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Blogs	Description	Date Updated
Microsoft’s First Step In Accepting OpenID SignOns - HealthVault	Over 16 months after first declaring its support for the OpenID authentication platform, Microsoft has finally implemented it for the first time, allowing for OpenID logins on its Health Vault medical site. Unfortunately, Health Vault will only support authentication from two OpenID providers: Trustbearer and Verisign. Whatever happened to the Open in OpenID? The rationale behind the limited introduction is that health is sensitive, so access should be limited to the few, most trusted OpenID ...	June 23, 2008
Buffett in Wachovia?	It has been a while since the latest rumor about what Berkshire's (BRK.A) Buffett is buying so lets look at this one. It think the last one was a Bear Sterns deal?Wachovia (WB) credit protection costs fell yesterday on rumors Buffett is considering making an investment in the bank. Five-year credit protection costs on Wachovia fell to 193 basis points, or $193,000 a year to protect $10 million of debt, in from about 202 basis points."There is unconfirmed speculation that Warren Buffett is consid...	June 19, 2008
Jim Cramer’s Lightning Round & Sudden Death	Lightning Round Bullish Praxair (PX), Airgas (ARG), Air Products and Chemicals (APD), Black & Decker (BDK), A-Power Energy (APWR), Procter & Gamble (PG) and YRC Worldwide (YRCW). Bearish Kimberly-Clark (KMB), Garmin (GRMN) and Sterlite Industries (SLT). Sudden Death Cramer was bullish on Pepsico (PEP), Denbury Resources Inc (DNR), Wells Fargo (WFC), US Bancorp (USB) and Motorola (MOT). Join the fastest growing community of small cap investors at Stockhideout.com...	June 18, 2008
Fast Money Recap	Word On The Street WORD VIDEO HERE Dennis Gartman Take The traders spoke with Dennis Gartman, author of The Gartman Letter about what he thinks the Federal Reserve will do next with interest rates. Gartman said the Fed will not raise rates because we are moving into an election year in November. He said the country needs a strong dollar, but the policy makers need to start taking action instead of paying lip service. Gartman said the action in oil today was very bearish after crude set a record...	June 16, 2008
Jim Cramer’s Lightning Round	Bullish US Bancorp (USB), Sociedad Quimica (SQM), Agnico-Eagle Mines (AEM), Yamana Gold (AUY), Otter Tail (OTTR), Northrop Grumman (NOC), EMC (EMC), AK Steel Holding (AKS), Reliance Steel (RS), United States Steel (X) and Nucor (NUE). Bearish Barrick Gold (ABX), Winnebago Industries (WGO), Corn Products International (CPO) and Starwood Hotels & Resorts (HOT). Join the fastest growing community of small cap investors at Stockhideout.com...	June 13, 2008
Fat Pitch Financials Portfolio Update for May 2008	I just wanted to provide you with a quick update on the Fat Pitch Financials Portfolio. This Marketocracy portfolio ended the month of May with a total value of $1,291,425.91 (the account started with $1 million). The portfolio was down 1.48% for the month of May. For the last 12 months, the portfolio is down 2.58%. Nevertheless, the portfolio is still up 28.78% and has an annualized performance of 7.09%. I still have $301,724.31 in cash, which should be a sufficient amount of dry power in cas...	June 08, 2008
Novatel Jumps 9% As Morgan Joseph Ups To Buy	Novatel Wireless (NVTL) shares are up sharply today after Morgan Joseph analyst Keven Dede upped his rating on the company to Buy from Hold, setting a price target of $13. Dede notes that investment presentations by both Novatel and rival wireless broadband card maker Sierra Wireless (SWIR) “included the point that June quarter product sales have remained at solid levels.: He says that Novatel will introduce two new USB modems in the third quarter, one each for customers at Sprint (S) and ...	June 04, 2008
Road Warriors Take Note: MSI Launches Another Ultraportable	If you’re anything like me, you might be tired of lugging around a full-sized laptop from airport to airport and meeting to meeting. Enter the ultraportables. While we are all aware of the cake-cutting Air, manufacturers like ASUS and now MSI are jumping into the ultraportable market with laptops that are usable and highly portable. The MSI Wind — I wonder where they got the name? — is a 2.6-pound, 10-inch laptop what will sell for about $499 on June 16 from MSI. A Linux versi...	June 03, 2008
Backblaze: Online Backup With Time Machine’s Finesse	Every year millions of people lose their photos, documents, and music to the mechanical squeals of hard drive failure. Despite the consequences, few people ever get around to actually backing up their data - it’s just too much of a chore. For many, Apple finally hit the nail on the head with Time Machine, which lets users plug an external drive into their computers and forget about it. Backblaze, a new startup out of Palo Alto, is trying to take Time Machine’s simplicity and apply...	June 02, 2008
ADM Prices Takeover Fund	The pricing of Archer Daniel's (ADM) stock offering is pretty telling. Yes, I know is is not officially a "take over" fund, but, what else do they really need it for? Archer Daniels Midland announced that it has priced its offering of up to $2 billion of equity units. ADM will issue 35,000,000 equity units with a stated amount of $50 per unit and has granted the underwriters an option to purchase up to 5,000,000 additional equity units to cover over-allotments. The equity units carry a total dis...	May 31, 2008

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