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2011-06-05 18:07
Debt socialism in US vs. China
Expropriation of land and wealth was vital for growth
By Leslie Young If you ask the US how it got rich, it might cite capitalism, democracy and the rule of law ― but not the low-price real estate that it got from the American Indians (Manhattan for some beads, the Southeastern US for blankets from a smallpox hospital). If you ask China how it got rich, it might cite its social market economy with Chinese characteristics ― but not the low-price real estate that the PLA "liberated" in 1949. Each nation became a world power via institutions that generated infrastructure and industry from its low-cost real estate. Their contrasting institutions have now led to contrasting crises in real estate, debt and deficits. Growth requires investment in infrastructure and industry ― before incomes have risen high enough for high savings, and before financial markets have developed to channel savings into investment. In the US and the People's Republic of China, the state initially owned all the land; export-led growth raised the value of land, which was sold to fund infrastructure and industry, which promoted more exports, which raised the value of more land… In the US, the collateralization of private land funded many private business startups (see Hernan de Soto, The Mystery of Capital). In China, local governments used low rents to attract foreign investment and sold state land to fund infrastructure and industry. Now they are collateralizing more state land for the same purpose. Socialism With American Characteristics As the US ran out of land to sell, it instead funded infrastructure and investment by savings, channeled by a financial system of growing sophistication. The US ideology of individual freedom and its institutions of private property ensured that the capital thus created remained privately owned – and inherited. This bequeathed privilege to those whose forebears had accumulated wealth early. This inequity became invidious at retirement. In principle, financial capitalism funds retirement neatly. Citizens work to build real assets that enhance future consumption. They accumulate financial claims on the assets via pension funds. They fund retirement by selling those claims to the next generation, as it starts to work and save. But the concentration of asset ownership in the few who inherit large blocks prevents the many from accumulating enough for a decent retirement; their votes, channeled by democratic institutions, ensure the socialization of retirement: tax-funded Social Security and Medicare. Voter-wary federal legislators never levied taxes high enough for the Social Security or Medicare systems to accumulate assets that matched their liabilities. Likewise, voter-wary state legislators lavished pensions on state employees in lieu of wage increases and shareholder-wary corporate executives lavished pensions on employees in lieu of wage increases, but these pension liabilities were never fully funded. However, citizens' confidence in their legal claim to the pensions reduced their savings. Thus, the interaction of the core US institutions of democracy, law and capitalism brought backdoor socialism: trillion-dollar deficits. Socialism kept coming through the back door via policies to democratize asset accumulation via real estate: tax deductions on mortgage interest, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, FHA… But the benefits of each policy were impounded in real estate prices, and accrued to current homeowners. Those benefits were passed down to their heirs, but bypassed those not yet able to purchase a home, such as recent immigrants and future generations. Thus, each housing policy redressed intra-generational inequity only by exacerbating inter-generational inequity. This created political pressure for more backdoor socialism: mortgage securitization, asset-backed securities, alt-A loans, sub-prime loans and the result was more trillion-dollar deficits ― the ultimate in inter-generational inequity. The 2008 financial crisis blew in a veritable gale of socialism through the back door: the Treasury lavished $8,000 of tax credits on each new home purchase; the Fed printed $1.2 trillion to buy mortgage-backed securities; via Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the US government today guarantees 92% of all US mortgages. For, real estate is the one industry that employs many modestly-skilled people, yet is safe from Chinese competition: it must be upheld to sustain US employment. But real estate cannot be exported, so its continual absorption of resources is crippling the US balance of payments. Sooner or later, US credit ― and US imports ― will collapse. Capitalism With Chinese Characteristics How can China deal with that collapse? Exports have driven land appreciation, which has funded infrastructure and industry. If exports falter, can China grow endogenously via investment in infrastructure and industry? This question is salient for the investment that local governments launched in response to the financial crisis, which was often funded by bank loans collateralized by land: can the land appreciate fast enough to cover the loans if the infrastructure and industry yield insufficient cash flows? Yes, because of the macroeconomic implications of a cash shortfall for residential real estate. As in previous bank crises, the central government would ultimately cover a cash shortfall by some mixture of: printing money, widening the spread between deposit and lending rates at state banks, and siphoning