Mmm, the Archos 7. Seven full inches of touchscreen loveliness, just waiting to be caressed as you slide over your favorite artists one by one. Poor attempts at seduction aside, this magnificent piece of PMP has been spotted in the wild over at ArchosLounge, and the lucky soul who managed to acquire it even took the time to spill his impressions... in French. From what we could gather via the wonders of Google Translator, the ...

Holy cow! Just in time for the upcoming Year of the Ox, Creative has released its Zen Moo line of mp3 players and speakers in China. Based on the Zen Stone, you can get either the Zen Moo or the Zen Moo Plus. Both come with 2GB storage, support for MP3 and WMA, a 20 hour lithium battery and a built-in speaker. The Plus adds a translucent blue OLED display, FM radio reception, MIC voice ...

译者：Balzac直到今年为止，名校MBA学位都可以被认为是良好工作和体面薪水的保证。但随着金融危机的到来，很多人都对此表示了怀疑。不过看着那些商学院的校园，至少有四件事是可以肯定的。 1. 入学将面临更为激烈的竞争 商学院并没有增加班级人数来适应预期增长的入学申请。这就意味着在未来的一年里，当越来越多的人申请商学院时，竞争将更为激烈，只有很少比例的申请人将获得入学机会。 研究生入学管理委员会(GMAC)公布今年9月参与GMAT的考试人数同比上涨超过11%。而在信息交流会、在线论坛和博客里，学校方面也表示有兴趣的人数正在增加。 对于那些认为可以把中等学校作为保底的学生们，再想一想吧。如果入学申请已经普遍更加困难，其他学生可能会申请更多的学校以增加成功率。由于拥有更多选择，中等学校可能会用他们从未想过的拒信来让那些申请者们吃惊。 一线希望：对于优秀学生，进入精英商学院可能不会更加困难。毕竟，伯克利分校哈斯商学院(Berkeley's Haas School of Business)的全日制MBA课程招生办执行主任彼得约翰逊(Peter Johnson)说过，“申请人数增加并不意味着质量提高。” 2. 国际学生将很难获得贷款 即使通过了商学院严格的入学流程，国际学生也将面临着一个新的障碍。由于信贷紧缩的原因，学生贷款计划会收紧甚至完全取消。举例来说，花旗银行(Citibank) (C)已于今年秋天取消了其CitiAssist花旗助学贷款计划。这意味着，除非拥有美国居住权或者当地亲朋做担保人，许多国际学生将因贷款问题而无法完成学业。 经费削减难住了一些管理人员。芝加哥大学商学院(University of Chicago's Graduate School of Business)招生办主任罗斯玛利亚•马蒂内利(Rosemaria Martinelli)表示，目前针对问题的一些措施只是临时的，学校仍然在寻找一个最终的解决方案。不过，马蒂内利将继续致力于学生群体的多样化。 除了不太可能获得贷款外，国际学生将在获得学位后面临新的困难。在疲软的市场中，当公司对广大应聘者拥有更多选择权的时候，国际学生可能会更难获得本就稀缺的H1-B工作签证。 最终结果：越来越多的学生会选择他们自己国家的商学院，这种趋势将持续下去。 3. 辞掉工作是危险的 高薪且收入稳定的人将不得不权衡辞职去读商学院的好处。尤其是在经济下降时，没有人知道两年后就业市场将会是什么样子。目前可行的选择是要么暂缓读MBA或保留工作参加兼职学习计划。 根据宾夕法尼亚大学沃顿商学院(University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School)招生办主任朱迪思•奥达拉(Judith Hodara)表示，申请者最常问的问题就是暑期实习和毕业后的就业情况，并且都很“紧张”而且“焦虑” 。 传统上，在经济开始衰退时辞职读书的MBA学生毕业时会处于一个经济上升期。但是，没有人能够肯定地预测这场经济衰退将持续多久。 威斯康星大学麦迪逊分校商学院(University of Wisconsin-Madison's School of Business)的招生办主任艾琳•尼科斯博格(Erin Nickelsburg)说过，由于在投行中显然无法再获得高昂薪水和丰厚奖金，这降低了在经济低迷期去商学院“机会成本”的预测值。 尽管如此，尼科斯博格警告说，机会也可能会错过。“当经济恢复以后，你可能会后悔没有及时为自己投资”，她说道。 4. 学习仍然是有价值的 尽管MBA课程的投资回报率仍然悬而未决，但毋庸置疑的是当经济复苏的时候，商学院所学的东西将是极其宝贵的。案例研究有了新的含义，现在高官们面临更严厉的高层决策和大规模的业务问题。 按照芝加哥大学商学院马蒂内利的话来讲，现在是一个“学习MBA、学习当前局势和搞清楚如何增值的好时机”，这意味着当前能够学习研究真实的问题，而不仅仅只是一些假设。 尽管如此，学生可能需要调整自己的职业目标，及其对月薪的期望。“这是一个在MBA课程中调整自己并逐渐建立起自己智力资本组合的好时机，”GMAC主席大卫威尔逊说，“两年或两年以后，毕业生将面对一个不同的市场。” 作者雅丽莎•泰克曼(Alysa Teichman)是商业周刊(BusinessWeek)的实习记者。 添加评论相关文章： BeiJing的忽悠 市场大整顿 中国刺激经济的雷霆之举

