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An unusual day, part 2 (or "My lease is up! Now what?")

Part 2 of my unusual day, ending with a very different direction and a lot of ideas to stretch my shrinking budget. by Christopher Dawson

Tags: Lease, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2009-11-05

Lease Lite for iPhone 1.0 (Mobile)

Lease Lite for iPhone allows you to track your lease miles and end of lease possible penalty costs. This application will adjust to your driving habits and will calculate average miles that you should drive to avoid excess miles at the end of your lease. In case you will likely...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Mobile, Lease, Mile, Dynadel, Smart Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2009-10-12

Baryonyx to build largest offshore wind farms in U.S., power Tier 4 data centers

Energy start-up Baryonyx has won bids for three land leases from Texas to build Tier 4 data centers powered primarily by wind farms. The company's leases include two offshore sites in the Gulf of Mexico and one on land...

Tags: Data Center, Texas, Lease, Wind Farm, Baryonyx, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2009-07-23

XP, Vista, Win 7: The brewing of a perfect storm

XP, Vista, Win 7: The brewing of a perfect stormWell if it will make you feel any better......I have an office that is STILL using an MS-DOS application, because that's what the local County office uses for financial reimbursements in a mental health program!I had to go through all sorts...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows Vista, XP Vista, Win 7, Microsoft Windows XP, lease, ReactOS

Discussion threads 2009-02-02

CBS Outdoor Streamlines Management of More Than 35,000 Unique Advertising Property Leases

CBS Outdoor wanted to ensure accurate, timely payment on approximately 35,000 unique leases for advertising properties, some of which last for 20 to 30 years and replace a paper-intensive change management process with a flexible, timely, yet controlled, lease-change process. The challenge was to automate the enforcement of changes and...

Tags: Advertisement, Oracle Corp., Lease, CBS Corp., Change Management, Tools & Techniques, Management

Case studies 2009-02-01

Lease yourself some green blades or storage

OK, I'm SURE all of data center equipment vendor Verari Systems' competitors MUST offer leasing as a transaction option, but I haven't heard anyone else appeal so blatantly to green budgets or corporate mandates. The company has introduced what it is calling the Green Leasing Program, which...

Tags: Energy Efficiency, Data Center, Verari Systems Inc., Blade, Lease, Leasing, Verari Financial Services Group, Data Centers, Capital Structures, Mergers & Acquisitions, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Finance, Investment, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2008-12-13

Lease Miles 1.00 (Mobile)

This application will adjust to your driving habits and will calculate average miles that you should drive daily or monthly to avoid excess miles at the end of your lease. In case you will likely exceed the total miles allowed in your lease, the application also computes the cost of...

Tags: Mobile, Lease, Mile, Apple iTunes, Dynadel, Digital Music, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics

Software downloads 2008-12-10

Green leases allow tenants to be sustainable

At the Green Legal Strategy panel in San Francisco, Louise Adamson, a partner at K&L Gates, explains the commercial interiors certification within the LEED program--tenants are able to certify their workspace separate from the building and landlord. She says, however, that creating a truly green lease requires a holistic approach...

Tags: Tenant, green, legal, lease, rental, sustainable, LEED, tenant, landlord

Videos 2008-10-29

Florida going slowly solar?

Florida going slowly solar?Conspiracy theories?If you're the sort that likes conspiracy theories... here's a couple:1) Big Oil has it's eyes on drilling in the Gulf and so this is a way to butter up the State for that push.2) A respected university with a failed solar power plan (too costly,...

Tags: SolarCity, lease

Discussion threads 2008-05-19

One real estate market that is hades hot

Courtesy IFAW. Yes, folks, there's one real estate market where buyers line up to bid. And we're not talking 50-cents on the dollar foreclosure homes in southern Nevada or western Michigan. We're talking land with a serious prospect for a long-term revenue stream,...

Tags: Lease, Real Estate, Federal Government, Business Operations, Government, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2008-01-31

Bears AND oil in troubled waters

The U.S. government has decided to being leasing some more undersea land to petroleum companies. This will be beneath the Chukchi Sea off the northwestern coast of Alaska. No drilling will be allowed within fifty miles of the actual coastline. Out of sight, if not out of...

