• Dreaded by many neighbors because of its out-of-scale height (25 stories) but anxiously-awaited by insatiable luxury-hotel fans, the glimmering glass Mondrian Soho tower opened to the public Tuesday, and I popped in yesterday to see how it measured up both to downtown fears and to other fanciful properties of the Morgans Hotel Group, otherwise known as the original chic-boutique hoteliers.

    FORBES: Mondrian Soho Opens

  • Its 42 days in bankruptcy cleansed the company of lots of bad things, like debt and an out-of-whack pay scale.

    FORBES: Needed: Butt Kicker

  • The LTE slice of the market is now facing hyper-competition totally out of scale from what we witnessed with early W-CDMA launches a decade ago.

    FORBES: Massive New AT&T LTE Phone Line-up Guarantees Pain for Vendors

  • In addition to providing technical advice on the full range of education sub-sectors out of its Kabul Office, UNESCO implements large-scale literacy programmes for civilians and police officers in Afghanistan, with Japanese funding.

    UNESCO: EDUCATION

  • But he insisted the UK was on target to meet the expectation - set out in its renewable "roadmap" - of the scale of on-shore wind's contribution to UK energy by 2020.

    BBC: Ed Davey

  • Some (but not all) of the speakers believe that all fiat currencies, including the U.S. dollar, will default in one way or another, either outright or through inflation, as mounting debts and out-of-control entitlement obligations force large-scale monetization, leading to high inflation if not hyperinflation.

    FORBES: The End Game Of The Debt Supercycle

  • Those teams will also be allowed unlimited out-of-season track testing, with no restrictions on the scale and speed of wind-tunnel testing.

    BBC: F1 teams handed ?40m budget cap

  • But our correspondent said further direct government investment in the banks - a new banking bail out - seems less likely, although given the scale of the crisis this option has not been definitively ruled out.

    BBC: UK 'bad bank' plan to boost loans

  • Now a team of doctors is trying for the first time to work out the scale of the food-inhaling problem among stroke patients.

    BBC: Food stroke danger investigated

  • But Tremor combines the virtues of both--testing the likely acceptance of products and sending out thousands of eager missionaries to secure converts--on an epic scale.

    FORBES: Kid Nabbing

  • In an earlier report, the Royal Academy of Engineering had mapped out the scale of the task involved in moving to a low-carbon electricity supply - with a mix of energy efficiency, renewables, nuclear and clean coal.

    BBC: Promise, but daunting challenges for electric cars

  • Although the debate ends in July, the results of the farm-scale trials of four crops proposed for Britain, carried out over the last four years, are not due to be known until September.

    BBC: City hosts first GM debate

  • Some firms alleged to be carrying out mass-scale monitoring have been accused of selling the data to copyright holders for marketing purposes.

    BBC: BitTorrent study finds most file-sharers are monitored

  • In present-day Iraq, the answer is, not much, for where Mr Hussein stands out is in the scale and single-mindedness of his building campaign.

    ECONOMIST: Monumental

  • To start with, a bail-out of Spain would be on a different scale.

    ECONOMIST: The euro crisis

  • And the hefty punishment dished out to Richards reflects the scale of his cover-up in the days after the game.

    BBC: Richards hit by damning judgement

  • And I just want to point this out -- there has never been a program of this scale, moved at this speed, that has been enacted as effectively and as transparently as the Recovery Act.

    WHITEHOUSE: The Recovery Act �C Year One

  • Over the past two decades, small operators have been squeezed out by the economies of scale achieved by large feed-lots.

    ECONOMIST: Branding in the west

  • The scale of the clear-out shows just how panicked Boeing is about anything that might jeopardise its relationship with the American government, its most important customer.

    ECONOMIST: Boeing, Boeing, gone | The

  • While the drug industry has tested dozens of compounds to treat the acute phases of stroke and brain trauma, only a few medicines for lifting patients out of vegetative states have been brought into large-scale trials.

    FORBES: Twilight Zone

  • The miniature building began as a detailed 3-D software rendering before the physical model was built to iron out all the intricacies of connecting the units in the full-scale building.

    FORBES: Meet The Startup Making Snap-Together Office Buildings, Schools And 7-Elevens

  • The government is writing into the legislation itself a requirement for it to carry out a wide-scale publicity campaign to ensure that every member of the public and everyone coming to live in Wales is aware that unless they opt out, they will have deemed their consent for their organs to be donated.

    BBC: Real life and law making collide

  • Once installed, the platform will deliver performance in excess of 10x what is achievable with contemporary scale-out NAS systems.

    ENGADGET: Titan supercomputer to be loaded with 'world's fastest' storage system

  • At a high level, the Moonshot 1500 is the beginning of the slow death of the vanilla, homogenous server and the rise of specialized servers for specialized workloads for scale-out datacenters.

    FORBES: HP Moonshot: Say Goodbye to the Vanilla Server

  • Scottish and Newcastle, Britain's biggest brewer, which brews Foster's lager in the UK and recently bought the French Kronenbourg brand, already has around 30% of the UK market, effectively ruling out a large-scale purchase such as Carling.

    BBC: Byers 'to force Carling sale'

  • Alfredo Aceves and several players threw nasty punches when a fierce, full-scale brawl broke out in the ninth inning Saturday of Canada's 10-3 romp over Mexico in the World Baseball Classic, a melee that also involved fans and set off skirmishes in the seats.

    NPR: Fierce Brawl Mars Canada's 10-3 Win Over Mexico

  • About 750, 000 jobs in IT, finance and business services are expected to be outsourced by 2016, and automation is having a similar cumulative toll, particularly at the lower end of the pay scale, where grocery check-out clerks have been replaced by electronic scanners, and over 250, 000 postal workers have already lost their jobs due to automation of mail processing.

    FORBES: Is Your Job Robot-Proof?

  • Scale-out, commodity cloud platforms are the future of your virtualization implementations, and over time, you will build more and more code on these type of deployments.

    FORBES: Think Twice, Three Times, Before Moving Existing Apps to the Cloud

  • The scale of coverage in this second bail-out was staggering.

    ECONOMIST: New banking measures

  • They are in almost all situations on the safe end of any scale that is not dominated by hollowed-out mattresses or federally insured bank accounts, and they belong in your portfolio.

    FORBES: Cash Equivalents Don't Act Like Cash When It Counts

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