Filed under: Portable Audio We've been impatiently awaiting the red carpet arrival of Freestyle Audio's Soundwave for a few seasons now, and at long last, it appears the units are shipping out -- or, at least one made its way over to cousin site Gadling for a review. The Soundwave is pretty much exactly what you'd expect: a ho hum MP3 player with a rather unsightly design, a disgraceful user interface and the ability to ...

Bryanboy's Hermès Twilly IndexWhen my dad used to work for a multinational firm when I was a child, he often came home with the latest issues of IHT and The Economist magazine. I remember him forcing me to read these publications instead of my beloved Sweet Valley Twins/High/University (Team Jessica Wakefield!) paperbacks. Anyhoo... one of the things I love about The Economist is their "Big Mac Index". It kept track of the price of McDonald's ...

Wouldn't it be great if we could have a simple solution to the malware problem? It's easier, for now, to implement complicated ones. Symantec shows the way. - What do we do about malware? The long term solution, at least for managed networks like enterprises, may be whitelisting. But in the meantime we're still drowning in new variants every day. In the 2009 generation of their products Symantec is trying a new approach: file reputation. ...

The Mintpad has all the markings of a Yanko: it is tiny and beautiful and more wishful than practical. Essentially, the Mintpad is a tiny Post-It note sized Wacom with built-in WiFi that will let you send full color notes to any other Mintpad owners... all five of them. It's essentially a dedicated platform for the Nintendo DS's Pictochat, which is a good idea... just don't expect to get a lot of use out of ...

Iriver, a fabricante de PMPs sempre classudos, repletos de recursos e geralmente caros pra caramba, está baixando os preços da sua linha atual. Nós já informamos sobre a queda de 50 dólares no preço do Spinn, respectivamente para 190 e 230 dólares os de 4GB e 8GB de capacidade, e os mais básicos E100 e Lplayer caíram 40 dólares, também respectivamente para 70 e 100 dólares. Eu amo a Iriver e é ótimo ver os ...

La Asociación de Fotógrafos Profesionales (AFP) ha fallado sus Premios Lux de este año. Estos prestigiosos galardones están divididos en diez categorías diferentes y se entregan premios de oro, plata y bronce en cada una de ellas. Además, hay una categoría especial, el Premio Junior, en el que hay un único vencedor. Tras el salto tenéis el listado completo de ganadores. La fotografía que ilustra este artículo es de Paco Peregrín, ganador del Lux de ...

Download (κάντε κλικ στο σταυρό για να ανοίξει ο player ή πατήστε download για να κατεβάσετε το mp3) —— Άκουσον: Το τραγούδι της ΔΑΠ από mauroprovatos Το τραγούδι μπορείτε να το ακούσετε και να το κατεβάσετε από εδώ. —— Στη μουσική επένδυση έλαβαν μέρος, μέσω του Jamendo: Bézèd’h με το Mars Adams

Filed under: Portable Audio It's true, we were less than impressed with Philips GoGear MP3 squares back when they were first released, so the announcement of the GoGear 2940 isn't really going to shake the foundations of the universe. It's essentially the exact same player as the previous models (MP3, WAV, and WMA playback, built-in EQ, USB 2.0 connectivity, voice recording capabilities, FM tuner) with the addition of a color OLED screen which displays album ...