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Google Finance Quotes and AOL Finance Quotes

Tue, 08 Apr 2008 18:09:21 GMT

These were captured at 2:04 p.m. Eastern time. Compare the stock quote and the real-time news.... 'nuff said.

Edit:Compare the timestamp of the news stories in the AOL Finance quote of GOOG vs Google finance... Powered by Relegence, AOL gets stories much quicker than almost any other finance site out there currently.

Tags: GOOG, AOL, TWX, Quotes, Money & Finance, Google, Relegence

AOL Money & Finance Beta launched

Wed, 28 Nov 2007 14:18:40 GMT

Kudos to the Publishing teams that worked on launching this great beta:

http://press.aol.com/article_display.cfm?article_id=1356

AOL Money & Finance Launches All New Investing Site Offering Real-Time News, Interactive Tools and Research Data

New Site Offers Real-Time Company News from Relegence, Interactive Stock Charts and Tools, In-Depth Research Data and Automatic Stock Price Updates

DULLES, VA – Nov. 28, 2007 – AOL today unveiled its new Money & Finance beta site, at http://money.aol.com, which offers an all-new suite of investing tools, including, real-time news headlines from more than 3,000 sources, interactive charts, in-depth research data, automatic stock price updates and a new easy-to-navigate format. In the coming weeks and months, the site will continue to improve with a number of new interactive features and tools for online investors.

The site's real-time streaming company news is provided by Relegence, which was acquired by AOL in 2006, and is the market's leading financial news and information search engine. With Relegence-powered real-time market-moving news and information, AOL® Money & Finance now offers the fastest and most comprehensive intelligence about North American equities, giving users access to more than 3,000 news and information sources including national and regional print coverage, trade publications, government sources and blogs in a customizable interface.

Additionally, users will now be alerted in real-time when a company is “hot,” as measured by higher than average news volume at any given time. This Relegence-enabled proprietary and patent-pending “heat indicator” provides investors with immediate insights into which stocks are driving the coverage of news organizations and blogs.

“Our goal is to provide consumers and retail investors with the most useful, interactive and accessible financial destination on the web, and we think we've accomplished that with the new Money & Finance site,” said Marty Moe, Senior Vice President, AOL Money & Finance. "This new experience delivers a comprehensive toolkit for both the novice and seasoned investor alike.”

"This is the first time that individual consumers will have access to a real-time feed of financial news and information that heretofore was only available to professionals on Wall Street," added Steve Fadem, President & CEO of Relegence. "This will allow greater transparency of the market for a wider audience and provide AOL Money & Finance users greater capabilities to manage their portfolios."

Among the new features on the site:

Real-time headlines from more than 3,000 hand-picked sources, powered by Relegence, the leading financial search engine in the market.
Automatic “heat indicators” notifying users when a stock is driving news coverage.
Interactive charts that offer decades of price data, comparison functionality and more.
In-depth research data, including financial statements, mutual fund ratings, peer comparisons, insider transactions, SEC filings, earnings information, analyst recommendations, research reports and more from well-known partners including Hemscott, Interactive Data, Morningstar and Thomson Financial.
Stock prices that automatically update without having to refresh the page.

Users can access the beta site by first visiting http://money.aol.com or by going directly to http://beta.finance.aol.com/quotes/time-warner-inc/twx/nys.

Other new features appearing in the coming weeks and months include:

Richer public company, mutual fund and private company data sets
Technical charting
All new portfolios platform

AOL's Money & Finance, http://money.aol.com, page views have grown more than twenty-six percent from October 2006 to October 2007 making the site's users one of the most engaged of any leading finance destination with more than 10.5 million unique visitors in October 2007, according to comScore Media Metrix.

About AOL

AOL® is a global Web services company that operates some of the most popular Web destinations, offers a comprehensive suite of free software and services, runs one of the largest Internet access businesses in the U.S., and provides a full set of advertising solutions. A majority-owned subsidiary of Time Warner Inc., AOL LLC and its subsidiaries have operations in the U.S., Europe, Canada and Asia. Learn more at AOL.com.

About Relegence

The Relegence Corporation is the leading real-time financial services news engine, providing market and business intelligence to global buy-side and sell-side institutions. Relegence's automated infrastructure uniquely aggregates relevant structured and unstructured information from a firm's internal resources and external news and street research, including blogs, corporate and government web sites and over 30,000 other global information services including international, national and local publications in multiple languages. In addition to Relegence's cutting-edge technology, it has created the world's largest business-focused news pipeline delivering customized live content to users in real-time to the desktop and any communications device.

Contact:

Chris Savarese

AOL Corporate Communications

212-206-4589

chris.savarese@corp.aol.com

Tags: AOL, Money & Finance, Relegence, Finance News

Protests in Pakistan

Tue, 13 Nov 2007 17:59:41 GMT

I've never been prouder than my alma mater LUMS than these days: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/11/AR2007111101595.html

Tags: LUMS, Pakistan, Martial Law, Emergency Rule

Installed Fedora Core 6

Fri, 15 Jun 2007 19:07:49 GMT

On another note, I installed Red Hat Fedora Core 6 on a box I have lying around in my office. This will become a Java playground for myself and my team as well as to run some other interesting stuff (more on this later).

