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Fastest-growing US Web sites in January 2008

The official beginning of tax season sent Americans online in droves, driving the tax category up 202 percent to more than 23 mln visitors, making it the top-gaining category in January. IRS.gov led the category with 12.5 mln visitors (up 181%), followed by TaxACT with 5.8 mln visitors (up more...

Tags: Web, H&R Block Inc., Web Site, Visitor, Taxes, Free Trade, Financial Planning, Finance, NB

Blog posts 2008-02-27

H&R Block TaxCut 2006 series

H&R Block TaxCut Premium 2006 has an improved interface, making this software both easier on the eye and simpler to navigate than the 2005 edition. The rewritten tax interview has fewer words and less jargon, and the retail price is significantly lower than the price of Intuit TurboTax. For instance,...

Tags: Taxes, TaxCut Premium, H&R Block Inc., E-file, H&R Block TaxCut, H&R Block TaxCut Premium 2006

Product reviews 2006-12-12

HRBlock.com traffic up 84% in one week

Nielsen//NetRatings tracked the usage data for tax sites in January and February 2006.Top tax sites in February 2006SiteAudience, 01/29/06Audience,02/05/06Growthhrblock.com1,2642,33184%Taxcut.com51993781%IRS.com36251241%taxACT.com7681,08641%Intuit2,5853,55037%Source: Nielsen//NetRatings

Tags: Taxes, H&R Block Inc.

Blog posts 2006-02-16

Top tax sites: HRBlock.com, TaxCut.com, IRS.com

Nielsen//NetRatings reported that traffic to approximately 29 top tax sites saw a 26% spike during the week ending February 5, 2006, compared to the same period a year ago. 11% of the active Internet users, or 14.1 mln unique users, visited tax sites during the first week in February, indicating...

Tags: tax, tax site

Blog posts 2006-02-15

H&R Block TaxCut Online Premium 2005

H&R Block TaxCut Online Premium 2005, the Web-based version of H&R Block's venerable tax-prep program, is a convenient alternative to its desktop sibling--although the latter has a superior interface and tools to determine the cash value of charitable contributions. While we reviewed the Premium version of TaxCut Online, you...

Tags: Desktops, TaxCut Online, TaxCut Online Premium, desktop, H&R Block Inc., desktop version

Product reviews 2006-01-28

H&R Block blunder exposes consumer data

H&R Block blunder exposes consumer dataHuman error. Good thing these folks speak intelligible English.Had this been in India, they'd probably keep their servers unprotected too. Too costly, don'cha know.Wake me when corporate america grows the frig up and takes responsibility. Rather than making us waste our time...

Tags: Taxes, Free trade, Operational accounting, Human Error, H&R Block Inc., Hypnotoad, tax, Social Security, software, identity theft

Discussion threads 2006-01-03

H&R Block Switches to Microsoft .NET Enterprise Servers, Improves Scalability and Performance

H&R Block, Inc. is a diversified financial services company, offering a broad range of products and services. H&R Block wanted to maximize the performance and scalability of its online tax preparation solution. By switching to the Microsoft platform, H&R Block, Inc. was able to develop a flexible and scalable solution.

Tags: Microsoft .NET Enterprise Server, H&R Block Inc., Performance, Scalability, Enterprise Server, Server, Microsoft Corp., Taxes, Free Trade, Performance Management, .Net, Financial Planning, Middleware, Finance, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Enterprise Software, Software

Case studies

H&R Block Streamlines and Facilitates Enrollment Process for Government Benefits

Millions of people in the United States rely on government assistance. But the complex enrollment process causes billions of dollars to go unclaimed and is expensive for government and non-government organizations to deliver. To effect change, H&R Block and Microsoft Certified Business Solutions Partner Nets to Ladders (N2L) developed the...

Tags: H&R Block Inc., Microsoft Corp., Enrollment, Benefits Enrollment Network, Government, Benefits, Vertical Industries, Human Resources, Enterprise Software, Software

Case studies

H&R Block Expands Client Relationships With Automated Government Benefits Application Process

A significant number of low-income families are unaware of or do not have the physical ability to easily access government benefits and therefore do not claim the benefits to which they are entitled by law. Many of them file their tax returns with H&R Block, which recognized the opportunity to...

Tags: H&R Block Inc., Government, Benefits, Business Structures, Taxes, Human Resources, Finance, Financial Planning

Case studies

Additional Resources

Howard's happy: Sirius-XM merger (finally) approved; Now the work really begins

The government regulatory debacle known as the Sirius-XM merger has officially ended as the Federal Communications Commission approved the deal after 17 months of deliberation and lobbying from the National Association of Broadcasters. According to the Washington Post and Wall Street Journal the FCC approved the deal...