Tags: Lease, Petroleum, U.S. Government, Telecom & Utilities, Capital Structures, Finance, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2008-01-03

Series4000 Is the Perfect Fit for Leading Chain Link Fence Manufacturer

Established in 1977, Security Contractor Services, Inc. SCS manufactures chain link and ornamental iron fence materials for supply to fencing contractors. SCS accountant used detailed Excel spreadsheets to control the company's fixed assets. With more than 1,200 fixed assets including leases on the books, he eventually found that spreadsheets could...

Tags: Asset, Auditor, Lease, Series4000, Document4000, Asset Management, Microsoft Excel, Productivity, Operational Planning, Business Operations, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software

Case studies 2008-01-01

MBCS Lease Maker 1 (Windows)

The Lease Maker provides an easy to use interface for the day to day printing of leases as well as complete lease document management which includes a dedicated word processor. Leases can be fashioned from simple, stand-alone documents or from cut and paste clauses. In addition, separate rider documents can...

Tags: Lease, Clause, Microsoft Windows, Word-processor, Word Processors, Software

Software downloads 2007-11-13

Don't buy out that lease

That sounds a little bit like the old Fraternity of Man song, "Don't Bogart that Joint", doesn't it? Different idea, but a catchy title, nonetheless. Easy Rider soundtracks aside, though, I was asked yesterday if we were planning to buy out the lease on all of the equipment...

Tags: Lease, Equipment, Line Item, Productivity, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2007-09-26

Information Provider Cuts Costs and Improves Disaster Recovery With Virtual Machines

Kroll Factual Data delivers Web-based business information to companies such as mortgage lenders and property management firms. In 2003, Kroll Factual Data acquired a company with only 98 hours left on its lease. To avoid paying for the leases on two data centers, Kroll Factual Data chose to migrate the...

Tags: Microsoft Virtual Server, Lease, Microsoft Corp., Disaster Recovery, Virtual Machine, Kroll Factual Data, Data Centers, Desktop Virtualization, Ip storage, Server Virtualization, Servers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management

Case studies 2007-09-01

Lease-It! 2.1 (Mobile)

Lease-It! is the fast, flexible and easy-to-use lease calculator for Palm OS handhelds. Use it to help you negotiate the best possible deal on a lease: find monthly payments, discover hidden fees, and check agency/dealer figures. Lease-It helps you analyze where your money is going, and can help to take...

Tags: Payment, Mobile, Lease, Interest Rate, Cost Reduction, Palm OS, Financial Planning, Capital Structures, Financial Services, Operational Accounting, Operating Systems, Software, Finance

Software downloads 2000-11-21

Dell Case Study: Bechtel

Bechtel is one of the world's largest privately owned enterprises. They wanted a lease that allowed would allow them to refresh their hardware primarily on a two year cycle, but with the flexibility to have varying lease periods to meet project requirements. Dell and Dell Financial Services stood out from...

Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Lease, Bechtel, CAD, Financial Planning, Workstations, Financial Services, Software, Finance

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News to know: Windows 7; Google Dashboard; Driving while texting; Steve Jobs; Droid

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage.: Sam Diaz: Ballmer: So far, Windows 7 sales are "fantastic" Dana Blankenhorn: What the Google Privacy Dashboard can...

Tags: Steve Jobs, Google Inc., Web, Dana Blankenhorn, Verizon Communications Inc., Mary Jo Foley, Dashboard, Microsoft Corp., Sam Diaz, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Channel Management, Operating Systems, Software, Marketing

Blog posts 2009-11-06

US-CERT warns about BlackBerry spyware app

Justification for Apple's model?It can't be said just yet, but it's looking like a pool of trusted applications may be a good idea after all, despite the level of control wielded by Apple.No....Gee, just because someone releases a spyware app doesn't mean we need to only let RIM distribute apps....

Tags: Spyware, adware & malware, Cyberthreats, Handhelds, spyware app, Apple Inc., BlackBerry spyware app, US-CERT Warns, spyware, US-CERT, RIM BlackBerry, phone

Discussion threads 2009-10-28

Nokia sues Apple, alleges patent infringement by iPhone

Wasn't it Apple who sued MicroSoft for the "windows" patent .... .... that Xerox, not Apple, owned?Geez! It took long enough for the Buzzards to come back to roost!No it wasn't, you moron.It was about copyright not a patent. But i suppose you just too dumb.Copyright or Patent -...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Apple Inc., Nokia Corp., patent

Discussion threads 2009-10-22