Why did I choose FC6 instead of RHEL? Well FC6 seems to have the latest and greatest packages while RHEL is still targeted more towards production-ready installs with mature builds. So far I love it! OpenOffice is great!

I guess at some point when I get a PS3 I will install FC6 on it.

Tags: Red Hat, Fedora Core 6, Linux

AOL Bluestring launched at TechCrunch40

Tue, 18 Sep 2007 15:03:58 GMT

And it got a great review on CNet: http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9778736-7.html

Check it out here now: http://www.bluestring.com/welcome.jsp

Tags: AOL, Techcrunch, Bluestring

AOL Parental Controls reviewed by CNet

Wed, 15 Aug 2007 17:50:38 GMT

CNet posted a very good review of the latest release of AOL Parental Controls (one of my past projects). Check it out: http://www.download.com/AOL-Parental-Controls/3000-12769_4-10721993.html?tag=lst-0-3

Kudos to the ParCon team!

Tags: AOL, Parental Controls, Safety and Security, CNet

Engadget covers Virgin America's inaugural flight

Wed, 08 Aug 2007 14:54:06 GMT

One of my favorite airlines -- Virgin Atlantic -- is starting its US operations from today under the Virgin America brand. They have brand new A320s with leather seats, some excellent inflight entertainment systems and very competitive prices.

Check out Engadget.com covering the inaugural flight from JFK - SFO.

Tags: Virgin America

Movie Review: Transformers

Wed, 04 Jul 2007 05:39:23 GMT

Buy Hasbro stock right away 'cos Michael Bay just re-engerized a franchise -- what a movie!! Just got back from watching a sold-out show and there was a line outside the theater for the next (midnight) show. Awesome special effects -- possibly the best CGI animation to date in a movie. And certainly a solid, entertaining, summer blockbuster. Outdoes Spidey 3 and everything else this year or last ... Pirates or otherwise.

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Can't remember the last movie in which the audience clapped on so many scenes -- Bumblebee transforming, Optimus Prime's classic lines in Peter Cullen's voice (smart choice), Megatron quibbling "You've failed me yet again Starscream"... and on top of that it was genuinely funny and smart at times. Of course, the plot's kinda weak but even there the writers deserve some credit for including lines like "...even the world's fastest supercomputer would take 20 years to hack into the pentagon using brute force..".

Some minor quibbles: Megatron and Starscream should've had more lines and character development. The whole Section-7 sub-plot was kind of lame but it worked -- at some level (sort of reminded me of the military in Independence Day hiding the UFO in area 51 for all those years).

What I'd like to see in the sequel? Dinobots, hands-down!

Tags: The Transformers, Movie Review, Hasbro

First impressions: iPhone

Mon, 02 Jul 2007 13:45:12 GMT

Checked out the iPhone on launch night at the Tyson's Corner Apple store. There was no line when we were there (8 p.m. -ish) though of course the store was VERY busy with a queue on the table setup to test-drive it. Looks-wise the iPhone is very cool! It is very thin and sleek looking when comapred to my ex-Treo 650 (thick!) or even my current PDA/Cell phone the Blackberry 8800. It almost looks like a thinner PADD since all of the interaction (save for one "home" button) is via the touchscreen. The photo viewing, YouTube, sliding/scrolling-using-a-finger work as advertised however inevitably now there are more "clicks" to get to a particular application. For example, if I wanted to switch to the calendar view on my Treo, I'd press, well, the calendar key. With the iPhone it is home-->calendar. Gets more complicated if you want to swtich the calendar view to a month/year etc. But no big deal....

The big deal for me and wife right now was the text entry. It misses the mark. Bigtime. Really, it made Palm's graffiti look good it was so inaccurate. My wife has thinner fingers but even she couldn't get it right. The other issue of running on AT&T's EDGE rather than 3G network has been reported quite a bit. The Safari browser is great and you get the actual WWW not a WAP/mobile version of a site but what's the point if it is as slow as a 14.4Kbps modem (well almost...). Another thumbs-down is the lack of memory expansion via SD/Micro SD cards -- 4GB or even 8GB can run out quickly in this day an age.

Hopefully some of these issues will be resolved in future versions which should not be as expensive either.

Tags: Apple, iPhone, PDA, Cellular

Hard disk issues....again!

Fri, 15 Jun 2007 19:05:14 GMT

I think the MTBF for Dell hard disks for me is about 15 months! After the complete data loss of last year, my hard disk started developing bad sectors and making funny noises. This is intermittant currently (thankfully). Windows hangs while the disk 'churrs'. Thankfully, was able to save most of the data by running in Safe mode but a number of files had corrupted.

Tags: Dell, Hard disk