profits from statelinked corporations. As in previous bank crises, these measures would drive down the real returns to private savings, and drive up investment in private real estate ― and the price of land. The mechanism is as follows. Low returns on savings pose a severe dilemma for Chinese citizens. They will retire for about 15 years, after 45 years of work, a 1:3 ratio. If they save and spend in that 1:3 ratio while working, then their savings could fund retirement at the lifestyle that they expect to enjoy in their last year of work – provided that the real return on their savings equals the real rate of growth of their incomes. Suppose that current investments in infrastructure and industry enhance the growth rate of personal incomes, but the state needs to cover cash shortfalls in these investments by skimming off the real returns on personal savings. Then citizens must not only raise their saving: spending ratio well above 1:3, they must also seek much higher returns on their savings. Investment in inner-city apartments is one of their few options. The urban population of China is rising fast and must be housed. The urban poor live on city outskirts; the rich, closer to the city center. Investing in inner-city apartments enables today's prospering citizens to intercept the income gains of those who will arrive in cities later and prosper later. The Communist Manifesto: Expropriate the Expropriators! Could the very policies needed to cover cash shortfalls drive up land prices by enough to cover the bank loans to local governments? Two problems jeopardize this neat resolution: inter-generational inequity and corruption. Those who arrive in cities later and prosper later will never catch up with those who arrived earlier, for they must spend more on housing. Like the US, China can redress this inequity via state support for housing, pensions and health. Unlike the US, China has the resources to do so without jeopardizing the solvency of the banking system and the state. It can dedicate more state land to house lower-income citizens; it can use the capital held in statelinked corporations to fund state pensions and health. China has made a start in both; whether it will finish is a matter of political will. Corrupt local officials are siphoning off the revenue from the sales of appreciated land. Such corruption is China's counterpart to the corruption of Wall Street, where bankers privatized the upside of risky bets via stock options, while socializing the downside via taxpayer bailouts of their banks. In return for the bailouts, the US government took preference shares. Taking ordinary shares instead would have secured it more of the upside from its bailouts, not to mention the right to veto high bonuses and corporate lobbying against financial legislation. Ideological/ institutional hostility to "communism" prevented this. But no such constraints prevent China from bailing out its banks by injecting assets expropriated from officials who cannot account for them. Sure, this is communism ― but why should that be a problem for the Communist Party? Having launched growth by expropriating landlords and capitalists, China can perpetuate it by expropriating corrupt Communists. Too bad US ideology and institutions prevent it from perpetuating growth by expropriating Goldman Sachs the same way it expropriated the American Indians, i.e., by purchase of their Manhattan apartments with some beads and smallpox-ridden blankets. Leslie Young is Professor of Finance at The Chinese University of Hong Kong |


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Shall We Skip To Excessive Celebration?
So apparently this album is supposed to come packaged with a 200-page novel that (presumably) elevates this fifteen-minute package of dissonant, spazzy punk to a truly life-changing piece of art or something, but since I have no access to said novel I can't comment on its effect on the music. Sorry, dudes.
What I can comment on is Shall We Skip to Excessive Celebration? itself. This album is the full-length debut from LA's Autonym, who play a rather familiar form of shrieking, angular, slightly electronic hardcore/grind. The Locust, Melt-Banana, Converge, Pg. 99 and Fear Before the March of Flames are all name-checked on the band's Myspace, which is plenty enough to make it abundantly clear what this band sounds like. Honestly, I think this style of punk/grind/whatever succeeds or fails on its ability to jar and disorient the listener without becoming annoying, and Autonym just don't have the trick down yet. Vocalist Will Angelos turns in a remarkably flat performance; his half-speech-half-yell is forced and unconvincing, and will likely irritate all but the most noise-inured listeners. The music isn't so hot either; whether it's thin, grind-like hardcore ("The Luminary"), Botch-y time signature tinkering ("Visitor"), or the obligatory semi-danceable electronics heavy track ("Battered Wife Syndrome"), these songs almost universally sound like retreads of other like-minded acts. "The Dalits" even features an electronics spasm that mimics those employed by Melt-Banana as nearly as any I've ever heard. A thin, fuzzy production and less-than-precise musicianship do little to help, though I don't doubt that both were largely deliberate.
In short, Autonym sound old and tired in a subgenre where the primary objective is to be fresh and distinctive. Too complacent and redundant to sound angry and too chaotic to be catchy, this band hasn't yet found their niche and will not have much luck until they pick a more distinctive and specific sound to pursue.
