2. Twitter, LinkedIn to partner, share status updates.

3. 607.5 million people worldwide will access social networks via mobile devices by 2013 and 150 million in US to use smart phones by mid-2011.

4. Google giving free wireless in 47 airports through January 15 (and indefinitely in Burbank, Seattle).

5. College students spend twice as much time on computers as compared to television.

Two years old but worth a look (6:06 minutes). Make sure the volume is lowered on your computer before you view.

Harvey Norman shares

rose 5.35 percent to A$3.94 at the 4:10 p.m. market close in Sydney, their highest level since May 2008. The stock, which has gained 49 percent this year, rose the most in 20 years on Friday after posting earnings that beat analyst estimates.

Broker ratings on Harvey Norman

The stock was also raised to the equivalent of “buy” at JPMorgan Chase & Co., Deutsche Bank AG and UBS AG. Analysts at Citigroup Inc. raised their rating to “hold” from “sell.”

The government has distributed more than A$12 billion ($10 billion) in cash to households since December while grants to home owners and borrowing costs at a half-century low are increasing home-building approvals at the fastest pace in four years.

Gerry Harvey says

HARVEY Norman shares surged yesterday to their highest level in a year after executive chairman Gerry Harvey triggered a wave of retail confidence with his claim the economy "is growing stronger and stronger each day".

Profit from Australian franchises, where the company gets three-quarters of revenue, has risen as government cash handouts stoked demand for flat-panel televisions and notebook computers and helped the nation avoid a recession. Chairman Gerry Harvey said a pick-up in sales that started in April has extended into the first two months of this fiscal year.

Mr Harvey said July and August sales had improved. More customers were buying electrical goods, bedding and furniture, an indication that the government’s first-home owners stimulus packages had encouraged more people to purchase homewares, he said.

The company will pay a fully franked final dividend of 6c a share, taking its full-year dividend to 11c and Mr Harvey will pocket $34m in dividends for the year. Harvey Norman has 264 retail outlets across Australia, New Zealand, Asia and Europe trading under the Harvey Norman, Domayne, Joyce Mayne and Norman Ross brands.

Yes yesterday i went to the cinema’s to watch  “ the taking down of Pelham 123” It was absolutely  fantastic. The taking down of pelham 123 is a absorbing  , hard hitting  and Action packed movie that does your dollars spent full justice and you also get  a power packed performance from the  2 greats John Travolta  and Denzel Washington.

The taking down by a wall street broker terrorist

The reason why  i am blogging about this here ? yes it does have something to with the stock market !! The whole story is based on how  the train is hijacked only to make money from the stock market on its dip and not from the paltry ransom money of  $10 million dollars.

Soon as  John Travolta checked on  his computer the stock market  charts soon after  hijacking  the train, i knew  there was a connection to the  hijacking and the stock market crash . The last scene does reveal this when he  looks at this portfolio in gold  sky rocketed and gives a nice hearty laugh. The taking of pelham 123 has released in Australian cinemas.

Synopsis:

A Wall Street terrorist? Not the kind that bankrupts the system with greed and fancy transactions that cost taxpayers thousands of dollars. The kind that takes a gun, kills passengers, and steals a subway car in an attempt to manipulate the stock market for profit. When’s the movie about the CEO assassin come out next?

This movie is a contemporary interpretation of John Godey’s book and is also a remake of the previously made movie taking of  pelham 123.

Link: http://www.hsx.com/security/view/TP123

Now you can check on Google search by just typing in the movie name  and in subsequent page jut type your postcode in  location  and you will get a listing of the theatres nearby that play that movie  or other movies as well. Go here for eg  — > The taking pelham 123