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Live in Germany? You might want to create backups of your Gmail

Live in Germany? You might want to create backups of your GmailGründlichkeitExaggerated Gründlichkeit thoroughness is a common shortcoming of my respected neighbours. I sure hope that I will be able to read my Gmail, when I'm on holidays in Germany.Greetz from the Netherlands, Pjotr.We all have to do something against...

Tags: E-mail providers, E-mail, German Government, e-mail service, Google Gmail, choice mean, free e-mail provider, Internet, backup

Discussion threads 2007-06-24

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Wal-mart preempts Black Friday with HDTV specials this Saturday

China made productsYES all we need is more 'Made In China' to get the economy churning....Bring it home to 'China' no longer USA because we are like Rome we manufacture nothing, we import everything and borrowing TRILLIONS from China.How long will this last I would say as long as they...

Tags: TVs, TV & Home Theater, HDTV, manufacturing, Wal-Mart Stores Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-11-05

GM to sell small electric car for less than $6,000

it would be nice......if GM would sell these cars in North America...just my two centsRE: GM to sell small electric car for less than $6,000It aggravates me. Why is the US the last one to get this type of innovation that is affordable. I WANT ONEOh yeah people in a...

Tags: car, General Motors Corp., electric car, small electric car

Discussion threads 2009-10-15

Merkel slams Google Books scanning

Reuters reports that German Chancellor Andrea Merkel took the occasion of the Frankfurt Book Fair to criticize Google's book scanning operation and the the Google Books deal. The German government has a clear position: copyrights have to be protected in the Internet," Merkel said, adding there are "considerable dangers"...

Tags: Google Inc., Government, Internet, Vertical Industries, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2009-10-11

Jobsworths and Box-Wallahs...

We've all been behind the glass in bureaucratic purgatory at some point. Having waited in line at the department of motor vehicles or similar our number finally comes up and we interact with the bureaucrat, who has some issue with your missing some...

Tags: Job, Recruitment & Selection, Wiki, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Online Communications, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-09-13

Works of Thomas Hardy. FREE Author's biography & partial work in the trial 10.2 (Mobile)

Indulge Yourself with the best classic literature on Your PDA. Navigate easily to any poem from Table of Contents or search for the words or phrases. Features Navigate from Table of Contents or search for words or phrases Make bookmarks, notes, highlights Searchable and interlinked. Access the e-book anytime, anywhere...

Tags: Mobile, Biology, MobileReference

Software downloads 2009-09-10

Works of Thomas Hardy. FREE Author's biography & partial novel in the trial 10.2 (Mobile)

Indulge Yourself with the best classic literature on Your PDA. Navigate easily to any poem from Table of Contents or search for the words or phrases. Features Navigate from Table of Contents or search for words or phrases Make bookmarks, notes, highlights Searchable and interlinked. Access the e-book anytime, anywhere...

Tags: Mobile, Biology, MobileReference

Software downloads 2009-09-10

What the EU delay means for Oracle, Sun and us

My Guess, as requested.Insofar as the EU seems to be tardy in the extreme when investigating monopoly considerations (e.g. why have they waited 10 years to tackle M$ about bundling Internet Explorer with Windows?) I would agree with you completely. Why didn't they start proceedings in a timely fashion to...

Tags: Strategy, Backblaze, Oracle Corp., Microsoft Corp., Sun Microsystems Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-09-03

Germany says Google Books violates international law

Does the Google Books deal violate copyright law? Opponents in the US haven't yet gone that far, but that's changed with a filing by the German government in the U.S. case. by Richard Koman

Tags: Google Inc., Government, Vertical Industries, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2009-09-01

ActionPad 1.0.15 (Mobile)

for BlackBerry Wireless HandheldActionPad is a replacement application for the original BlackBerry MemoPad. It provides quick access to memos for boosting your productivity.Core Features | At A Glance | User Reviews | Supported Devices | Instant DownloadCore Features Title & Content Search Memo Encryption 1-Click Category Switch BlackBerry Integration Hotkeys...

Tags: Mobile, RIM BlackBerry, Memo, ActionPad, Memo Encryption, Handhelds, Hardware

Software downloads 2009-08-29

Biodiesel's future

I recently spoke with Innovation Fuels CEO John Fox. His firm already makes biodiesel at plants in Milwaukee and New York Harbor. He says next year will see a growth in bodiesel production in the U.S. The 2010 federal requirement calls for all diesel oil--heating and vehicles--to...