Or maybe I just don't get it because I haven't read their novel. Apparently it's some kind of sci-fi fantasy allegory for the relative effects of fascism and warfare on parallel worlds or something. On second thought, maybe it's a good thing that I haven't read it; I'm pretty sure I read that book already anyway. A word of advice to young bands: let your music speak for you, not your lyrics, and definitely not a two-hundred page addendum to your lyrics.

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Generac 200 Amp Electrical Transfer Switch
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Powermate Vx Series 5000 Watt Gasoline Generator PM0105007
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Theme for this week: SPECIFIED STOCK To enter this contest, just PM your entries to SausageEx Check the SotW Rules before submitting. Entry submission ends on 27 Jan, Wednesday.Stock:
Last edited by SausageEx; 01-24-2010 at 04:10 PM.
way to screw up the font in the image lol
Click ^ for my signature thread.
No photoshop at hand, gotta use the reliable ms paint. :>
Yay my theme suggestion got used =)
I shall be entering this one for sure.
Can't a render be classified as a type of stock? Or even a cut out stock.
Sweet 'theme' anyhow.
Well usually a 'render' or a cut-out refers to a picture on a transparent .gif or .png background. So in this case the theme should be Specified Render.
Doubt it matters though. If everyone understands it then it is fine.
png is better quality, but anyways nice stock, i hate him so much XD
Don't like that render at all but oh well. :s
Blah, that render is terrible for sig sized pieces. His wings cover up soooo much. =/


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An investment group led by Cerberus Capital Management LP may have landed a plum in its $3.3 billion deal to buy 877 grocery stores: real estate worth at least as much as the group paid.
Roughly half of the stores the group is buying from Supervalu Inc. SVU +1.61% SUPERVALU Inc. U.S.: NYSE $6.31 +0.10 +1.61% Dec. 12, 2013 4:00 pm Volume (Delayed 15m) : 3.52M AFTER HOURS $6.31 0.00 0.00% Dec. 12, 2013 5:39 pm Volume (Delayed 15m): 176,080 P/E Ratio N/A Market Cap $1.61 Billion Dividend Yield N/A Rev. per Employee $597,400 10/17/13 Supervalu Swings to Profit as ... More quote details and news » —under the Albertsons, Jewel-Osco, Acme and Shaw's brands—are either company-owned or subject to ground leases, people familiar with the deal said. Ground leases are long-term deals that let tenants develop and make improvements to land, as if they were the owner.
The Cerberus-led group is paying $100 million, plus assuming $3.2 billion in debt, to buy Supervalu stores. Bloomberg News
At an estimated value of at least $150 to $200 per square foot, those properties could be worth a total of between $3.3 billion and $4.4 billion.
"There's no question that Cerberus got a good deal, in terms of the overall proceeds," said Karen Short, a managing director tracking food retailing and convenience stores for BMO Capital Markets. She estimates the property's value at $4.4 billion, or $200 per square foot.
The Cerberus-led group is paying $100 million and assuming $3.2 billion of debt to buy the stores. The group, which includes four real-estate firms, also has agreed to pay up to about $250 million for as much as a 30% stake in Supervalu at $4 a share. Supervalu shares, which closed Wednesday at $3.04, were up 14% at $3.47 in 4 p.m. trading Thursday.
Joining Cerberus in the deal were publicly traded Kimco Realty Corp. KIM +0.05% Kimco Realty Corp. U.S.: NYSE $20.20 +0.01 +0.05% Dec. 12, 2013 4:01 pm Volume (Delayed 15m) : 3.58M AFTER HOURS $20.14 -0.06 -0.27% Dec. 12, 2013 4:45 pm Volume (Delayed 15m): 77,883 P/E Ratio 93.04 Market Cap $8.27 Billion Dividend Yield 4.46% Rev. per Employee $1,517,400 More quote details and news » , along with Chicago's Klaff Realty LP, Philadelphia's Lubert-Adler Partners LP and Schottenstein Real Estate Group, of Columbus, Ohio.
In 2006, those firms joined Cerberus to acquire 650 underperforming Albertsons stores, paying about $1.1 billion as part of a larger deal to dismantle the grocery chain. The group sold off some stores, closed others and boosted profits at those it kept.
In August, a Kimco executive said the firm had so far made five times its money on the deal. The other partners have fared similarly well, people familiar with the matter have said.
