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HomeTips.com Nails Down Big Revenue With Google AdSense

Home advice website HomeTips.com started out in a backyard clubhouse. Seeking a quiet, woodsy spot for writing home improvement books, author Don Vandervort converted the bottom floor of his sons' two-story treehouse into a small office. It needed advertising for the web business to be viable. But the small editorial...

Tags: Revenue, Google Inc., Google AdSense, Home Improvement

Case studies 2009-01-01

WebSeeker 6 (Windows)

In a single search, you can combine the knowledge base of several Internet search engines pinpointing the exact information you need with WebSeeker. Whether you're looking for travel information, sport scores, news, books, scrapbooking items, music, home improvement tips, cars, clip art, software, genealogy, etc. WebSeeker makes searching the Web...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Home Improvement, Blue Squirrel, Search

Software downloads 2007-02-11

Home Improvement Project 1 (Windows)

This tool will enable expert contractors calculate quick project bids and homeowners to get a clear understand of project cost make up. This tool is part of HomeInitiative.com - World's Largest Marketplace for home professionals. What eBay has done to transform the auction concept for purchases of products, HomeInitiative.com is...

Tags: Homeowner, Home Improvement, HomeInitiative, Productivity, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2006-11-09

Home improvement shoppers start their searches with Yahoo! and MSN

Consumers shopping for home improvement products head out to Yahoo! and MSN first, followsed by Ask, Google and AOL, BIGResearch says.

Tags: home improvement, MSN, Yahoo! Inc.

Blog posts 2006-02-17

Home Improvement

The Home Depot has been in the midst of a $7.7 billion business transformation which includes investment of more than $1 billion in new technology from 2002 through 2004.  The IT overhaul includes a laundry list of changes, such as the replacement of a dated point-of-sale POS system, the installation...

Tags: home improvement

Blog posts 2004-08-03

Home Improvement 3.0 (Mobile)

Home ImprovementCompile a list of items before you go!Everyone is becoming a Do-It Yourselfer when it comes to jobs around the home. Let your PDA do some of the work for you.Use your PDA as a tool to save time and money With Home Improvement by Rustlers Creek and your...

Tags: Mobile, Item, Home Improvement, Rustlers Creek, PDAs, Handhelds, Hardware

Software downloads 2002-12-01

Leading French Retailer Chooses Red Hat for Critical Sales and Customer Service System

Lapeyre, a leading manufacturer and distributor of home improvement products in Europe, relies on enterprise Linux to run Cameleon, the graphic application package used to design living spaces for their customers. When the latest versions of Cameleon were being developed, Lapeyre needed to migrate to the Oracle9i environment. To support...

Tags: Enterprise Linux, Customer Service, Red Hat Inc., Sales, Home Improvement, Linux, Open Source, Operating Systems, Software

Case studies

How SAP Is Delivering Home Improvements for the Loft Shop

Based in Littlehampton in Sussex, The Loft Shop is a small group of companies specialising in the distribution of building products for use in lofts and loft conversions. The company needed a software product that provides visibility through all the business processes and ultimately provides good business intelligence to make...

Tags: Loft, SAP AG, Home Improvement, Investment, Tools & Techniques, Pricing, Operational Planning, Finance, Management, Marketing, Business Operations

Case studies

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HTC Droid Eris (Verizon Wireless)

Editors' note: Portions of this review were taken from our review of the HTC Hero. The two devices share similar features. The HTC Droid Eris is the second Verizon Wireless' Google Android phone after the Motorola Droid. Where the Droid was flashy and high-end, the Droid Eris offers a simpler,...

Tags: Keyboards, Telecom & Utilities, Smart phones, Verizon Wireless, DROID ERIS, High Tech Computer Corp., phone, HTC Droid Eris

Product reviews 2009-11-06

Apple unveils major Mac upgrades

Looks like the rumors had it pretty closeIt is getting harder for Apple to really keep things secret before a new launch. I was still hoping that Blu-ray would make it in, at least as an option on the high-end, but as the rumors predicted, it is not available...

