Shipments increased by 24.2 percent during the first quarter of 2010.

Shipments increased by 24.2 percent during the first quarter of 2010. I can apparently talk what I want and I can command attention like a tyrant, but at the final result it’s what I will do is counts. For this reason my message is simple like the Bipolar relationship: “The yesterday games”. This helps to immediately proportionate for me a some kind of quickly broadened assignment/s. Maybe I wrote yesterday that I start a times ago some new project which now I can from “Stress management” film phrase call: “…I strongly advise you one more time … - CALM DOWN”. Not just these kind of “business” obligations (I will wrote about it more later), but also the sudden increase in the “team” objective/s. Which is varied widely, should I say. And which is bothering me (see the article about Zoellick declarations) never can trouble the environment where I’m seriously isolated and seem to be - forever inserted. This adjective for decades are engaging me (the cocaine ex-President of Portuguese Republic Jorge Sampaio, the козло-вонючие козлы, etc.) in myriad of fruitless arguments. Starting with SIM-card and telephone provider during the Croatian Elections (cocaine Almohads-Ukraine-Kyrgystan) finishing with price for one Kilo of Ruthenium, etc. What is worst is that in this way, they use in full the “strict Hierarchy”. In other words, they use this bunch, gang, the Horde around me who can’t make a simple and primordial reflection that my “job” is to be unemployed and not to do thinking! Why is at least as weird as it can be to see the body-guard with face of John Brown at my door-steps, isn’t it? Good Lord, that I “receive” the Invitation to celebrate the UK’s Elections from Germany’s “Y&Y DOCKLANDS LOCKSMITHS”… Maybe my “body-guard” of people see how I like to do investments just reading the geo-strategic article (and this one, I promise you, for many, many, many years beyond, -until the outstanding debts from “rusia petroleum” are redeemed), and which in German sound some like Hewlett-Packard… All what I try to say with this is, - let’s do ‘fresh’ start with my finances. Should we?

Germans target nine suspects in HP bribery probe. By: Reuters | 15 Apr 2010 | 09:02 AM ET. MUNICH (Reuters) - German authorities say they have targeted nine suspects, including former staff of Hewlett-Packard Co , in a probe into whether the world's top PC maker paid bribes to win business in Russia. Prosecutors in the eastern German city of Dresden said on Thursday they had asked Russian colleagues to search HP offices in Moscow to check suspicions that around 8 million euros ($10.9 million) in bribes changed hands to win a contract. "The case came to light here," a spokesman for the prosecutors' office in Dresden said. "The suspicion is that 8 million euros in kickback payments were made." Russian prosecutors on Wednesday raided HP's Moscow offices at the behest of German authorities. Investigators became suspicious after an audit of a small company in the eastern German state of Saxony turned up money transfers that seemed to produce nothing real in return. That led to what the spokesman called an international network of money transfers and prompted German officials to search HP premises in the southern town of Boeblingen and in Munich in early December. He said investigators are examining a 35 million euro contract that HP won in 2000 to provide computers and software for criminal prosecutors in Moscow. The contract was wrapped up by 2007. The unidentified suspects are under investigation for possible breach of trust, tax evasion and bribery of foreign officials, the spokesman said. German prosecutors were awaiting documents seized in the searches in Moscow before deciding how to proceed. HP said on Wednesday that a probe was under way but would not confirm specific charges. "This is an investigation of alleged conduct that occurred almost seven years ago, largely by employees no longer with HP," the company said in a statement. "We are cooperating fully with the German and Russian authorities and will continue to conduct our own internal investigation." The case is the latest corruption probe to make headlines in Germany. Carmaker Daimler last month agreed to pay $185 million to settle U.S. charges it showered foreign officials with money and gifts to win contracts, including in Russia. Engineering group Siemens agreed in 2008 to pay $1.3 billion to end corruption probes in the United States and Germany.

Apple says demand for its iPad tablet has outstripped supply forcing it to postpone, by one month, the international release of the iPad by one month. In a statement issued Wednesday Apple said it shipped more than 500,000 iPads during its first week. The company will announce international pricing and begin taking online pre-orders on Monday, May 10, it said. Twitter gave the first in-depth look on Wednesday at how the microblogging service plans to make its money. There will be two "pillars" to Twitter's business model, Chief Operating Officer Dick Costolo said at the company's Chirp developer conference in San Francisco. The first, announced earlier this week, is Promoted Tweets, which lets advertisers pay for sponsored tweets that appear at the top of search results for certain keywords. The second pillar is commercial accounts, which Twitter started to talk about last year. That service will allow a business to pay for a Twitter account in return for detailed analytics tools and the ability for several people to post to the same account. Commercial accounts are in beta testing with "a couple of hundred customers" and will be offered more widely in the future, though Costolo didn't say when. Worldwide PC shipments increased by 24.2 percent during the first quarter of 2010 compared to the same period last year, with desktop PC shipments growing for the first time in more than a year, IDC said in a survey released on Wednesday. Demand for consumer PCs was buoyed by strong consumer demand and increased commercial buying, IDC said in a statement. Desktop shipments grew partly due to a growing interest in the U.S. and developing markets and the emergence of specialized designs like all-in-one PCs. Desktop shipments were declining since the third quarter of 2008. ...And those are the top stories from the IDG Global IT News Update, brought to you by the IDG News Service. I'm Sumner Lemon in Singapore.


