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GoBootstrap: simplifying SME accounting

I'm keen to see startups in the accounting for small business space. Part of that is because I spent more years than I care to remember in finance roles, part is in the belief that accounting systems that reflect a 600 year old methodology are well...

Tags: Accounting, Small And Medium Enterprise, Advisor, GoBootstrap, GoBootstrap.com, Tax Estimate, General Usability, Taxes, Free Trade, Operational Accounting, Financial Services, Financial Planning, Finance, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-08-28

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The end of Zune? It's not just the music anymore

Is this the beginning of the end for the Microsoft Zune? In a story about Microsoft's quest to beat Google, the Financial Times writes that Steve Ballmer seems "all but ready to throw in the towel on the Zune," which hasn't come close to being an iPod killer. The piece...

Tags: Apple iPod, Microsoft Zune, Music Player, Microsoft Corp., Music, Digital Music, Digital Media, Media Players, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-01-09

Ballmer takes on Google, the economy and Windows 7

What does Microsoft's CEO worry about most? It's Google, Google, Google. Steve Ballmer also talks about the state of Windows, taking software to the web, and the troubled economy. Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer arrived at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas with his usual optimism, but he...

Tags: Google Inc., Microsoft Windows 7, Steve Ballmer, Microsoft Corp., Q, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating Systems, Software, Microsoft Windows Vista, Netbook, Microsoft, Google, economy, CES, Ina Fried CNET News.com

News items 2009-01-09

Trust: the Satyam Partnering Disaster

The images above, taken from Satyam's website, are now worthy of the fail blog. The shock waves rippling through the markets following Satyam's chairman and co-founder Ramalinga Raju's admissions of accounting fraud are world news, being dubbed 'India's Enron'. You...

Tags: Satyam, HCL, Operational Accounting, Financial Services, Financial Accounting, Finance, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-01-09

Microsoft study debunks phishing profitability

Do phishers actually make money, or is phishing an unprofitable business, scammers lose time and resources into? Taking the economic approach of generalizing how much money phishers make, a recently released study by Microsoft researchers Cormac Herley and Dinei Florencio (A Profitless Endeavor: Phishing as Tragedy of the Commons), states...

Tags: Microsoft Corp., Phishing, Cyberthreats, Spam, Viruses And Worms, Security, Spam And Phishing, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2009-01-08

Making the case for 1:1

This has been a nasty winter here in New England and across the country. As of right now, we're going to be in school until June 29th and, given that we have a couple more months of winter (OK, this is Massachusetts, so a few more months of winter),...

Tags: Network, Teacher, Tool, Kid, Social Networking, Productivity, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2009-01-08

Microsoft: Windows 7 means business

A top Microsoft Windows exec spoke to ZDNet UK about the new operating system's potential appeal for enterprise users. Windows 7 is going into public beta, Microsoft head Steve Ballmer announced at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas late on Wednesday. ...

Tags: Microsoft Windows 7, Operating System, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Software, Microsoft Corp. Windows 7, John Curran, operating systems, David Meyer ZDNet.co.uk

News items 2009-01-08

MDaemon Email Server 10.03 (Windows)

MDaemon Email Server software for Windows supports IMAP, SMTP, and POP3 protocols and delivers solid performance from its feature-rich and user-friendly design. It has been used by businesses in over 90 countries and over 25 languages worldwide. A trusted alternative to Microsoft Exchange, the MDaemon mail server software provides outstanding...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, TCO, E-mail Server, Alt-N Technologies, MDaemon Mail Server Software, Mail Server Software, E-mail, Roi/Tco, Groupware, Productivity, Microsoft Outlook, Cyberthreats, E-mail Servers, Online Communications, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Enterprise Software, Software, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Security

Software downloads 2009-01-08

CES 2009: Don't count out those Millennials or Online Media, Cell Phone on the rise as entertainment device, says Deloitte

 The idiot box is still king, but don't count out online advertising. (Source: Deloitte LLP) At this year's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Deloitte LLP revealed the results of its 3rd State of the Media Democracy Survey, which are likely to be...

Tags: Social Networking, Deloitte LLP, Advertisement, Phone, Japan, Cell Phone, Online Media, TV, Survey, Entertainment, Millennials, Entertainment Device, Idiot Box, Early-adopter Millennials, Advertising & Promotion, Telecom & Utilities, Cellular Phones, Marketing, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2009-01-07

Satyam crashes with $1 billion cash hole

In a shock announcement this morning, Satyam, India's fourth largest outsourcing companies reported that B Ramalinga Raju, founder and chairman has resigned following an admission that there is an estimated $1 billion cash hole in the company's balance sheet. The company's shares crashed 77% in the aftermath. According to Finextra:...

