Contactless payment by Palo Alto based Bling Nation is having marketing push. Don't know how the veteran / pioneer in this domain, VivoTech, are doing on it these days.
Bling Nation dopes not seem to have their own web site. It is redirecting to Facebook.
Interesting Options Volume for Brocade Communications Systems (BRCD)
NEW YORK (Market Intellisearch) -- BRCD options saw interesting call activity today. A total of 2,742 put and 13,281 call contracts were traded raising a low Put/Call volume alert. Today's traded Put/Call ratio is 0.21. There were 4.84 calls traded for each put contract.
Put/Call ratio is often used to measure investment sentiment, the ratio serves as a predictor of investor behavior. Unusual options volume provides reliable clues that the stock is expected to make a move.
Brocade Communications Systems closed at $5.72 in the last trading session and opened today at $5.72. The stock price declined $0.04 (-0.70%) to $5.68 in today's trading session. BRCD is trading between the range of $5.62 - $5.77. Volume is 8,945,539 in relation to the three month average volume of 12,867,300 shares. BRCD is trading above the 50 day moving average and lower than the 200 day moving average. The stock's 52 week low is $4.64 and 52 week high is $9.84.
Some of the criteria while picking the stock/volume for day trading
You must be prepared to hold the stock, if not able to sell
Options can come in handy if you are not ready to hold
You want the stock to fluctuate rapidly and widely in percentage of the stock value
Look for the charges for trading. You must try to make more than the trading charges (otherwise, your value will erode just because of your trading activity).
Pick more number as compared to larger per stock value
We have a person developing software in India for the client in the US. Indian team is developing in Windows (WAMP stack) while the US team is using it on Linux (LAMP stack). It could be trivial to have the Indian team to ensure no Windows specifics are used to develop the software. This is easy said than done if the Indian developer is short of resources (network) and having less professional experience (Kid out of school - or smart high school student).
Few alternate possible solutions and their challenges.
Solution 1: Use vmware player on the US & Indian side so that both have good chance of seeing identical information.
challenge1 for Solution 1: The Indian team still need to download (read as bandwidth i$$ue) vmware player & the virtual appliance.
challenge2 for Solution 1: If the correct virtual appliance is not readily available, the system need to be created in one place (US?) and the virtual disk shipped to other location (storage + bandwidth restriction) - use free file transfer sites like YouSendIt. You might be limited to 100MB limit.
Solution 2: Use WebEx for sharing other sites' screen and discuss.
challenge 1 for Solution 2: WebEx probably don't come for free.
challenge 2 for Solution 2: This assumes both parties getting oneline at the same time. Offline, independent verification is difficult with this method.
Solution 3: Have each team take screen shots or record the screen as a proof of what they see.
challenge 1 for Solution 3: This approach is good after the product stabilizes and there are few bugs that need fixing. Time consuming and limited use in the early stages.
Once we agree that vmware player will be used we still would have the challenge of syncing up the systems on 2 continents.
Solution 4: Save the virtual disk and keep exchanging it between teams.
challenge 1 for Solution 4: The virtual Disk can be super big for transfer and viewing incremental.
Solution 5: Send only vmware disk incremental between teams.
Challenge 1 for solution 5: Does vmware really provide this facility? Can this be plugged in?
Solution 6: Install the OS on web drive (like free GMail drive) and have the 2 teams use the common data.
Challenge 1 for solution 6: Still bandwidth can be a problem.
Challenge 2 for solution 6: File name length, file type and file size can still be limited
Challenge 3 for solution 6: When large files change, there can be a penalty on change update in terms of bandwidth.
Solution 7: Install software and the engine (vmware player + linux) on local machine. Store the moving parts on remote storage like GMail drive.
Challenge 1 for solution 7: high initial cost (time, effort & skill needed) to make this happen
Challenge 2 for solution 7: Challenge 2 & 3 for solution 6 is applicable for this solution too
We need encryption along with key sharing between remote teams for external storage.
Solution for large file size in terms of MySQL - use text based database. This is ugly and probably wouldn't work when single table is larger.
We need a true block level external storage device for managing larger file sizes.
For corporations, there are many 'talent management' infrastructure. Examples, Recruiters, job portal, resume, interview, hiring etc. Do we have equivalent for 'true' open source projects?
By 'true', I mean the projects that are 100% funded by voluntary contributors. FireFox & Linux don't seem to fit this definition as there are 'paid' employees of corporate sponsors who contribute to these projects.
Why not a 'recruiter' by profession reach out to open source project teams for 'position requirements' and go out to get the candidate's 'resume' and sell them the 'project' encouraging them to contribute to the project. May be the 'projects' must reach out to the recruiters. Also, the recruiters must be able to announce that they had staffed for projects.
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We use lots of CDs and DVDs for installing software. While CDs have many disadvantages one other disadvantage is about waste. One idea could be to have a device that can be programmed to behave as a CD/DVD drive and a mechanism to simulate inserting different disks.
The closest solution I notice as under development project is http://renosite.com/ - 'USB CD Emulator'.
I was thinking to combine iPod & iPodLinux and additional software for converting iso to cd drive and other UI part to select the ISO to be presented.
I do have iPod 20GB Fourth Generation (Gray scale). The batery is gone or going... If I can get it to work in the above fashion, I am sure this can be a great break through. I might be able to get funding for greening efforts too.
Rich countries are preparing to pay poor countries in exchange for carbon credit to save forests. Looks pretty? Think again. Why should the poor country not use their land, including forests, the way they would like? Why not the rich countries re-purpose some of their own land - like the corn fields and 18 acres of land at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue for carbon offsets?
If the corn field owner and the owner of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue feel that their home/livelihood is disturbed - well, they would be correct. So, would the poor person having their livelihood is taken away....
I am not a proponent for deforestation - I feel exactly the opposite. All I am concerned is rich people making poorer people pay for the rich's mistakes and arrogant use of the earth.
Some times, paying the poor too can make them further poor - by making them beg. The riches need to pay as fine in the name of 'fine' for their bad addiction / behavior. The payment should come in the form of reducing their own carbon foot print - say walking to work for one week by every one in a town. Dry their cloths in cloth line. Stop buying new cloths for the next 4 years - until you had to wear torn cloths for your wedding and it is acceptable in the society (sorry if you are offended...).
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