Nearly 60% of the affluent households use professional advisers, but that number is down from 70% in 2004 and 79% in 2001 so says TNS Financial Services of Greenwich, Conn. The Number 1 reason for the decline was that the affluent felt better managing their own money, while Number 2 was that they didn’t feel that advisers had the best ...
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According to Advance Micro Devices (AMD), in ten years you may not have to if they succeed in an initiative they have launched called "50 x 15". I’m certain that none of us can imagine not having access to the Internet, even though in relative terms most of us–if not all–didn’t use this technology on a daily basis 15 years ...
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An article from the NYTimes about how “personal” people want things these days. Empowerment or narcissism?
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This week I review Google's Gmail It's in the Beta phase right now but I am sure a lot of you have heard about it. Gmail is an experiment in a new kind of webmail, built on the idea that you should never have to delete mail and you should always be able to find the message you want. Want ...
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