Kimco, which owns stakes in 922 shopping centers in North and South America, sees the latest Albertsons deal as another moneymaker.
"Even though we recognize that the benefit here is primarily improving the overall operations of the business, we're comfortable with the fact that the real-estate value we have, at a minimum, supports the purchase price," said Mike Pappagallo, Kimco's chief operating officer.
The stores that the Cerberus-led group is buying are mostly clustered in major metropolitan areas. Jewel-Osco's 178 stores are almost all in the Chicago area. Acme locations are centered on Philadelphia, and Boston is the hub for Shaw's and Star Market stores.
The more than 400 Albertsons stores the group is adding to those it already owns are concentrated near Los Angeles, San Diego and Seattle.
The group plans to let its Albertsons management team, headed by Chief Executive Robert Miller, work to improve results at the newly acquired stores before deciding which stores to sell or close, people familiar with its strategy said. Closed stores on land it owns or that are covered by ground leases could be sold or leased to other tenants.
Mr. Miller is credited with turning around the Albertsons stores previously acquired by the group. A veteran retail executive, he previously guided drugstore chain Rite-Aid Corp. RAD +0.72% Rite Aid Corp. U.S.: NYSE $5.59 +0.04 +0.72% Dec. 12, 2013 4:02 pm Volume (Delayed 15m) : 18.39M AFTER HOURS $5.57 -0.02 -0.36% Dec. 12, 2013 7:59 pm Volume (Delayed 15m): 547,974 P/E Ratio 16.44 Market Cap $5.08 Billion Dividend Yield N/A Rev. per Employee $283,869 12/05/13 Rite Aid Same-Store Sales Up 2... 11/20/13 Options Traders Remain Optimis... 10/09/13 Canada Stocks to Watch: Jean C... More quote details and news » in a turnaround as CEO, beginning in late 1999. Before joining Rite-Aid, where he was a director until 2011, the Mississippi native was chief operating officer of grocery operator Kroger Co. KR -0.92% Kroger Co. U.S.: NYSE $39.99 -0.37 -0.92% Dec. 12, 2013 4:01 pm Volume (Delayed 15m) : 3.94M AFTER HOURS $39.99 0.00 0.00% Dec. 12, 2013 5:39 pm Volume (Delayed 15m): 265,124 P/E Ratio 13.29 Market Cap $20.70 Billion Dividend Yield 1.65% Rev. per Employee $289,863 12/05/13 Kroger revenue rose 3.2% as id... 11/04/13 Retailers Brace for Reduction ... 10/30/13 Kroger Isn't Afraid of Online ... More quote details and news »
As part of the latest deal he will become Supervalu's chairman, supervising the group's investment in the company as he also works to turn around the stores the group is buying.
Said Kimco's Mr. Pappagallo, "We have a big confidence in Bob Miller and his team, considering the work that was done in the first Albertsons transaction with us."


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REMON Fayad will turn his back on alcohol all of next month.
Not because he is a teetotaller but because he is taking part in Ocsober, which raises money for Life Education to continue providing health and drug education programs in schools.
Mr Fayad described himself a ''big party animal'' who quickly raised $6500 when he stopped drinking.
He hopes to raise $7000.
''I didn't realise people are dying from either legal or illegal drugs every 24 minutes,'' he said.
He said it shocked him to learn more than 20 per cent of 14 to 19-year-olds consume alcohol on a weekly basis, according to the 2007 National Drug Strategy Household Survey.
And that teenagers who start drinking before the age of 15 are five times more likely to become dependent on alcohol than those who start when they are 21.
''Definitely get involved,'' Mr Fayad said.
''I have another three friends who've signed up, I'm trying to get others.''
The asset manager from Constitution Hill said he first came across Ocsober while Googling Life Education.
Founded by the late Ted Noffs in 1979, Life Education is the largest non-government provider of drug and health education to young people, their families and communities Australia wide.
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Wednesday, March 26, 2008
Enkianthus - Who knew?
While neither of my photos do this lovely shrub justice, I still had to share with all of you the beauty and ease I've had growing this specimen.
Google brought me to hort. dept. of UConn where I found out more information on this shrub.
Here in my garden on Long Island, New York, I have never done anything special for this shrub. It blooms heavily in mid May as you can see in these photos.
What I found interesting when researching it is that supposedly it seeds easily. I will have to check the ground for little seedlings now. It also states that soft wood cuttings are highly successful so I will be giving those a try too.
