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A human interface device or HID is a type of computer device that interacts directly with and takes input from humans. The term "HID" most commonly refers to the USB-HID specification. The term was coined by Microsoft (as they worked in the USB SIG?).
Common HIDs
Less Common HIDs
- Anything Vehicle-like - Just the sticks, wheels, buttons and pedals. Those HIDs talk to the computer that renders the simulation, and outputs results to the screen, and maybe your seat.
- Hand Glove
- Stomp Pad
NPR Topics: Business
Bill Failed To Boost Confidence In Fannie, Freddie
Sat, 06 Sep 2008 16:00:00 -0400
Jeffrey Birnbaum, a managing editor at The Washington Times talks about how Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac got to this point.
Government To Bail Out Mortgage Giants
Sat, 06 Sep 2008 15:37:00 -0400
The U.S. government is poised to take control of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, according to a number of reports published on Saturday. The reports, quoting unidentified officials, say the government will take the companies into conservatorship in an effort to shore up the battered housing and mortgage markets.
Boeing Machinists Reject Offer, Strike
Sat, 06 Sep 2008 10:38:00 -0400
Picket lines went up early Saturday at Boeing airplane factories. As many as 27,000 machinists are on strike. With many airlines desperate to update their fleets, Boeing can ill-afford a protracted walkout.
Latest financial news - CNNMoney.com
Rescue cost: The big unknown
Sat, 06 Sep 2008 19:01:26 -0400
If only it were the $64 million question. The taxpayer bill for rescuing Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac could turn out to be the $64 billion question. Or more - or less.
Paulson readies the 'bazooka'
Sat, 06 Sep 2008 19:41:48 -0400
It took two months, but the bond market called Henry Paulson's bluff. Now the Treasury Secretary is expected Sunday to announce a plan to take Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac under government control.
Gas prices fall for sixth straight day
Sat, 06 Sep 2008 08:08:56 -0400
Gasoline prices eased for the sixth straight day, even as Tropical Storm hit the Carolinas, according to a nationwide survey of gas station credit card swipes.
The Financial Page
James Surowiecki: What drives market volatility?
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American investors are frazzled. True, oil prices have fallen from their most vertiginous highs, the dollar is a bit stronger, and the stock market has actually risen over the past month. But none of those things have happened in a smooth and steady fashion. The stock market’s “ascent,” in particular . . .
James Surowiecki: Too many stakeholders can be a deal-breaker.
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In the second decade of the twentieth century, it was almost impossible to build an airplane in the United States. That was the result of a chaotic legal battle among the dozens of companies--including one owned by Orville Wright--that held patents on the various components that made a . . .
James Surowiecki: Sponsoring Recklessness
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When do the words “not guaranteed” actually mean “guaranteed”? Whenever the mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are involved. The two companies have long been required to tell investors that their securities are not guaranteed by the federal government. But in the financial markets everyone has always assumed that . . .
Reuters: Business News
U.S. plan for Fannie, Freddie to hit shareholders
Sat, 06 Sep 2008 20:19:36 -0400
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. government plans to takeover Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and all shareholders of the two mortgage giants will take a hit, an influential lawmaker said on Saturday.
Boeing machinists walk off the job as talks fail
Sat, 06 Sep 2008 17:37:13 -0400
NEW YORK/EVERETT, Washington (Reuters) - Boeing Co's 27,000-strong machinists' union walked off the job on Saturday after the plane maker failed to improve its contract offer following two days of emergency talks.
Alitalia adviser to meet BA on rescue plan: report
Sat, 06 Sep 2008 11:43:48 -0400
CERNBOBBIO (Reuters) - Alitalia's adviser will soon present its rescue plan for the airline to British Airways , considered by Italy as a possible foreign partner for the bankrupt airline, an executive told a newspaper.
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84K Jobs Lost, Unemployment Hits 5 Yr High
Fri, 05 Sep 2008 12:28:18 -0400
The job losses were much worse than economists expected.
Foreclosures, Late Payments Break Records
Fri, 05 Sep 2008 15:02:49 -0400
Delinquencies, foreclosures rise to more than 9 percent of U.S. home loans.
High Life: Medical Marijuana's Boomtown
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Tax rich at higher rate, says TUC
Sat, 06 Sep 2008 23:22:11 -0000
People earning more than £100,000 a year should pay higher tax rates, the Trades Union Congress says.
Credit crunch 'to last into 2010'
Sat, 06 Sep 2008 08:21:55 -0000
The credit crunch is likely to last another 18 months, the head of the UK's largest mortgage provider warns.