Tags: Biodiesel, Innovation Fuels, John Fox, Soy, Diesel, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-08-13

Tax concerns to push Microsoft Azure cloud hosting out of Washington state

Tax concerns to push Microsoft Azure cloud hosting out of Washington stateWhat next, they'll terminate everyone's licensing agreements and thenhit the kill switch?Governments should be bullying corporations. Not the other way around. (or perhaps neither side should bully the other?)Typical MicroshaftHire foreigners, make the taxpayers foot the bill...

Tags: Taxes, Free trade, Personal finance, tax, government, Microsoft Corp., Washington State, Quincy facility, Microsoft Azure

Discussion threads 2009-08-05

Michael Arrington snared in libel verdict: lessons for us all

Michael Arrington snared in libel verdict: lessons for us allabsurd eh!So Arrington thinks Sam's litigation was absurd, and has decided not to submit to the the jurisdiction of the UK courts. I heard Mike was a lawyer, so it seems strange tactics to me - and surely he's been...

Tags: INTERNET, Michael Arrington

Discussion threads 2009-08-03

IBM's latest campaign against paper

You've got to love all the statistics that high-tech companies use to express the return on investment of their green IT offering du jour. Here is a new-ish one from IBM: the average office worker uses roughly 10,000 sheets of copy paper year. (Notice that does not mention printer output,...

Tags: IBM Corp., Content Management, Web Technology, Outsourcing, Vertical Industries, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2009-06-29

ABC's "Impact": Oh No, Not Again!

How much more of the "Apocalyptic meteoroid-comet-asteroid-moon gonna hit the Earth/need to save us with a daring suicide mission involving nuclear weapons or a secret government project" genre can we possibly take? Ah yes, Father's Day. Going over to see the relatives for...

Tags: Earth, ABC Inc., Brown Dwarf, Moon, Government, Team Management, Vertical Industries, Management, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2009-06-22

BitZipper 2009 (Windows)

Want a ZIP and WinRAR-compatible utility that matches your level of experience? The intuitive interfaces are easy to use and designed for fast results. One of BitZipper's dominant strengths is its built-in support for 001, 7Z, ACE, ARC, ARJ, BH, BZIP2, BZ2, CAB, CHM, CHW, CPIO, DEB, DMG, DOC, ENC,...

Tags: AES, WinRar, ISO, Microsoft Windows, Bitberry Software, BitZipper 2009

Software downloads 2009-06-04

Hydrogen fuel cell cars hit the road. GM hits panic button.

Hydrogen fuel cell cars hit the road. GM hits panic button.Hydrogen is too dangerousHandling Hydrogen is too dangerous to use as a motor fuel, period.Oh Great!So we change from OPEC centered in the middle east to another monopoly. The platinum and palladium used as fuel cell catalysts comes from...

Tags: VW, hydrogen, Hydrogen fuel cell car, hydrogen fuel cell, General Motors Corp., car

Discussion threads 2009-05-27

Hydrogen fuel cell cars hit the road. GM hits panic button.

An eighteen hundred mile demo tour has begun. Hydrogen powered cars will wend across North America for days, having left from Chula Vista today. The run ends June 3 in Vancouver. Here's the official website for Hydrogen Road Tour 2009. The site includes...

Tags: Fuel Cell, Car, Hydrogen Fuel Cell, VW, General Motors Corp., Hydrogen, Daimler, A-Class F-CELL, Fuel Cell Car, Fuel Cells, Emerging Technologies, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-05-26

Goodbye, SOX?

Goodbye, SOX?What! No!The "Credit Crunch" meant nothing to me, but kill SOX and who will pay my outrageous SOX consulting fees.I'll be ruined!It's about time.Sarbox is a failure. The Siemens corruption case was in complliance with Sarbanes-Oxley.You don't have to look far to see that Congress knows nothing about...

Tags: Sarbanes-Oxley, Regulatory compliance, Regulations, Sarbox, Sarbanes-Oxley Act, goodbye

Discussion threads 2009-05-18

EU fines Intel record $1.45 billion in AMD antitrust case

EU fines Intel record $1.45 billion in AMD antitrust case10 percent of it's global turnover?Since when has any country the right to fine on a percentage of sales NOT made it's country?To allow something like that opens the door to countries to arbitrarily fine a company looking to get 10%...

Tags: Corporate law, Processors, antitrust, Intel Corp., Advanced Micro Devices Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-05-13