Tags: Mice, Desktops, eSATA, Apple Inc., mouse, display, Apple Macintosh

Discussion threads 2009-10-20

Homeowner Calendar for iPhone 1.1 (Mobile)

With Homeowner Calendar for iPhone keep track of all your home improvement, gardening, and maintenance project. It features built in calendar of tasks you need to do throughout the year to protect your investment in your home, alert badge lets you know on the home screen when you have tasks...

Tags: Task, Apple iPhone, Mobile, SplashData, Smart Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2009-10-20

SHARM 3.2.2 (Windows)

SHARM (Self-Hypnosis And Relaxation Machine) is the software tool that enables both professional therapists and advanced users to quickly and easily create their own customized therapy and self-improvement sessions. SHARM offers over 100 predefined sessions. Open one of the session files, set the length of the session, and press "Play"....

Tags: Session, CyberTeam, Microsoft Windows, Productivity, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2009-10-20

Computers have speed limit as unbreakable as speed of light, say physicists

Yeah, they have been saying this same thing for years....and everytime, they find a way to make computers even faster. I don't think that they will EVER reach a limit for computer power. Not ever.FacinatingI always knew there would be a wall somewhere, but what will be needed with that...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, computer

Discussion threads 2009-10-16

Mint Studio Speaker System

The last Mint product we looked at--the Mint 220 Wireless Digital Music Station--offered us something that we had not yet seen in an iPod speaker dock. Instead of combining iPod playback with a CD player or AM/FM alarm clock radio, the Mint 220 gave us the ability to wirelessly stream...

Tags: Digital media, USB extender, USB, Apple iPod

Product reviews 2009-10-12

Let's get 64-bit sorted out before we think about 128-bit!

Yes, it is time for 128 bitWhile 32 bit is not quite history yet it should be considered for history in the next release of windows which leaves us with 64 bit apps. However, apps continue to evolve requiring more memory and to do more for us. It is better...

Tags: Network technology, 128-bit, 64-bit, 32-bit

Discussion threads 2009-10-08

Gateway ZX6810-01

Congratulations to Gateway's One ZX6801-01 for sending in the first official Windows 7-based PC to CNET Labs. We've already reviewed Windows 7, so we'll spend most of our energy here talking about Gateway's new PC. We like the One ZX6810-01 well enough. When it goes on sale for $1,399 at...

Tags: Gateway Inc., Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows

Product reviews 2009-10-07

HTC Pure (AT&T)

Photo gallery:HTC Pure (AT&T)The HTC Touch Pro2 has been making the rounds to all the major carriers with much fanfare, yet its keyboard-lacking sibling, the HTC Touch Diamond2, has thus-far stayed hidden in the shadows, which is a shame since we loved the unlocked model when we reviewed it earlier...

Tags: Smart phones, Keyboards, Handhelds, Cellular phones, HTC Touch Pro2, High Tech Computer Corp., HTC Pure, HTC Touch, AT&T Corp.

Product reviews 2009-10-06

Windows Mobile 6.5 disappoints; no Start customizations and stylus still required

Apple is safe.Point release or not, Microsoft is under the gun to come up with something better than this retread if they want to stay in the mobile device business. Make no mistake, the handset makers are not just disappointed, they are steaming about Microsoft's inability to keep up, because...

Tags: Keyboards, Mobile operating systems, Operating systems, Telecom & Utilities, Wireless and Mobility, phone, Microsoft Windows Mobile, touch screen, Windows Mobile 6.5, ringer, mobile, Finger-friendly, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2009-10-06

Lotus Exige S240 photos

Lotus makes a line of lightweight cars with incredible handling, the kind of cars that, while road-legal, are most at home on the track. Although engineered to the nth degree, Lotus still found room for improvement on the latest Exige S240. by CNET News.com

Tags: Car, Photograph, IBM Corp., CNET News.com

Image galleries 2009-10-05

Samsung Instinct HD SPH-M850 (Sprint)

Photo gallery:Samsung Instinct HD SPH-M850Sprint Nextel stole the CTIA show last year when it introduced the Samsung Instinct. There was a lot to like about the touch-screen phone, so we were hopeful that Samsung would build on its successes with subsequent models. To our initial delight, the Samsung Instinct S30...

Tags: Cellular phones, Smart phones, Samsung Instinct, Instinct HD, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., Sprint Communications

Product reviews 2009-09-30