A nice addition is that it has wonderful foliage color in the autumn. This year I see that my local nursery will be carrying a new variety, 'Summer Hill' which grows 15 to 20 feet tall! That would work nice in some of my wooded areas so guess what will probably be coming home with me next month.
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- Cinj said...
Very nice. I've never seen anything like it. I love that shade of pink.
- Gail said...
That is a beautiful and unusual shrub... It looks perfect in your garden.. is that a Japanese maple off to the right side of the photo? Nice combo with the coloring and leaves.
Gail - 11:30 AM
- Nancy J. Bond said...
That beautiful pink would be a great addition to any garden.
- GardenJoy4Me said...
I haven't heard of this shrub either .. the flowers are gorgeous ! .. like deep pink Lily of the Valley .. is it fragrant ?
Very nice !
Joy - 12:30 PM
- Vanillalotus said...
Gorgeous shrub. I can't wait to see if you get seedlings or if your cuttings work. I have never seen the shrub before.
- garden girl said...
What a beautiful shrub! The blossoms look a bit like pink lily of the valley.
- Brenda Kula said...
I love plants that give good foliage in the fall. But in East Texas, we kind of skip fall in many ways. It is a beautiful shrub. And it seems to get so big it might as well be a tree!
Brenda - 9:00 PM
- Shady Gardener said...
I have a lot of questions; guess I could look them up myself! It's a beautiful shrub, though. Unusual flowers! I'm trying to find things that grow berries for winter birds... but not Everything has to do that!:-)
- Melanie said...
Cinj, the pink blooms really are stunning!
Gail, yes the tree next to the Enkianthus is a maple seedling similar to Acer palmatum 'Bloodgood'. This tree seeds around well and people tend to save the seedlings with the best color and form. I was given a few of these trees, I think there's 6 of them now in the back of my yard. Although I've seen new seedlings, I haven't seen any that made it to their second year.
Nancy, the pink is a color that's wonderful to work with, it plays well with so many combinations.
Joy, I don't remember it being fragrant but it's a few feet inside my shade border and I'm not sure I stepped up close and took a sniff.
Vanillalotus, me too! I can't wait to try some cuttings on this beauty.
Linda, yes, it does look like lily of the valley. I bought a pink lily of the valley years ago, it doesn't seem to increase at all :-(
Brenda, the shrub in my photo should top out at 6 or 7 feet but that other variety, you are right, it's like a tree!
Shady gardener, I've been adding viburnums to my garden for the birds but this shrub is so pretty that even without berries it's a nice addition to the garden. I saw a website yesterday from a nursery in Maine that carries a large selection of Enkianthus so it must be pretty hardy too. - 8:27 AM
- Kylee said...
Beautiful! I've heard of it, but know nothing about it. I don't think I've ever seen it in any of our nurseries.
- Phillip said...
I am so envious. I have lusted after this in Michael Dirr's book for a long time. I finally bought one from ForestFarm and it died on me. I want to try it again.
- Anna of RavenCroft said...
Melanie! Wow! I've never seen or heard of this plant. I want one! Thanks for the link to UConn so I can check it out more.


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New Delhi (CNN) — When 33-year-old Ashoo Mongia visits the supermarket it's rarely for stocking up his fridge for the week. As head of a cow protection enforcement team, he regularly scours Delhi grocery stores and outdoor markets for food products containing cow beef.
For the last 15 years, Mongia and his team of 120 Delhi-based volunteers have thrown themselves in a battle that pits India's billon-dollar meat industry and growing underground beef trade against Hindu traditionalists keen on preserving the holy status of cows.
"The cow is our mother, it's our duty to protect her," said Mongia, who monitors and raids hundreds of stores, butcher shops and slaughterhouses suspected of carrying, selling or slaughtering India's blessed bovines. "We do this because we believe in what the cow represents in our country, our culture and in the Hindu religion."
This year, India will displace the United States as the world's third largest beef exporter, behind Brazil and Australia. In just the first half of 2012, India exported $1.24 billion worth of meat, and a 30 percent growth in revenue from 2010 exports is projected by the end of the year, according to a U.S. Beef Export Federation study.
While the bulk of Indian exports is buffalo meat bound for Middle East and Southeast Asian markets, the growing middle class in Arab countries has sparked a new craving for cow beef…
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Creston/O-M bowling rolls past Shenandoah
Both Creston/Orient-Macksburg bowling teams picked up victories over Shenandoah here on Saturday.
