Who Has Your Data, Is Anyone Backing It Up?

Wow! This article in the Washington Post is really sad. I hate to see people lose data. T-Mobile is a great company owned by Deutsche Telecom. A solid company. I suppose the point to the matter is their back-end was a Microsoft subsidiary called Danger Inc. Clearly they weren’t doing their job. I found a …

Advice to the New Japan Prime Minister

Alexander Kinmont of Morgan Stanley gave some interesting advice to the new Japanese prime minister today. Some very good insights- 1) Rescind the Bank of Japan law, and bring it under government control. 2) Fiscal Policy- Get away from politically motivated fiscal policy and move to economically motivated policy. Stop playing with interest rates and …