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May 06, 2008 @ 10:46 AM | By Michael Ellison

With more people accessing the Internet via hand-held devices, website developers are being challenged to create online environments that are compatible with a wide range of hardware, from cell phones to widescreen monitors. A recent Business Week technology article highlights the problems this may cause for companies like Google. The search engine giant and other firms that generate revenue from ads must address the fact that there is less ad inventory available on the small screens of hand-held devices.

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U.S. Economy Will Escape Black Hole, JPMorgan's Economic Guru Predicts
May 05, 2008 @ 02:45 PM | By Penny Crosman

Bruce Kasman, chief economist at JPMorgan, offered a mostly upbeat forecast for the U.S. economy at the SIFMA Operations Conference this morning in Phoenix.

First Kasman noted the intense interest in the economy lately among people of all walks of life. "This is the first time in my professional life that my children have been interested in what I do for a living," he says. People in professional and social settings have been asking him exactly what's going to happen to housing prices, oil prices and such. Kasman says he's begun telling people who ask what he does for a living that he's a science fiction writer. "This [economy] is, in many respects, unchartered territory," he says.

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