downturn that hundreds of ships are lying idle at anchor waiting for business, according to the Chicago Tribune. Singapore port no safe haven in economic storm, it says in a grim report, which begins: On a typical day, more than 500 ships sai...

Marketing communications services are usually one of the first things to get cut in a down economy, and also one of the last things to come back (image: clearing the gate by cmaccubbin). The current freeze (more like slow flow, as contracts are starting to come in again) is something many executives...

 IF you grow up black in the Caribbean you grow up as a member of the majority and you enjoy all its accompanying rights and priviledges. In history class kids are taught that their country, the region and by extension most of the North American continents was built on the backs of African slaves...

For someone once named the worst-dressed person in UK advertising by Campaign magazine, Rory Sutherland looks surprisingly dapper as he strides into the glass-walled meeting room at OgilvyOne's Canary Wharf HQ. His trademark ensemble of blazer, cravat and sensible shoes - which might be described as...

Journalists at the socialist newspaper the Morning Star will go on strike on Monday in a pay dispute. Members of the National Union of Journalists at the daily voted 11 to three for industrial action and last night voted for a one-day strike on Monday, 23 February. A further week-long strike is plan...

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