GLG News by EAI and Middleware Experts

1. The Darwinism of technology continues in economic hard times. 2. Today's hot gadget is tomorrow's paperweight and CIO's should look to prune un-needed equipment.

In terms of volume the iPhone is indeed a “niche product” for Nokia.  However, the impact the iPhone is having on the handset market is much greater than its market share might indicate.  Nokia needs to address their steadily dropping US market share, although the iPhone is only one small...

Freddie Mac (GSE - Government-Sponsored Enterprises) wastes no time and begins to finance $10 billion to $15 billion in jumbo mortgages from big lenders. This follows the actions of other GSE's to add liquidity into the real estate market. I sincerely believe that this effort will help to flatten...

Current 'so called' mortgage metrics are not necessarially useful now or in the future. Ratios and numbers can always leave room for interpretaion and misdiagnosis.   Definately positive refi action is taking place for the strapped borrowers and principal committed investors; the GSE's should keep...

a) Ease investor anxiety NOW   b) Secondary Mortgage Market Investors have been worried that recent data indicate a slowing economy, which would continue to cut into potential profit growth and actual principal at some of the nation's biggest mortgage companies, and portfolios.

a) it does appear that the independent mortgage broker is going the way of the independent insurance agent and the independent fee based financial planner b) technlogy will be key in providing the independent mortgage broker, the acutal end-user (borrower) and actual owner-buyer-investor of...

a) existing federal, state amd municpal compliance check and balances exist b) move Rating Agency solutions to subprime mortgage losses in the large secondary market traunces into the origination systems & procedures

The integration of Google Apps into Salesforce.com’s products can only help both companies, so it is certainly not going to help Microsoft.  On the other hand, this level of integration has been available for quite a while between Microsoft’s Outlook and ERP solutions, so it’s not likely to have...

The best course for Microsoft is to release the next OS ahead of schedule and write Vista off as an interim step.  If Microsoft can get a solid Windows 7 released in the middle of 2009 they will retain their hold on the desktop market.  If not, they risk losing a large percentage of...

Sprint has never hit full stride since its Nextel acquisition in 2005, and its new CEO is making several changes in an attempt to put the company back on track.  The first few steps are on target but the company has a risky bet in WiMax and little margin for error with its operations.