The Panther boys won a close match, 2436-2388 over the Mustangs, while the girls won 2387-1920.
Josh Sawtelle led the boys team, now 11-6 for the season, with a two-game series of 363. Chantz Davidson finished close behind with a 352, while Kenny Wynn, Blake Eddy and Darin Hatfield all finished packed together with scores of 297, 296 and 294, respectively.
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Jude 5 wrote:Ὑπομνῆσαι δὲ ὑμᾶς βούλομαι,
εἰδότας ὑμᾶς ἅπαξ πάντα,
ὅτι Ἰησοῦς λαὸν ἐκ γῆς Αἰγύπτου σώσας
τὸ δεύτερον τοὺς μὴ πιστεύσαντας ἀπώλεσεν
I read this verse several times before I finally decided it actually said what it seemed to say. Assuming this is the right reading, can someone help me understand the notion of Jesus leading the Israelites out of Egypt?
Apparently, Justyn Martyr wrote something similar:
Justin Martyr wrote:He speaks therefore in the passage relating to Judah: 'A prince shall not fail from Judah, nor a ruler from his thighs, till that which is laid up for him come; and He shall be the expectation of the nations.' Genesis 49:10 And it is plain that this was spoken not of Judah, but of Christ. For all we out of all nations do expect not Judah, but Jesus, who led your fathers out of Egypt.
I found two more useful references on the Web:
Who saved Israel from Egypt? Ιησους or Κυριος in Jude 5
Jude 5, Ιησους and the incarnation
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Lisa Whelchel, Facts of Life & Survivor Star, Divorces Husband of 24 Years
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"Facts of Life" star Lisa Whelchel has divorced her husband of 24 years, pastor Steve Cauble.
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- Free Mobile Helper
- License: Freeware
Free Mobile Helper is the Android and IOS synchronization softwares and applications developer. Founded in 2012, the Company, has been devoted to the development and release of high quality Android and IOS synchronization softwares and applications. Feature of Free Mobile Helper synchronization applications: 1. Smart mobile manager---All function in one PC suite. Here you can view the real-time data of your mobile, including call history, text messages, contacts, etc.. You can complete the SMS replies, address book editing here as well.
- Platform: Mac, Windows, Other
- Publisher: Macrobile International Tech Ltd.
- Date: 03-12-2012
- OxyCube
- License: Demo
OxyCube brings you the ultimate experience of managing phone or smartphone content and settings via PC. It continues the legacy of popular synchronization solutions: Oxygen Phone Manager I, II. Absorbing and developing all advantages of its predecessors, OxyCube has made a huge step towards simplicity of use. It straightened out all procedures from device connection to content management. Now you can enjoy full control of your phone or smartphone through an impeccable interface with high standards of efficiency and comfort.
- Platform: Windows
- Publisher: Oxygen Software
- Date: 15-07-2009
- Size: 30276 KB
- PDA Forensics Tool
- License: Shareware
Pocket PC analyzer software can easily fetch windows PDA cell phone information data and general SIM card details such as contact names, OS registry information , IMEI (International Mobile Equipment Identity), IMSI number (International Mobile Subscriber Identity), battery status, mobile model number, signal quality etc. PC forensics viewer utility requires any of windows based operating system installed on your generally used PDA mobile phones such as GSMK Cryptophone, Anextek, Dopod, Gigabyte, Nokia, Hitachi, HP, i-mate, Motorola, O2, LG, Pantech, Samsung, Blackberry, Yakumo etc.
- Platform: Windows
- Publisher: rootdata.org
- Date: 29-08-2009
- Size: 1198 KB
- DAO4Sync Mobile Edition
- License: Freeware
Establishes a local hard drive representing your mobile data. A Synchronization engine keeps the data in balance. DAO4Sync Mobile Edition is the perfect integration for your mobile's data in to your PC's desktop world. DAO4Sync Mobile Edition establishes a local drive representing your mobile data. Your PC's operation system will recognize the DAO4Sync Drive as a normal hard drive medium.All applications of your daily work will work directly with your mobiles data,like Windows Explorer, text processing, virus scanner, backup/restore, security, folder network sharing etc.
- Platform: Windows
- Publisher: mydao.homepage.t-online.de
- Date: 19-6-2009
- Size: 1361 KB


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