Belfast City Airport sells for £132.5m
Sat, 06 Sep 2008 11:29:10 -0000
George Best Belfast City Airport is sold to the ABN AMRO Global Infrastructure Fund at a price tag of £132.5m.
The Economist: Business
Alcatel-Lucent: Bring down the barriers
Thu, 04 Sep 2008 12:30:35 -0000
Ben Verwaayen’s talents will be sorely tested in his new roleAFTER Alcatel SA merged with Lucent Technologies Inc two years ago, almost the last thing the new company could afford to worry about was balancing the interests of its French and American parts. But although less than half of the combined group’s turnover comes from its home countries, Alcatel-Lucent failed to transcend its national origins. Two small, weak telecoms-equipment firms became one big, weak one, beset by low-cost competition from new Chinese rivals and struggling in a business that internet technology was changing beyond recognition. Worse, demand has been weakening across the industry. Appointing people on the basis of nationality rather than ability is never a good idea; in conditions like these, it spelled disaster.Cost savings either failed to materialise or were swallowed by falling prices; despite hacking 16,500 jobs from a workforce of 88,000, Alcatel-Lucent made losses for six consecutive quarters and its share price fell by more than half. At the end of July it said that Serge Tchuruk, its French chairman, and Patricia Russo, its American chief executive, would depart. This week their replacements were named: a French chairman, who lives in America, and a Dutch chief executive, who will be based in Paris. Both Philippe Camus and Ben Verwaayen have the personality and experience that could iron out the beleaguered telecoms group’s problems. ...
Correction: Correction: The business of sport
Thu, 04 Sep 2008 12:30:35 -0000
CorrectionA table in our special report on sport (“Fun, games and money”, August 2nd) put the value of Fiat’s three-year sponsorship of Juventus, an Italian football club, at $134m. The correct figure is $46.8m. Apologies. ...
Face value: Deflating IT
Thu, 04 Sep 2008 12:30:35 -0000
The chief executive of AdventNet, Sridhar Vembu, has a shot at becoming software’s Michael DellSRIDHAR VEMBU is a dangerous man. If he succeeds, a lot of people will lose a lot of money: software developers, consultants, shareholders and others. The chief executive of AdventNet does not have fraud in mind. Instead, he wants to remove what he calls the “value-pad” from corporate IT in general and business software in particular: all those millions of dollars he thinks are wasted on inefficient production structures, marketing and, not least, proprietary standards. “In the world of corporate IT”, he says, “the low-cost revolution is very much unfinished business.”Mr Vembu may have only a fighting chance at becoming software’s answer to Michael Dell, who commoditised much of IT’s hardware business. With revenues of $60m a year and about 900 employees, his firm accounts for a drop in the $3.4 trillion ocean that Gartner, a consultancy, thinks companies will spend on IT this year. And the products he expects to disrupt the IT market, a suite of online offerings for small businesses, have yet to earn much money despite a respectable 1m registered users. Still, his ambitions for Zoho, as he calls the suite, may mark the beginning of the end of the fat years for big Western IT firms, especially the sellers of software. ...
Business News - UPI.com
Execs: Guzzler tax won't hurt China sales
Sat, 06 Sep 2008 13:05:09 -0400
BEIJING, Sept. 6 (UPI) -- China's new sales tax on big cars to battle the nation's notoriously dirty air will not significantly reduce sales, an auto import trade-group executive says.
Ford Motor to lay off 600 Chicago workers
Sat, 06 Sep 2008 11:34:50 -0400
CHICAGO, Sept. 6 (UPI) -- At least 600 part-time workers will be laid off as Ford Motor Co. cuts costs at its Chicago assembly plant amid U.S. sales declines, the automaker says.
UPI NewsTrack Business
Sat, 06 Sep 2008 11:14:31 -0400
Boeing Co. machinists on picket lines ... McCain-connected Nevada bank fails ... Takeover of Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac likely ... NYT, Trib to dump stand-alone sections ... News from United Press International.
GM to recycle, reuse at plants by 2010
Sat, 06 Sep 2008 10:01:55 -0400
WARREN, Mich., Sept. 6 (UPI) -- General Motors officials say they will recycle or reuse waste at half of their worldwide factories by 2010.
Knock-off designer jean imports rising
Sat, 06 Sep 2008 09:51:45 -0400
LOS ANGELES, Sept. 6 (UPI) -- Counterfeit designer blue jeans are among the biggest growth areas in the booming field of knock-off imports into the United States, officials say.
NYT, Trib to dump stand-alone sections
Sat, 06 Sep 2008 09:28:24 -0400
NEW YORK, Sept. 6 (UPI) -- Two of the biggest U.S. newspapers are moving away from traditional stand-alone sections in bids to save money, sources say.