Former IMF chief economist (act.3) "Portugal is at risk of economic failure" 15/04/10 16:25. Simon Johnson, former IMF chief economist, believes that Portugal, like Greece, "runs the risk of economic failure and is now a riskier country than Argentina, 2001. Simon Johnson, former IMF chief economist, believes that Portugal, like Greece, "runs the risk of economic failure" and is today a country more risky than Argentina bankrupt in 2001. "The next radar is in Portugal. This country only is not in the spotlight because Greece fell into a downward spiral. But they are both close to economic bankruptcy and now seem far more risky than when Argentina went into default in 2001, "reads an article written jointly by Simon Johnson, former chief economist of the IMF, and Peter Boone, the 'Center for Economic Performance' from the London School of Economics. For these two experts "or leaders of Greece nor Portugal are prepared to enforce the necessary policies and, in the Portuguese case," we are not even discussing serious cuts. " Certain that the policies proposed are insufficient, Peter Boone and Simon Johnson anticipates that "Portugal and Greece will have very high levels of unemployment in the coming years and claim that 'Portugal is hopeful that this situation may go out by growth, but this could only happen with an extraordinary economic boom. " "Let us pity the Portuguese politicians weighed more when they say that the probity officer requires belt tightening sooner (...) The Portuguese politicians can do nothing but expect the situation will worsen and then ask for outside help," state. Portugal failed because Such as Greece, Portugal entered a spiral of unsustainable debt, the authors argue.
"Portugal has spent too much during the last years, with debt reaching 78% of GDP in 2009 (compared to 114% in Greece and 62% in Argentina, when it went into default). This debt has been financed mainly by investment abroad, such as Greece, instead of paying interest on these bonds, Portugal opted for year after year, to refinance its debt, "contend. "In 2012, the debt / GDP Portuguese should reach 108% if the country meet its targets of cutting the deficit. Reach will however to a point that financial markets will simply refuse to fund this Ponzi scheme, "they conclude. After describing the situation in Portugal, Johnson and Boone accuse the agencies 'rating' they are afraid of "playing in Portugal." "Today, despite the obvious dangers and the high debt levels, the three major agencies 'ratings' are certainly scared to take the step to declare the debt Greek as 'junk'. They also have a similar fear of playing in Portugal" reads the text.

"Third World" concepts no longer relevant: Zoellick. WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The old concept of "Third World" no longer applies and rich countries cannot impose their will on developing nations that are now major sources of global growth, World Bank chief Robert Zoellick said on Wednesday.
In a speech setting the stage for World Bank and IMF meetings in Washington next week, where emerging economies will play a bigger role, Zoellick cautioned against falling back into patterns of self-interest.
He said economic progress in developing countries had profound implications for global cooperation, multilateralism and the work of institutions such as the World Bank. "Economic and political tectonic plates are shifting," Zoellick told an audience at the Woodrow Wilson Center. "We can shift with them, or we can continue to see a new world through the prism of the old. The meetings next week are expected to approve the first capital increase for the World Bank in 20 years. While rich industrial countries have been the biggest contributors to the World Bank and long dictated how the money is spent, emerging market countries will have a bigger role. "Shareholders face a decision to strengthen the bank group, or allow it to wane in influence ... leaving it poorly resourced to cope with whatever comes next," he noted. RESPONSIBLE STAKEHOLDERS. He said sharing responsibilities in a new international system will not be easy as world trade talks under the Doha Round and climate negotiations in Copenhagen revealed.
When it comes to tackling climate challenges, Zoellick cautioned that developed countries cannot impose "a one-size fits all" model on developing countries. "They will say 'No,'" he said. "We need to move away from the binary choice of either power or environment," he said. "Climate change policy can be linked to development and win support from developing countries for low carbon growth -- but not if it is imposed as a straitjacket," Zoellick added. While he did not mention it, the World Bank last week approved a controversial loan for a coal-fired plant in power-strapped South Africa despite abstentions from the United States, Britain and the Netherlands over concerns about its environmental impact. Zoellick said the developed world has prospered through hydro-electricity from dams, noting that some of the same countries think the developing world should not have the same access to power sources used by developed economies. "For them, thinking this is as easy as flicking a switch and letting the lights burn in an empty room," he added. "The old developed country prism is the surest way to lose developing country support for global environment goals." Zoellick said the World Bank too must be open to change.