Tags: Merger, XM Satellite Radio Inc., Radio, Sirius, Howard, Satellite Radio, Digital Music, Advertising & Promotion, Federal Government, Mergers & Acquisitions, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Marketing, Government, Investment, Finance, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-07-26

Geek Sheet: A Tweaker's Guide to Solid State Drives (SSDs) and Linux

Is 20th century conventional Winchester multi-platter, multi-head random-access disk technology too quaint for you? Want to run your PC or server on storage devices that consume far less energy than the traditional alternatives? Want a portable or mobile storage unit that will never fail due to G-forces or "crashing?". Looking...

Tags: Linux, Disk, File System, Solid State Disk, Kernel, Mandrake, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2008-07-25

Escapee 'Spam King' dead in apparent murder-suicide

Convicted spammer Eddie Davidson, who escaped from federal prison over the weekend, killed his wife and 3-year-old daughter before killing himself in what is being described as a murder-suicide. Colorado's 9News.com said the tragic end of the man known as the "Spam King" was confirmed by the...

Tags: Prison, Sheriff, Internal Revenue Service, Attorney, Healthcare, Ryan Naraine

Blog posts 2008-07-24

COPA suffers another blow

InformationWeek is reporting on the latest blow to the Child Online Protection Act, or COPA. COPA imposes heavy fines on libraries and schools among other institutions that fail to prevent children from "content harmful to minors." If you're asking just what constitutes "harmful to minors", so...

Tags: Child Online Protection Act, Minor, Regulations, Government, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2008-07-23

Ego Cup

With many states recently passing hands-free laws banning the use of handsets while driving, we're seeing a flood of new Bluetooth devices into what is already a pretty crowded market. The Funkwerk Ego Cup is one such device, promising clear calls without fear of a citation. It stands apart from...

Tags: Cellular phones, Ego Cup, cup-holder

Product reviews 2008-07-23

Guest blog - A lesson in compassionate capitalism

I've mentioned Dean's Beans a few times recently, probably because too many late nights of thesis-writing this summer have me fixated on caffeine. Regardless, Dean Cycon, the company owner and a local guy doing business a couple towns away from me here in central Massachusetts, offered to write a...

Tags: Blog, Starbucks Corp., Recruitment & Selection, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2008-07-22

Twitter anti-spam efforts go overboard

Twitter anti-spam efforts go overboardLarge services such as this can not...are too big to manage. Managing this type of technology with technology will time after time result in mismanagement. Just like Gmail and other that are spamming the Internet.Networks require real human intervention to manage properly. Anything less is...

Tags: Spam, Twitter, anti-spam, anti-spam effort

Discussion threads 2008-07-22

E-gold owners plead guilty to money laundering

E-gold owners plead guilty to money launderingGoodbye privacy?Cash leads to crime, too. Should we enforce credit/debit card payments only? If so, let's ban gold trading altogether!I will be obvious and boring then...[Please excuse my poor "Engrish" and my rushed-up style.]Hi guys.I don't agree with your opinion and thought a very...

Tags: Identity theft, Taxes, Free trade, Financial accounting, Financial Planning, Financial services, bank transaction, e-Gold, tax, financial

Discussion threads 2008-07-22

Worry-Free Business Security Standard (zip)

Worry-Free Business Security solutions protect your assets, your customer information and your reputation from identity theft, cyber criminals and other web threats. These solutions are smarter, simpler, and deliver a whole new line of safety defenses, so you can focus on your business. Protects your small business and its reputation...

Tags: Web, Trend Micro Inc., Identity Theft, Channel Management, Cyberthreats, Security, Marketing

Software downloads 2008-07-22

XMLBlueprint (exe)

XML editor and validator of XML documents, DTDs, Relax NG Schemas and XML Schemas. It supports Unicode aware text editing, XML layout tidying, real-time XML coloring, context-sensitive XML Completion, XSL Transformation, XPath Expression Evaluator, XML tree explorer, text wrapping, OASIS XML Catalogs, unlimited undo and redo.Version 6 now has a...

Tags: Monkfish Software, XML, Software/Web Development, Web Development

Software downloads 2008-07-22

Worry-Free Business Security Advanced (zip)

Worry-Free Business Security solutions protect your assets, your customer information and your reputation from identity theft, cyber criminals and other web threats. These solutions are smarter, simpler, and deliver a whole new line of safety defenses, so you can focus on your business. Protects your small business and its reputation...

Tags: Web, Trend Micro Inc., Identity Theft, Channel Management, Cyberthreats, Security, Marketing

Software downloads 2008-07-22