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Bill Failed To Boost Confidence In Fannie, Freddie
Sat, 06 Sep 2008 16:00:00 -0400
Jeffrey Birnbaum, a managing editor at The Washington Times talks about how Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac got to this point.
Government To Bail Out Mortgage Giants
Sat, 06 Sep 2008 15:37:00 -0400
The U.S. government is poised to take control of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, according to a number of reports published on Saturday. The reports, quoting unidentified officials, say the government will take the companies into conservatorship in an effort to shore up the battered housing and mortgage markets.
Boeing Machinists Reject Offer, Strike
Sat, 06 Sep 2008 10:38:00 -0400
Picket lines went up early Saturday at Boeing airplane factories. As many as 27,000 machinists are on strike. With many airlines desperate to update their fleets, Boeing can ill-afford a protracted walkout.
Latest financial news - CNNMoney.com
Rescue cost: The big unknown
Sat, 06 Sep 2008 19:01:26 -0400
If only it were the $64 million question. The taxpayer bill for rescuing Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac could turn out to be the $64 billion question. Or more - or less.
Paulson readies the 'bazooka'
Sat, 06 Sep 2008 19:41:48 -0400
It took two months, but the bond market called Henry Paulson's bluff. Now the Treasury Secretary is expected Sunday to announce a plan to take Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac under government control.
Gas prices fall for sixth straight day
Sat, 06 Sep 2008 08:08:56 -0400
Gasoline prices eased for the sixth straight day, even as Tropical Storm hit the Carolinas, according to a nationwide survey of gas station credit card swipes.
The Financial Page
James Surowiecki: What drives market volatility?
James Surowiecki Mon, 25 Aug 2008 04:00:00 -0000
American investors are frazzled. True, oil prices have fallen from their most vertiginous highs, the dollar is a bit stronger, and the stock market has actually risen over the past month. But none of those things have happened in a smooth and steady fashion. The stock market’s “ascent,” in particular . . .
James Surowiecki: Too many stakeholders can be a deal-breaker.
James Surowiecki Mon, 04 Aug 2008 04:00:00 -0000
In the second decade of the twentieth century, it was almost impossible to build an airplane in the United States. That was the result of a chaotic legal battle among the dozens of companies--including one owned by Orville Wright--that held patents on the various components that made a . . .
James Surowiecki: Sponsoring Recklessness
James Surowiecki Mon, 21 Jul 2008 04:00:00 -0000
When do the words “not guaranteed” actually mean “guaranteed”? Whenever the mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are involved. The two companies have long been required to tell investors that their securities are not guaranteed by the federal government. But in the financial markets everyone has always assumed that . . .
Reuters: Business News
U.S. plan for Fannie, Freddie to hit shareholders
Sat, 06 Sep 2008 20:19:36 -0400
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. government plans to takeover Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and all shareholders of the two mortgage giants will take a hit, an influential lawmaker said on Saturday.
Boeing machinists walk off the job as talks fail
Sat, 06 Sep 2008 17:37:13 -0400
NEW YORK/EVERETT, Washington (Reuters) - Boeing Co's 27,000-strong machinists' union walked off the job on Saturday after the plane maker failed to improve its contract offer following two days of emergency talks.
Alitalia adviser to meet BA on rescue plan: report
Sat, 06 Sep 2008 11:43:48 -0400
CERNBOBBIO (Reuters) - Alitalia's adviser will soon present its rescue plan for the airline to British Airways , considered by Italy as a possible foreign partner for the bankrupt airline, an executive told a newspaper.
ABC News: Money
84K Jobs Lost, Unemployment Hits 5 Yr High
Fri, 05 Sep 2008 12:28:18 -0400
The job losses were much worse than economists expected.
Foreclosures, Late Payments Break Records
Fri, 05 Sep 2008 15:02:49 -0400
Delinquencies, foreclosures rise to more than 9 percent of U.S. home loans.
High Life: Medical Marijuana's Boomtown
Fri, 05 Sep 2008 13:59:27 -0400
Humboldt Country's high: How one community thrives on legal pot.
BBC News | Business | UK Edition
Tax rich at higher rate, says TUC
Sat, 06 Sep 2008 23:22:11 -0000
People earning more than £100,000 a year should pay higher tax rates, the Trades Union Congress says.
Credit crunch 'to last into 2010'
Sat, 06 Sep 2008 08:21:55 -0000
The credit crunch is likely to last another 18 months, the head of the UK's largest mortgage provider warns.
Belfast City Airport sells for £132.5m
Sat, 06 Sep 2008 11:29:10 -0000
George Best Belfast City Airport is sold to the ABN AMRO Global Infrastructure Fund at a price tag of £132.5m.
