iRobot Corp. shares are undervalued Posted April 2nd, 2008 by Frank Lara Jr in Financial News No one cares about iRobot Corporation  (Public, NASDAQ:IRBT) even after they increased Q4 revenue by more than 61%. However Tuesday iRobot shareholders got a nice 6% gain and the Masters believe it’s just the beginning. In February iRobot earned $20.7 million in Q4 07 compared with a loss of $1.8 million in the year-ago quarter.  But just like every other company, iRobot shares have been tossed
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Today being the number 1 fools day of the year brings to close a cold and windy March. And March, although a tough month, was good for the self-development posts here on Persistence Unlimited. (How’s that for a segue?) Here are 5 of my favorites: The Little Roomba That Could; Or 5 Reasons Why Persistence […] ******************************************************** **** You are subscribed to the summary **** Feed. Get the full - uncut feed here: **** http://feeds.feedburner.com/Achieve-it
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Academic “Social Network Sites”: Very Preliminary Impressions By Maximilian Forte I have recently registered in three social network sites that were discussed in the listserv of the Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR), the three being Pronetos, Academici, and LinkedIn, two of which are primarily for academics. My initial, admittedly superficial reaction was: “Web 2.0 is a good place to be lonely, if you’re an anthropologist”. In Pronetos, I am the only anthropologist, and in fact
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Defuse Bombs With A Wii Remote U.S. military adopts Nintendo’s remote controller in bomb-defusing bots. By Ben Silverman You’ve used it to virtually swing a racket, smack a homerun and hurl a bowling ball. The U.S. military, however, wants to use it to defuse real-world bombs. According to a report by New Scientist magazine, enterprising engineers at the U.S. Department of Energy have made it possible to control a bomb-defusing robot with the same Nintendo Wii remote that millions of gamers cons
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Filed under: miscellaneous This past week, it seemed like the entire blogging team here at DIY Life was knocked down with one illness or another. I won’t share the gruesome details, except to confess that I could really use a tissue… do you have one? Although we did not manage to post quite as much as we would have liked, we still had a number of useful, interesting, or just plain cool articles for your reading pleasure. For example: Ian Lesnet began his series which will teach us how to m
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