Новости за 04.03.2012

The Australian equity market is pointed to a slightly weaker start to the trading day after the US equities finished the week slightly in the red in an illiquid lackluster session. The Dow finish the session down 2.73 points at 12977.57 while the S&P500 index slid 4.46 points to finish the day at 1369.63.

The New York State Senate is voting on a piece of legislation that calls for wine companies to have all wines that are sold to the New York market to be held  “at rest” in the state for 48 hours.

One day earlier this year, a group of IBM (NYSE: IBM) researchers proved for a millisecond that quantum computing is feasible. That experiment proved there will be quantum computers within our lifetime, IBM's Manager of Physics of Information said last week. That researcher, physicist Mark Ketchen, and other members of the team must have felt somewhat like another group of physicists at Chicago's Stagg Field in December 1942, when they achieved the first self-sustaining chain reaction.

From the outside, Chip Conley's home on Potrero Hill looks unassuming - a no-nonsense brown-shingled house shrouded in greenery. "Objects are really unimportant to me," says Conley, author, motivational speaker, business consultant and executive chairman / chief creative officer of Joie de Vivre Hospitality. To the right of the front door, meditation cushions are set in front of an arrangement of sacred souvenirs: Prayer beads, photos and small icons collected from far-flung corners of the world - Bhutan... Читать дальше...