The Economist: Business
Alcatel-Lucent: Bring down the barriers
Thu, 04 Sep 2008 12:30:35 -0000
Ben Verwaayen’s talents will be sorely tested in his new roleAFTER Alcatel SA merged with Lucent Technologies Inc two years ago, almost the last thing the new company could afford to worry about was balancing the interests of its French and American parts. But although less than half of the combined group’s turnover comes from its home countries, Alcatel-Lucent failed to transcend its national origins. Two small, weak telecoms-equipment firms became one big, weak one, beset by low-cost competition from new Chinese rivals and struggling in a business that internet technology was changing beyond recognition. Worse, demand has been weakening across the industry. Appointing people on the basis of nationality rather than ability is never a good idea; in conditions like these, it spelled disaster.Cost savings either failed to materialise or were swallowed by falling prices; despite hacking 16,500 jobs from a workforce of 88,000, Alcatel-Lucent made losses for six consecutive quarters and its share price fell by more than half. At the end of July it said that Serge Tchuruk, its French chairman, and Patricia Russo, its American chief executive, would depart. This week their replacements were named: a French chairman, who lives in America, and a Dutch chief executive, who will be based in Paris. Both Philippe Camus and Ben Verwaayen have the personality and experience that could iron out the beleaguered telecoms group’s problems. ...
Correction: Correction: The business of sport
Thu, 04 Sep 2008 12:30:35 -0000
CorrectionA table in our special report on sport (“Fun, games and money”, August 2nd) put the value of Fiat’s three-year sponsorship of Juventus, an Italian football club, at $134m. The correct figure is $46.8m. Apologies. ...
Face value: Deflating IT
Thu, 04 Sep 2008 12:30:35 -0000
The chief executive of AdventNet, Sridhar Vembu, has a shot at becoming software’s Michael DellSRIDHAR VEMBU is a dangerous man. If he succeeds, a lot of people will lose a lot of money: software developers, consultants, shareholders and others. The chief executive of AdventNet does not have fraud in mind. Instead, he wants to remove what he calls the “value-pad” from corporate IT in general and business software in particular: all those millions of dollars he thinks are wasted on inefficient production structures, marketing and, not least, proprietary standards. “In the world of corporate IT”, he says, “the low-cost revolution is very much unfinished business.”Mr Vembu may have only a fighting chance at becoming software’s answer to Michael Dell, who commoditised much of IT’s hardware business. With revenues of $60m a year and about 900 employees, his firm accounts for a drop in the $3.4 trillion ocean that Gartner, a consultancy, thinks companies will spend on IT this year. And the products he expects to disrupt the IT market, a suite of online offerings for small businesses, have yet to earn much money despite a respectable 1m registered users. Still, his ambitions for Zoho, as he calls the suite, may mark the beginning of the end of the fat years for big Western IT firms, especially the sellers of software. ...
Business News - UPI.com
Execs: Guzzler tax won't hurt China sales
Sat, 06 Sep 2008 13:05:09 -0400
BEIJING, Sept. 6 (UPI) -- China's new sales tax on big cars to battle the nation's notoriously dirty air will not significantly reduce sales, an auto import trade-group executive says.
Ford Motor to lay off 600 Chicago workers
Sat, 06 Sep 2008 11:34:50 -0400
CHICAGO, Sept. 6 (UPI) -- At least 600 part-time workers will be laid off as Ford Motor Co. cuts costs at its Chicago assembly plant amid U.S. sales declines, the automaker says.
UPI NewsTrack Business
Sat, 06 Sep 2008 11:14:31 -0400
Boeing Co. machinists on picket lines ... McCain-connected Nevada bank fails ... Takeover of Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac likely ... NYT, Trib to dump stand-alone sections ... News from United Press International.
GM to recycle, reuse at plants by 2010
Sat, 06 Sep 2008 10:01:55 -0400
WARREN, Mich., Sept. 6 (UPI) -- General Motors officials say they will recycle or reuse waste at half of their worldwide factories by 2010.
Knock-off designer jean imports rising
Sat, 06 Sep 2008 09:51:45 -0400
LOS ANGELES, Sept. 6 (UPI) -- Counterfeit designer blue jeans are among the biggest growth areas in the booming field of knock-off imports into the United States, officials say.
NYT, Trib to dump stand-alone sections
Sat, 06 Sep 2008 09:28:24 -0400
NEW YORK, Sept. 6 (UPI) -- Two of the biggest U.S. newspapers are moving away from traditional stand-alone sections in bids to save money, sources say.
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