STEVE JOBS HEALTH AND THE END OF APPLE

With Steve Jobs health facing major crisis, many are now skeptical over the future of Apple. Who would have thought that the man who represented the major turn around of a failing company would also represent the company's greatest threat of doom. Some believe that the company has focused too much of their success over Steve Jobs shoulders and now they are facing one of their toughest moments since Steve Jobs appointment to CEO of Apple. Maybe Apple's only solution is to publicize another CEO and have Jobs endorse him and make people believe he will still be involved in the companies day to day decision making.

UNEMPLOYMENT FACING DOUBLE DIGITS?

As absurd as that may sound, some economic specialists are terrified at the possibility of the greatest economical superpower of the world, the United States of America, reaching double digits of unemployment rate. How can businesses overcome or at least delay this rise in unemployment?

I believe that as a country we should unite during this time of great crisis. Many people have lost their jobs while others are overwhelmed with the amount of work accumulated over them due to major lay-offs. My main suggestion to companies who are issuing major lay-offs is to reduce full time employee’s hours to part-time. This could decrease the amount of lay-offs by over 80% as well as decrease the state unemployment rate companies now have to pay due to these major layoffs.

INDENTITY THEFT

Identity theft has become a great concern throughout our newly technological advanced nation. Although the government has increased their attention on this matter, little legislation has been passed to ensure people their personal information located in important databases of small companies such as personall tax preparers, or accountants, is safe and protected. There has been legislation passed towards punishing people who are negligent in protecting their clients information, however, there has been little legislation towards requiring a certain level of security of anyone who chooses to store data from clients on their own servers. The government has not invested enough money into protecting people's information and tracing hackers over the internet and tracking people who perform such crimes. Please place your comments about some of your ideas of areas the government should be investing on in order to avoid indentity theft.

Companies going green

Companies going green often see a great impact on their overheads as well as on the environment. Think of GMs hesitation to move towards fuel efficient automobils and the effect it had on their company. Their failure to adjust to this change in society and customer demand nearly cost them their business.