Tags: Satyam, Balance Sheets, Outsourcing, Litigation, Asset Management, Financial Statements, Financial Accounting, Finance, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Operational Planning, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-01-07

Sun acquires cloud computing vendor

Sun Microsystems said Wednesday that it has acquired Q-layer, a Belgium company that automates cloud computing deployments. Sun didn't offer a lot of detail in its statement. Q-layer will become part of Sun's cloud computing unit. The general idea is that Q-layer's technology will allow Sun to...

Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., Q-layer, Cloud Computing, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-01-07

MoneyWorks Cashbook 5.2.7 (Mac)

MoneyWorks Cashbook formerly CashWorks is an integrated cashbook and general ledger that is the ideal accounting system for cash based businesses and bookkeepers doing accounts for other organisations. MoneyWorks Cashbook allows you to enter transactions manually or import them from downloaded bank statements QIF format. It provides comprehensive bank reconciliation,...

Tags: Bank, Apple Macintosh, MoneyWorks Cashbook, Cashbook, Financial Services

Software downloads 2009-01-07

MoneyWorks Gold 5.2.7 (Mac)

MoneyWorks Gold is a fully integrated multi-user accounting and business information system featuring Cashbook, General Ledger, Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable, Inventory, Custom Reporting, Custom forms generation, Sales and Purchase analysis, Departmental reporting and Job Costing---all in a single easy-to-use package. MoneyWorks has a friendly, intuitive user-interface, with simple and clear...

Tags: Accounting, Apple Macintosh, High-performance, MoneyWorks Gold, MoneyWorks Gold 4, Operational Accounting, Leadership, Financial Services, Databases, Finance, Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management

Software downloads 2009-01-07

Handbook of Radiation Oncology 11.0.4 (Mobile)

A valuable resource to a practicing radiation oncologist, resident in radiation oncology, fellow in any oncology discipline, or a student of medicine, nursing, physics, dosimetry, or therapy, covering the issues most pertinent to patients undergoing radiation therapy.Handbook of Radiation Oncology covers general oncologic principles, workup, staging, and multidisciplinary aspects of...

Tags: Mobile, Radiation, Skyscape Inc.

Software downloads 2009-01-07

iTunes finally goes DRM-free ... does anyone really care?

iTunes finally goes DRM-free ... does anyone really care?Playing catchupI think most people don't care because, unlike WMV, Apple's Fairplay was such an unrestrictive DRM, most people never even knew it was there.Just everybody.Did they forget to mention that iTunes is the largest music store by far?Well, if you exclude...

Tags: Digital music, Digital media, Dropping DRM, Apple iTunes, DRM-free

Discussion threads 2009-01-06

Windows 7 Should be a Fixta Free For All

Okay, never mind that I'm a dinosaur with an affinity for 1990's era User Interfaces --  I think even my best critics will very likely agree with me that Windows 7, for all of its performance improvements and bling, is essentially one big service deluxe pack...

Tags: Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating Systems, Software, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2009-01-06

Public betas of Windows 7 client and server could hit this week

Public betas of Windows 7 client and server could hit this weekPrivate beta guys like me rule...I am a private beta customer and I laugh at people who use public betas. A private beta is like driving a Mercedes whereas a public beta is like driving a US made car....

Tags: Microsoft Windows, public beta, Windows 7 Client, Microsoft Windows 7, product key, beta, rep, server

Discussion threads 2009-01-06

formZ 6.6.2 (Mac)

formZ is an award winning general purpose solid and surface modeler with an extensive set of 2D/3D form manipulating and sculpting capabilities, many of which are unique. It is an effective design tool for architects, landscape architects, urban designers, engineers, animators and illustrators, industrial and interior designers, and all design...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, formZ, Productivity, Desktops, Hardware

Software downloads 2009-01-06

AntispamSniper for The Bat! pro 3.1.0.5 (Windows)

AntispamSniper for The Bat! provides a professional antispam and anti-phishing protection for your mailbox. A combination of several methods for automatic email classification shows very good filtering quality. The plug-in has a built-in option allowing deleting spam from the server by headers. The good messages, mistakenly deleted from server by...

Tags: Message, Microsoft Windows, Plug-in, GoodVein, Phishing, Cyberthreats, Spam, Viruses And Worms, Security, Spam And Phishing

Software downloads 2009-01-06

PhotoLab Calendar for Workgroup 1.8 (Windows)

This is a more powerful version of PhotoLab Calendar, with all of the features of the standard version, but with the additional capability to share data in real time over the network. PhotoLab Calendar is a must-have schedule management tool for anyone who has a photo or video business. It...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, OrgBusiness Software, PhotoLab Calendar, Corporate Communications, Backups, Viruses And Worms, Security, Marketing

Software downloads 2009-01-06