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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 09/25/2008
One Sunday in July, the images began to wink out on the popular micro-blogging service Twitter. The photo-sharing site SmugMug flashed up "Service unavailable". Jungle Disk, which advertises "Reliable online storage", stopped working. The reason: Amazon's Simple Storage Service, known as S3, went offline for up to eight hours. It was the second significant outage this year, following a similar but...
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Tangled Blog (Free subscription) | 09/19/2008
Penny Pritzker is the person in charge of Obama's campaign finances. As you know Obama has been speaking out against the commercial practices that have lead to the current market crisis. He's outraged! Penny Pritzker is an interesting person. According to investigative reporter Tim Anderson, Superior Bank, FSB of Hinsdale, Illinois, was owned by the Pritzker family until closed by the Office of Thrift...
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Learn Online (Free subscription) | 09/12/2008
Alex Hayes points to a very interesting recording of a presentation by Tim Anderson, Director of the Department of Education’s IT set up in NSW Australia (Link joke - couldn’t find anything much about Tim online hey!). In this recording Tim basically comes on board to an approach to ICTs in education that many of [...]
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Pharmalot (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008
There are at least four - count ‘em, four - issues that are plaguing Merck and prompting Sanford Bernstein analyst Tim Anderson to downgrade the shares. In an investor note this morning, he writes the stock has already hit his $36 price target and has little upside. Why? Let’s see… Reasons To Be Doubtful, Number One: [...]
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ajc.com (Free subscription) | 08/31/2008
The Falcons signed six players to the practice squad Sunday. The also claimed defensive tackle Jason Jefferson off waivers and released defensive tackle Tim Anderson.
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Simon Willison's Weblog (Free subscription) | 08/29/2008
New authentication schemes such as OpenID, or Microsoft’s CardSpace, may help as adoption increases. These systems make it possible to register for one site using credentials verified by another. Instead of having many sites with poor verification procedures, the internet could have a few sites with strong verification procedures, that are then used by others. The advantage for the user is that they...
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ZD Net (Free subscription) | 08/18/2008
I won't add much commentary to Tim's excellent post up on the Register because I work for Adobe and I don't want to get into a bunch of nonsensical arguments about Flash versus Silverlight. But I will say that Tim Anderson is one of the very few tech journalists who...
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Grasping Reality with Both Hands (Free subscription) | 08/10/2008
Tim Anderson: > How Apple is changing DRM | Technology | The Guardian: When Apple approached record companies about selling their music digitally five years ago, they "were extremely cautious and required Apple to protect their music from being illegally copied", according to Steve Jobs's recollection of the process. That meant using digital rights management (DRM) - a software wrapper - to protect...
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The Red Wombat Hole (Free subscription) | 08/07/2008
Cuba: book launch and film screening Featuring presentations by: Gilda Chacon Bravo (Cuban Federation of Workers - CTC) Tim Anderson (Sydney Uni academic & Cuba solidarity activist) Noreen Navin (Socialist Alliance; member of NSW Teachers Fed) And featuring: The Doctors of Tomorrow (Tim Anderson's new film about Cuba's role in training East Timorese doctors) 2pm Sat 9 Aug Resistance Centre, 23 Abercrombie...
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Pharmalot (Free subscription) | 08/01/2008
Now, that the drugmaker is offering to buy ImClone Systems, does this make it more likely another drugmaker would want to buy Bristol-Myers? One analyst, Sanford Bernstein’s Tim Anderson believes the answer is, drumroll, yes. In an investor note this afternoon, he writes that scooping up ImClone makes Bristol-Myers more “sellable,” because it would be [...]
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Wadds' tech pr blog (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
Has Google got its numbers wrong? That’s the question at the root of blog postings this afternoon from Tim Anderson and Andrew Smith. Web traffic data used as source information for its new Ad Planner tool shows huge discrepancies between Google’s own data and figures cited by publishers. Tim pulls up the stats for traffic to his own site : I took a look at my own figures for June. My stats show about...
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Pharmalot (Free subscription) | 07/09/2008
The results of a clinical trial that Merck and Schering-Plough may report this coming November could provide the first glimpse of true clinical outcomes with Vytorin, at least among patients with aortic stenosis, which is a cardiac valve abnormality, writes Tim Anderson, a Sanford Bernstein analyst who follows pharma, in an investor report. Theoretically, AS has [...]
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Pharmalot (Free subscription) | 06/27/2008
The drugmaker looks increasingly attractive and a sale is a “distinct possibility,” according to Tim Anderson, a pharma analyst at Sanford Bernstein. In an investor note this morning, he writes that Bristol “could be well-positioned as a future M&A target as the industry’s patent ‘cliff’ draws closer - although management has not said it explicitly, [...]
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Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 06/18/2008
By Tim Anderson QMy 6 year-old cat was diagnosed six months ago with asthma after having an exam and X-rays. She is basically an inside cat, but does go outside with me and is always supervised. She is also a big cat, weighing 17 pounds.
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Pharmalot (Free subscription) | 06/09/2008
Prescription growth for the Singulair drug, which is used to treat asthma and allergies, has hit a wall, according to Tim Anderson, an analyst at Sanford Bernstein. In an investor note, he writes the med posted negative year-over-year growth in new scrips for the last 13 weeks. For the week ending May 30th, new scrips [...]
